As a coda of sorts for his time co-hosting The Cobain 50, Martin Douglas resurrects his "Requiem for a Fake Punk" series to pay tribute to the band that steered the direction of his love for music.
This stalwart Seattle band bends their sonics into a new direction while retaining the massive sound pressure. Featuring Chris Martin (keys and guitar), Matthew Reid-Schwartz (guitar, keys and flute), Lucy Atkinson (bass and effects), and Barrett Wilke (drums and triggers).
This stalwart Seattle band bends their sonics into a new direction while retaining the massive sound pressure, with Chris Martin (keys and guitar), Matthew Reid-Schwartz (guitar, keys and flute), Lucy Atkinson (bass and effects), and Barrett Wilke (drums and triggers).
From the Sonarchy archives and first heard in 1996. The organ jazz sound gets a spanking that only this band can deliver, featuring Craig Flory (sax and clarinet), Ron Weinstein (hammond B3, piano, trumpet), Mike Stone (drums) with guest Fred Chalenor (electric bass).
Psychedelic noise-rock band A Place To Bury Strangers stop by KEXP and perform an extremely gritty live performance. Recorded 03/18/2015 - 4 songs: Supermaster, We've Come So Far, Now It's Over, Death In Seattle.
Montreal band Stars stop by the Midday Show in support of their recently released album, "No One Is Lost". Recorded 03/02/2015 - 4 songs: This Is The Last Time, Trap Door, Look Away, Elevator Love Letter.
Los Angeles based Cambodian Psych-Pop band Dengue Fever perform a tight live set on Wo' Pop in the KEXP studio. Recorded 02/10/2015 - 4 songs: Ghost Voice, Tokay, Girl From The North, No Sudden Moves.
Vivid and direct, The Make It All Show, the fifth album from the Oklahoma outfit Skating Polly, is perhaps the band’s most vibrant and incisive set of songs to date.
With their 2014 sophomore effort, Painted Shut, Hop Along went from Philadelphia’s best kept secret to one of the most feverishly beloved bands on their circuit.
Performing four songs from his debut album Trespasser, Art D'Ecco and his band join DJ Abbie in the KEXP Live Room.
Would you like some good advice? Well, you’ve come to the right spot! It's the good advice Music That Matters podcast with John Richards, featuring new songs from Damien Jurado, Swervedriver, The Budos Band, and Leggy!
In November, Japanese band Kikagaku Moyo made a crowd of VIP donors at The Triple Door feel very good while basking in the haze of free flowing psychedelic folk for KEXP’s VIP Club Concert series.
Performing the first four songs off their latest record, Dark Thoughts, Portland band The Shivas prove why they continue to shine after all this time.
Christopher Owens — formerly of the San Francisco indie band, Girls — talks about his first album in nearly a decade.
DJ Albina Cabrera talks about one of her favorite bands from Mexico City, Vondré, and their new shoegazy song “31.”
Tomorrow, reunited shoegaze legends Ride will release Weather Diaries, their first album in 21 years. And today, they’ve shared a new video for their single “All I Want.” Director Jade Mortimer relied on simplicity and detailed camera work for the video, which is mostly centered around a man slow-m…
Describing My Morning Jacket's live show is almost as difficult as describing their music. While tagging it with a reductive broad stroke isn't that hard ("rock music"), listing out the individual elements that play into the band's style can come off as too disparate to make it their music seem com…
British psych pop four-piece Temples have garnered a lot of attention in the short time since their formation in 2012. Their 2014 debut, Sun Structures, made its way onto lots of best-of lists. Consequently, the Bigfoot stage was considerably crowded as they launched into the single "Shelter Song".…
Well, doesn't that photo look weird? But, it's time to face the new line-up for Death Cab for Cutie: the band will release their first album without founding member Chris Walla, titled Kintsugi. What's a "Kintsugi", you might ask? It's a style of Japanese art where broken ceramics are fixed using …
KEXP, the community of Everett, and the Everett Music Initiative banded together over the weekend of May 16th and 17th to bring some powerful sound (more than 50 bands in total!) to Snohomish County's own sleepy fishing town with the inception of the very first Fisherman's Village Music Festival. A…
