This year's Sasquatch! Music Festival concluded with some beautiful performances from Slowdive, Perfume Genius, Japanese Breakfast, The National and more.
In conjunction with Freakout and The Warehouse, KEXP is proud to announce the storied Tacoma band's first hometown show in six years, happening at Alma Mater on August 26th.
Jason Pierce, aka Spiritualized, talks to KEXP about his first new album in six years, And Nothing Hurt, out September 7th via Fat Possum/Bella Union.
This week's Review Revue spotlights the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie. See what KCMU DJs thought back in the day – albeit about 12 years after its original release.
June is pride month and we know that it’s an agenda that should be incorporated 365 days a year. At KEXP the music and voices of LGBTQIA+ artists from Latin America and Spain are in our podcasts, sessions, live programming, and weekly on El Sonido. Since we know there is so much to share and contin…
June is pride month and we know that it’s an agenda that should be incorporated 365 days a year. At KEXP the music and voices of LGBTQIA+ artists from Latin America and Spain are in our podcasts, sessions, live programming, and weekly on El Sonido. Since we know there is so much to share and contin…
Phoenix-based electronic producer Kareem Ali continues his breakthrough year with a guest DJ mix for Midnight In A Perfect World that showcases his love for hypnotic deep house rhythms while also placing a spotlight on Black producers in the contemporary underground electronic community.
This week's picks for Song of the Day were chosen by Kevin Cole, host of The Afternoon Show on KEXP, highlighting standout artists from the 2020 Eurosonic Festival in Groningen, Netherlands. Today's Song of the Day is “Taking On Time” by Sinead O’Brien, from the 2019 album Speedy Wunderground - Yea…
Ring in the New Year with Sonic Reducer at The Laserdome! On Wednesday, December 31st, DJ Brian Foss will be LIVE at the Laser Dome as part of the KEXP DJ in Residence series! In three-month residencies, a different KEXP DJ will curate monthly playlists for unique musical laser experiences and perf…
KEXP remembers artists who died in 2019 with a full-day of radio programming celebrating the music of David Berman, Daniel Johnston, Ric Ocasek and more.
It’s time again for Friday on My Mind. Our weekly blog post where we look at videos centered around one common theme. This is a collaborative effort between KEXP and King 5 News. Thank you again to each and every one of you who donated to help build our home and specifically a new in studio perform…
This year, !K7 Records celebrates a massive milestone, entering the twentieth year of their ongoing DJ-Kicks series and releasing the fiftieth entry in the series. Over its fifty entry catalogue, DJ-Kicks has carved a niche that no other electronic serial really taps into. For Fabric, it's the club…
FFS, the eponymous debut album from the collaboration project between Franz Ferdinand and Sparks, feels a bit like a beautiful car crash in slow motion. I say slow motion because the two objects that make up the collision seen here have been careening towards each other since the good old days of 2…
Donald Glover has done a lot of thinking in the past two years. “That Camp was a million years ago, sing me a different song” he raps on the closer of his new record Because the Internet. The referenced 2011 studio album debut does feel like forever ago now. After self-releasing three albums and th…
It's hard being The Strokes. After setting the template for the next ten years of guitar-based rock with their 2001 debut, Is This It, it wasn't long before the NYC quintet was being outpaced by the bands they paved the way for. After some time apart, Julian Casablancas, Nikolai Fraiture, Nick Vale…
Popular Manipulations, The Districts' followup to 2015's breakout A Flourish and a Spoil, is a massive leap forward for the mature-beyond-their-years quartet. Ragged and emotional but with plenty of songwriting sharpness, the band's newest batch of songs goes forth boldly into the K…
UK producer Richard Fearless — aka Death In Vegas — shares an exclusive mix for Drive Time on KEXP, showcasing his first new LP in nine years, Death Mask.
Summer's gonna be steamy! The initial lineup for this year's Capitol Hill Block Party was announced this morning, and it's hot! On Friday, July 22nd through Sunday, July 24th, in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, celebrates the festival's 20th anniversary!
