Chimurenga Renaissance explores the melody of jazz, the synthesis of electronic music and the soul of dub to create their fantastic world hip-hop. Listen to their dazzling performance live on KEXP's Wo' Pop. Recorded 02/26/2015 - 4 songs: Proud To Be Afrikan, Imi Vechidiki Zivai, The Tas…
Legendary Louisiana country singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams stops by The Afternoon Show for a set of tunes from her 2015 album "Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone" live in the KEXP studio. Recorded 02/11/2015 - 4 songs: East Side of Town, West Memphis, Protection, It's Gonna Rain.
Icelandic songster Júníus Meyvant and his nine piece backing band deliver a long set of richly textured arctic soul. Live from Kex Hostel in Reykjavik during Iceland Airwaves 2014. Recorded 11/06/2014 - 7 songs: Hailslide, Gold Laces, Neon Experience, Beat Silent Neat, Mighty Backbone, Color Decay…
British-born Americana singer-songwriter Pete Molinari performs a live set in the KEXP Studio, featuring songs from 2014's "Theosophy" and a Billy Childish cover to close out the set. Recorded 09/24/2014 - 4 songs: Evangeline, You Will Be Mine, What I Am I Am, I Don't Like The Man I Am.
Shoegaze rock outfit Oyama deliver an entrancing live performance from Kex Hostel in Reykjavik during Iceland Airwaves 2014. At times ambient, at others pure noise rock, they perform songs from their 2014 LP, “Coolboy”. Recorded 11/05/2014 – 5 songs: Old Snow, Siblings, The Cat Has Thirst, Lung Br…
Brooklyn-via-Denton lo-fi slacker post-punk quartet Parquet Courts deliver a live performance in the KEXP Studio featuring songs from 2014's "Sunbathing Animal." Recorded 08/05/2014 - 4 songs: Ducking & Dodging, Black & White, Vienna II, Dear Ramona.
Swedish singer-songwriter Lykke Li serenades Cheryl Waters and the KEXP listeners during a live in-studio performance on The Midday Show, playing songs from her 2014 album, "I Never Learn." Recorded 05/22/2014 - 4 songs: I Never Learn, No Rest For The Wicked, Never Gonna Love Again, Guns…
Zimbabwe-inspired hip-hop project Chimurenga Renaissance delivers an outstanding live in-studio performance featuring songs from their 2014 full-length debut album, "riZe vadZimu riZe" on KEXP. Recorded 06/14/2014 - 4 songs: The B.A.D. Is So Good, Lean, It's Bigger Than You, They Pray In…
Legendary singer-songwriter Mark Lanegan performs live at the KEXP studio with a set including two new tracks from his upcoming full length album, Phantom Radio, interspersed with a reworked 15th century ballad and an Irving Berlin tune. Recorded 07/03/2014 - 4 songs: Judgement Time, The Cherry Tr…
That fantastic 60's British rock we all know and love has a new face and revitalized sound. Temples, performed live in the KEXP Studio with songs from their 2014 album, "Sun Structures". Recorded 4/9/2014 - 5 songs: Sun Structures, Move With the Season, Keep in the Dark, A Question Isn't…
The origins of Johnny Goss and Ola Hungerford’s latest LP as Cock & Swan, Dream Alone, lie in a live soundtrack the band created for the Nicolas Winding Refn film Only God Forgives.
Things get weird on today’s Live on KEXP featuring veteran electronic producer Matthew Dear.
We hop the pond for a dash of European culture on this week’s Live on KEXP with Swiss six-piece L’Eclair.
Seattle-born, Brooklyn-based Kassa Overall is redefining jazz for a new era, chopping and screwing live improvisations to make his own densely experimental and colorful world.
KEXP favorites IDLES share a virtual live performance from Abbey Road Studios, playing tracks off their latest album, Ultra Mono.
For Live on KEXP, Troy Nelson takes us through a brief history of Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, with snippets from DJ Morgan’s interview with Stuart Braithwaite before the band plays a kaleidoscopic four-song set.
For Live on KEXP, Troy Nelson delves into some of the interesting aspects of Nilüfer Yanya's conversation with Cheryl surrounding songwriting and keeping your autonomy in making music.
Besides playing a scathing set of punchy psych-rock, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets answer some of the tough questions on this week’s episode of Live on KEXP.
On this episode, Laraaji recounts the story of acquiring the zither that would come to influence his music for the next 40+ years and then utilizes it for a meditative and celestial virtual live performance.
For Live on KEXP, Troy Nelson details Mackenzie Scott’s unique trajectory from Southern Baptist band kid to the subversive indie rocker best known as TORRES.
