KEXP caught Moundrag for this Live on KEXP session at the fantastic Trans Musicales festival, where they wowed the audience with a fun, energetic set consisting of costumes, dueling vocals, furious percussion, wailing keys, and more gongs than there are members in the band.
Last September, Hot Chip dropped by KEXP to play three songs from A Bath Full of Ecstasy as well as a throwback 2008 track. Join Troy Nelson to listen to them here on Live on KEXP.
Adia Victoria's southern background heavily informs her music, which is often referred to as “gothic blues” and takes inspiration from Black blues artists like Robert Johnson, Skip James, John Lee Hooker, Junior Kimbrough, and RL Burnside. Learn about her story on this episode of Live on KEXP.
This week, Live on KEXP is doing something a little different. In honor of Black History Month, we’re revisiting an incredible performance from all the way back in 2016, when KEXP moved to our new home at Seattle Center.
On this week’s Live on KEXP, Jupiter & Okwess fuses traditional Congolese music styles like soukous, rumba, and kwassa kwassa with more universal ones like rock, funk, and blues for something completely unique and yet wholly universal.
Troy Nelson delves into Tricky’s musical and personal evolution over the past 25 years on this episode of Live on KEXP before the British icon delves into a stirring four-song set featuring Polish singer Marta.
For Live on KEXP, Troy Nelson traces Arlo Parks' journey from recording songs in her bedroom to sharing stages with heavyweights like Paramore before she plays a mellow, vibey set of songs.
For Live on KEXP, Troy Nelson takes us through an abbreviated version of Y La Bamba’s journey from lo-fi self-produced recordings to working with a vast array of talented musicians and producers out of Portland.
For Live on KEXP, Troy Nelson fills us in on the producer, engineer, singer, effects pedal builder, and composer Miss Grit before she plays a hazy set fueled by distorted guitars, programmed drums, and angelic vocals.
For Live on KEXP, Troy Nelson chats with genre-hopping London three-piece PVA on their unorthodox formation and how they brought the club to the studio for their debut release Toner.
For Live on KEXP, Jenn Wasner (aka Flock of Dimes) speaks about how the few short weeks of making Head of Roses were some of the happiest moments of her life.
On this episode of Live on KEXP, the composer, DJ, and sound artist Yu Su speaks to Mike Ramos about the significance of the title of her latest album Yellow River Blue.
On this episode of Live on KEXP, Mndsgn speaks to Larry Mizell Jr. about being vulnerable and nixing the "cool guy" mentality for their new album Rare Pleasures.
For the third episode of Live on KEXP featuring Courtney Barnett, Troy Nelson focuses on her third studio album, Things Take Time, Take Time.
It's no surprise that British downtempo pop group London Grammar sold out their second Seattle show in six months Saturday night. Back when they played the Crocodile at the end of September, their excellent first full length If You Wait had just come out only weeks before in the states. Now that it…
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For this installment of Immigrant Songs, I was blessed to have Los Angeles group Chicano Batman live in the KEXP studios. They’ve been getting a lot of attention around the country lately, both by doing some killer opening slots during tours with Jack White and Alabama Shakes and by being on the bi…
