Variety Mix DJ Sean brings a dreamy, synth-heavy vibe to the show with his song choices.
Portland quartet Summer Cannibals are hungry for more, returning with their sophomore release Show Us Your Mind, self-released via their own New Moss Records on March 3rd. Recorded and mixed by the famed Larry Crane at Jackpot Recording Studios, the album features the sharp Northwest punk-pop sound…
In celebration of her new EP 'the mind is a miracle,' NYC's duendita shares a comforting mix of R&B, hip-hop, and soulful pop songs on her guest DJ mix for Midnight in a Perfect World.
What's going on in the world was inescapable in the woefully undervalued Seattle artist's mind while writing her latest EP. Martin Douglas explains.
Guedra Guedra celebrates his new album MUTANT with a brilliant guest DJ mix that's designed for dancing minds and thinking feet.
First heard in May 2002, this show comes from the mind of the late Robert Jenkins (master conceptualist, guitarist and improvisor). Featuring an elaborate, high decibel feedback system, radio transmitters and an unearthly choir of voices, Phantom Empire takes radio and the Internet right out to th…
Seattle 5-piece Smokey Brights plays new songs off their debut album, "Taste For Blood" in the KEXP Studio. Recorded 02/04/2015 - 4 songs: If I Can't Change Your Mind, Catacomb, Baby Marmalade, Monster House.
It's been over four years since Fleet Foxes dominated KEXP's Top Albums of 2011 countdown, and we haven't heard much from them since frontman Robin Pecknold left Seattle for Columbia University in New York. But, over the holiday weekend, he shared a cover of the 1956 single "Out of Sight, Out of M…
Slippery as they are, Australian seven piece King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard managed to record six albums before before finally squeezing into the KEXP live room. Granted, it's only been three years since their debut, but as the Melbourne band are about to release their seventh (and for the fi…
Immediately upon hearing Hurray for the Riff Raff, a number of important songstresses whoosh to mind: Dolly Parton, Fiona Apple, First Aid Kit, Jolie Holland and many others. What distinguishes Hurray for the Riff Raff's Alynda Lee Segarra from all these others? Perhaps it’s simply the specific loo…
Strand of Oaks (w/ John Richards) // photo credit: Renata Steiner
The debut collaborative full-length of the duo of Ishmael Butler and Erik Blood is an imaginative musical journey featuring some of the brightest musical minds in Seattle.
The IDLES lead vocalist talks finding strength in opening himself up after a year of hardships and the desire to be a better person. Tune in to hear them on KEXP Oct. 4 at 9:30 a.m..
The final day of our formal radio broadcast concluded with a lineup of acts that worked as the best caffeine alternative we could’ve asked for, along with some introspective Icelandic music to keep our minds buzzing.
Guest Sherry Colb, Professor of Law and Charles Evans Hughes Scholar, Cornell University Law School, speaks with Diane Horn about her book "Mind If I Order the Cheeseburger? and Other Questions People Ask Vegans."
Guest Charles Halpern, founder of the Center for Law and Social Policy and board chair of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society, speaks with Diane Horn about his book, "Making Waves and Riding the Currents: Activism and the Practice of Wisdom."
Open your ears and mind as Sunday Soul host OCNotes sets you on the path to a blissed-out autumn with a mix featuring tracks from Blvck Spvde, Sen Morimoto, Lion Babe, and Brett Eclectic.
Today’s song, featured on The Morning Show with John Richards, is "Poison" by David Nance Group, from the 2018 album Peaced and Slightly Puliverized on Trouble In Mind.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by John Richards, host of The Morning Show on KEXP, is “Teenage Hive” by FACS, from the 2020 album Void Moments on Trouble In Mind Records.
Since pairing up in 2014, Mazes frontman Jack Cooper and Veronica Falls vocalist/guitarist James Hoare have continued to enchant us as Ultimate Painting. While in town for the Capitol Hill Block Party (review here), the London duo (accompanied by touring bassist Will Young and drummer Bill Roe, aka…
