Reflecting on the music featured in The Adventures of Pete & Pete on the 25th anniversary of the beloved television show’s first episode.
The track will appear on her album VWETO III, the third album in the VWETO hip hop beat series, out May 21st via FORESEEN Entertainment and Muldrow’s own Epistrophik Peach Sound imprint.
"Ever since I heard Ólöf Arnalds for the first time, I imagined her voice in an orchestral setting, so when INNI approached me to record with SinfoniaNord I immediately chose Alltaf, a piece I wrote especially for her"
On their lavish and stirring sixth album, the Portland-via-Bay Area band explore massive life changes and adversity with arguably their most diverse set of songs. Martin Douglas explores.
Broken Bells perform their first ever in-studio session at KEXP featuring acoustic interpretations of three songs from their new album, After the Disco, plus their very first single. Recorded 08/10/2014 - 4 songs: After the Disco, The High Road, Holding On For Life, The Angel and the Fool.
Guest Colin Beavan speaks with Diane Horn about the No Impact Project and his book "No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process."
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Cheryl Waters, host of The Midday Show on KEXP, is “Here They Come” by Hamilton Leithauser, from the 2020 album The Loves of Your Life on Glassnote Records.
Damien Jurado discusses how his struggles with addiction have led him to remove smartphones, computers, and technology from his life, and how he prefers making money by being a prolific songwriter, rather than spending his time touring on the road.
On what would have been Kurt Cobain's 51st birthday, Martin Douglas reflects on a pivotal moment in his tumultuous young life, watching Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance re-aired shortly after Cobain's suicide.
It was a year ago this week that KEXP both celebrated the birth and then shockingly, mourned the death of David Bowie at the age of 69. With the help of both those who knew him best and the man himself, KEXP will dig deep into his influential catalog of music spanning nearly 50-years.
Dessa talks to KEXP about her first memoir, My Own Devices: True Stories From the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love.
The Revolution's legendary bassist BrownMark talks to KEXP about Prince's legacy as an artist, an entertainer and, of course, as a basketball player.
As you may have heard, we are offering a special KEXP Apron during the Spring Drive. With social distancing and the closure of in-restaurant dining, more of us are spending time building our skills in the kitchen, and what better pairing is there than food and music? Two of the greatest joys in li…
Alt-rock gladiators The Afghan Whigs, hailing from Cincinatti, bring the many destructive characters in their songs to life in the KEXP studio. The Afghan Whigs performed songs from their 2014 studio release " Do to the Beast". Recorded 4/15/2014 - 4 songs: Matamoros, Royal Cream, The L…
DJ Kevin Cole shows up big time with a hard hitting mix of current faves including new Courtney Barnett, Natalie Prass, illuminati hotties, power pop from Philly band Hurry, and psychedic funk rock from Hungarian band The Qualitons, and more awesomeness to blow your mind.
Tory J, co-host of KEXP’s global Indigenous music show Sounds of Survivance talks with Isabel about how sound and music inform Indigenous life
SIFF is bringing I Am The Blues to Seattle this weekend, and it is well worth a look. Bobby Rush lays out his life story as he returns to the Blue Front Cafe in Mississippi and a reunion gig in Louisiana. Watching him travel The South and greet friends like Lazy Lester, Henry Gray, Barbara Lynn, an…
Angel Olsen is releasing a collection of outtakes and rarities called Phases this Friday, November 10 via Jagjaguwar. Today she's given us the previously unreleased song "Sans," which was written in between Burn Your Fire For No Witness and My Woman. Olsen called the song, "something short and simp…
Sufjan Stevens recently released the mixtape The Greatest Gift, which features remixes of songs from 2015's Carrie & Lowell along with a few previously unreleased tracks. Yesterday he shared a video for Helado Negro's remix of "Death With Dignity," off The Greatest Gift. The emotional clip focu…
