Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Kevin Cole, host of Drive Time on KEXP, is "Adore Adore Adore" by SPRINTS, from the 2024 album Letter To Self on City Slang.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Kevin Cole, host of Drive Time on KEXP, is "Right Back To It (feat. MJ Lenderman)" by Waxahatchee, from the 2024 album Tigers Blood on ANTI-.
On the show this time, it’s the avant-garde sitar of Anoushka Shankar.
Dusty Henry, Martin Douglas, Albina Cabrera, and Larry Mizell Jr. explore four albums on Kurt's list that challenged the politics of their time through the lenses of punk and hip-hop.
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Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Kevin Cole, host of Drive Time on KEXP, is "Blue Tuesday" by Francis of Delirium, from the 2024 album Lighthouse on Dalliance Records.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Kevin Cole, host of Drive Time on KEXP, is "Flaws" by Les Amazones d'Afrique, from the 2024 album Musow Danse on Real World Records.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Kevin Cole, host of Drive Time on KEXP, is "Rat Fight" by mega cat, from the 2024 album mega cat on Share It Music
In the haze of the smoke machines and blue lighting at the Crocodile, as a packed in crowd at a sold out show danced relentlessly to the bass-heavy tracks booming from the stage, we collectively celebrate one thing: brilliant songwriting. If there's one commonality between the two acts on the bill …
Recently, Seattle Weekly posted a piece called "A Year of Emergency". While the piece deals with the city's prevailing homelessness epidemic, the societal range to which the phrase could be extended this year is nearly infinite. Human empathy is facing a year of emergency, and for better or worse, …
The cover of Skeleton Tree, the sixteenth studio album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds is the most minimal and least revealing artwork of their career. Against a black backdrop in computerized font, the title of the record glares menacingly like the stuck screen of a heart rate monitor. It's quite…
You won’t believe the golden light you wake up to crawling out of your tent at Pickathon. The tree-lined hills of the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon make you feel like you are in an other-worldly paradise. Taking a light walk around the Back 40 to enjoy the surroundings, among the sleepy co…
