When we asked our old friend Elvis Perkins to play a few songs live in-studio at KEXP, he obeyed, or rather, he aubade. The New York singer-songwriter's third album, I Aubade, is filled with love songs for the morning, or any time, with melodies steeped in '60s soul and rich ambient folk that gently compliment his chalky voice and murmured confidences. With his two traveling companions, Perkins lit our live room with a set of meticulously manicured mood music, which from the Tarantino-cool opener "I Came for Fire" to the deliciously depressive "Hogus Pogus", is bound to please any purveyors of melancholy Americana and all you early bird romantic types. Let Elvis Perkins aubade you now with his dulcet tones:
On Sprinter, the latest album by TORRES, Mackenzie Scott does not run away from the big issues. The 24-year old Brooklyn-based artist has clearly grown from her Southern Baptist upbringing, outpacing the usual "country girl meets big city" timeline but not so quickly that she dodges heavy themes of…
Just a few weeks ago, KEXP took over the streets of West Seattle for our Hood-to-Hood Day 2015 celebration with live music from John Danielle of The Mountain Goats, Australian electro-pop group Miami Horror, Michael Lerner of Telekinesis, and howling indie-rockers Hop Along. If you weren't able to …
