Serendipitously aligned with a real-life Pacific Northwest heat wave, the Portland band captures the feeling of the beating sun in Cascadia with jagged riffs and shot-along melodies.
Minus the Bear announce break up and final EP plus new music from Wild Nothing, Waxahatchee, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and The Hold Steady plus Alt-J get a remix from Alchemist and Trooko featuring Danny Brown.
Sacramento dream-gaze act ponders feelings of insignificance with a video that pushes the maxim of "open to interpretation."
As the SPF30 celebration approaches, we wanted to catch up with Jack Endino to ask him how he honed his craft and what he remembers from those early years.
From Led Zeppelin and Soundgarden to Asia and Steely Dan, the iconic Seattle band's drummer discusses the styles that helped him develop as a musician and his personal musical philosophies.
New music from Animal Collective and The Love Language, Father John Misty and Bully share new videos, and Snail Mail and Waxahatchee team up to cover Sheryl Crow.
Each week KEXP's Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what's coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from Dirty Projectors, Wild Pink, Smokescreens, Cold Soda, and more.
Mac DeMarco covers Japanese musician Haruomi Hosono and new music from Suede, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, and The Internet.
From the lit ashes of Fastbacks rises Kurt Bloch's Full Toilet 7", a Seattle punk massacre well hidden amongst the Sub Pop back catalog.
In 2018, KEXP celebrated the 30th anniversary of local record label Sub Pop with a four-month retrospective, "counting up" every catalog number in their vast discography of over 1,200 releases. Dig into the archives of our catalog coverage, featuring in-depth coverage on the history of their releases.
