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On March 18, Iggy Pop will drop his new album, Post Pop Depression, which was produced by Queen of the Stone Age's Josh Homme. The album also features Queens of the Stone Age's Dean Fertita on guitar and keyboard, as well as, Arctic Monkeys' Matt Helders on drums. Check out the album's first singl…
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJ’s think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on the Aft…
When frontman Dean Wareham sings, "don't know why I can't stop smiling," he echoes the thoughts of thousands of Luna fans grateful to have the band back together after a decade apart. The beloved New York (well, now L.A.) band called it quits in 2004, but with Captured Tracks reissuing their first …
KEXP is teaming up again with Starbucks and STG for the fourteenth edition of Little Big Show, a special concert series created to benefit our city’s arts organizations! On Friday, January 29th, we're happy to present Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Lower Dens, and Hibou at The Neptune Theatre.
Austin-based group Shearwater, led by singer/songwriter Jonathan Meiburg (above), share a clip for the track "Quiet Americans," off their forthcoming ninth full-length Jet Plane And Oxbow. Director Alex Rapine captures a dapper Meiburg at his most sinister. Jet Plane And Oxbow will be out January …
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJ’s think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on the Aft…
Local duo Chimurenga Renaissance (aka Tendai Maraire of Shabazz Palaces and Hussein Kalonji) debut a new track today titled "Girls With Gunz," a song they say was inspired by African assassin Grace Maseva, a woman who fought in the Second Chimurenga, the war that ended white rule in Zimbabwe. Loca…
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.
