KEXP is celebrating our 50th anniversary this year, and we're looking back at the last half-century of music. Each week in 2022, KEXP pays homage to a different year, and our writers are commemorating a song from that year that resonates with them. This week, KEXP's Martin Douglas looks back at vis…
KEXP will launch three new programs in early 2019; learn more about our new youth-centered program, public affairs program, and specialty show, Pacific Notions.
The Colombian-American artist discusses her first album entirely in Spanish, paying homage to the music of her youth, and the blessing of being called to music.
After emerging in 2011, Youth Lagoon's Trevor Powers has set a release date for the follow-up to his debut. Entitled Wondrous Bughouse, the ten-track LP will arrive on March 5th via Fat Possum. Powers hasn't released any music from the new disc yet, but you can check out the tracklisting and artwor…
On his debut solo effort, the Darto member reckons with the music of his youth and shapes them into something progressive, both musically and thematically
Positive, upbeat and all very new music from Morning Show host John Richards. This podcast is for those who are or did suffer from a miserable winter, be it weather, flu or anything else that has you looking forward to renewal. 1. Kins - Absblurd 2. There Will Be Fireworks - River 3. Patterns - …
In this stunning set, William Doyle brings his alter-ego project, East India Youth, into the KEXP live room, unfurling a collection of intriguing tunes from his April 2015 release, Culture of Volume. Marshalling strange, ingenious ideas into coherent, interesting pop music, East India Youth flirt b…
As part of the collaboration, we asked Haben Haileslassie, one of the Program Directors of Grounded, Black Coffee’s nonprofit space, about music and social impact.
A mere week after we aired his KEXP in-studio session, and Boise-based artist Trevor Powers, a.k.a. Youth Lagoon, has announced he's calling it quits. In a statement on Twitter, the bright young artist writes, "there is nothing left to say through Youth Lagoon. It will exist no more." Read the com…
KEXP’s Dusty Henry talks with Kai Slater of Sharp Pins about his music and the thriving DIY scene in Chicago.
"Cheers to evolution, cheers to knowing where you are going, cheers to the future.” Those were Trevor Power's parting words as Boise and the U.S. said goodbye to Youth Lagoon on the final night of Treefort Music Fest. It was a moment Boise was surely dreading, but after a fun day with acts such as …
Opening this year’s live broadcast from Kex Hostel at Iceland Airwaves Music Festival is Icelandic experimental electro-pop band East of My Youth. Formed just last year, East of My Youth created a lot of buzz with their first single “Lemonstars” at the end of last summer, and have since been on a s…
"There are some people in tinsel costumes around me... uh... that's what's happening." When Helado Negro is asked to describe his "bandmates" in the studio, that's how he does it, smirking with just enough hesitation to leave a sense of intrigue. On his latest album, Double Youth, the artist someti…
The legendary former Sonic Youth member makes her solo debut after 38 years in music and sounds as urgent as ever.
Legendary musician and Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore gives the listener a rare glimpse into his adventurous music collection on his eclectic guest DJ mix for Midnight In A Perfect World.
