This morning, the FCC published an order outlining new rules, dramatically cutting back on federal efforts to maintain a free and open internet for all users and creators. KEXP Executive Director Tom Mara speaks out on preserving a free and open internet.
Seattle sweethearts Tacocat share a new video today. It's super-meta, but watch a clip for "The Internet" right here... on the internet. The clip, directed by Faye Orlove, is its own Throwback Thursday through technology from that familiar AOL mail icon to emoticons and more. You won't find it on …
The Internet and Florence + The Machine take the late night stages and Slothrust share new music.
Drawing from a vast collection of sonic material Pete Comley has created a sound collage for radio and the internet.
Mac DeMarco covers Japanese musician Haruomi Hosono and new music from Suede, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, and The Internet.
How Jeff Mangum’s seminal record became haunts us today and became part of the Internet conscious
Sounds like the internet, funerals and government conspiracies. Tyler Coray (guitar), William Hayes (guitar, prepared guitar), Bret Gardin (electronics), Jordan Rundle (electronics).
Some haters will always hate, no matter what gold you throw at them, but Donald Glover sure silenced a multitude of them with last year's out of nowhere sophomore slinger Because the Internet. As Childish Gambino, Glover started a rap career with immediate pushback, with critics claiming that he wa…
Izaac Mellow tells KEXP about their day job at an Internet service provider's call center.
Hear local politicians, activists, and artists discuss how an open internet allows free expression, creativity, innovation, and collaboration to flourish online.
Jerry Seinfeld, the Internet's Steve Lacy, and hip hop pioneer Fab 5 Freddy all make appearances
This session from Tyler Coray (guitar), William Hayes (guitar, prepared guitar), Bret Gardin (electronics), and Jordan Rundle (electronics) sounds like "the internet, funerals and government conspiracies."
Sometimes I think I'm not remotely qualified to be doing this blog series. (Perhaps you've thought the same.) Take Sparks, for example. I don't think I'd ever heard of Sparks before pulling this album off the KEXP shelves, but they've been a band for over 45 years and released a couple dozen albums…
New music from Father John Misty, The Internet, and Kamasi Washington, plus Kendrick Lamar accepts the Pulitzer Prize for music, and Florence and the Machine, Lily Allen, and Young Fathers perform on Jools Holland.
The Brooklyn outfit joins Troy Nelson in the KEXP Live Room (“in the internet”, as singer Ben Hozie dubs it) for four songs from their debut album Endless Scroll.
Sad news is spreading quickly across the internet. Prince has died. The 57-year old icon, Prince Rogers Nelson, has been reported by TMZ, and now with many others confirming, to have passed away at his Chanhassen, Minnesota, estate.
First heard in May 2002, this show comes from the mind of the late Robert Jenkins (master conceptualist, guitarist and improvisor). Featuring an elaborate, high decibel feedback system, radio transmitters and an unearthly choir of voices, Phantom Empire takes radio and the Internet right out to th…
I'm actually feeling like a pretty bad music nerd right now, because somehow I've never heard The Dream Syndicate's debut album, The Days of Wine and Roses, which the Internet seems to agree is one of the most important albums of the 1980s (and when the Internet agrees on something, you really shou…
Say what you will about the Internet age, but this whole "global flow of instantly accessible information" thing definitely has its uses. A couple of which are pointed out by the conversation on the album cover for Hallelujah All the Way Home, the debut album by New Zealand band The Verlaines. For …
