DJ Sharlese hosts a podcast featuring bands competing in the 2015 Sound Off! competition, the premiere Northwest battle of the bands hosted by the Experience Music Project (EMP) Museum. 1. Bleachbear - Astoria 2. Champagne Babylon - Lost In Eden 3. Nightspace - Insecure 4. Super Soaked - Wannabe…
This week, French band Phoenix rises with their sixth album to date, KEXP Music Director Don Yates loves Ti Amo enough to call it "another sharply crafted set of buoyant pop-rock with a warm, streamlined sound featuring fizzy synths, glistening guitars, bouncy beats and sunny pop hooks". Brooklyn b…
All over the world this weekend, KEXP's favorite bands were trying out new material. As a warm-up, Icelandic kings Sigur Rós sneakily tried out a new song at an intimate show in the UK. On Saturday evening, they unleashed the well-rehearsed track, titled "Óveður", at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, …
Chicago writer and Sound Opinion co-host Jim DeRogatis discusses the legacy of The Clash for International Clash Day.
J'Von performs Oct. 11 in the KEXP Gathering Space with Parisalexa for Street Sounds Live
Watch the band's performance from Iceland Airwaves 2019.
Carl Lierman explores textures, tones and mass with analog electronics (modular synthesizer), and heavily layered and processed recordings and digital sound sources.
This pianist asks what a Bach masterpiece would sound like played backwards and then does it. Inside the music time travels backwards.
Jeph Jerman and Dave Knott create a remarkable radioscape with guitar, piano, materials from nature, battery amps, objects and various inexplicable sound sources.
Naomi Siegel and Kate Olson start with trombone and soprano sax and finish with a deep electric sound informed by jazz and folk music traditions.
Carl Lierman explores textures, tones and mass with analog electronics (modular synthesizer), and heavily layered and processed recordings and digital sound sources.
With pedal-powered bass violin and bugle, Eric unleashes the sound pressure in this free-noise performance with King Frog.
A unique blend of jazz, chamber music and sound art with Jesse Canterbury (clarinets), Tiffany Lin (piano), Brian Cobb (bass) and Paul Kikuchi (drums).
Jeph Jerman and Dave Knott create a remarkable radioscape with guitar, piano, materials from nature, battery amps, objects and various inexplicable sound sources.
Midday Show host Cheryl Waters is back with another dynamic mix of her latest favorites in global and local sounds.
Tonight, Audioasis and the Vera Project will round up EMP Sound Off! Battle Of The Bands alumni as part of KEXP's Community Partnerships Initiative. Each month, KEXP highlights a local non-profit and hosts a concert. All proceeds from each event benefits the non-profit. This installment features …
A study from USC’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism found the ratio of male to female music producers is 49 to 1.
The U.S. Postal Service and media mail are critical to independent labels and musicians. What happens if that goes away?
An improvised music/sound art performance by Christopher Yohmei Blaudel (shakuhachi) and Byron Au Yong (performing with water, chinese percussion, er-hu, voice and piano.)
Massive sound pressure in the exploration on new terrain. Clifford Kimbrel-Dunn (flute, piccolo, sax, custom supercollider driven electronics) and Dio Jean-Baptiste (drums).
