Aired on Valentine's Day, Los Angeles-based pianist and producer Kiefer shares a love-filled guest DJ mix featuring some of his favorite romantic jazz, soul, and R&B cuts.
Rising Chicago-based artist Sparklmami showcases her love for house music on her soulful and groovy guest DJ mix for Midnight in a Perfect World.
The Virginia indie rock outfit looks inward at their own anxieties and emerges with a record full of hope, love, and blissful guitar hooks.
Reggie Watts and John Tejada have joined forces for their collaborative project Wajatta and they deliver a hypnotic guest DJ mix for Midnight In A Perfect World that leans into their love of deep house grooves and lush minimal tech-house rhythms.
The Seattle soul-funk band return with the second single off their forthcoming full-length Sunday Afternoon, out May 28th via Color Red.
Jonathan Russell chats with KEXP about The Head and the Heart's new concert doc Rivers and Roads.
New Zealander, Neil Finn lit up the KEXP Studio with songs from his 2014 album, "Dizzy Heights". Recorded 3/30/2014 - 4 songs: Flying In The Face Of Love, Strangest Friends, Driving Me Mad, White Lies and Alibis.
Today’s song, featured on The Midday Show with Cheryl Waters, is “Easy Coming” by The Moondoggies from the forthcoming album A Love Sleeps Deep, which will be released via Hardly Art.
Today’s song, featured on The Afternoon Show with Kevin Cole, is “Stay Alive” by Hollie Cook, from the album Vessel of Love which is available via Merge Records.
Today's song, featured on The Afternoon Show with Kevin Cole, is "Helluva Dr." by Angelic Milk from the 2019 album Divine Biker Love on PNKSLM Recordings.
Soulful superstars Durand Jones & The Indications join Kevin Cole in the KEXP Live Room to perform 4 songs from their sophomore LP, American Love Call.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by John Richards, host of The Morning Show on KEXP, is "Gloria" by The Shivas, from the 2019 album Dark Thoughts on Tender Loving Empire.
Neko Case recently put out a memoir called The Harder I Fight the More I Love You. Emily Fox reviews the book.
KEXP DJ Lace Cadence talks about his love of Californian hardcore punk Drain and their song “Stealing Happiness from Tomorrow.”
Nada Surf have made a career out of finding their place in the world. When they were just kids, they wrote the teenage guide to popularity, navigating a close proximity between love and lust and insecurity. When they grew up and into real relationship, they found the inside of love, discovering tha…
Congratulations to Bob Dylan, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature! Also a critically acclaimed memoirist, Dylan was awarded the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition", and he's the first American to win the prize in over 20 years! The 75-…
It hasn't even been a week since the release of their latest full-length, but Japandroids are adding to their discography with a limited edition 7-inch vinyl. Side A is "Near to the Wild Heart of Life," the title track of the new LP, and on side B is this cover of the Talking Heads’ 1977 single “L…
How many indie rock dudes does it take to cover a Sharon Van Etten song? By our count, four, as footage has surfaced of a 2010 concert where Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, Bryce and Aaron Dessner of The National, and Colin Stetson covered her single "Love More." Watch below. The footage comes from a Mu…
I have loved Dutch punk gods The Ex since seeing them open for American punk gods Fugazi way back in nineteen-ought-ninety-something. The sheer, gleeful energy they bring to their discordant, blissfully ragged music is something that truly needs to be beheld live. The records I own of theirs are fa…
Watching Shovels & Rope perform is almost like stepping into their living room. Married Charleston, SC, duo Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst perform so lovingly together and write some very intimate ballads that at times you feel like you might be intruding on them. But we've also hosted them …
