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 DJs think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on the Midd…
It’s time again for Friday on My Mind. Our weekly blog post where we look at videos centered around one common theme. This is a collaborative effort between KEXP and King 5 News. We here in Seattle are very lucky in that we always have the opportunity to see amazingly talented musicians, both natio…
With influences ranging from At the Drive In to The National, DC-based musician Bartees Strange is reinventing what it means to be a “Black artist.”
The nation is catching on to the wealth of amazing music coming out of Seattle's experimental hip-hop scene. This year listeners have become entranced by Seattle's THEESatisfaction, and before that Shabazz Palaces -- expect the same kind of attention soon for OCnotes (Otis Calvin, III) and his gen…
Guest host Ripple Effect Band curates this mix, providing a sampling of music currently being made by artists from the oldest living culture on earth, Australia's First Nations People.
Albina Cabrera se sumerge en Combat Rock de The Clash, Rock for Light de Bad Brains, Million of Dead Cops de MDC e It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back de Public Enemy.
In the summer of 2009, if you had only one dance tune to soundtrack your adventures to day and night, you could do a lot worse than Classixx tune "I'll Get You". With a gloriously upbeat vibe and Jeppe Laursen of Junior Senior on the joyful bass-loving vocals, "I'll Get You" was a song you could pu…
National Volunteer Week is an opportunity to celebrate the impact of volunteer service. .
Yesterday, we lost the iconic New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint. The legendary composer, performer and producer passed away at 77 years-old from cardiac arrest in Madrid while on tour. In his life, Toussaint carried the New Orleans R&B traditions of Professor Longhair and others through to …