KEXP DJ Darek Mazzone shares three songs in honor of World Refugee Day.
Writer Rachel Stevens reflects on how the Villagers song helped her through her miscarriage.
As KEXP proceeds to countdown the Top 666 Albums of All Time, as voted on by our listeners, we asked our DJs to share some of their faves with us.
As a ban on large gatherings in Washington state inches toward it’s eight week, venue owners fear for the future of independent venues in Seattle.
Hosts of KEXP's new show focused on global indigenous music each share two songs to get to know them.
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."
L.W.S. is an organization who believes in total freedom of sound. Mack Fisher (laptop and field recordings), Justin James Taylor (keys), Brad Rouda (theremin and guitars) and Mark Ostrowski (drums).
guitar based indi-chamber music featuring Johnny Goss (bass/synth), Ola Hungerford (clarinet/synth), Doug Arney (guitar), and Olie Eshleman (guitar). Drift along in this cinematic sound painting.
Everett, Washington, band Fauna Shade visit KEXP to perform a set of vintage sounding psychedelic rock. Recorded 02/17/2016 - 4 songs: No Nostalgia, Marzipan, Delirium, Bazzle Shabbazz.
Guest David M. Buerge speaks with Diane Horn about his book “Chief Seattle and the Town That Took His Name: The Change of Worlds for the Native People and Settlers on Puget Sound”.
Guest Stacey Sowers, Program Manager at Stewardship Partners, speaks with Diane Horn about the 12,000 Rain Gardens campaign to help reduce stormwater pollution in Puget Sound.
Guest Elizabeth Gray, Director of Conservation Science, Nature Conservancy of Washington, speaks with Diane Horn about the environmental footprint of biofuels and recommends principles for developing environmentally sound biofuels.
Superorganism's brilliantly colored songs sound like the pieces of a clockwork pop song executed by a Rube Goldberg machine — it’s intricate, fascinating, and loads of fun.
Upon hearing the sounds of DakhaBrakha (Ukrainian for “Give/Take”), it’s no surprise that the quartet was founded at a contemporary art museum by an avant-garde theater director.
““Music is sacred. There’s nothing more exciting to me than sharing music, and I’m beyond excited to get to do that all week with our listeners. Some may know me chiefly from doing Street Sounds — but doing a variety mix, with all t…
Happy backwards, Yppah is the music project of Long Beach, CA-via-Texas producer and multi-instrumentalist Joe Corrales Jr. Over three albums on the esteemed Ninja Tune label, Yppah has become a KEXP favorite with his lush and psychedelically welcoming sound that uniquely blends downtempo, shoegaze…
For artists and musicians, it’s not easy to perform in the United States if you are coming from another country. Obtaining a visa is expensive and complicated. Musicians are sometimes detained at the border and are forced to cancel shows. In fact, for many musicians living north or south of t…
When the legendary dub musician starts this session with a spiritual thesis statement ("Let Scratch arise... let Scratch enemies be scattered"), it's only the first sign that the vibe of the room is about to be elevated. Lee "Scratch" Perry may be 80 years old, but his ability …
Rounding out our last day of the KEXP broadcast live from Kex Hostel at Iceland Airwaves Music Festival is Icelandic dream-pop band Vök. Formed in 2013 as a duo (singer Margrét Rán Magnúsdóttir and saxophonist Andri Már Enoksson) to enter Músíktilraunir (or "Musical Experiment Contest")--a battle o…
We're weeks away from the release of the new Cloud Nothings album, Life Without Sound, and here's another sneak peek with a video for the track "Internal World." Director Jonny Look provides an instructional clip from the "Department of Human Being Assimilation," which may or may not help the liza…
