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 Afte…
KEXP writer Dusty Henry reflects on what we learn about ourselves when we make mixes for someone else.
Put your sunglasses on, go outside, and enjoy this summery mix from Cheryl Waters featuring new tunes from Bob Moses, Jim James, Durand Jones and the Indications, and Petal.
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part 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, selected by Midday Show…
SASAMI talks about what draws her to make music from so many different genres, and her self-described identity as a “weirdo outsider.”
With their debut collaborative album as Big Red Machine, two of indie music’s most consistent players look outside themselves and create some of their most flourishing work yet.
This week, Janice Headley dives into Pod by The Breeders. Their debut album really lets Kim Deal shine outside of her role in The Pixies.
"Outside" is an eerie 13-minute track off the Nine Inch Nails members' score for the Netflix film Bird Box.
words by Taylor Snowberger / photos by Stacy Cornettedited by Victoria Holt
Aramis Hamer is a visual artist who painted the mural that used to run along the outside of our building up until October of 2017. It featured cassette tapes, galaxies, and a purple goddess. Aramis talked with us about what Black Future means to her, and about some of her musical influences.
KEXP's Owen Murphy reached the band via ZOOM from his home just outside Seattle. Read the interview below or listen to a clip that previously aired on KEXP's Sound & Vision.
“I don’t care what you think,” sings the red-dressed Portland native Sallie Ford. The lyric is definitely in line with the spirit of her newest album, which has as much to do with the idea of freedom, of not being captured in any genre box, as it does with the huge punching sound of Sallie Ford and…
From outside the windows of KEXP's New Home, we can see them setting up: it's almost time for the 2016 Northwest Folklife Festival! This Memorial Day Weekend, May 27th through 30th, Seattle Center will transform itself into a multi-cultural arts and music extravaganza.
After an expansion to the San Francisco Bay Area with a new radio broadcast earlier this year, Seattle-based public radio station and music discovery nonprofit KEXP has announced the launch of a new Bay Area music show, Vinelands, the globally-renowned station’s first radio show to originate outsid…
Now in its 15th year, Oregon music festival Pickathon has announced its lineup, dates and location for 2013 -- and it's one of their best lineups yet! On August 2-4 at the Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, OR, the festival will host Feist, Andrew Bird, Divine Fits, The Devil Makes Three, Sharon Van …
We hope you're able to take this weekend off and head down to Happy Valley, Oregon (just outside of Portland) for Pickathon. But just in case you can't, we are featuring the festival's live video stream, where you'll be able to watch all the fun right from home in glorious HD.
Chalk it up to: You'll never see that again. Last week, Mercury Prize winners and KEXP fan-favorites Alt-J performed their headlining Seattle debut at the Crocodile, a venue whose size they've long outgrown. While previously they opened for Grouplove at the Moore (and I'd say at least half the full…
The Music that Matters podcast that defies description yet has that Barton Fink feeling with songs from great new artists (make sure to listen to HOLY!) and old favorites like Buffalo Tom, Elvis Perkins and Geowulf. 1. Elvis Perkins - There Go the Nightmericans 2. Jonathan Wilson - Over the Mid…
On their third LP, Sunlit Youth, Local Natives created their darkest and densest record to date, but in this pared-down performance in the KEXP Gathering Space, they're anything but that. Agile and direct, the quintet's performance shows that the festival anthems that built their reputation outsid…
