KEXP's Sound & Vision host Emily Fox talks with Governor Jay Inslee about the new philanthropic campaign.
French electronic musician and filmmaker Rone shares a cinematic and whimsical guest DJ mix for Midnight In A Perfect World that stitches together beautiful ambient and neo-classical passages with IDM explorations and other transportive electronic sounds.
Kevin Copeland, guitarist and vocalist for the Brooklyn-based shoegaze band Lightning Bug, shares what tools he uses to capture the band's gorgeous, expansive sound.
Martin Douglas processes some very personal stuff while listening to a posthumously released collection of the South Sound art-punk heroes' 2001 live recordings.
Gabriel Teodros, host of the Early Show on KEXP, sat down and talked with Rosa about her work as an activist.
South Korean duo Salamanda deliver a dreamy guest DJ mix full of blurry experimental ambient pieces, haunting dream-pop songs, and other leftfield sounds.
KEXP Staff Reporter Martin Douglas speaks to the California rocker about his latest album, Three Bells.
London-based British Hong Kong musician mui zyu shares a transportive guest DJ mix that swims through ambient, jazz, classical, and new age sounds.
Martin Douglas visits Ballard Avenue's finest Lebanese-Mexican eatery and speaks to its founder, who also happens to play drums in one of the city's greatest rock bands.
Elements of jazz and traditional west African music combine to create a soul-stirring sound, with Andrew Oliver (piano), Kane Mathis (kora, guitar), Jim Knodle (trumpet), Brady Millard-Kish (bass), Mark DiFlorio (drums).
With sounds both psychedelic and silver, DJ Hans leads you through the desert and into a musical oasis on this week's episode of Music That Matters, featuring new songs from Kikagaku Moyo, John Grant, and Charles Bradley.
Today’s song, featured on The Midday Show with Cheryl Waters, is "Drowning In the Sound” by Ex:Re, from the 2018 album Ex:Re on Glassnote.
In this session from KEXP’s 2019 Iceland Airwaves broadcast, recorded at Kex Hostel, Gabríel Ólafs performs six songs and tells the audience about the unexpected inspiration for his music, experimenting with sound and more.
Wherever you may be, Cheryl Waters offers you solace in music. Her latest mix soothes and uplifts, featuring a variety of local and global sounds from Tomo Nakayama to Lido Pimienta, Caribou to Songhoy Blues and many more.
This past fall, beloved KEXP show Street Sounds went live with a performance in the Gathering Space from notable hip hop and R&B artists. The first to take the stage was electro-soul duo Soultanz.
Emily Fox speaks with The Gits guitarist Andy Kessler and bassist Matt Dresdner about the band’s legacy and the life of Mia Zapata.
Brooklyn band The So So Glos lead this week's new release with their fifth full length. KEXP Music Director Don Yates says the LP, "finds them bringing a bit more diverse and hook-filled sound to their anthemic garage-punk, with often-politically charged lyrics contrasting anxiety, political extrem…
Formerly known under the alias Spazzkid, Mark Redito is a Los Angeles-based electronic artist creating an energetic and emotional sound that finds a perfect middle-ground between pop perfection and club bangers. Recent releases on Cascine, Magical Properties, and IHC 1NFINITY have displayed his evo…
It's hard to lament The Strokes hiatus when their guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr. keeps putting out such great solo releases. On his third full-length, Momentary Masters, he delves into an unintentional new wave inspiration ("I don't really know how to put it into categories," he tells DJ Troy Nelson…
Seattle’s own Nightmare Fortress crash the KEXP live room with their stronghold of sound to unveil a handful of unheard harmonics from their upcoming full length, ‘The Wanting’. Drowning in their heralded Grave Rave otics - guitar strings of tension are mixed with dark, sublime computer manipulatio…
