Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Kevin Cole, host of Drive Time on KEXP, is "Haiku" by Bien et Toi, from the 2023 Voici EP on Temple Records.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Cheryl Waters, host of the Midday Show on KEXP, is "I Just Like To Watch" by Ghoul Talk, from the 2024 album I Want to Consume on Death Certificate Records.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by John Richards, host of the Morning Show on KEXP, is "Imagining Everything" by Matt Pond PA, from the 2024 album Call and Response on 131 Records.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Kevin Cole, host of Drive Time on KEXP, is "Beggin' For You" by Hurry, from the 2023 album Don't Look Back on Lame-O Records.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Miss Ashley, host of the Variety Mix on Sunday afternoons, is "Outside (feat. Lila Iké)" by Samory I, from the 2023 album Strength on Overstand Entertainment / Easy Star Records.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Miss Ashley, host of the Variety Mix on Sunday afternoons, is "feel right" by Summer Pearl, from the 2023 album outmysystem on Kitto Records.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Kevin Cole, host of Drive Time on KEXP, is "Blue Tuesday" by Francis of Delirium, from the 2024 album Lighthouse on Dalliance Records.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Kevin Cole, host of Drive Time on KEXP, is "Flaws" by Les Amazones d'Afrique, from the 2024 album Musow Danse on Real World Records.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Morgan, host of the Variety Mix on Saturday afternoons, is "Deixem O Morto Morrer" by Ana Lua Caiano, from the 2024 album Vou Ficar neste Quadrado on Glitterbeat Records.
In this special episode, marking 30 years since Kurt's death, we recorded a roundtable "love letter" at the Kurt Cobain Memorial Bench in Viretta Park in Seattle.
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Martin Douglas and Janice Headley dive into Shonen Knife’s 1983 album Burning Farm, which was released in America by Olympia, WA’s own K Records.
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Death Cab for Cutie is a band that embodies change. From the light-hearted melancholy of "Photobooth" to the heavy-handed post-marital blows of "Cath...", Death Cab have shown us hundreds of ways in which circumstances shift and we find ourselves to be different people when the light changes. We mi…
Each Tuesday for the next two months, KEXP will present recordings we captured during the OFF Festival in Katowice, Poland. Our excursion there in the hot days of August - made possible by the festival and the Adam Mickiewicz Institute's Don’t Panic! We’re from Poland! initiative - introduced us to…
Recently, Seattle Weekly posted a piece called "A Year of Emergency". While the piece deals with the city's prevailing homelessness epidemic, the societal range to which the phrase could be extended this year is nearly infinite. Human empathy is facing a year of emergency, and for better or worse, …
Timely does not even begin to describe the new record from NYC rappers Heems and Riz MC, a.k.a. Swet Shop Boys. While it's depressing as hell, these two dudes seriously could not have picked a better week to drop an album about basic human rights being put up into contention. As the race towards Vo…
There are few producers on the scene today with as much silent sway as Clams Casino. Over the last six years especially, the New Jersey beat-maker has completely changed the approach to emotion and empathy in beat-making. Artists like A$AP Rocky, Mac Miller, and Vince Staples have been able to thri…
As we waited at the Paramount Theatre for the Father John Misty show to begin, a fellow show-goer said to me, "Sometimes he walks around the crowd during the opener. He followed me on Twitter today and I literally died, so I'm gonna say hi to him if I can find him." I wondered in my head how this g…
Don't be fooled by the inflatable tube dancer guy on the front cover – behind that hapless smile is a maniacal, beastly force waiting to be unleashed. Chaz Bundick continues to prove himself as one of the most capable, surprising, and provocative producers on the scene today. Last year, he dropped …
I hate to break it to you, but you're gonna be heading toward Record Store Day this Saturday at a deficit. Why? Because there are too many excellent new releases coming out today that you'll want to pick up right now. First and foremost: the latest from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, whose fourth album our Music…
