Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Cheryl Waters, host of The Midday Show on KEXP, is "QADIR" by Nick Hakim, from the 2020 album WILL THIS MAKE ME GOOD on ATO Records.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by John Richards, host of The Morning Show on KEXP, is "Hogar" by Eep, from the 2020 self-released album Death of a Very Good Machine.
Today's Song of the Day, featured as part of our Music Heals: Mental Health programming, is "Darkness In Mind" by Kassa Overall, from the 2020 album I THINK I'M GOOD on Brownswood Recordings.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Gabriel Teodros, host of Early on KEXP, is "CEREAL (feat. MMYYKK)" by Ricki Monique, from the 2022 GOOD SEEDS EP on Tangible Records.
Seattle’s Da Qween is probably best described by KEXP’s own Martin Douglas as “simply is what they are. A very good rapper, a queer-identifying person, too talented and too stubborn to allow straight people to view them as a gimmick, and as the title of their 2019 album suggests, a renaissance bitc…
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by John Richards, host of the Morning Show on KEXP, is "SO HARD TO TELL" by DEBBY FRIDAY, from the 2023 album GOOD LUCK on Sub Pop.
Capitol Hill Block Party 2015 Sunday brought two things: rain and totally incredible music, and both in plentiful volume. But hey, this is Seattle right? Naturally, everyone has a jacket in their back seat/pocket and nothing about the festival seems to be missed under grey skies. The drop in temper…
Is March too early to get your festival season started? We don’t think so and, frankly, we don't care. Treefort Music Fest, running now until Sunday, March 26 in downtown Boise, Idaho, is too good to miss. Looking at headliners alone, the festival boasts two of the biggest names in independent musi…
After arriving on the main stage at Sasquatch! Music Festival in a Value Village-via-80s workout tapes-via acid getup and leading his band through a dramatically reworked "Seven Swans", Sufjan Stevens laid down the mission statement for his subheadlining set: "God is in the house." He paused, then …
A mosh pit of all smiles is a beautiful and wonderful thing. Real mosh pits are great to start with. Not fake circle pits where following the leader dominates any true form of atomic self expression, but a real "I drank a little too much and don't mind being throw around by the couple people who re…
4AD has been on a roll this year with unique new signees that are bringing the atmospheric R&B game to the next level. I guess this isn't terribly surprising, considering 4AD has been on the forefront for, I don't know, 35 years. But between last month's sleeper hit Lo-Fang set and last week's …
