Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole shares some of his favorites of 2014. Relish in the best of the year and hopefully discover something new and awesome! 1. Júníus Meyvant - Color Decay 2. Mac DeMarco - Blue Boy 3. Temples - Shelter Song 4. Ty Segall - Feel 5. Parquet Courts - Black and White 6. BRO…
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Larry Mizell, Jr., host of the Afternoon Show on KEXP, is "Take A Trip" by Brijean , from the 2022 album Angelo on Ghostly International.
Larry Mizell Jr. revisits 1975 with the track “Let’s Take It to the Stage” by Funkadelic, which featured rap before “Rapper’s Delight.” He'll also give a lesson in etymology that you won’t soon forget.
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Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by John Richards, host of The Morning Show on KEXP, is "Take A Chance" by Naked Giants, from the 2020 album The Shadow on New West Records.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Cheryl Waters, host of The Midday Show on KEXP, is "Rae Street" by Courtney Barnett, from the 2021 album Things Take Time, Take Time on Mom+Pop/Marathon Records.
For the third episode of Live on KEXP featuring Courtney Barnett, Troy Nelson focuses on her third studio album, Things Take Time, Take Time.
There's a posthumous Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings video out today, but I can't get through it without tearing up. The song "Please Come Home For Christmas" was recorded last year for the Daptone Records holiday collection, It’s A Holiday Soul Party!, and takes on an even more aching poignancy …
Highlights this week include the latest from Swedish singer/songwriter Jens Lekman. KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls Lekman's fourth LP, "a smartly crafted set of buoyant orchestral dance-pop inflected with disco, calypso, samba and other styles, combining bouncy dance beats and a variety of ins…
Local art-rap heroes Shabazz Palaces have released a new single with producer Thundercat called "Since C.A.Y.A." which will be on their forthcoming release Quazarz: Born On A Gangster Star. It's one of the two brand-new albums the group is planning on releasing on the same day this summer, the othe…
When Molly Sides takes the stage fronting her band Thunderpussy, it'd be easy to mistake her for a cybernetically enhanced superhuman. How else could anyone prowl the stage and howl so ferociously? Amazingly, Sides is human like the rest of us. However, in director/writer Robert McGinley's new film…
LA-via-San Francisco band Thee Oh Sees return with their 11th album, a release KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls, "a more jam-oriented take on the band's adventurous blend of raw garage-rock, trippy psych-rock and motorik prog." Veteran Minneapolis duo Atmosphere release "a potent set of emotive …
They didn't perform this one during their blistering closing set at KEXP's New Home Grand Opening this past Saturday, but Car Seat Headrest took to Tumblr to share a cover of Radiohead's "Pyramid Song." Frontman/founder Will Toledo calls his take of the Amnesiac track, a "sloppy flamenco with miss…
Things haven't always been sunny for Radiation City. The Portland band may not have been able to illuminate our days with another album had founding couple Cameron Spies and Lizzy Ellison not set aside their differences to reignite their songwriting process. Their third LP, Synesthetica (out this F…
Live in the KEXP studio, Lower Dens presents us with a sound that we didn't know we've been waiting for, half-nostalgic, half refreshing. Formed in Baltimore in 2010, Lower Dens is comprised of Jana Hunter, Geoff Graham, Nate Nelson, and Walker Trent. Their audacious third album, Escape From Evil, …
For as cosmic as their jams can be and as free floating as their new album title appears, Built to Spill have never seemed more grounded. On Untethered Moon, their eighth studio album and their first in six years, the veteran indie rockers haven't drifted away from their roots but, thanks to produc…
It was hard not to anticipate what Lord Huron would bring to the live setting. So much of their music is based around place and themes that a live show always seemed like the perfect medium for the group to express their vision to the fullest. The LA group makes music that transports the listener t…
My Dad Is Dead is one of those band names that might just sound like a one-liner or an attempt to grab your attention, but in the case of Mark Edwards's solo recording project, legend has it that the music on this debut LP was in fact created in direct response to the loss of his father. With so mu…
It's uncanny that yesterday just happened to be Australia Day, and the highlights of this week's new releases are dominated by the down under! Merge Records release the latest from Melbourne pop quartet Twerps, which KEXP Music Director Don Yates notes is, "a masterful album of jangly indie-pop rem…
The roots of Owl John lie in the idea that to save something, sometimes you need to walk away from it. That's what caused Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchinson to take a break from the Scottish indie rock group and return to writing songs the way he did when he started the band a decade earli…
Seattle's own funk masters Polyrhythmics have become well known for their dynamic, hard-hitting live performances and today's Bumbershoot audience was experience it first hand. Polyrhythmics has made such a huge impact for such a young band, the eight piece orchestra was founded in 2010 by friends …
