Drawing from The Ventures, country western, and jazz influences, this band is making some highly cinematic music for the radio. Featuring Jason Goessl (guitar), Ethan Sobotta (bass), Tom Zgonc (drums), and Robb Davidson (space processing).
Eli Rosenblatt leads a band through combinations of klezmer, cuban and swing music, with Eli on vocals and guitar, Timba Harris on violin, Hadi Asil on tar, and Ahamefule J. Oluo on trumpet, bass clarinet and clarinet.
Symphonic drums, massive bass, soundscapes and elegant melodies - a band from the daydream nation with Greg Ferguson (drums), James Kay (keys, guitar), Christian Taylor (keys, guitar, percussion), and Jason Kopec (bass, keys, melodica).
Eight-piece Seattle band Polyrhythmics perform a tight set of funk instrumentals live on the Afternoon Show with Kevin Cole. Recorded 03/24/2016 - 4 songs: Maruken, Fairweather Fiends, Chingador, Lord Of The Fries.
Ghanaian-American Hip Hop artist Blitz the Ambassador performs live with a full band on KEXP's Wo'Pop. Recorded 05/31/2015 - 4 songs: Wahala, Africa Is The Future, Success, Best I Can.
Highly revered U.K. indie-shoegaze band Swervedriver stop by KEXP and perform an energetically-driving set live on KEXP. Recorded 03/08/2015 - 4 songs: Autodidact, Setting Sun, Last Rites, I Wonder?
The Comettes, local Seattle dreamy indie rock band, dazzle the airwaves with a live in-studio concert from the KEXP Studio. Recorded 4/25/2014 - 4 songs: Zenith, I'll Be the One, You Should Know, Los Angeles.
London based dance-rock band CYMBALS perform on the Morning Show, live from the Cutting Room Studio in NYC. Recorded 3/7/2014 - 4 songs: Winter '98, The Natural World, No Bad Decisions, Erosion.
In this session, Aurora and her backing band perform five songs from her EP Infections of a Different Kind – Step 1.
The new album by the feminist hardcore punk band, War on Women takes on issues of race, gender and politics. It’s called 'Wonderful Hell.'
In 1998, Old Crow Medicine Show were busking in front of Pike Place Market. In 2014, they're headlining the 2,800-capacity Paramount Theatre. Along the way, the Nashville, Tennessee-based group became one of the primary figures in the 2000s roots music revival, bringing the same energy from their b…
Named after a race of diminutive creatures in Magic: The Gathering, Kithkin's energetic, uplifting indie rock is the type of music that gets the cops called over to house shows (in the best way possible). Although the band's aesthetic is clearly a fantastical one - the self-described "Cascadian you…
It's not easy for bands to pull of a daytime performance in bright sunlight. Most are used to dark clubs and nocturnal crowds, but the warm desert tones of LA's Allah-Las made for a perfect Austin afternoon on the first day of our broadcast this year from Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop during SXSW. Thou…
Two Seattle bands top this week's list of new releases. Since 2011's full-length No Witch, The Cave Singers added Blood Brothers/Past Lives/Fleet Foxes (among others) member Morgan Henderson to their lineup and teamed up with Fleet Foxes producer Phil Ek for their fourth LP Naomi out on Jagjaguwar.…
Anacortes: gateway to the Washington's San Juan Islands. Home to artists like Karl Blau, Phil Elverum and The Lonely Forest. Soon to be know for another new band, BellaMaine. The young indie rock group, led by married duo Nick and Julianne Thompson, immediately caught the attention of KEXP's Mornin…
We rounded out day two of our Iceland Airwaves broadcast live from Kex Hostel with Icelandic punk band Hórmónar. Like many of our favorite Icelandic acts, Hórmónar were the winners of last year’s Músíktilraunir or “Music Experiments,” Iceland’s youth-focused battle of the bands (other winners inclu…
Danny Newcomb, a long-time fixture of the Seattle music scene, returns with a new album tomorrow, Friday, August 11th. All the Way is the second release for the project Danny Newcomb & the Sugarmakers, but is just another addition to a lengthy discography for Newcomb who previously played in lo…
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 DJ’s think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on the Aft…
For the past 15 years, Dungen has been creating a unique blend of expansive psychedelic jazz prog rock that has made them an important and influential band not only in their native Sweden but around the world. With their latest album, Allas Sak, frontman Gustav Ejstes took a more concerted effort t…
The most exciting new release this week is The Most Lamentable Tragedy by New Jersey band Titus Andronicus. On this 29-song, 94+-minute rock opera, frontman Patrick Stickles details his struggle with manic depression. KEXP Music Director Don Yates says the album, "features a full, grand sound to ma…
