Each week, Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Alex) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from Japanese Breakfast, Mustafa, Islands, and more.
This week, New Jersey producer Clams Casino hits a jackpot with his first official album. KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls it, "a strong set of expansive hip hop and R&B with woozy soundscapes combining atmospheric synths, spacy ambient noise and trunk-rattling beats with an impressive guest…
Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole celebrates KEXP's Amplifiers with this exclusive new music mix. 1. The Blessed Isles - Like I Am Dreaming 2. The So So Glos - Going Out Swingin' 3. Mountains and Rainbows - See How They Run 4. Aesop Rock - Blood Sandwich 5. Tourist - To Have You Back 6. Eagull…
DJ Shannon brings you her latest faves to cure your loneliness. Sit back and forget your daily troubles with Jagwar Ma, The Crookes, Gentlemen and Cut Copy to name a few. 1. Jagwar Ma - That Loneliness 2. Gentlemen - Children of the Setting Sun 3. The Crookes - Bear's Blood 4. Holograms - Flesh a…
September continues to be strong for new releases. Highlights include the latest from Staten Island, NY band Cymbals Eat Guitars. KEXP Music Director Don Yates says their fourth album, "brings a bit more of an expansive and energetic sound to their anthemic indie-rock. Produced by John Congleton, t…
Noah Gundersen is a smooth singer-songwriter from Seattle, WA. He has played with bands like Beneath Oceans and The Courage, but is poised now to release a solo album, Ledges, February 11th. KEXP had a chance to chat with Noah about what instrument (besides guitar) he would choose if alone on a des…
Morning Show host John Richards presents a podcast of happy, upbeat music to bring in the Spring. This podcast features great new music from Manatee Commune, Prince Rama, Yuck and more. 1. Manatee Commune - Clay feat. Marina Price 2. Eleanor Friedberger - False Alphabet City 3. Little Scream - L…
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on the Morning…
Long Island dream pop outfit Twin Sister have decided that after six years on the music scene, it's time for a slight name update. Henceforth, they would like to be known as Mr. Twin Sister, nothing too drastic. They haven't shared anything new since 2011, but now their back with the mysterious "O…
Detroit synth punk rockers ADULT. played third during day one of the 2013 Treasure Island Music Festival. Their industrial, crunching melodies blistered under the hot sun, as San Francisco’s infamous “Indian Summer” kept festival goers warm even in mid-October. Frontwoman Nicola Kuperos poked fun a…
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 DJs think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on the Afte…
Earlier this year, Swedish sister duo First Aid Kit released their third album, Stay Gold, and the siblings do just that in the video for the title track, streaming below. In the clip, Klara and Johanna Söderberg wander dreamily around the island of Gotland. Check it out, and tune in on Saturday, …
It's enough to make you curl up screaming in the fetal position – the number of amazing Icelandic releases in 2013, that is. As if 2012 wasn't already such a great year, but damn, 2013 proves there's no end to the wealth of talent on the arctic island. Since they're each so great in different ways,…
Morning Show host John Richards presents a summer mix of new music from around the globe featuring Seattle's NAVVI, Ireland's Pleasure Beach, London's Big Deal and Norway's Death by Unga Bunga. 1. Mitski - Your Best American Girl 2. NAVVI - Close 3. Fear Of Men - Sane 4. The Kills - Heart Of A D…
Only a little over a year before the release of their debut full-length, What I Saw On The Way To Myself, Moji Abiola and Frosti Jón Runolfsson had met on an otherwise unnoteworthy night in a Reykjavik whiskey bar. The result of that chance meeting, however, was a powerful, stirring group whose bl…
Only a year or two after establishing itself as the first NYC music festival to actually pull off an event with the caliber and scope fitting of the city, The Governors Ball Music Festival is at a crossroads. Stereogum's Michael Nelson does an excellent job explaining it in depth, but due to the em…
In Taiga, Zola Jesus has made her songs truly evergreen. Named for the Russian word for forest, the new album by Nika Roza Danilova draws upon the cold Siberian woods of her ancestors, the frosty clime of her childhood home, Wisconsin, and most recently, the great outdoors of her must residence on …
In what's easily become a summer tradition for many KEXP listeners, the 4th Annual Timber! Outdoor Music Festival kicks off tonight in beautiful Carnation, WA. It's more than just a music festival: it's a beautiful escape to Tolt-Macdonald Park with recreation tree climbing, swimming, kayaking, an…
