Sistas Rock the Arts is a collective that presents weekly open mic and jam sessions at Rumba Notes in Columbia City. Co-founder La Tanya Horace, aka SistahLuv, talks to KEXP about creating community and black future.
La Mala Noche delivers a thrilling guest DJ mix that celebrates the global rise of Latin dance music and the one-year anniversary of the popular monthly dance party 'Sazón Seattle.'
Before the recording of their latest LP, Floating Features, La Luz packed up from Seattle and moved to Los Angeles. That city’s vivid warmth and never-ending rush was baked into the group’s newest batch of songs, highlighted in this session in the KEXP Live Room with Cheryl Waters.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Cheryl Waters, host of The Midday Show on KEXP, is "Holding Pattern" by Allah-Las, from the 2019 album LAHS on Mexican Summer.
KEXP DJ Prometheus Brown joins host Evie Stokes to talk about a new, old De La Soul track, and a surprise Flying Lotus EP.
DJ Supreme La Rock shares a song from Seattle soul group Poppyeye – a lost gem from 1978 that’s recently been rediscovered and reissued.
El Sonido: Cancioneros inicia su temporada 2026 en la Ciudad de México de la mano de Hermanos Gutiérrez.
DJ Troy “La Troix” Nelson picks out his favorite musical flavors in this bubbly mix that washes down like a fancy beverage. Sample new tracks from Weyes Blood, Julia Shapiro, and Diane Coffee in this twelve-pack of melodic refreshments.
The Los Angeles band, Las Cafeteras, named themselves after a community space in El Sereno, L.A. where group members met one another and started to learn and play Son Jarocho music together, influenced by regional Mexican folk music. The band feminized the name to honor women, they note. Modern day…
This year brought us unforgettable artists and albums. KEXP highlights 24 gems from 2024 in Latin American alternative music. From Alcalá Norte's rebellious debut redefining Spanish rock to Amaro Freitas' jazz homage to the Amazon, Ana Tijoux's long-awaited Vida, and Verraco's electrifying and futu…
Seattle surf-rock quartet La Luz drops into the KEXP studio to perform songs from their brilliant brand new record "Weirdo Shrine" live on KEXP. Recorded 08/06/2015 - 4 songs: Sleep Till They Die, With Davey, Don't Wanna Be Anywhere, You Disappear.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by John Richards, host of The Morning Show on KEXP, is "ADMSDP (feat. LA Warman)" by DJ Python, from the 2020 album Mas Amable on Incienso.
Valerie and Veronica Tapacio left their corporate day jobs to dedicate their time to their Seattle band La Fonda and their vintage clothing shop, Delusional Bird.
El Sonido: Cancioneros es el podcast original de KEXP que comenzó en 2023, recorriendo la migración de la música a través de fronteras, idiomas y generaciones.
Seattle based duo Emi Pop talk about the Portland band La Isla Electronica and the magic of the Pacific Northwest music scene.
While we'd naturally prefer you to keep listening to KEXP, there's several great full album streams out today, too. Yo La Tengo share their forthcoming full-length, Stuff Like That There, which hits stores August 28th via Matador Records (stream here). Much like the band's 1990 release Fakebook, t…
Their name spoofs the The Shangri-Las, their songs check the sounds of the 60's, from British Invasion to West Coast country rock -- the record store rats of Allah-Las have long been interested in contextualizing the history of rock with the music of today, both with their on-going, lost classics-u…
