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En uno de los diarios personales de Kurt Cobain se encuentra una lista de sus 50 álbumes favoritos. Cada mes, El Cancionero de Kurt explora un puñado de estos álbumes, agrupados bajo distintas temáticas, mientras pone el foco en la relación de Kurt con el rock y la cu…
While everyone else in Seattle was decked out in rain boots and all-weather jackets, the dapper Los Angeles quartet Chicano Batman returned to the KEXP studio dressed to the nines, bringing a bit of psychedelic sunshine to one of the wettest Seattle winters in recent memory. The band's ebulli…
Reverberation is the highly-revered and consistently on-point weekly online radio show curated and mixed by members of Allah-Las, a Los Angeles band that craft excellent 60s-inspired pop. Three of the band's members were working at the iconic record store Amoeba Music upon their formation, and thei…
L.A. artist Ariel Pink returns this week with an album "dedicated to '60s-era LA cult songwriter Bobby Jameson, a promising artist whose career fizzled out early in a haze of management and label troubles, drug abuse and depression." KEXP Music Director Don Yates notes the release is "a bit of a th…
It's been close to six months since La Luz left Seattle for Los Angeles, so Sasquatch served as a sort of homecoming for the surf rock quartet. (Notably, they were met with weather that was far more Californian than Northwestern.) The move hasn't dulled their reverb-drenched edge one bit however, a…
En nuestra última entrega de la primera temporada, Helado Negro abre su soundtrack personal y sus memorias como artista Latinx nacido en los Estados Unidos, mientras rompe las barreras monolíticas alrededor de lo “latino.”
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Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Albina Cabrera, co-host of El Sonido, is "La Carrera de Los Perros" by Caribe Ácido, from the 2024 self-released Ciudad Nueva EP.
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…
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El Sonido: Cancioneros — KEXP’s podcast where Latin artists share the cancionero of their lives: five songs that shaped who they are as people and artists. New weekly episodes starting June 2. Subscribe to the KEXP Podcasts channel on YouTube to follow along with English subtit…
“Change of coast, change of heart”. Last time we heard from Neon Indian, he was changing time zones on the Grand Theft Auto soundtrack. Turns out, now two years later, he wasn’t kidding. The only thing I can think of to make Alan Palomo’s bizzare, eclectic electronic productions any more mind-bendi…
These are a few of Greg Vandy's favorite things in The Roadhouse and out. Most of his Top 10 LPs are represented here, but also his favorite songs of the year. It was a great year in music! Download, share, and tune into The Roadhouse on Wednesdays from 6-9pm for what's hot in the new year. 1. Pr…
His new album Pure Comedy may be in stores now, but Father John Misty hasn't stopped sharing new music. FJM (real name: Josh Tillman) covers the Velvet Underground classic "Who Loves the Sun" off their 1970 LP Loaded for the Mondo Boys score to Shangri-La Suite, a feature-length film from Los Ange…
