When Vancouver-based band Black Mountain stepped in the studio, we got a contact high. Not necessarily from their clothing, but definitely from their heavy, sludgy, psychedelic sound. Vocalists Stephen McBean and Amber Webber trade verses over a Black Sabbath-inspired wave of droning guitar and key…
Prolific 18-year-old songwriter Justin Cheromiah emerges with his most fully realized work yet, full of all the teenage emotions you'll ever need.
Broken Bells perform their first ever in-studio session at KEXP featuring acoustic interpretations of three songs from their new album, After the Disco, plus their very first single. Recorded 08/10/2014 - 4 songs: After the Disco, The High Road, Holding On For Life, The Angel and the Fool.
Funk music isn't just heard, it's experienced. You can have a great time playing a funk article at home on your stereo, but it takes on a whole new life when it's right in front of your face. Seattle future funk-fusion act High Pulp gets this. With a staggering 10 members in the group, they push an…
Fresh off the release of their addictive debut album Bird, Swedish duo Suite Simone deliver a high-energy guest DJ mix destined to get you lost in their technicolor rhythms.
Fresh off the release of his long-awaited debut album 'Between Us,' Sydney-based DJ and electronic producer Hayden James delivers a guest DJ mix for Midnight in a Perfect World full of high-energy house anthems.
I don't know if there is a physical, mental, or spiritual way to come away from a Darkside show unaffected. Nicolas Jaar and Dave Harrington brought their two-man gateway to musical nirvana to Neumos Wednesday night for a sold out show and wowed the room from the first second to the last. The build…
Nashville's JEFF The Brotherhood may have been dumped by the major label that produced it, but their latest LP, Wasted on the Dream, is anything but. Its big, punchy sound adds fuel to their high octane blend of hard rock, metal, grunge and punk. And brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall dream big, but no…
Check out some of the KEXP DJ’s favorite artists from the Pacific Northwest and around the world on-the-go. KEXP’s Music That Matters weekly podcast brings you an exclusive mix of new music from the world’s best independent artists.
Now in its third season, the Amazon.com original series The Man in the High Castle has an excellent soundtrack thanks to Danger Mouse and producer Sam Cohen. This spring, those songs are being collected for Resistance Radio, a compilation featuring tracks from Angel Olsen, Beck, the Shins, MGMT’s …
Martin Douglas speaks to the band's drummer and de-facto leader Bobby Granfelt about their excellent Mutual Attraction series, signing to ANTI-, and why the busy year the band has had isn't slowing down anytime soon.
In honor of John Cusack's 52nd birthday today, KEXP is taking a cue from High Fidelity, and presenting the Top Five Music-Related Films of his career.
Check out some of the KEXP DJ’s favorite artists from the Pacific Northwest and around the world on-the-go. KEXP’s Music That Matters weekly podcast brings you an exclusive mix of new music from the world’s best independent artists.
Check out some of the KEXP DJ’s favorite artists from the Pacific Northwest and around the world on-the-go. KEXP’s Music That Matters weekly podcast brings you an exclusive mix of new music from the world’s best independent artists.
“Hey Joe, sorry to hurt you, but they say love is a virtue, don’t they?” On The National’s new single “Sea of Love”, this quiet apology to a friend is a battle cry for affirmation of love. At this point, The National are indie rock legends, and themes of terrible love and trying relationship are no…
East London-based DJ/producer India Jordan showcases the high-energy club beats found on her recent debut EP DNT STP MY LV on her Midnight in a Perfect World guest DJ mix.
KEXP is excited to present an intimate session with high-energy, psych-tinged garage-rockers Thee Oh Sees in the KEXP Gathering Space at 1 PM. The insanely prolific West Coast band are on tour in support of their latest LP, A Weird Exits, out now on Castle Face Records, and are playing an all-ages …
A new alias of Seattle-based electronic producer Taylor Hawkins, Flora FM has captured ears this year with two stellar EPs of cutting-edge club rhythms, and he continues his productive 2018 with an exclusive Midnight in a Perfect World DJ mix that explores high-energy, propulsive, cerebral undergro…
It's a release as big as his mouth -- the latest from trouble-making troubadour Jack White is titled Lazaretto. KEXP Music Director Don Yates describes the album as, "a typically masterful set of rootsy rock ranging from high-stepping blues-rock and brooding, spaghetti western-influenced rock to pl…
Seattle-based DJ, producer, and curator Spencer Manio dons his DJ Suspence hat for a brilliant double-sided mix that includes the high-energy 1990 North Seattle House Party soundtrack on Side A and more introspective 2020 South Seattle Couch Party on Side B.
