With the fate of Sonic Youth up in the air, founding guitarist Lee Ranaldo has found steady ground with his group, The Dust. Backed by fellow SY orphan Steve Shelley on drums, along with guitarist Alan Licht and bassist Tim Lüntzel, Ranaldo's tenth album, Last Night on Earth, is his most collaborat…
Ever since Bliss Release, Cloud Control's breezy debut LP hit the KEXP doorstep, we've been waiting for our chance to see them live. That was over two years ago, and the band, already critically acclaimed and beloved at home in Australian, and now with their second LP widely available, only just ma…
Brooklyn-based (formerly San Francisco) shoegaze band Weekend came into the picture at the turn of the decade with Sports, a strong introductory statement that could have seen the band go in plenty of different directions in the future. But in the form of Jinx, their sophomore step mixes dense text…
The debut album, I Never Meant It To Be Like This, from Seattle's Cumulus has been a long time coming. After establishing themselves in the local music scene playing alongside fellow Northwest artists like Wild Flag, Gold Leaves and Pickwick, honing their sound and piquing fan interest, the trio la…
As DJ Cheryl Waters declared, “Let’s welcome one of the greatest bands to see live, Superchunk!” And boy, did their Bumbershoot Music Lounge performance live up to her introduction. The veteran indie rockers attacked their set with the energy and intensity of bands half their age, tearing through 2…
Arcade Fire have shared a remix of the title track of this summer's Everything Now from their tourmates from the European leg of their recent tour, Colombian psychedelic cumbia band Bomba Estéreo. Simón Mejía of Bomba Estereo said that Win Butler approached the band with a couple of song possibili…
KEXP is thrilled to present a lunchtime performance from legendary UK band The Wedding Present on Tuesday, April 25th. The long-running pop perfectionists are on tour in support of their ninth LP, Going, Going…, out now via their own label Scopitones.
Join us on Friday, October 28th as KEXP welcomes Laurence “Lol” Tolhurst, founding member of iconic post-punk band The Cure, and author of the new memoir, Cured: The Tale of Two Imaginary Boys, out now on Da Capo Press.
Olympia's Generifus captures these sweet, hazy moments of being in a band with the music video for "Sound" from their album Free Ways, out this Friday, March 9.
The band's Upstream 2017 performance on the KEXP broadcast gets a vinyl release this Saturday for Record Store Day
Trampled By Turtles' lead singer Dave Simonett discusses the band's new album, out today on Banjodad Records.
From the magic of the New York subway to rock discos in Munich, the Nada Surf lead singer tells the story of each track on the band's third album.
The Vancouver band's fourth release in a little over two years is a high-concept ball of threadbare post-punk. In a special Friday edition of Throwaway Style, Martin Douglas explores the shades of green displayed on the album.
Get to know Mexican alternative pop band Hello Seahorse! before their session on KEXP's Mexico Broadcast on Friday 3/1 at 12:30 PM PST / 2:30 PM CST.
The legendary band is dropping reissues of Mars Audiac Quintet and Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcement on May 3
Minneapolis band The Cult of Lip kick off KEXP's newest column Feedback, a look (down) at the pedal boards of some of our favorite musicians.
The Atlanta band talks about watching friends fall to addiction, the struggles of touring, and their new album The Devil You Know
KEXP's Owen Murphy chats with Doe about roster of contributors, what made L.A. more fun than other scenes, and the legacy that lives on even though many of these bands have since broken up.
Ben Bloom, guitarist for Seattle jazz-funk octet Polyrhythmics, shares the favorite staples he used on the band's brand-new LP Man From the Future.
In this special edition of Add to Cart, KEXP spotlights band merch inspired by (and most often, with proceeds donated to) the coronavirus pandemic.
