Since 1999, MONO has been a four-piece Japanese post-rock band known for cinematic orchestral arrangements layered with gazing guitars. They’re releasing their twelfth studio album OATH on June 14 via Temporary Residence Limited.
A folk-fusion groove band brings a set of night music to Sonarchy with CJ Lazenby (guitar, charango, vocals), Mike Antone (guitar, lapsteel, vocals), Gabe Herbert (bass), Masaru Swanson (guitar, percussion), Peter Hsu (sax), Caycee Furulie (djembe), and Saraina Hancock (singing bowls).
Reunited electronic pop band Cibo Matto make their first visit to the KEXP studio to perform songs off their new LP "Hotel Valentine." Recorded 3/1/2014 - 3 songs: 10th Floor Ghost Girl, Emerald Tuesday, Déjà Vu.
Today’s song, featured on The Midday Show with Cheryl Waters is “Everybody Needs You” by Laura Veirs from the 2018 album, The Lookout, out April 13 via Raven Marching Band Records
The spaced-out, desert-breathing songs on Loma’s self-titled debut showcase a band whose strength lies in capturing a shadowy mystique. Playing songs from their debut, Jonathan Meiburg, Emily Cross, and Dan Duszynski join Cheryl Waters in the KEXP Live Room for this session on the Midday Show.
DJ Shannon unleashes her favorite songs from the best UK bands right now such as long-time favorites, Frightened Rabbit and Twilight Sad. Also featuring new amazing talents: Idles, Boy Azooga, Avalanche Party and more. That's entertainment!
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Kevin Cole, host of The Afternoon Show on KEXP, from the many bands playing this year's Iceland Airwaves Music Festival, is "Forever on Your Mind" by Mammút, a 2019 self-released single.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Kevin Cole, host of The Afternoon Show on KEXP, from the many bands playing this year's Iceland Airwaves Music Festival, is "Janúar" by Svavar Knútur, a 2019 single on Dimma Records.
Wo’Pop host Darek Mazzone shares music from this year’s 17th annual Globalfest in New York City, where 12 bands from around the world showcased a range of boundary-pushing sounds.
Dusty Henry dives into Green by R.E.M., a band that set the stage for indie rock as this larger idea of staying authentic despite commercial success.
KEXP DJ and musician Noel Brass Jr. joins host Evie Stokes to talk about his own band Afrocop, Eddie Chacon, and Unknown Mortal Orchestra.
Dusty Henry digs into one of the more caustic bands on Kurt’s list – Swans' and their 1984 EP Young God.
Dr. West, one of the rotating hosts on KEXP’s punk show Sonic Reducer, talks about one of his favorite new punk bands, HARAM.
Travel to the land of the midnight sun as we journey to Reykjavik, Iceland, once again to join our friends at Kex Hostel for a summer bash. KEXPort celebrates KEXP's ongoing relationship (now in its sixth year, believe it or not!) with our similarly named hosts of our annual winter broadcast during…
You've probably watched a lot of our in-studio videos, but you probably haven't seen one quite like this one from Seattle's eccentric, Johnny Cash-saddled Brent Amaker and the Rodeo. Having been around for ten years, Brent Amaker and the Rodeo certainly have their sound and live performance down pa…
Seven years without a new album. Nearly biannual membership shuffles. Repeated reports of studio sessions without any release. For a minute, Modest Mouse looked like they might have been heading down the lucrative but artistically fruitless legacy act path that a few of their contemporaries are sta…
Saqqara Dogs seems to be yet another band that absolutely delighted a certain subset of nerdy college radio DJs (and soon-to-be-incredibly-influential New York Times music critics - you've got to love any band that forces the Times to refer to someone as "Mr. 66"), but didn't seem to make much of a…
Next on the broadcast live from Kex Hostel at Iceland Airwaves music festival is Icelandic psych outfit Par-Ðar. Their name serving as a description for the band's sound, "PAR" is an acronym for Psychedelic Ambient Rock, and "Ðar" is the band’s made-up word for a state of enlightenment or being. Th…
True to style, every year, there are one or two bands that manage to navigate the Sasquatch! Music Festival contracts and squeeze in a Seattle date right before they head east. For 2015, that band was UK electronic showcase Jungle. While they absolutely wowed crowds with their Sasquatch! set on Day…
Indie rock stalwarts Interpol returned to the scene earlier this year with a fantastic new LP, El Pintor, ten tracks of ageless Interpol mastery, heavy on the guitar hooks and light on filler. After a brief foray on a major label with 2007's impossibly underrated Our Love To Admire, tumultuous band…
