It took nearly six years, but the members of Tuatara finally heard the shaman's call. The members of the collaborative Seattle collective, led by drummer and producer Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees, Mad Season, Walking Papers), gathered once again outside of the plain of their ordinary lives to cr…
The sun came out last Friday to set the perfect scene for KEXP and Seattle Center's second in the Concerts at the Mural series. With only the Space Needle and sun overhead, fans came out to see Minneapolis' earth friendly indie rock band Cloud Cult headline the concert. The KEXP favorites took the …
Despite the innumerable sources of praise and worship from every corner of the earth, David Bowie somehow finds a way to face a sort of misrepresentation in the modern world, where every new album is slated as a comeback. Each forthcoming effort from the aging rock legend has some sort of Lazarus e…
How do you do your part to combat climate change? Learn about the problems as well as the organizations and activists working to resolve them.
"I feel like all 4,000 people in this room should hug right now," the mid-30s woman beside me says to me as the house lights go on after The xx show last Monday night. I nod my head in approval. I understand what she means - not hugs of comfort but hugs of recognition of community and of the beauti…
Recently, Seattle Weekly posted a piece called "A Year of Emergency". While the piece deals with the city's prevailing homelessness epidemic, the societal range to which the phrase could be extended this year is nearly infinite. Human empathy is facing a year of emergency, and for better or worse, …
Presenting Songbook: KEXP’s Music & Literature Series, bringing together authors and artists for engaging discussions in the KEXP Gathering Space.
You'll wish you could say you were there. It was just one of those shows that all in attendance knew they were blessed by some kind of angelic beings to attend, as HÆLOS played for a respectably sized, though not packed, crowd at The Sunset Tavern last week. The UK trio decided to advance their for…
Guest host Ripple Effect Band curates this mix, providing a sampling of music currently being made by artists from the oldest living culture on earth, Australia's First Nations People.
The New Orleans-based band describes their latest album, 2022’s Life on Earth, as “nature punk” and give Cheryl Waters an explanation of what exactly that means to them and the importance of being tuned into nature.
It's the quintessential story of grunge, or at least how we've come to know the Seattle music scene of the '80s and '90s. It involves friends, music, an isolated region, heroin, grief and rampant commercialism. It's the story of talent lost too soon before its time, and of the musicians who gathere…
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Kevin Cole, host of The Afternoon Show on KEXP, is "Warped Shadow" by Akasha System, from the 2019 album Echo Earth on 100% Silk.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Cheryl Waters, host of the Midday Show on KEXP, is "pawnshop" by Kara Jackson, from the 2023 album Why Does The Earth Give People To Love? from September Recordings.
The increasingly common trend of anniversary tours has further validated a longstanding posit that, for better or for worse, audiences and performers both hold: almost everyone wants to hear your old material more than they want to hear your new material.(There is a reason Paul McCartney closes wit…
