For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2016, leading up to our 2016 90.3 Top Album Countdown! Voting ends on Friday, December 9th at 6:00 PM PT, so let us know your favorites now, and tune in on Friday, December 16th to hear if your picks made the list! Anyone wh…
It would be great to construct this write-up as a complete palindrome, but probably only Tacocat could pull that off! Instead, let it suffice that this Seattle four-piece is hella charming — from the new ice cream flavor coming out under their name all the way down to their latest album title, NVM,…
KEXP's Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole pumps up the volume with a great mix of new music and live rarities in celebration and appreciation of KEXP's Amplifiers Club donors! Turn it up! 1. Sonic Avenues - In Your Head 2. Guided By Voices - Psychotic Crush 3. Thee Oh Sees - Drop 4. Sharon Van E…
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Larry Mizell Jr., host of The Afternoon Show on KEXP, is "Scab Song" by Dora Jar, a 2021 single on Original Sin.
DJ Riz and Larry Rose co-host this year's edition of the Big Gay Podcast, bringing you an infectious mix of music by, for, and about the LGBTQ community with songs from Courtney Barnett, Blood Orange, The Drums, Goldfrapp, Austra, Hurray For The Riff Raff, and more. They also mix in songs from Rai…
Music That Matters, Vol. 570 - Big Gay Podcast 2017
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Larry Rose, host of Larry's Lounge, in honor of Pride, is "Free Ride" by Mykki Blanco, a 2021 self-released single.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Larry Rose, host of Larry's Lounge, in honor of Pride, is "Strut (feat. Big Freedia)" by Elohim, a 2021 self-released single.
Janice sits down with Larry Rose to discuss his DJ beginnings 30 years ago and how he’s seen radio evolve. Then they get into the stories behind three new song recommendations and a 1980s “Pride” classic.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Larry Rose, host of Larry's Lounge, in honor of Pride, is "It's So Fun (To Be Gay)" by MAN ON MAN, from the 2021 album MAN ON MAN on Polyvinyl.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Larry Rose, host of Larry's Lounge, in honor of Pride, is "Worry With You" by Sleater-Kinney, from the 2021 album Path of Wellness on Mom + Pop.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Larry Rose, host of Larry's Lounge, in honor of Pride, is "Marea (We’ve Lost Dancing)" by Fred again.. & The Blessed Madonna, from the 2021 album Actual Life (April 14 - December 17 2020) on Atlantic.
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Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Larry Mizell, Jr., host of Street Sounds on KEXP, in honor of Juneteenth, is "Floyd" by SPECSWIZARD, a 2020 self-released single. Hear Larry's Weekly Mix Juneteenth podcast here.
In the 1990’s and early 2000’s, there was a plethora of rapping over rock music. But it didn't long for this amalgamation, which amounted mostly to bad pop music, to fade. Northwest group The Saturday Knights found a formula that really worked, though, avoiding that fleeting (and dare I say, money …
With their shifting, phased-out sound, local urban poets and Cloud Nice members Kingdom Crumbs have become of the 206's leading hip hop groups. (In a recent Stranger piece, our own Larry Mizell, Jr. called the group "hands-down full-stop one of the very very best groups our town has.") The Seattle …
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Larry Mizell, Jr., host of Street Sounds on KEXP, in honor of Juneteenth, is "SirLadyMakemFall" by Liv.e, from the 2020 EP Bout These Pipedreams / Lessons from My Mistakes.. but I Lost Your Number on In Real Life Music / AWAL. Hear Larry's Weekly Mix Juneteenth…
Find out how your band or music project can record a special Live on KEXP performance, along with an opening slot at a Noise Pop show in 2026.
Minneapolis' ubiquitous underground hip hop figure P.O.S has a long list of credentials: guitarist for Building Better Bombs, vocalist and keyboard player for Marijuana Deathsquads, member of well-populated supergroup Gayngs, and a founding member of the Doomtree collective. All of these were runni…
"Holy shit." That's what DJ Cheryl Waters exclaimed as Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers finished their KEXP session. Thanks to Cheryl's booking, KEXP gets hundreds of in-studio sessions a year, but it's rare when our entire staff is unanimously blown away like we were that day. DJ Larry Rose, a …
