Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O and producer Danger Mouse have unveiled a new collaborative single called “Lux Prima.”
The Puerto Rican artist weighs in on the political environment of her home country and how it inspired her latest LP.
Frontwoman Eva Hendricks calls it “a bridge, spanning the distance between Guppy and Young Enough.”
Tomu DJ is an electronic artist from the Bay Area. She’s out with a new album called I Want To Be.
The DJ comments on this LP call us back to a dark time when not every album was available everywhere in the world instantly upon its release. Many well-loved bands could only be heard by spending way too much money on physical objects that had been transported in small batches from another country …
Radiohead recently released a 20th-anniversary reissue of OK Computer called OKNOTOK. A lot of excitement surrounded the inclusion of three previously unreleased tracks, one of those being a fan-favorite that the band had played a number of times live but had never released a studio version of, cal…
FIDLAR have shared a new politically-charged single called "Too Real" that takes down everyone from the government, “bullshit bands that are on the charts,” the political right, the political left, smartphones, and EDM.
KEXP will travel to London for the 7th Annual International Clash Day, with a full week of live performances celebrating The Clash, the 40th Anniversary of the release of London Calling, and the strength of London’s music scene.
New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus share the track “Tumult Around the World,” the second single off their forthcoming LP An Obelisk.
MC's Karim aka Nightclubber Lang, Destro Destructo, and DJ Tre return with a tribute to what they call "the greatest fight in boxing history."
Singer-songwriter Kevin Morby stops by the Midday Show to play songs from his new album, "Still Life." Recorded 02/19/2015 - 6 songs: The Dead They Don't Come Back, Reign, All of My Life, Amen, I Hear You Calling, Parade.
Looking for something to soundtrack your holiday party that isn't holiday music? Troy Nelson's latest collection of certified smash hits will light up any occasion with new songs from Toro Y Moi, El Ten Eleven, and Foxxxy Mulder.
Seeking to remove himself from the traditional album cycle, Kristian Matsson chose to make his next project as The Tallest Man On Earth an audio/visual project called When The Bird Sees The Solid Ground.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Cheryl Waters, host of The Midday Show on KEXP, is "Hardly to Blame" by Sheer Mag, from the 2019 album A Distant Call on Wilsun Recording Company.
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings recorded one last album before Jones passed away due to pancreatic cancer last year. Entitled Soul Of A Woman, the album will be released November 17. Today the Dap-Kings shared the track "Call on God," a song Jones wrote in the '70s for E.I. Fields' Gospel Wonders an…
Wo' Pop is a 3-hour look into what used to be called "World Music" I call it "Modern Global Music" because it encompasses all the current musical genres while being deeply engaged in the sounds and ideas of each city or region.
African Kwaito, Bhangra and Bollywood from Bombay and London, Mbalax f…
Latin Ameerican Content Producer and El Sonido co-host Albina Cabrera curates a brief overview of 42 albums in Latin American music. For this installment, we called on music journalists Richard Villegas and Nuria Net to help us illustrate the big picture of this past year.
Join KEXP on Saturday, October 19th for this annual spotlight of Icelandic music with synth-punk trio Kælan Mikla and Reykjavik rockers Sólstafir.
Sam Beam's project Iron & Wine is back with a new album, a new single with video, and some tour dates. The single is called "Call It Dreaming" and the video was directed by J. Austin Wilson. The video features Beam and his friends performing in a magical pickup truck that moved by itself withou…
Last weekend saw the return of Reykjavik Calling, the annual showcase featuring artists from sister cities Reykjavik and Seattle. Each year, KEXP curates the bill, selecting likeminded artists whose complementary styles might lead to fruitful collaboration. This year, we made our choices with a min…
