From Duluth, Minnesota, Cloud Cult performs songs from their 2014 release, "Unplug" live in the KEXP Studio. Recorded 5/16/2014 - 4 songs: Breakfast With My Shadow, Ghost Inside Our House, You're the Only Thing in Your Way, Pretty Voice.
Critically acclaimed hardcore East Coast rap duo, Mobb Deep perform live in the KEXP Studio including the single, “Taking You Off Here” from their 2014 album, “The Infamous Mobb Deep”. Recorded 4/22/2014 - 3 songs: Quiet Storm, Taking You Off Here, Shook Ones.
With 2014's, "Altered Beast" now on the shelves, Seattle's treepunk tribe, Kithkin brought their nature loving selves indoors, treating the KEXP Studio to an inspired live performance. Recorded 4/10/2014 - 4 songs: Altered Beast, Asunder, Fallen Giants, Sorcerer.
After reuniting in 2015 for a series of live dates, Dean Wareham and the other members of Luna gradually worked back into a recording mindset, resulting in an instrumental EP and cover album combo, A Sentimental Education.
Before the recording of their latest LP, Floating Features, La Luz packed up from Seattle and moved to Los Angeles. That city’s vivid warmth and never-ending rush was baked into the group’s newest batch of songs, highlighted in this session in the KEXP Live Room with Cheryl Waters.
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.
Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by John Richards, host of The Morning Show on KEXP, is “Sway” by The Sweet Release of Death, from the 2019 album The Blissful Joy of Living on Subroutine Records.
Friday, November 1, 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Nirvana’s live album MTV Unplugged in New York.
"Your hippocampus does it alright" That astute observation from Built to Spill's Doug Martsch on his cerebral ode to memory function is a heck of an understatement when it comes to Twin Cities band Hippo Campus. The young four-piece is quickly becoming the pride of the St. Paul scene with their bre…
Swedish rockers Peter Bjorn and John have been proselytizing their pro-60s pop prowess since 1999. The trio really took the indie world by storm back in 2006 with their dance-floor hit "Young Folks," and ten years later, they're still artfully writing their whistle-catchy songs like the title track…
“Tonight’s a special show,” lead vocalist Dustin Payseur said at the beginning of Beach Fossils’ sold out show at The Crocodile. I’m sure many artists say this at the start of every show, but Beach Fossils stayed true to their word, pulling out songs they haven’t played live before, and bringing ou…
From pin dropping to firewatching, Brandi Carlile has lately shown a lot of range. On the heels of her unamplified Pin Drop Tour, the Northwest roots rock troubadour has released her fifth and and most rocking LP. The Firewatcher's Daughter is the first since the birth of her own daughter, but this…
No other group in Seattle has the reach of THEESatisfaction. In creating their unique psychedelic hip hop stylings, local duo Cat and Stas reach as high among the stars as low within the roots below, and place their feet years beyond as eons ago. In fact, critics can't help but describe their new a…
When Sólstafir plays for KEXP, the gods take notice. Two years ago, during KEXP's broadcast at Iceland Airwaves, hurricane-level gales swept across Reykjavik as the hard rocking band brewed up their own storm inside Kex Hostel. Last month, on their first tour of the West Coast, heavy winds followed…
This first day of live broadcasting from Iceland Airwaves ended with a bang. Kex Hostel was packed to the gills with eager fans of quintessential Icelandic singer songwriter Mugison (full name Örn Elías Guðmundsson). Raised in the small village of Isafjordur and now living in another tiny village, …
Prepare for liftoff with London duo Simian Mobile Disco's kosmische influenced electronic beats. While their array of sequencers, keys, colorful wires, and a mixer might call the duo's namesake mobility into question, they've had no trouble traveling with their equipment (or "mobile studio"). Their…
The lore of Seattle's Motopony begins not in a dense, leafy forest in the rainy Pacific Northwest (a scene which heavily inspires their music), but in a warehouse in Tacoma. Frontman Daniel Blue set the story of the now acclaimed band in motion when, at 27, he picked up his ten year-old guitar. Wit…
Despite the miles between songwriters Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp, The Rosebuds continue to bloom on their sixth full-length album, Sand + Silence. Crisp currently resides in New York as Howard continues to live in North Carolina, but the two met up in the woods of Wisconsin to record with their fr…
