Each week KEXP's Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what's coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from Anna Calvi, Muncie Girls, Big Red Machine, and more.
Each week, KEXP’s Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Alex) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what's coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from Madlib, Wild Pink, Goat Girl, and more.
Seattle based feminist punk-supergroup Childbirth features members of Pony Time, Chastity Belt and Tacocat. Listen to them perform an album perfect live set on KEXP's Audioasis. Recorded 02/14/2015 - 8 songs: Childbirth, I'm More Fertile Than You, How Do Girls Even Do It?, I Only "Hugged…
Sublime guitars, processed beats, and resonant tones echo through Cheryl Waters' latest Music That Matters mix, featuring new songs from NAVVI, Cloud Nothings, OC Notes, and Our Girl.
In March 2012, Girls mastermind Lena Dunham told NY Mag, that "[Millennial] lostness and that questioning — I wish I could say that it completely went away when you were getting to do the thing you wanted to do, but unfortunately, that’s not the truth." The most recent season of Girls featured a nu…
Each week, KEXP’s Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Alex) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what's coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from Brittany Howard, Vivian Girls, Chastity Belt, and more.
“If the book you want to read doesn't exist, write it.” Quoting the inimitable Toni Morrison, Jamila Woods crafts a story worth diving into on her debut album HEAVN. Joining DJ Morgan in the KEXP Live Room, the Chicago poet and songwriter tells the tale of how she went from singing in her ch…
The fragrance of adventure and poetry endlessly pervades DJ Kevin Cole’s new music mix featuring new sounds from Vanishing Twin, KOKOKO!, Khruangbin, girl in red, Sleater-Kinney, and more bands to delight and inspire.
Christopher Owens took us all by surprise last year when he randomly announced that he was leaving his own band, Girls. Girls started back in 2007 with Owens and Chet JR White, but they really got off the ground and running in the last couple years with 2009's very popular Album and 2011's pitch pe…
On September 22, Bikini Kill are releasing a special reissue of their 1991 demo Revolution Girl Style Now!. The release will feature three unreleased tracks, one of which is called "Playground." Listen to this gem of classic Pacific Northwest grunge, below. [Stereogum]
Iceland Airwaves Music Festival share the first wave of their line-up, including international acts like Girl Ray and Superorganism, as well as Icelandic acts Júníus Meyvant, Snorri Helgason, and more.
A mysterious glowing orb stalks a young skater girl in this video for the track "Jacaranda" by Oakland-based band Trails and Ways. KEXP is excited to present the world premiere of this sci-fi storyline single off the band's debut full-length, Pathology, out now on Barsuk Records.
Seattle’s feminist rock scene has a beautifully rich history at this point, and it’s a total blast to see where the kids are taking it. Three bands in particular have, hand in hand, brought the noise consistently for the last couple years: Chastity Belt, Tacocat, and Pony Time. These three acts hav…
Chromatics have had an unprecedented 2015. The world has been talking about their upcoming LP Dear Tommy since December. We've been listening to its singles since February when we got "Just Like You", quickly followed by "I Can Never Be Myself When You're Around". In April, we got the massive "In F…
This week, Anti- Records releases the eight-album Neko Case vinyl box set, Truckdriver, Gladiator, Mule. The collection features her solo discography remastered from their original analog tape and pressed on 180 gram vinyl. There's also an 80-page photo book, a vinyl slipmat featuring an illustrati…
Ahead of the 2017 MoPOP Sound Off! semifinals, DJ Sharlese showcases the 12 Northwestern Under 21 artists from Bellingham, WA to Boise, ID competing in the local music event. 1. Cult Bride - Wolf2. Fluencie - Preoccupied3. Jason McCue - Humans!4. Mission 253 - Roll Out5. Torpoise - Dream Requiem6…
Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole drops 10 new musical treasures from the Nordic hinterlands to the Pacific Northwest including new Finnish rap, Icelandic chill, cinematic Seattle electronica and a healthy blast of rock from Bob Mould. 1. Bob Mould - The End of Things 2. Muncie Girls - Balloon 3. B…
At the tender age of 18, Arctic Monkeys leader Alex Turner first asked the girl across the room to stop making eyes with him in the opening line of the band's breakthrough song. Now at the significantly less tender age of 27, he's drunk dialing the same girl at 3 a.m., hoping that if he can't bring…
August is off to a great start with these excellent new releases, including the sophomore smash from Seattle's own La Luz. KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls it, "another impressive blend of noirish surf-rock and ‘60s girl-group pop. Produced by Ty Segall, the album’s sound is a bit more raw than …
