Folk songstress Angel Olsen will release a deluxe edition of her successful album Burn Your Fire for No Witness on November 18. Today she has shared "All Right Now," one of the album's five new bonus track. You can also check out her self-directed video for "High and Wild," below. [Pitchfork]
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on the Afterno…
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s selection, featured on the Mo…
You’ve already seen what the KEXP DJs have picked for their Top 10 Albums of 2012 (here), but what about all of the people who support our programming and every element of what makes KEXP mighty? There are many dedicated souls who operate KEXP on a daily basis -- full-time and part-time staff, quar…
““Music is sacred. There’s nothing more exciting to me than sharing music, and I’m beyond excited to get to do that all week with our listeners. Some may know me chiefly from doing Street Sounds — but doing a variety mix, with all t…
R-Pal is the DJ alias of Seattle's Rachel Kramer. Active on the local DJ scene since first getting behind the decks in 2013, Rachel currently runs a cassette mixtape series called Technodad alongside KEXP's own DJ Sharlese and is a member of Seattle's TUF, a female/non-binary/trans collective based…
It is with a heavy heart that KEXP reports Charles Bradley has cancelled his upcoming tour dates after doctors found a cancerous tumor in his stomach. The 67-year-old singer released the following statement:
In the past few months, I have had to cancel a number of shows due to illness, taking me a…
There's a lot of things we love about our KEXP New Home, like having the space to house a beautiful baby grand piano (on permanent loan), and then hearing the gorgeous playing of artist John Grant down the hallways, with each chord reverberating and filling our in-studio space with the purest of so…
Saturday wrapped up another year of All Tomorrow's Parties Iceland, hosted in Keflavík at Atlantic Studios. Younghusband played their second and original time slot on the main stage. Ought from Canada (who are on the same label as Godspeed You! Black Emperor, who played the day before), and HAM, wh…
Festival season might have just kicked off in the Californian desert, but there's another major musical gathering going on this weekend – the fourteenth annual EMP Pop Conference. This year's conference is titled Get Ur Freak On: Music, Weirdness, and Transgression, and across the numerous roundtab…
KEXP's Tia Ho shares reflections on our 'Pushing Boundaries' theme for May and celebrating Asian artists all year round
all photos from the Telekinesis Instagram
All photos and text by Alex Crick
A new song from The National, video from Future Islands, and an EP from Purling Hiss all in today's news round-up.
One thing that makes a KEXP Drive so special is premiering our new design and all the fun thank-you-gifts that come along with it!
The song is included on the second volume of the 7-Inches for Planned Parenthood series
The festival director discusses the prevalence of Latin music worldwide as well as the importance of celebrating diversity in all senses on festival lineups.
Jasmine Albertson talks about a tumultuous relationship and the mixtape he made her that finally ended it all
They played Purple Mountains’ “All My Happiness Is Gone” from the Woodsist Festival.
Watch a transcendent performance of the title track "All Mirrors."
