Armed with a tidal wave of talent and tracks from their new release, Weirdo Shrine, Seattle’s surf rock songstresses La Luz light up KEXP with this stunning live session. With their dark, reverb coated strings and organic tones, the band delve deeper into the fabric of their sundrenched sound - wit…
Gilligan Moss is an emerging NYC-via-Chicago electronic producer that recently was invited to open up for Glass Animals on tour after the band heard his hotly-tipped remix of their track "Gooey." He just released his colorful debut EP, Ceremonial, on August 14th and he'll be playing Seattle's Decib…
Scottish trio CHVRCHES share a track from their highly-anticipated sophomore release Every Open Eye. Stream the opening cut from the album below. Every Open Eye hits stores on September 25th via Glassnote, and the band are playing an all-ages show Wednesday, October 14th at The Paramount. [Spin]
The Morning Show with John Richards on KEXP has come to mean a lot of different things to different people over the years. But the overwhelmingly pervasive theme at Neumos on Friday for the revival of John In The Morning At Night was a whole hell of a lot of fun. The room was packed with jubilant K…
San Francisco’s rocked out folk duo Two Gallants bring out their inner primal energy to the KEXP studio. Unleashing the musical fury of their 2015 release, We Are Undone, the guys bang out quality like it's their lifeblood - all immersed in Adam Stephens' fuzzed out prog sonics and Tyson Vogel's ki…
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 Midday …
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 Morning…
Everyone's talking about the upcoming new album from Spoon, but what about Britt Daniel's other project Divine Fits? Not content to sit on the sidelines, Dan Boeckner and drummer Sam Brown have started a new project called Operators, and their debut album will be out later this year. Check out the…
Cymbals Eat Guitars will release their new LP LOSE, the band's first since 2011's Lenses Alien, on August 26. According to a press release, the LP was inspired by loss, as indicated by its title. The songs were written at a time when frontman Joseph D'Agostino was dealing with the death of his col…
Tame Impala will release a live edition EP, aptly titled Live Versions, on Record Store Day (April 19). According to a press release the band's goal was "to give fans something they won't already have; something they've only previously experienced at a Tame Impala show." It was recorded last year …
In KEXP's ongoing bid to make The War on Drugs "The Most Popular Band in the World," we present to you the music video for the track "Red Eyes," which features the Philadelphia boys as hosts of a kooky talent competition. Their album, Lost in the Dream, comes out March 18th on Secretly Canadian, a…
Bob Casale, founding member and guitarist of Devo, has died at age 61 from "conditions that lead to heart failure." In 1972, Bob and his brother Gerald created one of the most famous bands of the New Wave era. Gerald said, "As an original member of Devo, Bob Casale was there in the trenches with m…
Visually, Wampire are a throwback to the 70’s: button-downs with big collars opened at the top, sunglasses, long and wavy hair. If you didn’t know what year it was, you might think the Doobie Brothers just stepped out of the Mystery Mobile. Musically, Wampire proves worthy of their indie buzz. The …
No one knew it at the time, but Saturday would be the end of Austin City Limits 2013. Rain had been threatening all weekend, and around 9:45 p.m., it finally showed up, and as of Sunday morning, it hasn't left. That being said, Saturday would have been a hard day to top. The weather was (mostly) wa…
The crowd is already forming as we set up for Day 1 of KEXP's broadcast from Doug Fir during Musicfest NW. We've got a killer lineup today starting with the ever-charming Scottish electropop trio CHVRCHES, followed by the all-star group The Baseball Project, electrifying dance-punks !!!, and the ar…
Pearl Jam have given their upcoming album, Lightening Bolt, a release date of October 15. This will be their first album since 2009's, Backspacer, and to celebrate they have shared their new single "Mind Your Manners." This song seems to be leaning much heavier toward the punk rock side of music …
Jason Molina of Magnolia Electric Co. and Songs: Ohia has passed away. Sadly, Molina died on Saturday as a result of organ failure. According to his family, he had been in and out of rehab due to his struggle with alcoholism since 2011. His final release was last summer's Autumn Bird Songs. It is a…
Less than a minute into Hummingbird, the sophomore effort from LA band Local Natives, keyboardist/vocalist Kelcey Ayer makes a stark confession: "I woke up with my green eyes blue/And all I think about is you/And it feels". In the remaining three minutes of the heartbreaking opening track, he never…
Australian psych-rock five-piece POND have a new video out for "Colder Than Ice," off their seventh studio album The Weather, released earlier this summer. The video is simplistic in nature, with director George Foster following the band around while they goof off. It also features fellow Australia…
Over the weekend, on the one-year anniversary of Donald Trump's inauguration, the National shared a politically-focused video for "Walk It Back," off of last year's Sleep Well Beast. Directed by Casey Reas, the video featues grainy footage of politicians, with Reas saying: "The video documents the …
