DJs Evie, Miss Ashley and Michele Myers team up for KEXP's first Birth Playlist, “Songs for Creation."
Peer into the twisted mind of Dr. Troy as he reveals his ultimate creation: The Algo-Rhythm 3000.
The Tobias Gremmler creation was released in conjunction with Björk's new multi-media stage show
As stay-at-home orders get extended, tech companies are stepping up to keep people entertained.
Guest Jack Tomkinson, Executive Director, Urban Sparks, speaks with Diane Horn about the work of Urban Sparks to facilitate the creation and improvement of public spaces.
Sound & Vision contributor Mia Imani reflects on Black Spirituality in music across generations, from Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane to Flying Lotus and Solange.
Plus, read a Q&A with songwriter Harrison Smith about the record's creation.
Portland-based artist Kennebec shares a blissful and meditative guest DJ mix for Midnight in a Perfect World featuring artists and songs that have influenced his own music creation over the years.
Masahiro Takahashi shares a dreamy guest DJ mix that features songs from his new album In Another alongside pieces that helped inspire its creation.
First, A Tribe Called Quest released a new album after 18 years. And, now, Scottish siblings The Jesus and Mary Chain are one-upping them, so to speak, with their first LP in 19 years, out in March 2017. The news was announced by Creation Records founder and longtime manager Alan McGee, who excite…
KEXP chats with Hank Shocklee about the creation of Public Enemy's classic LP on its 30th anniversary, covering everything from their use of sampling to carving out a space for themselves in a music industry that had other priorities
Moaning bassist/synth genius Pascal Stevenson chats with KEXP about their years-in-the-making debut solo record as Fashion Club, the varied influences that inspired 'Scrutiny,' and the role sobriety played in not just the creation of these songs but helping her come out as trans.
Okay, I have no idea what is going on here, and for once the Internet and KMCU DJ comments are mostly giving me more questions than answers. Starting with Discogs, which seems to have the only solid info on this release out there, we have before us an album from early 1984 by The Seclusions, featur…
In 2020, Los Angeles-based producer Maral released her debut full-length LP 'Push,' via Leaving Records. KEXP's Isabel Khalili recently spoke with Maral about the creation of the record, how she samples classical Iranian music as well as her vision for continuing to reinterpret this music and cultu…
A modern journeyman of sorts, 28 year-old songwriter Kevin Morby has spent close to a decade releasing music while moving through different musical outfits and cities. Now based in Los Angeles, Morby and his band return to KEXP to share the traveler's tales on the Kansas City native's third album,…
Reflecting on American pathologies during the creation of the band's eighth album, Shearwater leader Jonathan Meiburg sought to make what David Bowie once called an oblique protest record. The result, this year's Jet Plane and Oxbow, is some of the Austin, Texas group's most expansive and impactfu…
What a great way to kick off 2015: our very first in-studio session of the year was with Canadian musical craftsmen Dan Mangan + Blacksmith. On his fourth album, Club Meds, out now on Arts & Crafts, the Juno Award-winning singer/songwriter expands into new sonic soundscapes with his band, Black…
A true dynamic duo, Montreal’s King Khan and BBQ Show dropped by the KEXP live room to flaunt their tasty brand of retro garage and doo wop ditties. Marinated in all types of awesome sauce, this gruesome twosome wet our palates with a preview of succulent songs off their upcoming We Are The Champio…
