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Monday, Feb 27 2017, 2PM
Bash & Pop LIVE on KEXP TOMORROW Tuesday, February 28 at 4:00 PM. The Minneapolis-based Bash & Pop originally formed in 1992 by Tommy Stinson (the Replacements) released one album before disbanding in 1994. Stinson reformed the band last year with a new lineup and just-released album.
Ibeyi are 20 year-old French Cuban twins, Naomi and Lisa-Kainde Diaz, daughters of the late Cuban percussionist Angà Diaz.
Seattle quartet of singer/guitarist Jake Witt, keyboardist/guitarist Michel DeBauge, bassist Sam Tyner, and drummer Nathan Witt.
Nashville psych-rockers All Them Witches will be at the Tractor Friday May 5. Check out their 2015 song-of-the-day podcast on our blog: blog.kexp.org
Anacortes, WA DIY singer, songwriter and guitarist Karl Blau's cover of Tom T. Hall song "That's How I Got To Memphis" - a No. 3 Billboard country single in 1970 for Bobby Bare. Check out the song's video: youtu.be
Baltimore duo Beach House appeared on Charlie Rose on PBS last summer - sitting for an in-depth interview and performing a couple songs. charlierose.com
The Shins will be playing this year's Sasquatch Music Festival, Memorial Day weekend at the Gorge Amphitheater.
British singer-songwriter who named himself after a song and album by one of the most revered American singer-songwriters of the 20th century. ‘Wesley Stace’s John Wesley Harding,’ features the “legendary Minneapolitan sounds of The Jayhawks.” !wesleystace.com
Swedish-born, Philadelphia-based Jens Lekman will be playing Neumos this Sunday March 5.
Watch Benedict Cumberbatch morph with others in the video for the English quartet's "Gentle Storm" youtu.be
Download a recent song-of-the-day podcast from Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover) over on the KEXP blog: blog.kexp.org
Afro-funk juggernaut from Austin, the ten-piece collective features members of Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, The Calm Blue Sea, Cougar, Ocote Soul Sounds, and Spanish Gold blending frobeat, funk, ethio-jazz, psych.
In the year 2000, Kid Koala, Dan The Automator and Del The Funky Homosapien joined forces as Deltron 3030. For their 2013 KEXP VIP Club concert they also brought three more band members and a 15-piece orchestra and chorus to their live set at the Triple Door. You can see (or relive) that show on our blog blog.kexp.org
Iconic Seattle band on iconic Seattle landmark: Mudhoney on the Space Needle! Live footage at 600 feet - from SubPop's Silver Jubilee, on our YouTube channel now! Don't look down! www.youtube.com
"Vertigo Flowers" was the KEXP song-of-the-day podcast last spring - head over to our blog to download the song from Philly band Nothing.
Los Angeles duo of songwriter, guitarist, vocalist Bethany Cosentino and guitarist, multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno. Best Coast played a live in-studio back in 2013 - find it on our YouTube channel now: www.youtube.com
EODM (Eagles of Death Metal) is coming to Seattle Paramount Theatre Saturday April 15 as part of a new North American Spring tour today, with co-headliners Mastodon.
George Evelyn, programmer/composer for Nightmares on Wax grew up listening to soul music artists like Curtis Mayfield and Quincy Jones. He also was a big fan of hip-hop and techno. When he started Nightmares on Wax in 1991, he wanted to use hip-hop beats, and add raw element of soul and R&B. Read more on DJ Michele Myers blog post: blog.kexp.org
Tomorrow and Wednesday - February 28 and March 1 - at the Triple Door.
From Memphis, Valerie June will be at the Crocodile Friday June 2. Catch her 2014 Bumbershoot Music Lounge performance on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com
A breakup album, 'Dirty Projectors' is Dave Longstreth’s first Dirty Projectors album in five years, and first in more than 10 years without former bandmate, singer/guitarist Amber Coffman.
The Flaming Lips play the Paramount in Seattle Tuesday May 16
Peter Michel and his Seattle-based band Hibou will be playing the Upstream Music Fest in May. Check out photos from his 2016 Sasquatch performance on our blog: blog.kexp.org
Ellensburg native, and drummer (Screaming Trees; Neko Case, Steve Fisk, Jim Carroll, Pigeonhed, and Mark Lanegan sessions) played KEXP's New Home Grand Opening last April. Video form that performance can be found on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com
As a student at Harvard, David Wax began traveling south of the border to study and immerse himself in the country's traditional music and culture. Back in Boston, he met fiddler/singer Suz Slezak, whose love of traditional American and Irish folk music fused with Wax's Mexo-Americana into a singular, energetic blend. "Suz and I started this band as friends," says David Wax, "but now we’re married and have a child and have our family on the road with us. The stakes are different." www.facebook.com
Los Angeles psychedelic trio led by Guy Blakeslee piled in to Jam in the Van to play "Revolution Eyes" live: www.youtube.com
Monday April 24 at WAMU Theatre. In 2012 the trio stopped by the KEXP to play a set live in-studio. Read about and watch it here: blog.kexp.org
The song samples "Trouble So Hard" by American folk singer Vera Hall.
Playing Upstream Music Fest in May. Surreal and vocally symphonic, Portland composer and vocalist Natasha Kmeto’s songs stretch the boundaries of both contemporary pop, IDM and EDM with percussively intriguing compositions. Watch her magnificent multitasking 2015 performance for KEXP’s Audioasis: blog.kexp.org
During the SNL performance of "The Space Program," Q-Tip, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, and Jarobi White were joined onstage by friends and collaborators Consequence and Busta Rhymes.
Saturday April 15 at the Moore Theatre
Sacramento’s Holiday Flyer and California Oranges combined to form the Sinking Ships for this one project.
Thursday May 11 at the Tractor. ‘Bobby Fuller’ was cut to tape at Hyde Street Studio in San Francisco, the same studio where Prophet did his very first recording session, while still in high school.
Brad Barr met experimental harpist Sarah Pagé when her music drifted through the thin walls separating their two Montreal apartments. Sarah, Brad, and his brother Andrew, began playing and recording together in a makeshift studio, ultimately producing their debut record, 'The Barr Brothers'.
Classically trained, Rhiannon Giddens (founding member of Carolina Chocolate Drops) studied opera at Oberlin Conservatory before she “burned out and discovered the banjo! The rest is history.” www.facebook.com
Pickwick's Galen & Michael stopped by KEXP Saturday (2/18) to talk about their benefit show for the ACLU Nationwide and played a few songs from their upcoming LP "Lovejoys." If you missed that preview of their new work, listen now at our streaming archive: www.kexp.org
Last February, Seattle soul singer-songwriter Allen Stone stopped by the new KEXP studio for his second in-studio performance. blog.kexp.org
In 2012, El-P produced Killer Mike's critically acclaimed album R.A.P. Music. Later that year, Killer Mike appeared on the track "Tougher Colder Killer" from El-P's Cancer 4 Cure. The following year they officially formed the duo, Run the Jewels. Head to our blog to download their January song-of-the-day podcast: blog.kexp.org
The Chemical Brothers are the UK-based Grammy Award winning electronic music duo comprised of Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons.
Formed in 1964 in Kingston, Jamaica, The Skatalites are the premier ska band performing a style of ska music like no one else world-wide. www.skatalites.com
