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Tuesday, Oct 16 2018, 2PM
Los Campesinos! will play Neumos on November 2nd to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of their first two albums.
Check out The War On Drugs' most recent in-studio here: bit.ly
DeVotchKa stopped by KEXP back in 2015. Check out the video here: bit.ly
Cloud Cult performed LIVE on KEXP as part of the Arts in Nature Festival back in 2013. You can watch the session here: bit.ly
Listen to Death Cab For Cutie's first-ever session for KEXP (then KCMU) in July 1998: www.kexp.org
Read our recent feature on Tres Leches here: bit.ly
John Grant will play the Columbia City Theater on December 18th!
Check out this mix by The Juan MacLean for KEXP's Midnight In A Perfect World: bit.ly
Gabriel Teodros will play the Eliot Center in Portland, OR this Thursday, October 18th!
From the new album 'Us' out this Friday! Watch the music video for this track here: bit.ly
Revisit the Gorillaz show at Key Arena last year: bit.ly
The Royals were a Jamaican roots reggae vocal group formed in 1964 by Roy Cousins. They continued to record, with a varying line-up until the mid-1980s.
Brooklyn-based Super Hi-Fi mixes jazz-inflected trombones, the rhythmic landscapes of Jamaican dub and touches of afrobeat, funk and rock for a unique and heady mix memorably described as an ‘imaginary soundtrack from Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, The Specials and Led Zeppelin.’
Cloud Nothings will play Neumos on November 5th!
Remember when Mudhoney performed at the top of the Space Needle? Watch it again: bit.ly
An initial mix of 'The Stooges' by producer John Cale, apparently resembling ex-Velvet Underground bandmate Lou Reed's "closet mix" of that band's eponymous third album of the same year, was rejected by Elektra. The mix as heard on the final product was done by Iggy Pop and Elektra Records president Jac Holzman.
Read our interview with Tom Morello from earlier this year: bit.ly
Check out our Review Revue feature on Fugazi's 'Repeater': bit.ly
Check out our coverage of International Clash Day 2018: bit.ly
Playing tonight at The Showbox!
Alongside Wayne Kramer, leader of legendary Detroit proto-punk / hard rock band the MC5, MC50 features Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil, Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty, and frontman Marcus Durant (Zen Guerrilla) for all shows celebrating the landmark anniversary of MC5's incendiary debut album, Kick Out the Jams.
MC5 founder Wayne Kramer celebrates the 50th anniversary of KICK OUT THE JAMS around the world in 2018 with very special guests.
The tour follows the impending release of Kramer's memoir 'The Hard Stuff: Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities.'
"Listening to Soundgarden and Chris’ voice sounds like Seattle to me. They are Seattle." - John Richards bit.ly
Car Seat Headrest performed this song LIVE on KEXP earlier this year: bit.ly
While it’s the first release from Swearin’ in five years, Fall into the Sun is a record that doesn’t try to obscure the passage of time but instead embraces it.
Brutalism was selected at number 5 in BBC 6 Music's list '6 Music Recommends Albums Of The Year 2017', where it was described as "Caustic, volatile, take-no-prisoners indie [that delivers] a truly vital, adrenalin shot to the heart and mind."
From Richard Swift's final, posthumously released, album 'The Hex.'
New album from Sharon Van Etten coming early next year. She will play the Neptune Theatre on February 23rd!
Songs in the Key of Life is often cited as one of the greatest albums in popular music history. It was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll.
Recorded at the renowned Hljóðriti Studio on the outskirts of Reykjavik, and engineered & mixed by Guðmundur Kristinn Jónsson (Ásgeir, Erlend Oye, Hjálmar), the richly orchestrated album embraces a wide palette of sounds and is awash with soulful, charming melodies.
Based around a sample of 'Funeral' by Band of Horses.
Christine and the Queens will be LIVE on the Afternoon Show on October 26th at 3pm!
The band were pals with Northern Soul DJ Richard Searling who encouraged them to record a cover of Wigan Casino favourite 'Keep On Keepin' On' by N.F. Porter. It didn't quite come off but the riff morphed into 'Interzone', with Hooky on co-lead vocals.
3-piece fuzz-psych garage pop from Italy. Title track from their 2017 full-length album. beebeesea.bandcamp.com
Happy Birthday to Bob Mould! Born on this day in 1960.
Check out the music video for this song here: www.youtube.com
'Electric Ladyland' was released on this day in 1968.
Watch Delvon Lamaar Organ Trio's performance from Upstream Fest: bit.ly
Smokey Brights will play The Fixin' To in Portland on November 15th.
KEXP & Cloudbreak Music Festival Present: Smokey Brights 10 year Anniversary 2024
Friday, Nov 22, 2024
Event InfoOn this day in 2006, the famed CBGB club in New York City closed. Patti Smith performed on that night, closing out the show with the chant from 'Blitzkrieg Bop.'