Lightspeed Champion live at Vanity, Tokyo 12/10/07photo by m.uch
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 featured selection, chosen by Midday Show host [...]
Seattle folk — if you don’t have plans for tomorrow, now you do! Jim Walsh is in town to read from his new book, The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting, an Oral History at Borders Books (downtown, on 4th) on Tuesday. If you can sneak out of work at lunchtime, Jim reads at [...]
Jonathan Borofsky, Self-Portrait 1979
Some of the most celebrated artists make for difficult listening. I’m not referring to the recording artists who intentionally eschew convention, but rather, visual ones who also make music. Have you ever tried to sit through Julian Schnabel’s CD Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud? (If you’d like to try, used copies [...]
by Ben Guerechit
A few weeks back, I stumbled upon a surprising album that eventually led to a fairly new and emerging territory in music. Like Alice and the rabbit hole, I found myself falling deeper and deeper into the world of what some are calling “kindie” rock.
The most recent release from jazz/funk trio Medeski, Martin [...]
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 featured selection, chosen by Midday Show host Cheryl Waters, is Marshmallow by Muscles from the [...]
This Saturday, Audioasis is excited to present Katharine Hepburn’s Voice (KHV) and Partman Parhorse hosted by Lisa Wood. First, a bit of self-disclosure. I am a member of Partman Parthorse and also an employee at KEXP. So when I was asked to write a blog entry promoting our upcoming show this Saturday on Audioasis [...]
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Not all is as it seems on Barton Carroll’s new CD The Lost One. Chiming acoustic guitars, the gentle sway of pedal steel, countrified bowing on the fiddle, and Carroll’s sweet, plaintive voice all seem to aim for a familiar place — the tasty, tuneful Americana zone. But then something curious happens: the lyrics [...]
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by Rachel LeBlanc
In the future, when we live in space stations, leading simpler lives with a higher level of consciousness, I imagine the music produced will be much like the music already created by Seattle’s KRGA. The songs contained on these two albums, Magic Wand and June, are highly ethereal, droning vibrations layered upon pulsating [...]
photo by Gregory A. Perez
This week Seattle has a bunch of mid-week reasons to rejoice. For those that already have a golden ticket to the acoustic Nada Surf show at the Triple Door, congratulations. If you haven’t, perhaps you can find solace by listening to their new album (yes the whole thing!) before it is [...]
by Gary Miller
Although I’m not sure how my editors feel about it, I don’t always feel the need for my posts here to be related to any particular current event — a show, a festival, an album release, etc. So, this is one of those posts that serves simply to help make people more [...]
