OK, last week’s Review Revue went on a bit long, I must admit (there were so many comments from the original DJs that none of you dear readers commented - perhaps you never made it to the end?). But oh, people, THE HISTORY! Anyway, we have another landmark release to celebrate today, and [...]
photo by Christopher Nelson
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 Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole, is Cody’s Dream [...]
by Corbett Cummins
For your humble WTFM blogger, South by Southwest was like the rabbit hole in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Just like Alice, I knew I wasn’t going to find anything normal on the other side, even so I still wasn’t prepared for it.
My brilliant, beatnik inspired plan was to go “without [...]
Howdy. I’m DJ Michele Myers. I’ve been at KEXP for 13 years now. When I first started out at the station, I volunteered for a year, then got hired for night shift. Man, that is a long, lonely shift. 9 years later I got my own primo show slot on [...]
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 Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole, is Jungle Struttin’ by The Lions [...]
photo by Stephen Berkman
The new releases on Largehearted Boy’s list this week seem to hearken back to days of yore, whether they be from veteran bands who are laying down vinyl for the first time in years (16 for B-52’s), reissuing remastered albums (5 of them by Jesus & Mary Chain), or repackaging older material [...]
photo by Christopher Nelson
interview by Spike
Even if you don’t know him by name, chances are you’ve heard Dean Wareham’s music. In 1987, Galaxie 500 began building a cult following through both their music and mystique. Wareham quit the band — in essence, dissolving it — after three albums; he moved on to form Luna in [...]
The Ruby Suns at the New Zealand SXSW barbecue 3/18/08photo by Robert Loerzel
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 [...]
If you have ever peeked at my DJ profile on the Programming pages, you may have noticed the following sentence: “In his spare time, he is reproducing a series of classic LP covers, full-scale, in 18 gauge needlepoint; his current subject is Eno’s Another Green World.”
Well, last night, around 8:30 PM Pacific Time, I completed [...]
Following up with the news that about The Raconteurs‘ new record and their attempt to precluded an advanced album leak, it appears iTunes had some sort of programming error that caused the Consolers of the Lonely to be released a little early. For a brief while on Friday, it was available through the popular service [...]
