Again, there’s lots of stuff going on this week. It’s Halloween tonight, something or other is going on Tuesday and I presume that Sarah Palin will announce the formation of her exploratory committee on Wednesday morning for the presidency in 2012.
Here are a few things worthy of your time to keep rockin’ in the free [...]
Come down to the KEXP Halloween Open House right now! Until 5PM, we’ve got plenty of treats for trick-or-treaters, and we’re giving station tours and taking photos. Here are just some of the great costumes that we’ve seen so far:
We’re celebrating Halloween at KEXP by inviting you to come down and tour the station. Come to KEXP’s Halloween Open House between 11am and 5pm for Trick-or-Treat’ing, Halloween photos in the Spooky Live Room, station tours, and more. Bring your kids, take a long lunch break, or take a field trip, and come down to [...]
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. Every Friday, the Song of the Day podcast spotlights local musicians. Today’s featured selection, chosen by [...]
by Chris Estey
This is a new book review column meant to alert KEXP listeners-slash-website readers to the latest in books about music, books by musicians, and books musicians might like. I hope to do some short interviews with authors (and writerly-performers) the way Spike did with his amazing “33 1/3 Odyssey,” but in the meantime [...]
LA musician Jason Shapiro (of, among other things, Celebrity Skin) has gotten his lawyer on and sued a band he “absolutely love[s]“: The Hives. He says they stole the guitar riff for “Tick Tick Boom” (off this year’s Get Smart soundtrack) from Shaprio’s 1997 Why You? Jason’s hired Joe the Musicologist to help [...]
One thing I like about writing these posts is that sometimes — as you may have noticed — it introduces me to bands I’d never heard of before. This week is an example of this, bringing us Ted Milton’s Blurt, who are on the cusp of their 30th anniversary as a band. That’s [...]
Here’s Lykke Li performing “I’m Good I’m Gone,” live on KEXP from the Gibson Showroom during CMJ, filmed by New York Noise.
You can also download the the full performance from Lykke Li as one of our Live Performances podcasts, in addition to four other CMJ performances and a whole lot more:
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