Many of the artists who performed on KEXP’s stage at ME Television studios in Austin during SXSW stuck around afterward to talk to our DJs. Here are a handful of them, with Alela Diane, The Love Language, First Communion Afterparty, and The Features:
I am unusually excited for this week, not just because it’ll be the first time I’ll have seen USE in probably about a year and a half but shortly after that I’ll be taking my first actual vacation in well over two years. So, with any luck, next week’s column will be filed, as Eddie [...]
As major labels continue to exist behind the times, artists and labels with no capital and lesser reputations are putting out some of the most innovative, interesting, and inspiring music. Whether it’s creating a new niche in digital technology or looking to once-obsolete formats, this new bi-monthly column, Agitated Atmosphere, hopes to shed a bit [...]
And they thought they were only going to drop off some new music! UK band Longview came by KEXP’s broadcast from Austin during SXSW to say hello and Morning Show DJ John Richards roped them into performing one of them for us live! Here’s the new song, “History”:
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 [...]
Former Public Image Limited drummer Martin Atkins, whose documentary Sixteen Days In China we’ve written about on the blog before. At SXSW, though, he was talking about his book Tour Smart, which features practical, relevant and entertaining advice about — you guessed it — touring. KEXP’s Afternoon Show DJ Kevin Cole sat down with Martin [...]
John McCauley, aka Deer Tick, stopped our acoustic sessions during the KEXP broadcast from Austin during SXSW to play a few songs. “Spend the Night” comes from his excellent album War Elephant, “Cake & Eggs,” which he wrote with Those Darlins, is an intentional homage to great songwriters like John Prine, and “Little White Lies,” [...]
Ah, Goo. In 1990, when this album was released and I heard it for the first time (shout-out to my hometown station, WHRB!), I was between 8th and 9th grade, and was preparing myself to enter a new world; a bigger, scarier, more complicated world: Public High School. I had no knowledge of [...]
