The XX are a brand new young band from South London. It’s definitely rock music, but with lots of male-female vocal turns. I hear a little Velvet Underground (the melodic stuff) in there, and also some Cure. But they’re distinct, delivering the songs in intimate voices and adding electronics. Their new self-titled [...]
It’s that time again. When your friendly neighborhood KEXP DJ starts to think about her Top 10 Albums of the year. It’s been a good year! So far my list looks like this:
1. Thunderheist - Thunderheist (Warm dance beats and sexy vocals from the new Canadian duo)
2. Brother Ali - Us [...]
It’s raining when I walk out the door this morning. I get into my car and put the faceplate on my radio and put in my copy of The Pixies album Doolittle.
The first song is “Debaser”:
The simple bass leads me to some kind of window in my mind. And as the guitars hit [...]
When you enter the room, it’s filled with people of all ages strumming away on guitars. In the middle of the group is a raised wooden box, used as a sort of stage, filled with dancers. They’re drumming with their feet while they dance. The energy of the room is intoxicating. And you’re immediately [...]
Hello, Michele Myers here. Your friendly neighborhood DJ and Documentary Producer.
My job at KEXP (when I’m not DJing) is to make a KEXP Documentary every week. Each story is about 5 minutes long and is on a musical subject. We do these in series of 10. Over the years I’ve [...]
Hello KEXPers, DJ Michele here. Each week I do a show on KEXP on Saturdays from 3-6pm. And every Saturday I choose a favorite artist to feature, playing three songs and telling a story about them.
George Evelyn, the programmer/composer for Nightmares on Wax grew up listening to soul music. His sister and dad [...]
Hello, Michele Myers here. I produce a KEXP Documentary, a short radio story on a musical subject ,every week. Our current series is called Psychedelics. So far we’ve profiled The Flaming Lips, Jefferson Airplane, The Byrds, Pink Floyd, Sly and The Family Stone, The Beatles, The Orb and The Velvet Underground. And [...]
Hello KEXPers, DJ Michele Myers here. I host a radio show on KEXP every Saturday from 3-6pm. The rest of the week, my job at KEXP is to make radio documentaries. Our current doc series is Psychedelics, where we have (so far) traced the path of psychedelic music from the 60’s [...]
Hi, DJ Michele Myers here. Every week I review new songs to consider for my Saturday radio show on KEXP. It takes hours to go through the lists of the latest music coming in. And to find older music that will compliment it in a set.
New songs are especially tough to choose because [...]
Each week the KEXP Documentary team brings you a musical subject in the time it takes to play just one song. This past week, we ran a vintage feature from our Masters of Turntablism series. This series has been used in classrooms to teach middle school and high school students. It was also [...]
