While all of the 15 bands performing during KEXP’s broadcast from Cutting Room Studios NYC during CMJ were great in their individual ways, the one that seemed to catch our listeners off guard with its stunning beauty and intensity was Choir of Young Believers. Morning Show host John Richards wrote all about it for NPR [...]
We’ve featured A Place to Bury Strangers’s excellent new album, Exploding Head (Mute) here before and before that, but nothing can prepare you for witnessing the sonic attack that APTBS’s live performance, as during their recent performance in the KEXP studio. One of their more epic tracks, “I Lived My Life to Stand in the [...]
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November 2, 2009
Fifteen bands performed for KEXP’s broadcast from The Cutting Room Studios NYC during CMJ this year, showcasing talent from coast to coast. In just on one of the five days, we featured bands from Seattle to Brooklyn… to Finland with The Blakes, Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson, and Rubik. Here’s a video each of these great [...]
It seems unlikely: a pair of classical guitarists play completely instrumental sets selling out theater- and stadium-sized venues across both the country and the world to indie hipsters, classical enthusiasts and metalheads alike. That is, until you hear the virtuosic duo Rodrigo y Gabriela blaze through original compositions that blend Flamenco guitar flourishes, heavy metal [...]
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Membership does have its rewards, and if you support KEXP during the Fall Membership Drive at the $500 level, you will automatically be enrolled in the KEXP 500 Club and invited to four exclusive VIP Club Concert Series performances throughout the year. In the past, these concerts have featured such great bands as Interpol, The [...]
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Last month, Brooklyn-based siblings Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, aka The Fiery Furnaces, performed songs from their new album, I’m Going Away, live on the Morning Show. The duo, who have consistently released in album a year for the past eight years, stated in a press release about their new LP that the “dramatic music” they [...]
For their recent in-studio session on the Morning Show, the New York collective The Phenomenal Handclap Band pared down to a five piece from their usual eight but lost none of their funky psychedelic sound. Rollicking keys, tribal beats, repetitious harmonies, groovy synths — it’s all there in this rendition of the insanely infectious and [...]
On Saturday, during Musicfest NW, KEXP and Caffe Vita presented a series of mostly acoustic performances at The Woods, an old funeral home turned new music venue in Portland. Musical guests included John Vanderslice, Bobby Bare Jr., The Lonely Forest, Black Whales, Fences, and Port O’Brien. Opening the day was Langhorne Slim (who you can [...]
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Combining melodic vocals, swirling keys, thickly layered guitars, and a pounding rhythm section, the unmistakably Scottish band The Twilight Sad performed a particularly emotive set of songs mostly from their new album, Forget The Night Ahead, during KEXP’s broadcast from the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland at Musicfest NW.
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Another great session from the Bumbershoot Music Lounge: The Cave Singers played a mesmerizing set for the full theater audience, including songs from their excellent new album, Welcome Joy, and familiar favorites from Invitation Songs. Although the plastic cage around percussionist Marty Lund for a moment distracted singer Pete Quirk and guitarist Derek Fudesco, adding [...]
