By KEXP | Published:
February 3, 2010
A few more highlights from the live sessions recorded in 2009 for the Morning Show with John Richards live from the Cutting Room Studios NYC. In this round are selections of performances from the increasingly popular young British indie darlings Fanfarlo, Fran Healy and Andy Dunlop of the veteran Glaswegian band Travis, and O.C. hopefuls [...]
Congrats to Phoenix, this year’s Grammy winners for Alternative Music Album with Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. The French quartet, who were live on KEXP just over a week ago, beat out stiff competition of David Byrne and Brian Eno’s Everything That Happens Will Happen Today and Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ It’s Blitz!, among others. Most of the [...]
I hope everyone likes videos, ’cause I’ve put a lot of them in here this week. Unintentionally, I might add. While I’m on the topic, check out hundreds and hundreds of videos from live performances for KEXP at youtube.com/kexpradio, including new Joseph Arthur, A Place To Bury Strangers, and We Were Promised Jetpacks performances. Alternatively, [...]
Last year, the Cutting Room Studios NYC hosted over 40 in-studios for KEXP and the Morning Show, with a wide range of local, national, and international artists including Phoenix, Matt & Kim, …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Phantogram, The xx, Fiery Furnaces and a whole lot more. We’ve already shared [...]
In effort to encourage donations to Oxfam and Doctors Without Borders to assist emergency relief in Haiti, Wilco posted two shows for free download on Wilcoworld. The downloads are free, but they’re asking fans to donate $15 to either organization
Canadian folk singer Kate McGarrigle has died at age 63 after a battle with clear cell sarcoma, a rare form of cancer. Rufus Wainwright, her son with musician Loudon Wainwright wrote on his website, “There is never enough time and she, my amazing mother with whom everyone fell in love, went out there and bloody [...]
We at KEXP are sad to inform you of two recent deaths. Indie rock songwriter Jay Reatard passed away yesterday morning at the age of only twenty-nine. His most recent release was critically acclaimed and is frequently played here at the station. R.I.P.
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs and recordings from independent artists that our DJ’s think you should hear. Each and every Friday we deliver songs by local artists. Today’s selection, featured on the [...]
The first big releases of 2010 are out of this world… sometimes literally! Vampire Weekend’s highly anticipated followup to their breakthrough debut, Contra, finds the band still rooting through the African soil as they maintain, but expand, their signature sound. Indeed, the sophomore effort, which has already won over even the most potentially jaded reviewers, [...]
