Last Saturday at KEXP’s 5th Annual Yule Benefit, Georgia band Dead Confederate made their Seattle debut at the Showbox, astounding the slack-jawed masses with their southern-tinged space rock-meets-grunge wall of sound. Here’s the first song from their powerful set, “The Rat”:
KEXP favorites, and dynamic live performers in their own right, Pela have a new video [...]
Santa wants to know who’s been naughty!photo by Gregory A. Perez
This Saturday, KEXP presents the 5th Annual Yule Benefit. We’ve had a lot of success with these shows in the past, and we’ve often used them as a showcase to expose bands that KEXP DJs think deserve a wider audience. We’ve had some great lineups [...]
Last week marked the release of a specially packaged 20th anniversary re-issue of one of the most loved and well-received albums of the 21st Century. On March, 9 1987, U2 first handed over The Joshua Tree to the world. The album became an instant classic among the contemporary rock crowd and was considered an international [...]
Stuff your bird tonight in The Roadhouse. Host Greg Vandy presents his annual “Thanksgiving Folk: Origins of the American Traditional Song,” where you’ll hear the evolution and variations of songs like “John Henry,” “Frankie & Johnny,” “Midnight Special,” and “In The Pines,” from their first recordings through the revival versions since. Plus, you’ll hear new [...]
Every Wednesday on Video Roundup we gather a shortlist of videos currently circulating the blogosphere, sometimes around a theme, sometimes just a random collection. While gathering fodder for this collection, we were happy to see the young folks represent amid all the veterans like Siouxsie, Duran Duran, and PJ Harvey, who continue to weigh in [...]
This week’s Video Roundup features bands you’ve probably either heard mention on KEXP, discussed with your indier-than-thou friends, or seen pimped by your favorite music blogs. Most of these bands don’t have official videos out (hence the focus on live performances here) and some not even record deals. You’re likely to hear more and more [...]
Boo! Welcome to the Halloween edition of Video Roundup. The the newest video from Band of Horses‘ epic Cease to Begin, the timely titled “Is There a Ghost,” calls to mind a whole cemetery’s worth of ghost stories told in video form. Sit back, light a candle, and let the seance begin:
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Who needs Saturday morning cartoons anymore when you’ve got a high-speed connection and YouTube? The latest videos will bring you back to simpler times of lying on your livingroom floor in your pj’s watching Creature Double Feature (Bloc Party), Hannah-Barbera (Tullycraft), or some strange 60s-inspired Saturday morning programming (Mum), all the while your parents wonder [...]
Yesterday’s round-up of freaky new releases inspired me to choose some off-beat new videos for this round of Video Roundup:
While the latest album, Window City, by The Fiery Furnaces is perhaps their most accessible, it’s still a Fiery Furnaces record, so you know it’s going to be quirky, as is the video here, featuring the [...]
Engine Studios, Chicagophoto by Allie Pasquier
We’re excited to be broadcasting in Chicago next week. Next Wednesday through Friday, October 3-5, KEXP will broadcast from Engine Studios in the Bucktown neighborhood and share some great bands with our Chicago listeners who won our city-to-city pledge challenge for the second year in a row. Last year we [...]
