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. Each and every Friday we offer songs by local artists. Today’s featured selection, chosen by Afternoon Show [...]
If you thought you were going to give your bank account a break on this short, post-Labor Day week, you are mistaken… but happily mistaken because it’s a time of happy returns as some newer and much older favorites reunite or continue to put out new albums. Brooklyn’s Vivian Girls, who just performed live on [...]
photos by Dan Muller
intro by Jason Kinnard with Christy Thacker
I’m almost afraid to call the Vivian Girls “chicks” for fear of getting a beating, but these three girls from Brooklyn are definitely some “bad ass chicks”. Glammed up and tatted out, Vivian Girls Cassie Ramone, Kickball Katy, and Ali Koehler also happen to know a thing [...]
by Chris Estey
Maybe it’s how the bands bond intimately with who they know are big fans. (Last year, Two Gallants put on one of the best performances of the festival there.) Maybe it’s the excellent sound (hey, Kevin Suggs!) in the tucked-away special venue. Perhaps it’s the posh, comfortable seats in a cool setting indoors [...]
Posted in Bumbershoot, KEXP | Also tagged Akron/Family, Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears, Common Market, Elvis Perkins, Gang Gang Dance, Hey Marseilles, Holy Fuck, Metric, Os Mutantes, Raphael Saadiq, Sera Cahoone, Telekinesis, The Cave Singers, Vieux Farka Toure |
by Chris Estey
Scheduled to take the Broad Street Stage on Sunday, September 6, at the pleasantly early hour of 6 PM, it would seem Bumbershoot knows how much fun the Vivian Girls will be for the all ages crowd. With a new album, Everything Goes Wrong, just coming out on In The Red, there will [...]
Coachella Day One: Crystal Castles, Girl Talk, Morrissey, Paul McCartney, Genghis Tron
I had flown back home from a school language trip to Sevilla, Espana two days before I left for Coachella. I spent the night in Indio before the show was supposed to begin and planned my route for the inevitably sweaty and fun [...]
Posted in All Ages, KEXP | Also tagged Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Blitzen Trapper, Bob Mould Band, Coachella, Crystal Castles, Fleet Foxes, Fucked Up, Genghis Tron, Girl Talk, Morrissey, my bloody valentine, No Age, Paul McCartney, The Murder City Devils, X |
