Category Archives: Live Video

Live Video: Chastity Belt

By DJ Sharlese | Published: May 3, 2013

When I first heard of Chastity Belt, it was through word of mouth. My friends highly endorsed this band from Walla Walla, WA. They had just moved here and were playing some shows around town. Their song titles kinda freaked me out in the beginning, but that quickly changed when I got the chance toRead more...

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Live Video: Country Lips

By Jacob Uitti | Published: May 2, 2013

There isn’t a plethora out there on the wide open spaces of the internet about the wild Seattle band Country Lips, so here’s a bit of detail: the 7-piece band sounds like a whiskey-infused, shack-swaying barn party. The staple of their music is their fast moving fingers on violin, guitar and keys, accompanied by vocalsRead more...

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Live Video: Phosphorescent

By Jim Beckmann | Published: May 2, 2013

Easily one of the best albums of the year so far, Muchacho most fully realizes the ideas, sound and aesthetic that Brooklyn (by way of Alabama)’s Matthew Houck has been developing for the past decade as Phosphorescent. Whether spare, lush, atmospheric or raucously barn-burning, the songs on Muchacho highlight Houck’s distinctive voice that will likelyRead more...

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Live Video: The Joy Formidable

By Jim Beckmann | Published: May 1, 2013

Fans of The Joy Formidable are used to seeing guitarist and vocalist Ritzy Bryan thrashing about wild-eyed on stage, practically destroying her guitar, her amps and the audience’s ears. She and bassist/vocalist Rhydian Dafydd and percussionist Matthew James Thomas always seem to keep it together, though, even on the verge of chaos. That’s their gift,Read more...

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Live Video: Django Django

By Jim Beckmann | Published: April 29, 2013

Back in October, we took the first opportunity we had to bring Scottish group Django Django live on air. Their self-titled debut, soon to be nominated for a Mercury Prize, had been released just the day before, and a full U.S. tour was still a dream, but the band was able to drop by theRead more...

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Live Video: Mudhoney

By Jim Beckmann | Published: April 27, 2013

Few bands have influenced Seattle’s sound like Mudhoney. Twenty five years ago, to this month, Mark Arm and Steve Turner rejoined after leaving Green River to form a group that would weather all storms of the so-called “Grunge” scene. Their initial, poorly selling but highly influential single and EP (“Touch Me I’m Sick” and SuperfuzzRead more...

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Live Video: Bomba Estéreo

By Jim Beckmann | Published: April 25, 2013

The name of their 2009 release (2008 in Colombia), “Blow Up”, was prescient. While the music of Bomba Estéreo is stylistically explosive, their popularity at the time of its release was just beginning to grow. We watched them ascend as their in-studio performance from late 2009 quickly became one of our most popular videos andRead more...

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Live Video: The Cave Singers

By Jim Beckmann | Published: April 23, 2013

Few band names are as apt as The Cave Singers. Not quite a folk band and definitely not your typical indie rock band, The Cave Singers seem to have hatched their sound in seclusion, as if alone amid darkness and firelight. Their songs are rustic in style but not necessarily in execution, airy but alsoRead more...

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Live Video: La Luz

By Katherine Humphreys | Published: April 20, 2013

How is walking through the woods on a foggy, chilly late spring day similar to strolling past the closed fun houses and ferris wheels on a boardwalk at the end of summer? You could just as easily listen to the melancholic surf bee-bop of Seattle’s La Luz in both of the situations. What started atRead more...

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Live Video: Ozomatli at SXSW 2013

By Jacob Webb | Published: April 18, 2013

After four days and eighteen sessions, there was no real way to sum up KEXP’s time at SXSW 2013, but Ozomatli‘s multi-cultural, multi-genre, and multi-lingual set came pretty damn close to summing up the wide variety of artists that stopped by Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop that week. Playing one of five sets they would playRead more...

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