Live On KEXP Episodes

For Live on KEXP, Troy Nelson takes us through a brief history of Scottish post-rock band Mogwai, with snippets from DJ Morgan’s interview with Stuart Braithwa…

For Live on KEXP, Troy Nelson fills us in on the producer, engineer, singer, effects pedal builder, and composer Miss Grit before she plays a hazy set fueled b…

For Live on KEXP, Troy Nelson takes us through an abbreviated version of Y La Bamba’s journey from lo-fi self-produced recordings to working with a vast array …

For Live on KEXP, Troy Nelson traces Arlo Parks' journey from recording songs in her bedroom to sharing stages with heavyweights like Paramore before she plays…

Get to know how Yves Jarvis got to where he is now and listen to five songs from Sundry Rock Song Stock recorded exclusively for KEXP.   Subscribe H…

Troy Nelson charts the progression of the trio that make up Songhoy Blues, from refugees to Nick Zinner collaborators to Glastonbury performers to major label …

Troy Nelson delves into Tricky’s musical and personal evolution over the past 25 years on this episode of Live on KEXP before the British icon delves into a st…

Troy Nelson traces Slow Pulp’s beginnings through the series of unfortunate events and until they landed (virtually) at KEXP in November 2020.   Sub…

With influences ranging from At the Drive In to The National, DC-based musician Bartees Strange is reinventing what it means to be a “Black artist.”   …

On this week’s Live on KEXP, Jupiter & Okwess fuses traditional Congolese music styles like soukous, rumba, and kwassa kwassa with more universal ones like roc…

This week, Live on KEXP is doing something a little different. In honor of Black History Month, we’re revisiting an incredible performance from all the way bac…

For Live on KEXP, Troy Nelson delves into the history of both rappers while speculating whether an ancient English stone has anything to do with the unique abi…