The third day of the KEXP broadcast from Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop in Austin during SXSW. Today's lineup begins with Montreal band Suun, followed by Seattle indie pop group Telekinesis, Italian megastar rapper Jovanotti, LA-via-Copenhagen dream pop band Gliss, and Macau, China-via-Sao Paolo, Brazil trio Turtle Giant. Check out the lineup for the day here and tune in now!
You'll also hear NPR Music's All Songs Considered hosts Bob Boilen & Robin Hilton guest DJing with Kevin Cole today at 5:00pm Seattle/7:00pm Austin.
Montreal's Suuns make a particular kind of low-drone heavy but never "drone music" - they walk the fine line between being experimental and being simply loud rock music. There's never really been the kind of rock n roll vibes you get from other bands walking that line, but instead an industrial syn…
The third day of the KEXP broadcast from Mellow Johnny’s Bike Shop in Austin during SXSW. Today's lineup begins with Montreal band Suun, followed by Seattle indie pop group Telekinesis, Italian megastar rapper Jovanotti, LA-via-Copenhagen dream pop band Gliss, and Macau, China-via-Sao Paolo, Brazil…
Alejandro Escovedo - that's all I knew about the True Believers when KEXP's lineup for SXSW at Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop was first announced. OK, then someone mentioned it was his mid 80's band, a crew that had a brush with fame, but never quite broke through. They had label issues, personnel cha…