Portland band Battleme are lovers not fighters. Frontman Matt Drenik may have fueled his project's perpetually punchy new LP with hard-hitting beats and muscular rhythms, but Habitual Love Songs is Battleme's billet-doux to '70s-steeped power-pop and glam guitar rock, populated with characters from Drenik's past. For his third time live on KEXP, Matt brings his current band, including Chad Savage, JJ Eliot and Scott Noben, to tear up our new studio for the most impassioned performance the room has seen yet, one to inspire you to take more than your gloves off. Ring the bell for Battleme now:
Just about the last thing we'd ever ask for in Seattle is "more rain" - unless of course that's the name of the latest album by M. Ward. On his eight studio LP, the Portland based musician doesn't let the Pacific Northwest's soggy gloom get him down, and dares the clouds away with his initially doo…
Tomorrow night, Wednesday, March 2nd, on King 5's Evening Magazine, host Saint Bryan and KEXP Morning Show DJ John Richards will pay tribute to great local music as they count down the Top 25 Songs of the Northwest.
James Atkins, bassist for Hammerbox and longtime fixture of the Seattle music scene, sadly passed away on Saturday, February 27th after a battle with esophageal cancer. He was surrounded by friends and his favorite music, including AC/DC, Motörhead, Soul Asylum, and The Replacements.
New Zealand singer-songwriter Marlon Williams brought his band and their foot-pounding vintage folk to the KEXP studios in support of his first solo record. Longtime the front-man of The Unfaithful Ways, Williams relocated to Melbourne to record and release his eponymous solo album. The rocksteady,…
