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-wop inspired batch of brightly energetic boot-stompers and swooning lullabies. Dry off with M. Ward and his backing band of PDX all-stars - Adam Selzer and Mike Coykendall swapping spots on guitar and drums, Scott McCaughey on bass, and Alia Farah on keys - for one of our very first recorded sessions in the new live room.
Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJ’s think you should hear. Today’s song, featured on the Aft…
Super-ambient Icelandic duo Kiasmos brought their very space-y minimalist brand of techno to the new KEXP live room in support of their Swept EP, the second they dropped in 2015. The two longtime friends began working professionally together when Ólafur Arnalds was the touring sound engineer for Ja…
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.
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…
