She may be young (she just turned 22 in March), but New York's Frankie Cosmos (real name: Greta Kline) literally has too many albums to count, in that, I tried, and I got tired of counting. With album titles like the landlord LOVES restaurants! (2011) and Collaborative Farting (2011), and song titles like "little blushing girl 2009 in 2013," Kline's songs seem ripped from the pages of her sticker-adorned diary with her name written in puffy paint on the cover. "That's one of the weird things of the internet generation," she tells DJ Cheryl Waters. "Everything feels like a journal, and isn't private." On Next Thing, her second studio album (the others were recorded at home), Kline tackles her 20s with a thoughtful playfulness that makes you wish she was your best friend. Watch Kline and her super-group band (featuring members of Porches and Eskimeaux) in the KEXP studios, performing just a few songs from her vast catalog:
New videos from Parquet Courts, Young Fathers, and Frankie Cosmos plus stream Mark Kozelek's new solo album ahead of its release.
When Vancouver-based band Black Mountain stepped in the studio, we got a contact high. Not necessarily from their clothing, but definitely from their heavy, sludgy, psychedelic sound. Vocalists Stephen McBean and Amber Webber trade verses over a Black Sabbath-inspired wave of droning guitar and key…
What do you get when Malian refugees decide to meet up to make inventive desert rock? The brilliant, heartfelt grooves of Songhoy Blues. Originally from Timbuktu, the four-piece make beautiful, eastern-scaled music not only born out of political unrest but also out of an unwavering love for a rich …
