Wooden Shjips' fifth studio album possesses a calm and levity which belies the near-apocalyptic summer which inspired it. Frontman Ripley Johnson spoke to KEXP about V. and the psychic healing of making music when the world around you is quite literally on fire.
This week's Review Revue spotlights the album Kiss the Lips of Life, by Brilliant. See what the KCMU DJs thought back in the day.
This week's Review Revue spotlights the album Sharp as a Needle by The Barmy Army. See what KCMU DJs thought back in the day.
On their new album, the Portland band breaks their signature post-punk with a hammer and glues it back together with dissonance.
This week's Review Revue spotlights the album Humansville by long-running, accordion-using band Brave Combo. See what KCMU DJs thought back in the day.
Music is more often than not the soundtrack to – and relief from – some of the hardest moments in our lives. Martin Douglas describes how listening to Grouper got him through a very tough decade.
This week's Review Revue spotlights the album In Spite of It All by The Brood. See what KCMU DJs thought back in the day.
After over a dozen full-length albums, Damien Jurado is still crafting impeccably written songs about both small and vast spaces and the people who occupy them. Listen to The Horizon Just Laughed in its entirety tomorrow at 8:30am on the Morning Show with John Richards.
This week's Review Revue spotlights the album Burning From the Inside by Bauhaus. See what KCMU DJs thought back in the day.
In 2018, KEXP celebrated the 30th anniversary of local record label Sub Pop with a four-month retrospective, "counting up" every catalog number in their vast discography of over 1,200 releases. Dig into the archives of our catalog coverage, featuring in-depth coverage on the history of their releases.
