After a triumphant 2022, the Smile are continuing to stay in our feeds this winter. Having recently rolled out a live album and a Tiny Desk session, the trio of Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood and Tom ...

KEXP has discovered a lot of amazing bands at Iceland Airwaves festival, but this video with Of Monsters and Men in their living room in 2010 helped launch a major career for them. Their third album ...

Released on Thursday night (July 7) on the station’s Youtube channel, the Singaporean indie rock quintet performed three new songs in the session: ‘Bug In Spring’, ‘Yearning’, and ‘J-O-B’. The new ...

Scowl have recorded a KEXP live performance. The session was recorded on March 31, 2025 and finds the band performing four tracks from their album Are We All Angels which was released earlier this ...

In late November, The National stopped by Seattle’s KEXP for an in-studio session, performing a handful of standout tracks from their acclaimed latest album Sleep Well Beast, along with an unreleased ...

OSEES have shared a video for “Scum Show” from this year’s very punk A Foul Form. Directed by Malo Sutra Fish on a Super 8 camera with hand processing and animation by l’Etna Collective Lab, the video ...

Over the past decade, the Pacific Northwest has steadily blossomed into a stateside haven for fresh, alternative sounds from Latin America. In Portland, parties such as Gran Ritmos and Tropidahl ...

Snail Mail will begin their fall tour with Alvvays at the end of September which includes three sold-out shows at Brooklyn’s Warsaw with Hatchie also on the bill. They’ve just announced more tour ...

If you've taken a peek at my Staff Picks from this year, you've probably gathered that I feel pretty enthusiastic about Car Seat Headrest's latest record The Scholars. For anyone else who's also ...