Deena ChappellGenre: Bluegrass /Rock and Roll / Folk /Swing /Jazz From: Cambridge, New York Deena sent me an email asking me to check out her tracks so I did and she's as mad as a box of sectioned frogs. Her rather traditional bluegrass...

Despite the big top excitement of Tom Waits‘ 2-disc set of live recordings out this week, culled from his 2008 Glitter and Doom tour, the new release circus is mostly closed for the year. A few worthwhile releases pop up here and there, like the latest from the prolific Bill Baird and his group...

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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 DJs think you should hear. This week, in the spirit of...

I know I said I'd be blogging about my trip here in Bulgaria, but so much has been happening that I don't even know where to begin. I return to the U.S. tomorrow in time for Thanksgiving, but in the meanwhile, I had to share this beautiful duet featuring the queen empress of ModFabania, Annie Lennox. Beautiful, elegiac, and gorgeously simple.

Following an impressive debut album released two years ago, The Embassadors return as a smaller formation and with a revised direction which gives leader Hayden Chisholm much more freedom.

More proof that it’s a Taylor Swift world and we just live in it came with Sunday night’s American Music Awards show, where Swift won five prizes. These included artist of the year, which had been expected to go to Michael Jackson. Swift also won favorite female artist in the pop/rock and country...

Kate and AfterGenre: Pop / Rock / Indie From: Göteborg, Västra Götalands län Sweden I've been snowed under in work this week and haven't been able to post as much as usual. I have also neglected the inbox which has been filling...

NYC-based blues destroyers, Heavy Trash, headed by Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray, sullied the pristine studios of the Cutting Room with their sordid blues riffs and spreading the dark gospel of Midnight Soul Serenade during their appearance on the Morning Show last month. Check out this extended...