Congratulations to Richard Wright on winning the 2009 Turner Prize!

There’s a reason festivals like CMJ Music Marathon exist: it’s one of the few times that bands from across the world, in a variety of styles, genres and localities can showcase their young, upcoming bands for American audiences. For some bands — even local ones — it’s their first exposure to the important tastemakers, whether [...]

Finger-picking folk revivalist Jack Rose unexpectedly passed away Saturday of a heart attack. He was 38. Rose was set to release his Thrill Jockey debut after a string of release for smaller labels, most notably Three Lobed. Scene magazine, Arthur, has posted a video retrospective, and friend Windy...

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. Each and every Friday we offer...

Three Lobed Recordings issued a statement over the weekend that Philadelphia-based acoustic guitarist Jack Rose passed away over the weekend of a heart attack; he was 38 years old. Rose was self-taught and made a name for himself originally as the guitarist in the band Pelt in the 1990s, but...

King Of Prussia Genre: Lyrical / Indie / Folk From: Barcelona y Athens, Ga., Barcelona, Spain King Of Prussia are an expansionist troupe with aspirations of global domination. Check out their myspace site for a collection of songs that deserve to be...

You’ve asked for it, you’ve waited for it — it’s finally here! You can now stream KEXP to the iPhone with the official KEXP iPhone app. The first version of our app allows you to stream either 38k or 128k live stream, keep track of songs you’ve heard with the playlist, favorite the ones [...]

Big sheds and local businesses; the contemporary shopping experience In 1934, charting the slums of Southampton for his travelogue English Journey, the Bradfordian writer J.B Priestley, a soft-socialist as traditional, boiled-cabbage, pipe-and-slippers as any writer of that era, stopped to deliver an infuriated blast against small-time shopping: ‘The small shop flourishes in this quarter, as it does in all such quarters. Even after you have given yourself the strongest dose of individualistic sentiment, it is hard to look at these small shops with anything but disgust or to find good reason why they should not be promptly abolished. They are slovenly, dirty and inefficient. They only spoil...

Why Write?Genre: Indie From: Denmark Why Write? is Danish songwriter Jacob Faurholt's new project. His new record as Why Write?, the informatively titled '5 song EP' and released via Canadian based label What A Mess! Records...