On Saturday night, we’re broadcasting live from���The Sunset Tavern in Ballard with Hannah Levin and special co-host DJ Rachel, bringing you live sets from���Charles Leo Gebhardt IV and The Shackles. Each month for the Audioasis live broadcast, one local charity is chosen as the event’s...

(Insert beatbox noise here) We the ladies of TIG have bands and beats to suggest to you, G. There’s a grip of hip hop this week live in town, old favorites and new groups to make you get down. So chiggity check your calendar and check your technique, and come out and shake your Jet [...]

� Hey kids, have a great weekend! Don’t do anything we wouldn’t do! Also, enjoy these fine examples of 1980’s dance music by Shalamar, Nu Shooz and Five Star. � � http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Yx0X-eHn8 � http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVAm_obRPQ8 � http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQVeXzMBvQk

Fleet Foxes have holed themselves away in Seattle to drum up material for a second album, which the band promises to release sometime next year. “I listened to the first record again, and I was kind of nonplussed,” says frontman Robin Peckfold. “There are definitely super-upbeat songs that are...

As major labels continue to exist behind the times, artists and labels with little capital and lesser reputations are producing some of the most innovative, interesting, and inspiring music. Whether it’s creating a new niche in digital technology or looking to once obsolete formats, Agitated Atmosphere hopes to shed a bit of light and share [...]

This week we’ve got no time for snappy intros, no time to come up with any witty banter or half-serious boasts. There’s really not a moment to spare, such is our determination to get the piping hot jams right into your grubby little mitts. So we won’t talk about girl group-jacking weirdos we found...

Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part 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 songs...

A review of the ICA's nine-day experimental music festival A nine-day festival of experimental music at the ICA, ‘Calling out of Context’ comprised an exhausting programme of gigs, discussions and workshops in the lower galleries, with the upper galleries converted into open recording studios where artists and musicians were invited to record a track in the space of a day (many of which are streamed on the ICA website). Curated by Richard Birkett and Jamie Eastman, the tightly packed week and a half saw performances and contributions from avant-garde mainstays (The Red Krayola) and artists’ bands (Ei Arakawa’s Teppich, Luke Fowler’s Rude Pravo, Melanie Gilligan’s Petit Mal), through to...

Erased Tapes release two very different records from German pianist and composer Nils Frahm, each record showcasing his exquisite talent in a particular light