Today’s special programming is awesome. First time hearing Rev. Dollars show and now I’m hooked.

I really hope they didn't remove it. Google Home on its own can't seem to understand how to play KEXP on all speakers. This was my only option.

EDIT: fix offered! Your wifi has to be on :)

Here's my selection for this week. See this post for context!

My favorite set for this week is Songo. I actually knew them already but it's so good I gotta highlight it again.

My honorary mention goes to Kikagaku Moyo. Wild stuff for sure.

On top of that, my contenders for this week's title:

• High Pulp
• Tangled Tape
• Kelly Lee Owens
• YĪN YĪN
• Georgia Anne Muldrow & Declaime
• Terror/Cactus
• Jawhar
• Hatari
• Vagabon

See you next week!

When I’m listening to the KEXP app on Apple CarPlay — specifically to a Show Archive — when I turn off the car, and then restart, the archived show starts over again from the beginning. I’ll be running errands and listening to the same intro and 2-3 songs over and over again.

What am I doing wrong??

The Incomparable indeed. This morning’s all vinyl party is SICK. I may be working in the predawn hours with way less sleep than I need, but banger after banger is keeping me from dying of sleep deprivation.

Did anyone else not get their "thank you" items etc from the fall fundraising drive? Shipping label created months ago but nothing happened/never shipped? Or am I just unlucky?

Hey, DJ Michele here.

Drummers full show theme tonight. Continuing my Instruments series 10pm Pacific on @kexp. You can catch it on demand as well.

All 3 hours dedicated to the heartbeat of the band! I’d love to hear your suggestions. Here’s my research/plan so far.

New Semblanzanas del Rio Guapi (@earthtones_music collaboration) Jack Baker (@si_bonobo) Franck Baya (@lesamazonesdafrique) Brijean Murphy (@Brijean) Ben Scharf (@Fcukers) Chris Hewett (@FrancisofDelirium) Femi Koleoso (@EzraCollective) Iris McConnell (Girl Ray) Chris Carhart (@phantogram) Frankie Rose (@thisisfrankierosemusic and various) Lee Levin (@badbunny_ofical) Sam Kelly (@cymandeofficial) Tony Allen (Afrobeat legend, Fela, Yannis, various @thegrindfather9 ) Stella Mozgawa (Courtney Barnett @steezmeez) Donald Johnson, Jr. (@khruangbin)

Bay Area David Kendrick (Xui Xui) Lisa Shapiro (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club) Cal Tjader Michael Shreive (Spellbinder, Santana)

PNW Lupe Flores (Wild Powwers) Stacy Peck (Pony Time, Childbirth) Dave McGraw (True Loves) Hannah Blilie (@gossipmusicofficial - new song!)

Legends Questlove (Roots) Melena (Stevie Wonder, Macy Gray, Afro-Cuban All-Stars) Meg White (White Stripes) Sandy West (Runaways) Julien Barbagallo (Tame Impala) Sheila E (Prince, solo) Chris Cester (Jet) Bubatunde Olatunji Nikki Glaspie (Beyonce live) Ginger Baker Zakir Hussein Bobbye Hall (Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan) Cindy Blackman (Lenny Kravitz, Satana, Pharoah Sanders, Joss Stone) Rachel Blumberg (The Decemberists, M Ward) Akiko Matsuura (The Big Pink) Morgan Doctor (The Cliks) Sarah Jones (Hot Chip) Claudia Gonson (Magnetic Fields) Georgia Hubley (Yo la Tengo) Bobbye Hall (Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Tom Waits, Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Bill Withers, many more.) Gina Schock (Gogos) June Miles-Kingston (Everything But The Girl) Stanton Moore (Galactic) Moe Tucker (The Velvet Underground) Clyde Stubblefield (The Funky Drummer James Brown Band) Stewart Copeland (Police)

Bass players feature from last week is on demand. Thanks for any drummer suggestions!

Now playing. This might be the greatest thing I've ever heard.

Anyone see fall drive gifts yet?

Update - I sent an email to donor services after receiving a couple responses. I received a shipment confirmation from B-Bam a couple hours later.

Here's my selection for this week. See this post for context!

My weekly favorite set is definitely Antibalas. Mad afrobeat vibes + kung fu moves, what's not to like??

My honorary mention goes to Pink Lotion. Those are some crazy tunes, with a very unique sound. Most these sets are must-listens!!

On top of that, I had some serious contenders for this week's title:

• Belafonte Sensacional

• Niyaz

• TeZATalks (that first song is absolute FIRE)

• Polyrhythmics

• caspian

• Temples

• Yppah

See you next week!

I missed the event in 2024, will there be another in 2025?

Change my mind.

A little before 9 this morning, I heard a song on KEXP. A woman was singing about a shitty, maybe abusive relationship. The lyrics were very conversational and her voice was awesome. There was line that was something like "I can't tell my sister that we got back together" and another line about the voice he uses during arguments and watching a man turn into a boy.

Anyone know who this was? I would love to hear more from this artist

ETA: a little before 9am Pacific time

I knew that Larry Mizzel Jr. was the son of son of music producer Larry Mizzel, but just learned during his set today that he’s related to Jam Master Jay (real name Jason William Mizell). Super cool to listen to his show and hear the family connections to the music he is playing.

Super cool.

Who else is listening? Love his sets always, and tonight is no exception!

As promised, here's my selection for this week! See my original post for context.

My weekly fav actually is a set that I've listened to about 50 times in the past. Liraz
The songs themselves are all amazing and after listening to their studio versions, I can say that this particular live session really brings them to a whole new level!

My honorary mention of the week goes to Klidur. I'm not a huge fan of choir singing in general (although I respect the craft), but this one was absolutely enchanting.

Finally here's a list of other particularly praiseworthy sets:

• Liv.e
• Georgia (her version of Running Up That Hill is really nice!)
• Jupiter & Okwess
• Amaarae
• Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
• Songhoy Blues

See you next week!

To the broadcasting Hall of Fame, I hereby nominate:

Troy Nelson's five-song set from Wed Jan 15 (beginning at 08:00)

*spoiler alert:*>!Lean Low > Wugazi > Fugazi > Helmet > Battles!<

Anyone know if there’s a way I can listen to the last Mom Show? I can’t listen to that when I’m at work and I didn’t feel emotionally ready to at the time having lost my mom in July in being knee deep in dealing with all that fun administrative stuff that follows a death. I’m not sure I feel ready now but I’d like to listen. Thanks for your help.

Hi all, I've been listening to KEXP's sets for a few years now, and I figured it was time for me to listen to them all.

As of this writing, there are 2789 videos in the "KEXP Full Performance" playlist. As far as I can tell, they add one new video per week day, therefore we should be around 3049 by the end of 2025. However, since I've been listening to all new sets for about three years, I'm actually already at the 687th one. Therefore I only have about 2362 sets left to go through.

Since I mostly listen to those at work, that gives me 260 weekdays, or 240, excluding vacation days, for an average of 9.8 sets a day. For a conservative estimated average set length of 25 minutes, that makes for ~4.1 hours of music a day.

Sounds feasible.

I'll try to make weekly "Favorite of the Week" posts to create some discussion. What do you think??
In the meantime, my current top 10 is (without any particular order):

• Mac DeMarco (all sets combined)
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard (all sets combined)
• CHAI
• Kikagaku Moyo
• L'Eclair
• Haru Nemuri
• Songo
• Antibalas
• Subatomic Sound System (both sets combined)
• Ora the Molecule

I find myself asking this a couple times a year. All apologies for that, but I haven't heard any mention of his whereabouts. Hopefully just a long vacation.

EDIT: so, yes. The man is on vacation climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro. Thanks to all the fast responders.

Absolutely love Troy's vibe. That is all.

Can we get you over there and give you a follow?

goin through the archive, man I love Kevin Cole

Hey All,

As some of you may know, we are in the final stages of development of our total refresh of our mobile apps. This was a ground up refresh written using a unified codebase so iOS and Android will now have the exact same look and feel.

We need a few folks who are familiar with the current apps who can help test. Right now it's just iOS users, but Android should be testing soon as well.

If so, please email me at software@kexp.org with the subject line "Help Test The New iOS App - Reddit" and please include your iCloud email address (needed for the TestFlight app which is part of testing). Once I get your request, I'll send you a wonderful form email listing all the steps to get things set up.

Please keep in mind this is still in development, and there will be bugs, but the lions share is completed and ready for your input.

Thanks and feel free to DM me with any questions or clarifications

Jay

KEXP Software Team

EDIT 1/7/2025: Please be sure to look at your iCloud email for the TestFlight invite. I know a lot of folks don't use that one as their primary email, so may not be nature to check it. Just a FYI, we will remove all uncompleted accounts in TestFlight after a couple days as we need to keep things tidy.

EDIT 1/8/2025 - Thanks for the huge interest in helping! We have all the testers we need for now. Truly appreciate the overwhelming interest!!

Just thinking outloud...

I'd love to have a screen I could have on my desktop or shelf that does only one thing...show me what is presently playing on KEXP.

I know I can just keep a browser tab open or use a browser extension or the like but I'd love to be able to just glance up whenver I hear something I like and see what's playing...kind of like it does via carplay while in your car.

Anyone know of such a device? I assume the expensive music streamer appliances can do this...but was hoping maybe a standalone thing is out there (believe it or not...I actually prefer to listen to KEXP via HD radio).

/u/kreinsch posted a link to the AAPB archive of older KEXP audio only performances earlier tonight. The archive has two performances by Kaito, one in 2002 and again in 2003 I remember hearing at least one of these live. I freaking loved them. I bought every CD and EP they released. They were brilliant. They send me right to my happy place. Pure joyous, raucous, senseless energy.

Sadly I am one of very few people on the planet who think this is the best music ever, so they never became the superstars they should have, and understandably broke up to, presumably, pursue a career in a field that makes more money than appealing to a bunch of weirdos who love pure happy noise.

I'm a lifelong fan of noisepop/noiserock and adjacent stuff, whether it is The Buzzcocks, Suicide, The Pixies, Devo, Sonic Youth, and so on. But does anyone have any other bands that I should be listening to if I love this? I also discovered Yoko Ono after listening to Kaito, and realizing that she was not horrible, as I always assumed she was. I haven't listened to a ton of her music, but I liked what I listened to. So what else should I be listening to?