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KEXP is a listener-powered nonprofit arts organization, which more or less makes us a five-decades-old community project where we work together to build a home for music discovery.

Thanks for being here. We mean it when we say we couldn't do it without you.

We see some familiar faces here so thought we'd introduce ourselves.

KEXP is a listener-powered nonprofit arts organization, which more or less makes us a five-decades-old community project where we work together to build a home for music discovery.

Thanks for being here. We mean it when we say we couldn't do it without you.

We see some familiar faces here so thought we'd introduce ourselves.

KEXP is a listener-powered nonprofit arts organization, which more or less makes us a five-decades-old community project where we work together to build a home for music discovery.

Thanks for being here. We mean it when we say we couldn't do it without you.

We see some familiar faces here so thought we'd introduce ourselves.

KEXP is a listener-powered nonprofit arts organization, which more or less makes us a five-decades-old community project where we work together to build a home for music discovery.

Thanks for being here. We mean it when we say we couldn't do it without you.

We see some familiar faces here so thought we'd introduce ourselves.

KEXP is a listener-powered nonprofit arts organization, which more or less makes us a five-decades-old community project where we work together to build a home for music discovery.

Thanks for being here. We mean it when we say we couldn't do it without you.

We see some familiar faces here so thought we'd introduce ourselves.

KEXP is a listener-powered nonprofit arts organization, which more or less makes us a five-decades-old community project where we work together to build a home for music discovery.

Thanks for being here. We mean it when we say we couldn't do it without you.

We see some familiar faces here so thought we'd introduce ourselves.

KEXP is a listener-powered nonprofit arts organization, which more or less makes us a five-decades-old community project where we work together to build a home for music discovery.

Thanks for being here. We mean it when we say we couldn't do it without you.

We see some familiar faces here so thought we'd introduce ourselves.

KEXP is a listener-powered nonprofit arts organization, which more or less makes us a five-decades-old community project where we work together to build a home for music discovery.

Thanks for being here. We mean it when we say we couldn't do it without you.

We see some familiar faces here so thought we'd introduce ourselves.

KEXP is a listener-powered nonprofit arts organization, which more or less makes us a five-decades-old community project where we work together to build a home for music discovery.

Thanks for being here. We mean it when we say we couldn't do it without you.

Sotomayor join @albinacabrera on the El Sonido: Cancioneros podcast this week 🎧

After exploring separate paths through projects like @pahuamusic and @tongaconga , the duo returns with WABI SABI, their first album in six years and a record that closes a cycle shaped by the pandemic, and opens a new one.

WABI SABI moves between the club and the Caribbean, a journey that begins in Mexico and ends in Puerto Rico.
In this podcast episode—recorded in Mexico City—they open their cancionero and trace their sound through Nortec Collective, Bomba Estéreo, Deep Dish, Everything But the Girl, and Aurita Castillo.

📺 Watch the full video podcast on the KEXP Podcasts YouTube channel (subtitles in English & Spanish), or listen wherever you get your podcasts.

An original KEXP production in Spanish.

Lala Lala #LiveonKEXP | On her latest release 'Heaven 2,' London-born singer @lillielala_music expands her indie pop sound with sharp lyricism and synth-driven arrangements. In her Live on KEXP in-studio session, she shares a performance of "Does This Go Faster?" and more.

Watch the full performance on our YouTube channel.

📸: thumbnail image by @travistrautt

Waiting for you on the Live on KEXP YouTube channel...

📺: Spiritual Cramp (📸 by @travistrautt)
📺: OBSG (📸 by @iamcarloscruz & @knechtcreative)
📺: Cochemea (📸 by @photobakery)
📺: Gogol Bordello (📸 by @melissaxdeaunphoto)
📺: Makara (📸 by @photobakery)

🔗 Catch up on the sessions you may have missed this week at the link in our bio.

Waiting for you on the Live on KEXP YouTube channel...

📺: Spiritual Cramp (📸 by @travistrautt)
📺: OBSG (📸 by @iamcarloscruz & @knechtcreative)
📺: Cochemea (📸 by @photobakery)
📺: Gogol Bordello (📸 by @melissaxdeaunphoto)
📺: Makara (📸 by @photobakery)

🔗 Catch up on the sessions you may have missed this week at the link in our bio.

Waiting for you on the Live on KEXP YouTube channel...

📺: Spiritual Cramp (📸 by @travistrautt)
📺: OBSG (📸 by @iamcarloscruz & @knechtcreative)
📺: Cochemea (📸 by @photobakery)
📺: Gogol Bordello (📸 by @melissaxdeaunphoto)
📺: Makara (📸 by @photobakery)

🔗 Catch up on the sessions you may have missed this week at the link in our bio.

Waiting for you on the Live on KEXP YouTube channel...

📺: Spiritual Cramp (📸 by @travistrautt)
📺: OBSG (📸 by @iamcarloscruz & @knechtcreative)
📺: Cochemea (📸 by @photobakery)
📺: Gogol Bordello (📸 by @melissaxdeaunphoto)
📺: Makara (📸 by @photobakery)

🔗 Catch up on the sessions you may have missed this week at the link in our bio.

Waiting for you on the Live on KEXP YouTube channel...

📺: Spiritual Cramp (📸 by @travistrautt)
📺: OBSG (📸 by @iamcarloscruz & @knechtcreative)
📺: Cochemea (📸 by @photobakery)
📺: Gogol Bordello (📸 by @melissaxdeaunphoto)
📺: Makara (📸 by @photobakery)

🔗 Catch up on the sessions you may have missed this week at the link in our bio.

Waiting for you on the Live on KEXP YouTube channel...

📺: Spiritual Cramp (📸 by @travistrautt)
📺: OBSG (📸 by @iamcarloscruz & @knechtcreative)
📺: Cochemea (📸 by @photobakery)
📺: Gogol Bordello (📸 by @melissaxdeaunphoto)
📺: Makara (📸 by @photobakery)

🔗 Catch up on the sessions you may have missed this week at the link in our bio.

Waiting for you on the Live on KEXP YouTube channel...

📺: Spiritual Cramp (📸 by @travistrautt)
📺: OBSG (📸 by @iamcarloscruz & @knechtcreative)
📺: Cochemea (📸 by @photobakery)
📺: Gogol Bordello (📸 by @melissaxdeaunphoto)
📺: Makara (📸 by @photobakery)

🔗 Catch up on the sessions you may have missed this week at the link in our bio.

Waiting for you on the Live on KEXP YouTube channel...

📺: Spiritual Cramp (📸 by @travistrautt)
📺: OBSG (📸 by @iamcarloscruz & @knechtcreative)
📺: Cochemea (📸 by @photobakery)
📺: Gogol Bordello (📸 by @melissaxdeaunphoto)
📺: Makara (📸 by @photobakery)

🔗 Catch up on the sessions you may have missed this week at the link in our bio.

Waiting for you on the Live on KEXP YouTube channel...

📺: Spiritual Cramp (📸 by @travistrautt)
📺: OBSG (📸 by @iamcarloscruz & @knechtcreative)
📺: Cochemea (📸 by @photobakery)
📺: Gogol Bordello (📸 by @melissaxdeaunphoto)
📺: Makara (📸 by @photobakery)

🔗 Catch up on the sessions you may have missed this week at the link in our bio.

Waiting for you on the Live on KEXP YouTube channel...

📺: Spiritual Cramp (📸 by @travistrautt)
📺: OBSG (📸 by @iamcarloscruz & @knechtcreative)
📺: Cochemea (📸 by @photobakery)
📺: Gogol Bordello (📸 by @melissaxdeaunphoto)
📺: Makara (📸 by @photobakery)

🔗 Catch up on the sessions you may have missed this week at the link in our bio.

📺 Raveena performing a cover of “Dum Maro Dum” Live on KEXP in 2022.

"Dun Maro Dum" is a beloved song originally sung by Indian artist Asha Bhosle for the Bollywood film 'Hare Rama Hare Krishna.' Raveena famously covered the song in her 2022 Coachella set where she made history as the first female solo artist of Indian descent to perform at the festival.

🔗 Watch her full 2022 Live on KEXP session at the link in our bio.

We chatted with one of the biggest King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard fans we know—DJ Cheryl Waters!🦎📻

Swipe through to read about how she discovered the band, why she loves them as much as she does, how she feels being an unofficial member, and more...

Want to see the legendary Aussie band live in NYC? Enter our King Gizzard Flyaway Contest for your chance to win a trip for you and a friend to see them at all three nights of their residency at Forest Hills Stadium! 🗽 One lucky winner will receive airfare, a hotel stay, floor tickets, and more.

🔗 Enter today: https://www.kexp.org/kinggizzard-flyaway-contest-fb/

We chatted with one of the biggest King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard fans we know—DJ Cheryl Waters!🦎📻

Swipe through to read about how she discovered the band, why she loves them as much as she does, how she feels being an unofficial member, and more...

Want to see the legendary Aussie band live in NYC? Enter our King Gizzard Flyaway Contest for your chance to win a trip for you and a friend to see them at all three nights of their residency at Forest Hills Stadium! 🗽 One lucky winner will receive airfare, a hotel stay, floor tickets, and more.

🔗 Enter today: https://www.kexp.org/kinggizzard-flyaway-contest-fb/

We chatted with one of the biggest King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard fans we know—DJ Cheryl Waters!🦎📻

Swipe through to read about how she discovered the band, why she loves them as much as she does, how she feels being an unofficial member, and more...

Want to see the legendary Aussie band live in NYC? Enter our King Gizzard Flyaway Contest for your chance to win a trip for you and a friend to see them at all three nights of their residency at Forest Hills Stadium! 🗽 One lucky winner will receive airfare, a hotel stay, floor tickets, and more.

🔗 Enter today: https://www.kexp.org/kinggizzard-flyaway-contest-fb/

We chatted with one of the biggest King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard fans we know—DJ Cheryl Waters!🦎📻

Swipe through to read about how she discovered the band, why she loves them as much as she does, how she feels being an unofficial member, and more...

Want to see the legendary Aussie band live in NYC? Enter our King Gizzard Flyaway Contest for your chance to win a trip for you and a friend to see them at all three nights of their residency at Forest Hills Stadium! 🗽 One lucky winner will receive airfare, a hotel stay, floor tickets, and more.

🔗 Enter today: https://www.kexp.org/kinggizzard-flyaway-contest-fb/

We chatted with one of the biggest King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard fans we know—DJ Cheryl Waters!🦎📻

Swipe through to read about how she discovered the band, why she loves them as much as she does, how she feels being an unofficial member, and more...

Want to see the legendary Aussie band live in NYC? Enter our King Gizzard Flyaway Contest for your chance to win a trip for you and a friend to see them at all three nights of their residency at Forest Hills Stadium! 🗽 One lucky winner will receive airfare, a hotel stay, floor tickets, and more.

🔗 Enter today: https://www.kexp.org/kinggizzard-flyaway-contest-fb/

We chatted with one of the biggest King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard fans we know—DJ Cheryl Waters!🦎📻

Swipe through to read about how she discovered the band, why she loves them as much as she does, how she feels being an unofficial member, and more...

Want to see the legendary Aussie band live in NYC? Enter our King Gizzard Flyaway Contest for your chance to win a trip for you and a friend to see them at all three nights of their residency at Forest Hills Stadium! 🗽 One lucky winner will receive airfare, a hotel stay, floor tickets, and more.

🔗 Enter today: https://www.kexp.org/kinggizzard-flyaway-contest-fb/

We chatted with one of the biggest King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard fans we know—DJ Cheryl Waters!🦎📻

Swipe through to read about how she discovered the band, why she loves them as much as she does, how she feels being an unofficial member, and more...

Want to see the legendary Aussie band live in NYC? Enter our King Gizzard Flyaway Contest for your chance to win a trip for you and a friend to see them at all three nights of their residency at Forest Hills Stadium! 🗽 One lucky winner will receive airfare, a hotel stay, floor tickets, and more.

🔗 Enter today: https://www.kexp.org/kinggizzard-flyaway-contest-fb/

Top 10 on the broadcast this week 🌟

📻 Listen back to any show from this week on our two-week streaming archive.

Spiritual Cramp #LiveonKEXP | San Francisco punk experimentalists @spiritualcramptv move with a commanding disposition. Live on KEXP with host @troynelllson, the band share a performance of "Dog In A Cage" and more.

Watch the full in-studio session and interview at the link in our bio.

📸: thumbnail image by @travistrautt

Anne Tong and Bryce Barsten come together as the married Seattle pop duo @chineseamericanbear. Their warm, kaleidoscopic sound, with songs sung in both Mandarin and English, offer a tender display of love, joy, and cultural exploration.

While the two have known each other since they were teens growing up in Spokane, WA, the band's first form took place as they were moving from New York to Chicago and as Bryce was learning Chinese. Together they wrote their first song "Xiao Xiong" which translates to "little bear."

The two continue to create music together, having released their self-titled debut in 2022 and soon their forthcoming record 'Dim Sum & Then Some.'

🔗 Learn more about the duo and hear what they're listening to right now in the latest episodes of the In Our Headphones Podcast. Available at the link in our bio.

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Slide 1: Chinese American Bear at KEXP by @insepiasres
Slide 2: “Forever Lover (永远的爱人)” via Chinese American Bear on YouTube
Slide 3: ‘Dim Sum & Then Some’ Album Cover
Slide 4: Chinese American Bear performing “Kids Go Down (孩子们的时光)” Live on KEXP (2022)

Anne Tong and Bryce Barsten come together as the married Seattle pop duo @chineseamericanbear. Their warm, kaleidoscopic sound, with songs sung in both Mandarin and English, offer a tender display of love, joy, and cultural exploration.

While the two have known each other since they were teens growing up in Spokane, WA, the band's first form took place as they were moving from New York to Chicago and as Bryce was learning Chinese. Together they wrote their first song "Xiao Xiong" which translates to "little bear."

The two continue to create music together, having released their self-titled debut in 2022 and soon their forthcoming record 'Dim Sum & Then Some.'

🔗 Learn more about the duo and hear what they're listening to right now in the latest episodes of the In Our Headphones Podcast. Available at the link in our bio.

—

Slide 1: Chinese American Bear at KEXP by @insepiasres
Slide 2: “Forever Lover (永远的爱人)” via Chinese American Bear on YouTube
Slide 3: ‘Dim Sum & Then Some’ Album Cover
Slide 4: Chinese American Bear performing “Kids Go Down (孩子们的时光)” Live on KEXP (2022)

Anne Tong and Bryce Barsten come together as the married Seattle pop duo @chineseamericanbear. Their warm, kaleidoscopic sound, with songs sung in both Mandarin and English, offer a tender display of love, joy, and cultural exploration.

While the two have known each other since they were teens growing up in Spokane, WA, the band's first form took place as they were moving from New York to Chicago and as Bryce was learning Chinese. Together they wrote their first song "Xiao Xiong" which translates to "little bear."

The two continue to create music together, having released their self-titled debut in 2022 and soon their forthcoming record 'Dim Sum & Then Some.'

🔗 Learn more about the duo and hear what they're listening to right now in the latest episodes of the In Our Headphones Podcast. Available at the link in our bio.

—

Slide 1: Chinese American Bear at KEXP by @insepiasres
Slide 2: “Forever Lover (永远的爱人)” via Chinese American Bear on YouTube
Slide 3: ‘Dim Sum & Then Some’ Album Cover
Slide 4: Chinese American Bear performing “Kids Go Down (孩子们的时光)” Live on KEXP (2022)

Anne Tong and Bryce Barsten come together as the married Seattle pop duo @chineseamericanbear. Their warm, kaleidoscopic sound, with songs sung in both Mandarin and English, offer a tender display of love, joy, and cultural exploration.

While the two have known each other since they were teens growing up in Spokane, WA, the band's first form took place as they were moving from New York to Chicago and as Bryce was learning Chinese. Together they wrote their first song "Xiao Xiong" which translates to "little bear."

The two continue to create music together, having released their self-titled debut in 2022 and soon their forthcoming record 'Dim Sum & Then Some.'

🔗 Learn more about the duo and hear what they're listening to right now in the latest episodes of the In Our Headphones Podcast. Available at the link in our bio.

—

Slide 1: Chinese American Bear at KEXP by @insepiasres
Slide 2: “Forever Lover (永远的爱人)” via Chinese American Bear on YouTube
Slide 3: ‘Dim Sum & Then Some’ Album Cover
Slide 4: Chinese American Bear performing “Kids Go Down (孩子们的时光)” Live on KEXP (2022)

Anne Tong and Bryce Barsten come together as the married Seattle pop duo @chineseamericanbear. Their warm, kaleidoscopic sound, with songs sung in both Mandarin and English, offer a tender display of love, joy, and cultural exploration.

While the two have known each other since they were teens growing up in Spokane, WA, the band's first form took place as they were moving from New York to Chicago and as Bryce was learning Chinese. Together they wrote their first song "Xiao Xiong" which translates to "little bear."

The two continue to create music together, having released their self-titled debut in 2022 and soon their forthcoming record 'Dim Sum & Then Some.'

🔗 Learn more about the duo and hear what they're listening to right now in the latest episodes of the In Our Headphones Podcast. Available at the link in our bio.

—

Slide 1: Chinese American Bear at KEXP by @insepiasres
Slide 2: “Forever Lover (永远的爱人)” via Chinese American Bear on YouTube
Slide 3: ‘Dim Sum & Then Some’ Album Cover
Slide 4: Chinese American Bear performing “Kids Go Down (孩子们的时光)” Live on KEXP (2022)

OBSG #LiveonKEXP | Pioneer in the Korean music scene and Gyeonggi folk singer Lee Heemoon leads @band_obsg in a bold, synth-heavy performance in our latest in-studio session. With host @sabaidi.ana, the band share a performance of "DOHWA" and more.

Watch the full listener-powered performance at the link in our bio.

📸: thumbnail image by @knechtcreative

King Gizz are long-time faves here at KEXP. So much so that we’ve hosted them in the KEXP studios 6 times since 2015!

Their psych-rock, genre-hopping catalogue translates into the most fun live show imaginable—and we want you and a friend to experience it for yourselves during their 3-night residency at Forest Hills Stadium in NYC.

Enter our Flyaway Contest to win a prize package for you and a guest that includes airfare from within the continental US, a 4-night hotel stay at the Hotel on Rivington, floor tickets to all three shows, and MORE!

🔗 Find out how you can enter now for your chance to win at the link in our bio. This contest closes at 7PM PST on May 15th!

Cochemea #LiveonKEXP | Through cosmic jazz-funk, multi-instrumentalist @cochemea creates a culturally rich sonic world full of emotional textures and rhythmic possibilities. His in-studio session offers a transcendent performance of "The Land Swallowed Them Whole" and more.

Find the full Live on KEXP session on our listener-powered YouTube channel.

📸: thumbnail image by @photobakery