Kexp Live Performances Podcast

Vivid and direct, The Make It All Show, the fifth album from the Oklahoma outfit Skating Polly, is perhaps the band's most vibrant and incisive set of songs to date. In this session, the trio play four songs from the album in the KEXP Live Room with Troy Nelson. Recorded 08/16/2018. 4 songs - Little Girl Blue and the Battle Envy, Free Will At Ease, Hollywood Factory, They're Cheap (I'm Free)Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wand's gauzy psych-outs can range from crushing to calming but the constant in their chaos is just how fluidly they can move to strength to strength. The Los Angeles quintet join Troy Nelson in the KEXP Live Room for a massive set featuring four songs from their latest LP, Plum, and their 2018 EP, Perfume. Recorded 08/02/2018. 5 songs - High Rise, White Cat, The Gift, Bee Karma, Blue CloudSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With their 2014 sophomore effort, Painted Shut, Hop Along went from Philadelphia's best kept secret to one of the most feverishly beloved bands on their circuit. Frances Quinlan & co.'s follow up, this year's Bark Your Head Off, Dog, is just as heartfelt and brilliant, with four of its songs on display in this session with Stevie Zoom in the KEXP Live Room. Recorded 08/13/2018. 4 songs - How Simple, Somewhere a Judge, What the Writer Meant, Prior ThingsSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Comprising some of the most vital players in the last decade of the Seattle music scene, Knife Knights' astral plane-traveling hip-hop moves with a heady momentum. Making their live debut in the KEXP Live Room with Cheryl Waters, the Ishmael Butler-fronted group perform three tracks from their debut LP, 1 Time Mirage. Recorded 07/19/2018. 3 songs - Give You Game, My Dreams Never Sleep, Seven Wheel MotionSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Phoebe Bridgers' debut LP, 2017's Stranger In The Alps, is a set of affecting, intimate songs that turned into one of the year's biggest sleeper hits. A year from its release, Bridgers and her band remain the vital engine behind the Los Angeles' songwriter's work in this session with Hans in the KEXP Live Room. Recorded 07/13/2018. 4 songs - Smoke Signals, Motion Sickness, Waiting Room, Scott StreetSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Six albums into the band's discography, Wye Oak's Andy Stack and Jenn Wasner continue to experiment with both their electronic and rock tendencies, resulting in this year's finessed The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs. The Baltimore-founded band join Cheryl Waters in the KEXP Live Room for a session of four new songs. Recorded 07/16/2018. 4 songs - Lifer, It Was Not Natural, You of All People, The Louder I Call, The Faster It RunsSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Magic Gone, Kiley Lotz's second full-length as Petal is a massive leap forward for the Scranton songwriter. Written both before and after a turbulent time in Lotz's life, this session with Troy Nelson highlights four songs capturing the struggle and the triumph that Lotz experienced in 2017. Recorded 07/02/2018. 4 songs - Tightrope, Shine, Shy, Magic GoneSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Shane Butler and Caity Shaffer's collaboration as Olden Yolk is full of shimmering, crisp songs that reflect with a little bit of psychedelic shine. The NYC group make their debut in the KEXP Live Room with Cheryl Waters and perform four songs from their self-titled debut. Recorded 06/19/2018. 4 songs - Cut to the Quick, Vital Sign, After Us, Takes One To Know OneSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How To Socialise & Make Friends, the brilliant sophomore album from Camp Cope, finds Georgia McDonald and co.'s sharp, incisive songs hit harder and with more aplomb than on their debut. Joining Cheryl Waters in the KEXP Live Room, the Melbourne trio perform four songs from one of the year's finest rock albums. Recorded 07/02/2018. 4 songs - UFO Lighter, How To Socialise & Make Friends, The Face of God, The OpenerSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Chicago indie rock greats The Sea And Cake have had a career with a consistency that few other groups rival, as their stellar eleventh album Any Day shows. Sam Prekop and co. join  Troy Nelson in the KEXP Live Room for a session of four Any Day songs. Recorded 06/09/2018. 4 songs - Circle, Day Moon, Any Day, These Falling ArmsSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Issaquah, Washington's Whitney Ballen writes quietly disarming songs that twist and crush with each new verse. Ahead of the release of her debut album, You're A Shooting Star, I'm A Sinking Ship,  Ballen and her band join DJ Sharlese on Audioasis for a performance of four tracks from the record.  Recorded 07/24/2018. 4 songs - Everything, Go, Rainier, Black CloudSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Zola Jesus has performed live on KEXP a number of times, and each time, she's a tour de force of vocal and physical energy, often roaming the room with the same unbridled energy she brings to her shows. Joining Kevin Cole on the Afternoon Show, Zola performs six fantastic songs live from Little London Plane during the Upstream Music Festival.  Recorded 06/01/2018. 6 songs - Veka, Soak, Witness, Siphon, Bound, RemainsSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Horrors' fifth LP, the aptly-titled V, is among their most immediate and bracing work. Channeling a more muscular and dynamic style of their gauzy haze, the English quartet join Cheryl Waters in the KEXP Live Room for a set of four new songs. Recorded 06/27/2018. 4 songs - Machine, Weighed Down, Ghost, Something To Remember Me BySupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Josiah Wise's music as serpentwithfeet is rapturous and revelatory, often conjuring considerable emotional heft with the quietest sounds. Performing four tracks off his debut album, soil, Wise joins Cheryl Waters in the KEXP Live Room. Recorded 06/22/2018. 4 songs - bless ur heart, messy, mourning song, waftSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Emerging with a wave of buzz in 2016, Middle Kids took their time working on their debut album, this year's Lost Friends, and the result is some of the year's most affecting rock songs. The Sydney trio join Cheryl Waters in the KEXP Live Room for a set of four Lost Friends tracks. Recorded 06/29/2018. 4 songs - Bought It, Mistake, Don't Be Hiding, On My KneesSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sweet To Me, the Seattle artist JusMoni's latest project, is a thrilling, aqueous set of groove-inflected music, vibrant and beguiling at every turn. Joining DJ Sharlese in the KEXP Live Room, JusMoni (with DJ Stas THEE Boss) performs new music from Sweet To Me. Recorded 05/11/2018. 4 songs - Sweet To Me (Interlude) / 80 MPH, Linked In, Second BestSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As sharp as ever going into their sixteenth year, the British post-punk outfit Editors' sixth studio album, Violence, finds them channeling a stark, angular darkness with magnetic aplomb. The quintet perform four Violence tracks in the KEXP Live Room with DJ Troy Nelson. Recorded 05/07/2018. 4 songs - Magazine, Darkness At The Door, Nothingness, Hallelujah (So Low)Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Preoccupations' dark energy belies a desire to rise above their struggles, and on their latest album, New Material, they remain as sharp and determined as ever. Joining Stevie Zoom in the KEXP Live Room, the Calgary outfit perform four songs from New Material Recorded 05/11/2018. 4 songs - Disarray, Solace, Zodiac, DecomposeSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The spaced-out, desert-breathing songs on Loma's self-titled debut showcase a band whose strength lies in capturing a shadowy mystique. Playing songs from their debut, Jonathan Meiburg, Emily Cross, and Dan Duszynski join Cheryl Waters in the KEXP Live Room for this session on the Midday Show. Recorded 4/16/2018. 4 songs - Who Is Speaking?, Dark Oscillations, White Glass, Relay RunnerSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Not many artists - if any - besides Hot Snakes can say they've blown the power during a KEXP session and the ferocious energy that both powers their latest album, Jericho Sirens, and and overloads the power infrastructure of Little London Plane is on full display in this session live with DJ Evie from the Upstream Music Fest and Summit. Recorded 06/02/2018. 5 songs - Why Don't It Sink In?, Six Wave Hold-Down, Death Doula, I Need A Doctor, Having Another?Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.