KEXP 90.3 FM is a Seattle, WA-based radio station, officially "a service of University of Washington," but it's more complex than that.
The first University of Washington radio station started broadcasting in 1952. Five decades,
a few station organizational shifts, plus three call letter and frequency changes later,
KEXP was (re)born in 2001. Along the way, the station spread the sound of 1990s Seattle indie rock, started
streaming "CD quality" MP3 audio of their broadcast in 2000, and they have an ever-growing collection of recordings of live in-station performances, including
over 2,000 videos on YouTube.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Mar 28, 2012 -
35 comments
Thanks to long rainy days and a lot of funky global culture and cross-pollination, Seattle has long been known as an epicenter of music and related creativity where people riff off of each other and freely beg, borrow and steal ideas. But how incestuous is it, really? Who has collaborated with whom? Played gigs together? Worked on albums together? Exactly how complicated is the Seattle music scene? It's so complicated that it needs a map - the
Seattle Band Map.
Via Wired.
posted by loquacious
on Mar 1, 2011 -
17 comments
The first time they came and recorded with me—which was January 23, 1988—they didn't have a band name, and they just had a borrowed drummer, which was Dale from the Melvins. But, yeah, they came and recorded 10 songs with me in one afternoon. I was left going "God, who are these people?" The cassettes I gave out just said "Kurt Cobain and Company" on them, because that's all I knew. -
Recording Nirvana Before They Were Nirvana. As Nirvanas first albulm hits 20 years old, with
Sub Pop prepare to release a remastered anniversary edition, the Seattle Weekly takes a look back at
the album that launched grunge.
posted by Artw
on Oct 28, 2009 -
94 comments
Sasquatch!, the
indie music festival, returns to
The Gorge with an
impressive line-up headlined by
Bjork and the
Beastie Boys. As usual,
KEXP has a veritable cornucopia of
live performances from the artists. If you're wondering what might be in store, check out select songs from
The Arcade Fire,
M.I.A.,
Citizen Cope,
Neko Case,
The Thermals,
Viva Voce,
Interpol,
Michael Franti & Spearhead,
Spoon,
Ozomatli,
Bad Brains,
The Dandy Warhols,
Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter,
Common Market,
Smoosh, and
Minus The Bear. Bring
sunscreen and an
umbrella on your
short drive from
Seattle to
George, Washington
posted by 0xFCAF
on Feb 25, 2007 -
13 comments
Richard Petersen a Seattle street musician... an emotionally impaired savant with encyclopedic recall who taught himself the trumpet and piano by studying a production LP of musical cues from the obscure early-fifties television show Sea Hunt has been a touchstone in many Seattle lives for years. He has played trumpet outside of concerts, sporting events and blockbuster movie premieres with a can labeled "No Canadian Coins" at his feet for at least three decades. He is ubiquitous--apart from agoraphobics, the bedridden and those chained to a basement wall, everyone in Seattle has one or two Richard Peterson stories: he is well known and well loved. Here,
Irwin Chusid, on an
Incorrect Music Hour entitled
Music everyone at work can agree on, eternally plays--albeit on RA--Peterson's
The Enemy (Is on the Radio Singing My Song) and
After The Gold Rush from
Richard Peterson's First Album. His first album did well--he was big in Japan. He has four albums out. His
My Second Album is the
hidden song on the Stone Temple Pilots
Purple. He has put four albums out. And now there is
Big City Dick: Richard Peterson's First Movie--a
well received documentary.
posted by y2karl
on May 3, 2004 -
8 comments
Ten years gone. The unifinished story of Kurt Cobain. Hard to believe that it's been ten years since the unwelcome news was broadcast. As a Cobain contemporary/gen X'er/Seattle musican in the 90s, my own heart is
still broken.
posted by psmealey
on Apr 5, 2004 -
131 comments
"In late January 1994, Cobain, Novoselic, and Grohl entered Bob Lang's studio in Seattle for their final recording session. Following a long jam, they captured
this powerful tune in one take, including the gut-wrenching vocal -- a spooky, ambient intro of echoed harmonics and a fractured guitar solo."
--Jim DeRogatis
posted by Reggie452
on Sep 23, 2002 -
76 comments
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