The Current Presents: Laura Marling
It’s just the English songwriter and her guitar in this acoustic performance of “How Can I.”
Category: Music Videos
KEXP Presents: Mike Krol
Watch a live performance of “Left Out” that captures the punkish brevity of Krol’s new album Turkey.
Oh Pep!: Tiny Desk Concert
The band’s clever, thoughtful, infectious, harmony-filled music fits in everywhere from Nashville to its hometown of Melbourne.
KCRW Presents: BORNS
Watch psych-pop singer-songwriter Garrett Borns perform live in the KCRW studio.
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah: Tiny Desk Concert
Artists don’t usually tell long, rambling stories for us. They don’t usually name their tunes “Ku Klux Police Department.” The trumpeter presents his jazz-hybridized “stretch music” in performance.
Watch Sneaks — The Band — Commit First-Degree Bicycle Murder
Eva Moolchan is a 20-year-old artist who’s committed a cold-blooded act of murder. She’s killed a bike. Taking place somewhere…
KEXP Presents: DeVotchKa
Watch the four-piece gypsy punk ensemble perform “The Clockwise Witness” live in the studio.
Deqn Sue: Tiny Desk Concert
The witty, powerful, heartfelt performer came so close to winning NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert Contest, we just had to see her play in person.
Premiere: Br’er’s Disturbing Video For ‘Masking’
Warning: This video contains adult, violent and overall creepy imagery. The title track from Masking, the forthcoming album from D.C….
KCRW Presents: Mac DeMarco
Watch the indie-pop singer-songwriter perform “No Other Heart” live in the KCRW studio.
Video Premiere: Pop Tackles Poverty On The Very Small’s ‘The Worst Form Of Violence’
On The Very Small’s single “The Worst Form of Violence,” the D.C. band packs sincere subject matter into a swift,…
J. Robbins On The Revival Of ‘Jawbox,’ His Band’s Final — And Some Say Best — Album
Nearly two decades after the band released its last album, there’s still a mythology around Jawbox. As one of the…
Joan Shelley: Tiny Desk Concert
As technology rules the sound of the day, it’s good to be reminded how powerfully a single voice can transmit deep emotion.
Remembering D.C. Guitar Virtuoso Danny Gatton And ‘The Anacostia Delta’
Over the last few years, D.C.’s hardcore punk scene has been memorialized by multiple films and TV shows. But soon,…
KCRW Presents: Thundercat
Watch the jazz-fusion bass guitarist give a stirring performance of “Them Changes.”
TT The Artist Left A Cultlike Church And Found Baltimore’s Music Scene
Greatness isn’t measured by a fixed set of criteria, but many art lovers would agree that great artists take multiple forms…
KEXP Presents: The Mynabirds
Laura Burhenn’s songs marry heartbreak and hope. Hear her perform “Wildfire” live in the studio.
KCRW Presents: Ratatat
Watch the Brooklyn electro-rock duo give a searing performance of “Nightclub Amnesia.”
Video: Death Has Been Called The First Punk Band. Now They’re In The Smithsonian.
In the early 1970s, years before punk rock exploded in the U.S., three brothers from Detroit started a band called Death. David…
KEXP Presents: SOAK
Bridie Monds-Watson fills the room with wisdom and emotion in this performance of “B a noBody.”