Live on KEXP

Five albums into their career, Brighton's The Go! Team remain as vibrant and hard to pin down as ever. Ninja and co.'s kaleidoscopic fifth album, Kaleidoscope, weaves hip-hop beats, vivid horns, and a kinetic energy that shines through in this performance in the KEXP Gathering Space. Recorded 03/30/2018. 4 songs - Mayday, Chain Link Fence, Everyone's A V.I.P. To Someone, All The Way LiveSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Durand Jones and The Indications' earliest beginnings showed a band with a ragged passion for playing soul music, and with a debut album under their belt and plenty of road-tested performance experience, they're still the same hungry band. Joining Cheryl Waters in the KEXP live room, the band discuss their formation and perform four songs from their debut album. Recorded 04/03/2018. 4 songs - Can't Keep My Cool, Make A Change, Is It Any Wonder, SmileSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Seattle folk rock band's latest LP still brims with rootsy splendor, but The Moondoggies' latest LP, A Love Sleeps Deep, also has a frustrated bite previously unseen in the band's lyrics. Kevin Murphy and co. join Cheryl Waters in the KEXP Live Room for four songs from A Love Sleeps Deep and a conversation about the record's origins. Recorded 04/13/2018. 4 songs - Easy Coming, Underground (A Love Sleeps Deep), Sick In Bed, Cinders/MatchSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Performing one of their most beloved albums in what might be the longest session in the KEXP Live Room to date, Nada Surf run through their 2002 opus Let Go with DJ Morgan, including Nada Surf classics like Happy Kid, The Way You Wear Your Head, and Paper Boats. Recorded 05/09/2018. 12 songs - Blizzard of '77, Happy Kid, Inside of Love, Fruit Fly, Blonde on Blonde, Hi-Speed Soul, Killian's Red, The Way You Wear Your Head, Neither Heaven Nor Space, Là pour ça, Treading Water, Paper BoatsSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

There's a precision to the songwriting of Soccer Mommy's Sophie Allison - her songs are vivid, moving snapshots executed with silvery guitar licks and deceptively brilliant choruses. Joining Cheryl Waters in the KEXP Live Room, Allison and her bandmates perform four songs off her studio debut LP, Clean.  Recorded 04/05/2018. 4 songs - Your Dog, Flaw, Cool, Scorpio RisingSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Superorganism's brilliantly colored songs sound like the pieces of a clockwork pop song executed by a Rube Goldberg machine - it's intricate, fascinating, and loads of fun. The band perform three songs from their self-titled debut in this session with Cheryl Waters. Recorded 03/23/2018. 3 songs - It's All Good, Everybody Wants To Be Famous, Something For Your M.I.N.D. Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The members of the long-running Boston outfit Buffalo Tom may have aged, but their melodic scratch still channels a vintage passion. Bill Janovitz and co. step into the KEXP Live Room with John Richards to discuss their children not noticing when they go on tour and perform a set of Buffalo Tom songs old and new. Recorded 03/01/2018. 5 songs - All Be Gone, Taillights Fade, Kitchen Door, I'm Allowed, The Least That We Can DoSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mint Field's debut album, Pasar De Las Luces, found sisters Amor Amezcua and Estrella Sánchez spending two years crafting its beautiful, gauzy shoegaze tones, and in their debut appearance in the KEXP Live Room, the Tijuana, Mexico group's shimmering tones echo with an aqueous glow. Joining DJ Chilly, the group perform four songs from the album and discuss the process of making the record. Recorded 03/25/2018. 4 songs - Quiero Otoño De Nuevo, Cambios Del Pasar, Ojos En El Carro, Boötes VoidSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Starting a new chapter in her career, Lee Ann Womack's The Lonely, The Lonesome, & the Gone is a stunning slice of rich country that underscores her status as one of the finest singers East Texas has produced. Joining Don Slack in the KEXP Live Room, Womack and her band run through four songs and discuss returning to country clubs and the value of making records at a slow pace. Recorded 03/08/2018. 4 songs - Someone Else's Heartache, Mama Lost Her Smile, Hollywood, All The TroubleSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brandi Carlile's seventh LP, By The Way, I Forgive You, is among her most intense recordings, but it also contains some of her most affecting songs, centering in on family dynamics, turbulent times, and addiction. Joining Kevin Cole in the KEXP Live room, Carlile and longtime collaborators Tim & Phil Hanseroth perform four songs from the new album. Recorded 02/27/2018. 4 songs - Most of All, The Joke, The Mother, Whatever You Do, The Times They Are A Changin'Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.