Track Premiere: Paige Stark “Albatross”
L.A. based musical multi-hyphenate Paige Stark is most often associated with bands that make pretty songs, but with a bit of a noisy edge. Her own band Tashaki Miyaki traffics…
Video Premiere: Gardens & Villa “Underneath the Moon”
Gardens & Villa have been KCRW favorites for years now. For about as long as they’ve been releasing music, we’ve been playing it. I remember hearing “Orange Blossom” (one of…
Stephen Malkmus + The Jicks Cover Neil Young
Stephen Malkmus and his band the Jicks tumbled into KCRW’s studio for a loose, jammy, and magnetic set behind their 7th studio album Sparkle Hard. The iconic indie-rocker performed with…
Video Premiere: Calvin Love “Wildflower”
Canadian artist Calvin Love has spent most of his life as a journeyman, leaving his native Alberta at 18 to experience life “spent everywhere else you could think of.” That…
Sneak Peek: Jungle Performs ‘Cherry’ Live
Get a sneak peek at Jungle’s latest album!
Straight No Chaser magazine profile on KCRW!
UK Magazine Straight No Chaser was first launched in 1988 as a “designer fanzine,” calling itself the “magazine of World Jazz Jive.” The magazine, co-edited by KCRW favorite Gilles Peterson,…
KCRW Track Premiere: Dev Ray “Can’t Hide”
There’s something about this new single from L.A. based Dev Ray (So Many Wizards, Tomemitsu) – his first for Dangerbird – that manages to hit all of one’s pleasure centers…
KCRW Exclusive: Dirty Projectors Performing “I Found It In U”
This week, Dirty Projectors, release their anticipated 8th album Lamp Lit Prose and celebrate with a performance on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic Thursday, July 12. In anticipation of the session,…
Music For Your Weekend
This week feels like it’s been a particularly intense one, and that’s coming after a whole series of them. So in order to help us all self-soothe a bit –…
Kamasi Washington Performs on KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic
Kamasi Washington recently performed music behind his highly anticipated sophomore album Heaven and Earth (out June 22) for KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic. Kamasi and his 8-piece band dazzled with incredible versions of “Street Fighter Mas” and “The Space Travelers…