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KEXP intern Gabe Pollak interviews Jonny Pierce, aka The Drums, about his new album Abysmal Thoughts, out now on ANTI-.

KEXP Exclusive Interview: The Drums

Twin Peaks Music Supervisor Dean Hurley talks to KEXP about the show's performance from "The Nine Inch Nails."

Dean Hurley talks about The Nine Inch Nails

This week on Under The Needle, the long-awaited return of alt-J. The award-winning British band performs one-of-a-kind, stripped down versions of songs from their latest album “Relaxer” and back catalog. Alt-J blend electronic elements into their hypnotic brand of arty, indie-rock. They’ve previously won a Mercury Prize (awarded to top UK album of the year) and charted at #1 with their second LP “This Is All Yours.”

Under The Needle, Episode 104 - alt-J

British DJ and producer Simon Green brings his warm, dreamy melding of acoustic and electronic instruments, samples and ambient found sounds to KEXP with his 5-piece band in tow. The latest Bonobo album is called “Migration” and it’s out on Ninja Tune.

Under The Needle, Episode 129 - Bonobo

Iceland’s Gus Gus perform 3 infectious electronic tracks live from KEX Hostel in Reykjavik, from their 10th studio album Lies Are More Flexible

Under The Needle, Episode 134 - GusGus

Iron & Wine play live in-studio, playing songs from their latest release Beast Epic

Under The Needle, Episode 135 - Iron & Wine

This week on Under The Needle, St Vincent plays intimate acoustic versions of 4 songs from her latest album "Masseduction" out on Loma Vista.

Under The Needle, Episode 137 - St Vincent

Shoegaze legends Slowdive swing by our studios to play music from their first record in 22 years!

Under The Needle, Episode 139 - Slowdive

UTN 156 features the dark and scary doom-folk of Chelsea Wolfe.  Her latest album Hiss Spun is available on Sargent House records.

Under The Needle, The KEXP Ses

Under The Needle, Episode 156 - Chelsea Wolfe

This week on UTN, Sweden's Little Dragon plays their R&B tinged electro-pop live from the Upstream Festival in Seattle's historic Pioneer Square.

Under The Needle, Episode 159 - Little Dragon

For those who love shoegaze, no explanation of the genre is needed, but for 99.9% of the population, we put together this quick feature to explain this amazing subset of rock and pop music. Also, checkout our feature on Lo! Peninsula! https://www.kexp.org/read/2018/9/18/indian-shoegaze-band-lo-peninsula-take-a-diy-approach-to-their-debut-ep/
Photo: Slowdive at KEXP

Sound And Vision: Quick Shoegaze Explainer

This week on Under The Needle, it's the gritty blues-psych of All Them Witches.

Under The Needle, Episode 193 - All Them Witches

This week on Under The Needle, its the blissful organic electronica of Maribou State.

Under The Needle, Episode 202 - Maribou State

Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley of Portishead sit down for an exclusive interview over Skype with KEXP DJ Morgan Chosnyk. This is the cleaned up, yet unscripted full interview, warts and fun and all in which they tell the story of their beginnings and the making of this iconic, game-changing document.

Portishead Interview on 25th Anniversary of Dummy

On the show this week it’s the sexy gothic synthesizers of Tr\ST.  Their latest albums The Destroyer pt1 and pt2 are available on Royal Mountain records.

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