A Little Gem in Seattle

KEXP Where the music matters: I recently stumbled across KEXP 90.3 FM on LiveJournal.com and I guess they're well known in the Seattle, Wa. area for playing artists frequently left out of regular air time on other radio stations. I found a bunch of free tracks on the radio station from old South by Southwest shows as well weekly updates worth of stream-able songs by artists with albums dropping that particular week.

You can stream the current show live with Real Player or VCL online and this particular segment is solely composed of emailed requests. Right now they're playing "Trigger Cut" by Pavement and they just made an announcement that Tegan & Sara will be coming up shortly.



It looks like they're also preparing for this year's SXSW coverage, on Mach 7- 12 in Austin, Texas, and judging by last year's as well as 2006, I might have some high expectations of KEXP for 2008. They have posted entire set lists worth of individual artists' songs and and versions of their live performances at SXSW from previous years. Stay tuned.