As a teenager growing up in northern Virginia in the late 1980s, budding saxophonist and composer Ramberto Torruella faced an important choice. Take a full ride scholarship to study music… Read More
Happy Holidays! As the year comes to a close, it’s all about fun until everyone gets back down to business in January. Hope you have some time off to work… Read More
The geekiest holiday party is just around the corner. We’ve got a great crowd coming out for the GeekWire Gala, presented by Smartsheet, on Thursday, Dec. 6 at the The Showbox in… Read More
Many will remember him as the co-founder of Microsoft, or the owner of the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers. But Paul G. Allen had a deep and broad impact… Read More
After a Tuesday morning drive that was a morning dry for KEXP‘s traditional radio listeners, the Seattle station is back on the air with its over-the-air signal. But not before… Read More
If a tech-friendly streaming station goes off the radio airwaves, does anyone in a tech-centric city notice? Seattle nonprofit indie and alternative rock station KEXP suddenly went fuzzy and silent… Read More
Long before streaming came along and planted a song in your head digitally, music memories were collected on cassette tapes and other formats. Remember using VHS tapes to record MTV’s… Read More
KEXP has long been the place “where the music matters,” and thankfully for the independent Seattle radio station and the people who use its website, the design matters, too. KEXP.org,… Read More
UPDATE, Nov. 13, 9:30 p.m.: The radio signals for KUOW and KEXP were back on after 9 p.m. Monday after an outage that lasted about four hours. Thank you to… Read More
When KEXP moved into a new home at Seattle Center last year, the popular independent radio station established a physical foundation to support its mission for years to come. In… Read More
Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready keeps revealing himself to be quite the Renaissance man. Just weeks after playing tennis with Bill Gates and Roger Federer, the rocker will host an… Read More
At the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance’s Proton Therapy Center in North Seattle, the halls are rarely quiet. “You’ll hear ’80s music blaring,” said Dr. Ramesh Rengan, or “music that actually speaks of illness… Read More
As Seattle-based indie rocker Will Toledo, who performs as Car Seat Headrest, gyrated around KEXP’s new live studio this afternoon, 1,850 LED bulbs danced along with him, tracing his movements.… Read More
Seattle’s KEXP entertains plenty of listeners through its terrestrial and internet radio broadcast, but it hit a major milestone this weekend with video, an increasingly popular medium for the 40-year-old… Read More
Iconic Seattle radio station KEXP announced a $500,000 gift from entrepreneur and philanthropist Paul Allen Thursday. Allen’s donation helped the station surpass its targeted $15 million fundraising goal for its… Read More
“These guys will be remembered in years to come because they knew how to write songs with HOOKS!” “Hey! Can we be really cutting edge and be the first to… Read More
Musicians who visit radio station KEXP’s new home at Seattle Center will get to play in a state-of-the-art live performance studio, with high-tech lighting and a video production team capturing their performances for… Read More
KEXP will host a grand opening celebration this weekend for its new home at Seattle Center, which features everything you’d expect in a 21st Century radio station, from a high-tech DJ booth to live performance… Read More
A new space at the Seattle Center for KEXP means more live shows for the community, but the expanded digs also include a huge upgrade in technology for the independent… Read More
Inside radio station KEXP (90.3 FM) in Seattle, just down the hall from the DJ booth, the dark room in the corner of the building looks at first glance like… Read More
The noontime panel at Seattle Interactive Conference today featured a great lineup of musicians and others involved in the music industry for a discussion of how the digital-music era is… Read More