Articles about KEXP

Meet Ramberto Torruella, a former Navy submarine officer who is now CTO at famed radio station KEXP

As a teenager growing up in northern Virginia in the late 1980s, budding saxophonist and composer Ramberto Torruella faced an… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Wrap up 2018 with board games; ring in new year with comic conventions

Happy Holidays! As the year comes to a close, it’s all about fun until everyone gets back down to business… Read More

GeekWire Gala 2018 FAQ: Here’s what you need to know for this week’s geeky holiday party

The geekiest holiday party is just around the corner. We’ve got a great crowd coming out for the GeekWire Gala, presented… Read More

From Cinerama and MoPOP to KEXP and Upstream, Paul Allen’s cultural legacy permeates Seattle

Many will remember him as the co-founder of Microsoft, or the owner of the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers.… Read More

KEXP returns to Seattle airwaves after 11-year-old digital memory card takes station down

After a Tuesday morning drive that was a morning dry for KEXP‘s traditional radio listeners, the Seattle station is back… Read More

Seattle’s KEXP broadcasts dead air during morning outage, but station’s digital signal stays alive

If a tech-friendly streaming station goes off the radio airwaves, does anyone in a tech-centric city notice? Seattle nonprofit indie… Read More

KEXP and dream team of archivists plan digitization labs to help listeners save their music memories

Long before streaming came along and planted a song in your head digitally, music memories were collected on cassette tapes… Read More

Seattle’s KEXP launches redesigned website to help its listeners listen, watch and read better

KEXP has long been the place “where the music matters,” and thankfully for the independent Seattle radio station and the… Read More

Nasty Seattle windstorm knocks KUOW and KEXP off air, but public radio stations stream on

UPDATE, Nov. 13, 9:30 p.m.: The radio signals for KUOW and KEXP were back on after 9 p.m. Monday after… Read More

Seattle’s KEXP releases long-awaited iOS app overhaul, with help from volunteer developers

When KEXP moved into a new home at Seattle Center last year, the popular independent radio station established a physical… Read More

Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready to discuss new book of Polaroid photos in release event at Seattle’s KEXP

Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready keeps revealing himself to be quite the Renaissance man. Just weeks after playing tennis with… Read More

Chemotherapy, surgery and David Bowie: How music helps cancer patients heal

At the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance’s Proton Therapy Center in North Seattle, the halls are rarely quiet. “You’ll hear ’80s music blaring,”… Read More

Inside Microsoft’s groovy high-tech makeover of KEXP’s iconic Live Room

As Seattle-based indie rocker Will Toledo, who performs as Car Seat Headrest, gyrated around KEXP’s new live studio this afternoon,… Read More

More music fans looking and listening as Seattle’s KEXP hits 500M views on its YouTube channel

Seattle’s KEXP entertains plenty of listeners through its terrestrial and internet radio broadcast, but it hit a major milestone this… Read More

Paul Allen gives $500K to Seattle’s KEXP — DJ says ‘there would be no station’ without him

Iconic Seattle radio station KEXP announced a $500,000 gift from entrepreneur and philanthropist Paul Allen Thursday. Allen’s donation helped the… Read More

KEXP’s digital Nirvana: Radio station bringing vast album collection into new era, comments included

“These guys will be remembered in years to come because they knew how to write songs with HOOKS!” “Hey! Can… Read More

Inside the new KEXP: Expanded studios open up a new world for beloved Seattle radio station

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,… Read More

Microsoft Kinect powers KEXP’s trippy new ‘Inside the Music’ experimental tech installation

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… Read More

KEXP shows off new digs: Public space for live shows and more streaming music in the works

A new space at the Seattle Center for KEXP means more live shows for the community, but the expanded digs… Read More

New era for KEXP: How this radio station is doing top-notch live video on a budget

Inside radio station KEXP (90.3 FM) in Seattle, just down the hall from the DJ booth, the dark room in… Read More

Highlights: Sir Mix-A-Lot, Pearl Jam, Death Cab, KEXP and music in the digital age

The noontime panel at Seattle Interactive Conference today featured a great lineup of musicians and others involved in the music… Read More