Live Performances

LA jazz-folk project South Hill Experiment perform cuts from new EP “South Hill & Friends” plus faves like “Chameleons” and “DREAMS!”

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Ana Tijoux returns with the lush pop balladry and incisive, Spanish-language bars of her 2024 LP “Vida.”

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Rising Scottish producer Barry Can’t Swim brings stage show of cuts from his 2023 LP “When Will We Land?” (and beyond) to KCRW HQ.

Barry Can’t Swim: KCRW Live from HQ

Rising Scottish producer Barry Can’t Swim brings stage show of cuts from his 2023 LP “When Will We Land?” (and beyond) to KCRW HQ.

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Grammy-winning Guatemalan singer Gaby Moreno makes her KCRW live debut for us with intoxicating cuts from new LP “Dusk.”

Gaby Moreno: KCRW Live from HQ

Grammy-winning Guatemalan singer Gaby Moreno makes her KCRW live debut for us with intoxicating cuts from new LP “Dusk.”

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Grammy-winner Corinne Bailey Rae expands into punk and free jazz playing cuts from her audacious 2023 LP “Black Rainbows,” live From Apogee Studio.

Corinne Bailey Rae: KCRW Live from Apogee Studio

Grammy-winner Corinne Bailey Rae expands into punk and free jazz playing cuts from her audacious 2023 LP “Black Rainbows,” live From Apogee Studio.

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SoCal legends WAR bring the hits — including “Low Rider” — to Apogee Studio ahead of releasing “The World Is a Ghetto: 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition.”

WAR: KCRW Live from Apogee Studio

SoCal legends WAR bring the hits — including “Low Rider” — to Apogee Studio ahead of releasing “The World Is a Ghetto: 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition.”

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LA’s Dengue Fever celebrates 20 years, drops new LP “Ting Mong,” shares album highlight “Silver Fish” Live From HQ. Party with them at Lodge Room on Sept. 27.

Dengue Fever: “Silver Fish” KCRW Live from HQ

LA’s Dengue Fever celebrates 20 years, drops new LP “Ting Mong,” shares album highlight “Silver Fish” Live From HQ. Party with them at Lodge Room on Sept. 27.

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Abraham Alexander hits us with his slowburn take on Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game.” Plus, highlights from new LP SEA/SONS including “Déjà Vu” and “Tears Run Dry.”

Abraham Alexander: KCRW Live from HQ

Abraham Alexander hits us with his slowburn take on Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game.” Plus, highlights from new LP SEA/SONS including “Déjà Vu” and “Tears Run Dry.”

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Celebrate Robbie Robertson with intimate performance and interviews, including a previously unreleased session featuring “Music for The Native Americans” in October 1994.

Remembering Robbie Robertson: The KCRW sessions

Celebrate Robbie Robertson with intimate performance and interviews, including a previously unreleased session featuring “Music for The Native Americans” in October 1994.

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Idiosyncratic bedroom pop artist Okay Kaya (Kaya Wilkins) brings highlights from her 2022 album SAP — and points beyond — to (still) life in the Annenberg Performance Studio at KCRW…

Okay Kaya: KCRW Live from HQ

Idiosyncratic bedroom pop artist Okay Kaya (Kaya Wilkins) brings highlights from her 2022 album SAP — and points beyond — to (still) life in the Annenberg Performance Studio at KCRW…

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Everything But The Girl play a gorgeous live set on Morning Becomes Eclectic in December 1994, including a Sonic Youth cover.

Listen to this unearthed Everything But The Girl MBE set (with rarities!) from 1994

Everything But The Girl play a gorgeous live set on Morning Becomes Eclectic in December 1994, including a Sonic Youth cover.

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Stones Throw stalwarts John Carroll Kirby and Eddie Chacon perform “Comes and Goes” and other elevated R&B selects ahead of Chacon’s new LP 'Sundown.'

Low-key R&B legends Eddie Chacon + John Carroll Kirby: Live from KCRW HQ

Stones Throw stalwarts John Carroll Kirby and Eddie Chacon perform “Comes and Goes” and other elevated R&B selects ahead of Chacon’s new LP 'Sundown.'

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The Belgian-Rwandan electro-hip-hop maestro stops by HQ to serve up visceral “Multitudes” and talk the myth of creative suffering.

Stromae: KCRW Live from HQ

The Belgian-Rwandan electro-hip-hop maestro stops by HQ to serve up visceral “Multitudes” and talk the myth of creative suffering.

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Soul/R&B force Danielle Ponder enlivens KCRW HQ with hits from her debut LP, “Some Of Us Are Brave.” Plus, her stunning take on Radiohead’s “Creep.”

Danielle Ponder: KCRW Live from HQ

Soul/R&B force Danielle Ponder enlivens KCRW HQ with hits from her debut LP, “Some Of Us Are Brave.” Plus, her stunning take on Radiohead’s “Creep.”

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Post-punks Nation of Language deliver an intimate performance and conversation spanning post-lockdown superfans to domesticity vs. touring.

Nation of Language: KCRW Live from The Village Studios

Post-punks Nation of Language deliver an intimate performance and conversation spanning post-lockdown superfans to domesticity vs. touring.

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Legendary new wave band Tears for Fears joins us at The Village Studios for a killer set spanning classics like “Mad World,” to standouts from their latest album, “The Tipping Point.”

Tears for Fears: KCRW Live from The Village Studios

Legendary new wave band Tears for Fears joins us at The Village Studios for a killer set spanning classics like “Mad World,” to standouts from their latest album, “The Tipping Point.”

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Dive in for lush performances from “Inside Problems,” plus the story behind the time Mariah Carey challenged him to a whistle-off.

Andrew Bird: KCRW Live from The Village Studios

Dive in for lush performances from “Inside Problems,” plus the story behind the time Mariah Carey challenged him to a whistle-off.

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Ahead of his return to the Hollywood Bowl for KCRW’s World Festival series last weekend, LA jazz doyen Kamasi Washington told us there would be some “ big surprises that no one’s gonna…

Watch Metallica perform with Kamasi Washington at the Hollywood Bowl

Ahead of his return to the Hollywood Bowl for KCRW’s World Festival series last weekend, LA jazz doyen Kamasi Washington told us there would be some “ big surprises that no one’s gonna…

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LA jazz luminary Kamasi Washington returns to the Hollywood Bowl with Earl Sweatshirt on Sunday night to kick off KCRW’s World Festival series.

Kamasi Washington is composing a ballet, writing a graphic novel, and binge watching his own mind

LA jazz luminary Kamasi Washington returns to the Hollywood Bowl with Earl Sweatshirt on Sunday night to kick off KCRW’s World Festival series.

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Aaron Frazer is the co-founder, songwriter, drummer, and singer for Durand Jones and The Indications .

Listen to soulful crooner Aaron Frazer talking going solo, working with Dan Auerbach, and his swoon-worthy Morning Becomes Eclectic set

Aaron Frazer is the co-founder, songwriter, drummer, and singer for Durand Jones and The Indications .

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