KCRW Presents

They are back. Not because the 20th anniversary of a debut album usually demands it. Dengue Fever are back because they wanted to. Eight years after the release of The Deepest Lake, as new generations of listeners are catching up to the same omnivorous music taste the band has practiced since its inception, a new album, Ting Mong (out September 15) captures yet another enthralling dimension of their genre-defying journey. Where most returns favor clamor and bombast, Ting Mong seeks…

Say She She, the soulful female-led trio stand rock solid on their discodelic duty with their boundary-breaking sophomore album Silver. The three strong voices of Piya Malik (El Michels Affair staple feature, and former backing singer for Chicano Batman), Sabrina Mileo Cunningham and Nya Gazelle Brown front the band. Following the NYC siren song, the trio was pulled from their respective cities — Piya from London, Nya from DC, and Sabrina from NYC — to Manhattan’s downtown dance floors, through…

Say She She, the soulful female-led trio stand rock solid on their discodelic duty with their boundary-breaking sophomore album Silver. The three strong voices of Piya Malik (El Michels Affair staple feature, and former backing singer for Chicano Batman), Sabrina Mileo Cunningham and Nya Gazelle Brown front the band. Following the NYC siren song, the trio was pulled from their respective cities — Piya from London, Nya from DC, and Sabrina from NYC — to Manhattan’s downtown dance floors, through…

KCRW Presents: James Blake on his "Playing Robots Into Heaven" tour at the Fairbanks Lawn at Hollywood Forever on Friday, October 20.

KCRW Presents: NEIL Frances at the Novo on Saturday, November 4.

Renowned singer-songwriter Cat Power has added a third and final Los Angeles performance of her song-for-song recreation of one of the most fabled and transformative live sets of all time, Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, set for November 8 at L.A.’s historic Palace Theatre.

After a successful debut tour across the US in 2019, including a stop on Morning Becomes Eclectic, Turkish sextet Altin Gün ignite their psychedelic sound with an infusion of 60's Anatolian rock. Founder and bass player Jasper Verhulst explains: “We do have a weak spot for the music of the late ‘60s and ‘70s. With all the instruments and effects that arrived then, it was an exciting time. Everything was new, and it still feels fresh.” KCRW Presents: Altin Gün at the Belasco on Thursday,…

KCRW Presents: Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs at the Bellwether on Friday, November 10.

Barely in her 20s, Laufey is Chinese-Icelandic singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist based in LA who sounds like a lost soul from the cool jazz era. KCRW Presents: Laufey at the Theatre at Ace Hotel on Saturday, November 18.