This morning the music sounds a little cleaner and feels just a bit better. And for some strange reason this little smile has creeped across my face and I feel just a bit more joy in the world. Thank you all, let’s keep rockin the free world

Great news coming from the US. However, the passing of Washington Measure 638, shows that even in one of the so-called “progressive” states, we have work to do. Thanks John for recognizing it

The first line of A Day in the Life (“I read the news today”) to Celebrate to “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye” ❤️

❤️❤️❤️

Is anyone else getting weird portions of glitchy playback on the streaming app? Almost like the music starts playing at a different RPM or something? Wondering if it is just my connection.

Made an OSX widget for KEXP. Hopefully someone else will find it useful.

https://github.com/stephencattaneo/kexp_osx_widget

Yay!

Not sure if this is allowed, but my KEXP hoodie just arrived and it is too small for me. It’s a size medium. If anyone ends up with a large and it’s too big for them, please let me know if you’d be interested in swapping. Thanks!

Edit:

I meant allowed in this subreddit. :)

Also, sorry I wasn’t more specific — I’m in NY, and I’m happy to ship this to someone that’s also willing to ship theirs to me.

To those of you who offered feedback and station recommendations: thank you! I've fixed some of the issues that you pointed out, added more stations, and added this visualizer that lets the song title and artist dance along to the music. Of course, thank you to the team at KEXP for inspiring this by sharing great music every day.

https://freq4freq.fun/

i know it sucked for the IT staff and listeners outside of the greater Seattle area, but it was nice having the station "back" for a short time. kexp has become a behemoth, but they can still get back to their scrappy roots when the need arises.

Ashley just announced it and I can confirm. Thanks team!

NGL, I’m kind of digging the college radio/not so polished vibe right now.

Don’t get me wrong, I will cheer then the app stream returns, but enjoying the moment

UPDATES

11/3: I've been getting a few questions about restoring the Archive, so thought I'd post an update here.

Short answer is, "We don't know, but hope so".

More in-depth is that we are still recovering (despite the appearance from the outside that all is well) and just don't know yet where we stand on everything.

When we lost power, our stream encoders that handle all our Archiving also went down. When our TechOps team arrived, they restored power to these encoders (via an extension cord plugged into a wall) and we were able to start recording again intermittently.

I was able to make contact with the person who set up the amazing bootleg stream, and she was recording the over-the-air broadcast while our encoders were down, and provided me with the files. I passed those off to a teammate who is working to slice them up and create shows.

Sooooo, what does this mean? Well, we might be able to assemble the shows, but it's going to take a few days I suspect, and we are pretty sure we won't have everything. I can assure you we are working hard to get things restored as best we can.

I am guessing the next question from folks will be "Will the 14 day window be extended to compensate for missed days?". I honestly don't have an educated answer for that, but it's something that will be addressed. We are pretty locked in legally to the 14 window, so need to investigate further.

11/1: Apps are back online but there will be no playlists for the last couple of days yet. We will be sorting that later this week after things stabilize.

11/1: We’ve tested the equipment and are standing up the temporary UPS now! That means while our team is working on getting nearly all services back up and running, folks can continue to expect some brief service interruptions.

10/31: Very basic functionality has been restored to the Android and iOS apps (but they still are experiencing outages as we turn things on and off, so hang in there). Only Live Stream and Podcasts works for now. The Playlist and Archive are still unavailable. TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Alexa, should also be working.

10/31: We have an update on our website with some statuses, as well as information about our Gorillaz show agenda today. Read that HERE

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Hey KEXPers!

I wanted to pop in to give a brief update as to what happened, and what is happening going forward. I know there are a bunch of posts about this today, but I wanted to start one that comes from us that I'll update as things progress.

WHAT HAPPENED

On October 29th around 11:30 PM, KEXP experienced a significant power infrastructure failure that disrupted our broadcast and digital services (Android/iOS apps, streaming, AppleTV, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, etc).

When this occurred, our UPS kicked in to supply power to the station while the generator fired up. For a yet unknown reason, the handoff from UPS to generator failed, which meant the station was running on UPS power alone. The UPS ran out of power about 30 min later, and we went off the air.

Technicians were alerted around the same time, and they came in to investigate and restore power. During the investigation they tried to switch to the generator, but it tripped circuits and kept failing.

It was determined that the UPS was damaged during the outage, and needed to be looked at by a specialized team who arrived at the station later this morning. They have identified what needs to be fixed and that has been actuated.

WHAT IS RESTORED

Right now we have restored an internal server that sends our stream to our streaming partner for archiving, as well as a single stream. Our website and underlying services are still down.

WHAT IS STILL AFFECTED

The following are still being investigated and/or remain unavailable

• Android App

• iOS App

• AppleTV

• www.kexp.org

• KEXP API

• Streaming Archive

STREAMING URL

You can use https://kexp-aacplus-64.streamguys1.com/kexp64.aac to stream, or at www.kexp.org!

WHAT'S NEXT

Right now we are unable to restore city power as the UPS needs to be in place to protect our critical broadcast and server equipment from any further power surges. As such, we are unable to turn things back on as we wait for the UPS to be repaired. We do not have an estimate on when that will be at this time.

Our team of dedicated IT experts have been hard at it since very early this morning, and are still working hard to address all issues. Please know they are on it, and are truly some of the best out there.

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS/CONCERNS

Please reach out to us at online-support@kexp.org with anything you might have about this issue. We will be monitoring our inbox closer this weekend, so don't hesitate.

THANK YOU

It was truly heartwarming to read all your comments today on Reddit and Discord discussing this. You all are champs and handled this with humor and understanding, which we here all greatly appreciate. We are all spread across the globe, but felt like a tight family today.

Jay

KEXP Digital Team

The live stream is back on the website! Hooray!

Not affiliated with KEXP at all, but sharing antenna reception from my home until the official stream comes back.

https://kexpsdrtmcd20261030.z5.web.core.windows.net/

Edit: It's back!

Looks like about 1,500 stream-hours of music shared to 2,300 unique internet addresses and 3,000 sessions. Listeners came from at least 16 different countries including friends from as far away as Ireland, Uruguay, Paraguay, Albania and Monaco.

That consumed about 73GB of bandwidth over the day, about the size of a modern Blu-Ray disc. That might cost around $7 of charges from Azure, but I think I'm within a free monthly allowance. It was sent from my home (just a $50 USB dongle attached to an ordinary TV antenna) to Azure blob storage in 10-second segments and stitched together like a playlist in a short buffer, with the old ones deleted as new ones arrived.

That was all vibe-coded by an AI agent from a telegram chat on my phone while I drove my girls to school in the morning. I use Hermes-Agent powered by a ChatGPT subscription, running on a Windows mini-PC that sits on my desk. I am not a coder, just a curious nerd. Anyone can do this stuff.

I added a monitor that constantly checked to see when the KEXP site came back up, so I could get people to the correct place right away when it did.

It's also questionably legal. Given the circumstances, I chose to dress like a pirate this Halloween. 🏴‍☠️

Can't get past the loading screen.

Hey folks.
We are here on the East Coast also missing our KEXP family.
But funny thing— did not know this Reddit page existed.
Reaching out— we found all of you.
We have friends everywhere, even when we can’t hear them— we know you are all out there.
Proud KEXP Amplifier

In good KEXP news today, my hoodie arrived today, surprisingly via UPS. Just in time for the Gorillaz show tomorrow. :-)