on the street · the control room · the red light is on

A recording studio on the street

The Live Room

Sessions played in a studio rather than at a gig, and the band on the other side of the glass.

A session is a band playing a room with nobody in it but the people making the recording — or a room with a small crowd in it, sitting down, that the band can see the faces of. A television studio, a radio station’s live room, somewhere with a desk and a sheet of glass. It is the nearest a record gets to being played in the room you are sitting in.

That is why a room of them is worth having here. No queue, no crowd to stand in, no volume that somebody else chose, and you can stop in the middle and nobody sees you leave. On the desk so far: Austin City Limits, a television studio with a crowd in it, and two radio stations’ live rooms, KEXP’s and KCRW’s. Under the desk, the last month off each of those studios’ own channels, refilled every morning. Anybody else with a live room is welcome next.

While the red light is on

Nothing plays until you press it. Nothing reaches YouTube until you press a play button, and pressing one plays that video and no other.
Anything can go up on the glass. Every strip, on the desk and in the month under it, plays where it hangs, or its second button puts it on the glass over the desk instead, saying how long it runs before you press it. Taking it off puts the glass back as it was and plays nothing.
Every strip on the desk says how long before you press it, and where and when the session was taped. Where a video is not the whole session, the strip says that too, because a runtime is only honest if you know what it is the runtime of. The month under the desk says how long and when each one went up, and not where it was played, because nobody here has looked.
The desk is not a chart. Nothing here is ranked, rated or counted. The sessions are in the order they were patched in, the month is in the order the studios put things up, newest first, and neither order is an argument about which is better.
The red lamp is steady. It does not flash at any dial setting, and nothing else in the room does either. A light that can put somebody on the floor has no business in a room anybody is meant to enjoy.
Nobody is drawn in the live room. The only people in there are the players, in their own sessions.

Austin City Limits Austin, Texas

A television studio with a crowd in it: the longest-running music series in American television, made by KLRU in Austin for PBS since 1974. Its first thirty-six seasons were taped in Studio 6A on the University of Texas campus, in front of a painted skyline of the city; since 2011 it has been taped at ACL Live at The Moody Theater, downtown. Every strip says which of the two it was.

On the desk, patched in by hand

Billy Strings

Billy Strings on Austin City Limits

The Moody Theater · 51:57

Bluegrass on fiddle, banjo, mandolin, bass and guitar: songs off Highway Prayers beside older tunes, with two long runs where one goes straight into the next without stopping. An interview after the last song, before the credits.

Billy Strings · on YouTube, via Austin City Limits
Cassandra Wilson

Cassandra Wilson on Austin City Limits

The Moody Theater · Season 41 · 56:41

A set of songs Billie Holiday sang, made for her hundredth birthday and put out again by the show in 2026. It ends on an encore, and there is an interview after it.

Cassandra Wilson · on YouTube, via Austin City Limits
Brandi Carlile

Brandi Carlile: the Hall of Fame episode

The Moody Theater · Season 52 · 53:28

The hour the show gave her when she went into its Hall of Fame. The first fourteen minutes are a tribute film, Bonnie Raitt inducting her and her own speech; the set starts after that, centred on Returning to Myself, and Raitt comes back out for one song near the end.

Brandi Carlile, with Bonnie Raitt · on YouTube, via Austin City Limits
Tedeschi Trucks

Tedeschi Trucks Band on Austin City Limits, 2016

The Moody Theater · 2016 · 52:41

A big band on one stage: two drummers, horns, backing singers, and two guitarists who are married to each other.

Tedeschi Trucks Band · on YouTube, via Axilla
Stevie Ray Vaughan

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble on Austin City Limits, 1989

Studio 6A · 1989 · 33:06

Titled a full concert and not one: the uploader's own description lists six songs cut from it, so the runtime on this strip is the runtime of what is left. What is left is the band in the old studio, in front of the painted skyline, the year before Vaughan died.

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble · on YouTube, via SRV Guitarist
John Prine

John Prine on Austin City Limits, 2005

Studio 6A · 2005 · 1:18:53

Prine with three other players, and a set that reaches from his first record to the one he was touring then. It runs well past the broadcast hour.

John Prine · on YouTube, via gm maal
Merle Haggard

Merle Haggard on Austin City Limits, 1978

Studio 6A · 1978 · 52:00

Four years into the show, and taped before the painted skyline went up behind the stage in 1982: the studio as it was at the start.

Merle Haggard · on YouTube, via Andy Dick
Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen on Austin City Limits, 1988

Studio 6A · 1988 · 1:00:38

His first time on the show, taped on Halloween night 1988 on the I'm Your Man tour and first broadcast the next year.

Leonard Cohen · on YouTube, via Austin City Limits
Steve Miller Band

Steve Miller Band on Austin City Limits, 2011

The Moody Theater · 2011 · 1:23:58

From the first year in the new theater, and well past the broadcast hour: the uploader's setlist runs through the band's hits with a stretch of blues in the middle.

Steve Miller Band · on YouTube, via jesse parker

KEXP Seattle, Washington

A listener-supported radio station in Seattle, with its studios at the Seattle Center and a live room that bands come through to play a short set on air. Every session on its channel says who played what, who hosted, and who engineered, mixed and filmed it; the strips here carry the date it was recorded and who hosted.

On the desk, patched in by hand

Screaming Females

Screaming Females on KEXP

The KEXP studio · 12 April 2023 · 23:07

A trio: Marissa Paternoster on guitar and vocals, Michael Abbate on bass, Jarrett Dougherty on drums. Four songs, hosted by Cheryl Waters.

Screaming Females · on YouTube, via KEXP
The Bobby Lees

The Bobby Lees on KEXP

The KEXP studio · 22 May 2023 · 19:30

A four-piece fronted by Sam Quartin, hosted by Brian Foss. The last of the five runs one song straight into another.

The Bobby Lees · on YouTube, via KEXP
King Gizzard 2022

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on KEXP, 2022

The KEXP studio · 7 October 2022 · 43:47

Six of them, and three songs long enough to fill three quarters of an hour. Mixed by the band's own Stu Mackenzie, as their other visits beside it were.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard · on YouTube, via KEXP
King Gizzard 2019

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on KEXP, 2019

The KEXP studio · 18 August 2019 · 37:20

Five songs, hosted by Cheryl Waters and mixed by Stu Mackenzie. The same band in the same room three years before the strip beside it, and two years after the one on the other side.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard · on YouTube, via KEXP
King Gizzard 2017

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on KEXP, 2017

The KEXP studio · 10 April 2017 · 24:06

Four songs, hosted by Cheryl Waters and mixed by Stu Mackenzie: the same band in the same room five years before the first of these three strips.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard · on YouTube, via KEXP
Die Spitz

Die Spitz on KEXP

The KEXP studio · 9 September 2025 · 22:27

A four-piece in which two of the players swap between guitar and drums. Four songs, hosted by Cheryl Waters.

Die Spitz · on YouTube, via KEXP
Panic Shack

Panic Shack on KEXP

The KEXP studio · 26 June 2026 · 20:35

Five of them, three on guitars and bass singing along behind Sarah Harvey. Five songs, hosted by Brian Foss.

Panic Shack · on YouTube, via KEXP
Faetooth

Faetooth on KEXP

The KEXP studio · 13 May 2026 · 27:52

A trio, two of them singing, and four songs that take their time. Hosted by Tanner Ellison.

Faetooth · on YouTube, via KEXP
Built To Spill

Built To Spill on KEXP

The KEXP studio · 22 July 2022 · 29:55

Doug Martsch with Teresa Esguerra on drums and Melanie Radford on bass. Four songs, hosted by Cheryl Waters.

Built To Spill · on YouTube, via KEXP
Aurora

AURORA on KEXP

The KEXP studio · 25 November 2024 · 33:49

Aurora Aksnes with a band of four, three of them singing behind her, and her own engineers alongside the station's. Four songs, hosted by Cheryl Waters.

AURORA · on YouTube, via KEXP
Thievery Corp

Thievery Corporation on KEXP

The KEXP studio · 5 October 2016 · 31:06

Five songs, hosted by Darek Mazzone, in the autumn of 2016.

Thievery Corporation · on YouTube, via KEXP
Waxahatchee

Waxahatchee on KEXP

The KEXP studio · 11 August 2025 · 28:21

Katie Crutchfield with a band of five, pedal steel, dobro and banjo among them, and one cover in the four songs. Hosted by Cheryl Waters.

Waxahatchee · on YouTube, via KEXP
Prewn

Prewn on KEXP

The KEXP studio · 4 August 2026 · 30:18

A five-piece with a cello in it, fronted by Izzy Hagerup. Five songs, hosted by Cheryl Waters.

Prewn · on YouTube, via KEXP

KCRW Santa Monica, California

A non-profit public radio station in Santa Monica. Some of its sessions are played in the performance studio at its own headquarters and some in other studios, and every strip says which; the descriptions on its channel credit the players and the whole crew by name.

On the desk, patched in by hand

Wet Leg

Wet Leg, Live From KCRW HQ

KCRW's Annenberg Performance Studio · 19:10

A five-piece from the Isle of Wight, every one of them singing, fronted by Rhian Teasdale. Five songs.

Wet Leg · on YouTube, via KCRW
Alabama Shakes

Alabama Shakes on KCRW, 2015

Apogee Studio · 2015 · 41:05

Brittany Howard and the band, nine songs, played for KCRW to mark the release of Sound & Color.

Alabama Shakes · on YouTube, via KCRW
Courtney Barnett

Courtney Barnett, Live on KCRW

KCRW's Annenberg Performance Studio · 48:22

Songs off Creature of Habit, with Stella Mozgawa on drums and Zach Dawes on bass. She has played that studio before, by KCRW's own account.

Courtney Barnett · on YouTube, via KCRW
Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears, Live from The Village Studios

The Village Studios · 23:57

Songs off The Tipping Point beside older ones, in a recording studio rather than the station's own.

Tears for Fears · on YouTube, via KCRW
Silvana Estrada

Silvana Estrada, Live From KCRW HQ

KCRW's Annenberg Performance Studio · 51:54

Songs off Vendrán Suaves Lluvias, sung in Spanish, with Estrada on the four-string Venezuelan cuatro and strings, piano and woodwinds around her.

Silvana Estrada · on YouTube, via KCRW
Kokoroko

Kokoroko, Live From KCRW HQ

KCRW's Annenberg Performance Studio · 21:22

Seven of them, led by Sheila Maurice-Grey on trumpet and Onome Edgeworth on percussion, playing four songs off Tuff Times Never Last. Hosted by Novena Carmel.

Kokoroko · on YouTube, via KCRW
Norah Jones

Norah Jones on KCRW, 2016

Apogee Studio · 2016 · 36:07

Eight songs, several of them off Day Breaks.

Norah Jones · on YouTube, via KCRW

The desk takes suggestions: a whole session played in a studio, filmed — more from KEXP or KCRW, or anybody else’s live room — best of all posted by the studio or the band themselves. Send it through the Stimpunks contact page or in our community. It is checked first to see that it plays, that it can be shown here, how long it runs and that it was played indoors, because a set played outside belongs at Looming Rocks.

Under the desk: the studios’ own month

Everything each studio on the desk has put up on its own channel in the last month, newest first: whole sessions, the songs out of them one at a time, interviews, trailers and shorts. Nobody here chose these or watched them first, and there is no tape on them, because a tape means a person patched it in. Nobody has checked where each was played either, and some of it will have been filmed somewhere other than a studio: the desk is where a session is checked as played indoors, and this is the channels’ month as they put it up, in their own titles. It is refilled every morning, and anything older than a month goes off the end.

Last filled at 5:29 am on Thursday 12 November, Mountain time, with what each studio put up on its own channel since Tuesday 13 October.

Austin City Limits on its own channel

Its last month, newest first

Black Pumas - Ice Cream (Pay Phone) clip | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Sunday 8 November · 1:00
Ty Myers - Full Episode | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Saturday 31 October · 53:21
Ty Myers - Backstage | Austin City Limits TV

Friday 30 October · 2:24
Miguel - Perderme | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Thursday 29 October · 2:28
Ari Lennox - Backstage | Austin City Limits TV

Wednesday 28 October · 16:48
Ari Lennox - Under the Moon | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Monday 26 October · 3:42
Ari Lennox - Soft Girl Era | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Monday 26 October · 2:25
SIENNA SPIRO - Backstage | Austin City Limits TV

Monday 26 October · 19:31
The Red Clay Strays - Full Episode | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Saturday 24 October · 53:20
John Anderson - Swingin clip | Live From Austin City Limits TV

Friday 23 October · 1:23
SIENNA SPIRO - Die on This Hill | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Tuesday 20 October · 4:40
Maggie Rose - Gentle Man | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Tuesday 20 October · 7:19
Ari Lennox - Full Episode | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Saturday 17 October · 53:22
The Red Clay Strays - Demons In Your Choir | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Wednesday 14 October · 4:14

Gary Clark Jr. & Black Pumas - Season 50 Episode Promo | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Saturday 7 November · 0:23
Gary Clark Jr. - What About The Children clip | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Friday 6 November · 1:00
Sienna Spiro on ACL TV Tapings - Backstage | Austin City Limits TV

Tuesday 3 November · 0:58
Ty Myers - Whiskey River clip | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Saturday 31 October · 1:00
Ty Myers - Backstage clip | Austin City Limits TV

Friday 30 October · 0:26
Watch Ty Myers on ACL TV This Weekend

Friday 30 October · 0:15
Gracie Abrams - I Love You, I'm Sorry clip | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Wednesday 28 October · 0:57
The Red Clay Strays - Demons In Your Choir | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Saturday 24 October · 1:00
The Red Clay Strays - 10/24 Episode DROP | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Friday 23 October · 0:30
Ari Lennox Season 52 Episode Recap | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Thursday 22 October · 1:26
BTS at ACL TV - Camera Color Matching

Tuesday 20 October · 0:29
Ari Lennox - Soft Girl Era clip | Live From Austin City Limits TV

Monday 19 October · 0:58
Ari Lennox - Under The Moon clip | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Saturday 17 October · 0:54
Ari Lennox | 10/17 - Episode DROP | Live on Austin City Limits TV

Thursday 15 October · 0:30
ACL TV Season 52 is a wrap!

Tuesday 13 October · 1:51

KEXP on its own channel

Its last month, newest first

Commemorate - Dazed (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 12 November · 6:02
Commemorate - Slow Down (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 12 November · 4:38
Commemorate - P.S (Please Stay) (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 12 November · 7:11
Commemorate - Away (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 11 November · 5:35
Inspirative - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 11 November · 28:34
Inspirative - Why (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 11 November · 8:24
Inspirative - The Last Journey (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 11 November · 8:18
Inspirative - After 27 Years, I’m Alive (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 11 November · 4:22
Inspirative - Follow the GPS (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 11 November · 7:47
Slowwves - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 10 November · 23:49
Slowwves - Killed By Egoistic Disease (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 10 November · 5:16
Slowwves - Vortex (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 10 November · 3:41
Slowwves - Evangeline (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 10 November · 6:32
Slowwves - Anywhere Else (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 10 November · 4:07
Slowwves - Labyrinth (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 10 November · 3:31
anaiis - Green Juice (Live on KEXP)

Monday 9 November · 5:37
anaiis - Dreamer Too (Live on KEXP)

Monday 9 November · 4:39
anaiis - My World (Beyond) (Live on KEXP)

Monday 9 November · 4:56
anaiis - In Real Time (Live on KEXP)

Monday 9 November · 3:16
anaiis - Sunshine (Live on KEXP)

Monday 9 November · 4:55
anaiis - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Sunday 8 November · 33:47
Shabazz Palaces - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Friday 6 November · 24:31
Shabazz Palaces - An Echo From The Hosts That Profess Infinitum (Live on KEXP)

Friday 6 November · 5:35
Shabazz Palaces - Are You…Can You… Were You? (Felt) (Live on KEXP)

Friday 6 November · 6:01
Shabazz Palaces - Tongue In Chic (Live on KEXP)

Friday 6 November · 4:14
Shabazz Palaces - Jheri Curl Jump (Live on KEXP)

Friday 6 November · 3:42
Hariguem Zaboy - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 5 November · 13:55
Hariguem Zaboy - Radio Burst (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 5 November · 3:12
Hariguem Zaboy - Roomful Of Cool (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 5 November · 2:43
Hariguem Zaboy - This Kind Of Meth (Make You Confess) (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 5 November · 2:54
Hariguem Zaboy - Christine Thompson (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 5 November · 3:00
Hariguem Zaboy - Whoa!!! (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 5 November · 2:07
sub:shaman - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 4 November · 25:48
sub:shaman - eat my tongue (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 4 November · 4:14
sub:shaman - Apnea (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 4 November · 4:35
sub:shaman - Maraschino Mist (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 4 November · 4:56
sub:shaman - understanza (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 4 November · 4:40
sub:shaman - cheshire cat (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 4 November · 3:34
sub:shaman - choke well (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 4 November · 3:37
Çudamani - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 3 November · 28:11
Çudamani - Rerejangan (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 3 November · 7:48
Çudamani - Lipi Lengis (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 3 November · 5:32
Çudamani - Rejang Lente (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 3 November · 5:25
Çudamani - Sekar Gadung (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 3 November · 8:35
Chanpan - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Monday 2 November · 28:01
Chanpan - romantic (Live on KEXP)

Monday 2 November · 3:42
Chanpan - buzzin (Live on KEXP)

Monday 2 November · 2:56
Chanpan - speculations (Live on KEXP)

Monday 2 November · 4:08
Chanpan - endlessly (Live on KEXP)

Monday 2 November · 3:12
Russian Circles - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Friday 30 October · 38:55
Russian Circles - Empath (Live on KEXP)

Friday 30 October · 5:27
Russian Circles - Deficit (Live on KEXP)

Friday 30 October · 7:10
Russian Circles - Harper Lewis (Live on KEXP)

Friday 30 October · 7:44
Russian Circles - Eluvial (Live on KEXP)

Friday 30 October · 8:52
Basajan - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 29 October · 21:54
Basajan - Waas (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 29 October · 4:11
Basajan - Panonpoé (Live on KEXP) (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 29 October · 4:52
Basajan - Budak Leutik Bisa Ngapung (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 29 October · 4:05
Basajan - Pileuleuyan / Uleman (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 29 October · 3:48
Basajan - Nadoman (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 29 October · 4:21
Yellow Fang - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 28 October · 27:40
Yellow Fang - Unreal (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 28 October · 5:42
Yellow Fang - Day To Dark (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 28 October · 4:03
Yellow Fang - If Only (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 28 October · 4:42
Yellow Fang - I Don't Know (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 28 October · 5:01
Yellow Fang - Athithan (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 28 October · 5:38
Yellow Fang - Morning (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 28 October · 3:46
motifs - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 27 October · 26:48
motifs - Maybe In Another Dream (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 27 October · 6:57
motifs - hourglass (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 27 October · 4:34
motifs - Aug 16 (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 27 October · 3:43
motifs - remember a stranger (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 27 October · 4:49
motifs - summersad (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 27 October · 6:12
Wildwood Sessions - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Monday 26 October · 32:41
Wildwood Sessions feat. Ringdown - The Hill (Live on KEXP)

Monday 26 October · 4:01
Wildwood Sessions feat. Colin Meloy - I Want To Be Lost (Live on KEXP)

Monday 26 October · 4:22
Wildwood Sessions feat. quickly, quickly - That’s Enough For Me (Live on KEXP)

Monday 26 October · 3:28
Wildwood Sessions feat. Omari Jazz, Bocha & Donte Thomas - Nature In Me (Live on KEXP)

Monday 26 October · 3:08
OSEES - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Friday 23 October · 35:19
OSEES - Plastic Plant (Live on KEXP)

Friday 23 October · 5:15
OSEES - Block Of Ice (Live on KEXP)

Friday 23 October · 18:17
OSEES - Meat Step Lively (Live on KEXP)

Friday 23 October · 2:39
OSEES - I Was Denied (Live on KEXP)

Friday 23 October · 3:55
OSEES - Plastic Plants (Live on KEXP)

Friday 23 October · 5:15
OSEES - Enemy Destruct (Live on KEXP)

Friday 23 October · 3:10
The Panturas - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 22 October · 19:25
The Panturas - Bentang Sagara (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 22 October · 4:42
The Panturas - Fisherman Slut (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 22 October · 2:40
The Panturas - Soma Gospel (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 22 October · 3:40
The Panturas - Tafsir Mistik (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 22 October · 4:35
The Panturas - Khodam Buntut Lutung (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 22 October · 3:50
Numeron - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 21 October · 29:56
Numeron - My Eternity (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 21 October · 5:02
Numeron - Cosmic Symphony (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 21 October · 6:27
Numeron - Triumph Of Death (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 21 October · 5:43
Numeron - The Lost Twin Observer (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 21 October · 6:25
Numeron - Blood In My Vein (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 21 October · 6:10
TONTRAKUL - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 20 October · 27:30
TONTRAKUL - Home (โฮม) (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 20 October · 4:52
TONTRAKUL - Isan Lum Long (อีสานลำล่อง) (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 20 October · 4:11
TONTRAKUL - Muan (ม่วน) (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 20 October · 4:05
TONTRAKUL - Earn (เอิ้น) (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 20 October · 4:50
TONTRAKUL - Electro Khaen (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 20 October · 4:53
TONTRAKUL - Strategy (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 20 October · 4:58
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Friday 16 October · 34:30
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Bertha (Live on KEXP)

Friday 16 October · 6:36
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Bird Song (Live on KEXP)

Friday 16 October · 9:10
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Dire Wolf (Live on KEXP)

Friday 16 October · 4:05
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - Brown-Eyed Women (Live on KEXP)

Friday 16 October · 6:18
Death Cab For Cutie - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 15 October · 27:49
Death Cab For Cutie - Cath... (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 15 October · 4:03
Death Cab For Cutie - How Heavenly A State (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 15 October · 3:39
Death Cab For Cutie - I Built You A Tower (a) (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 15 October · 3:32
Death Cab For Cutie - Stone Over Water (Live on KEXP)

Thursday 15 October · 3:20
The Sword - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 14 October · 29:05
The Sword - Tres Brujas (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 14 October · 4:12
The Sword - Freya (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 14 October · 4:57
The Sword - Tears Like Diamonds (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 14 October · 3:53
The Sword - Necron 99 (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 14 October · 4:34
The Sword - Maiden, Mother, Crone (Live on KEXP)

Wednesday 14 October · 4:12
Altın Gün - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)

Tuesday 13 October · 23:17

Inspirative performs "Follow the GPS" & more Live on KEXP

Wednesday 11 November · 1:00
Slowwves performs "Anywhere Else" & more Live on KEXP at AXEAN Festival

Tuesday 10 November · 1:00
anaiis performs "Dreamer Too" & more Live on KEXP

Monday 9 November · 1:00
Shabazz Palaces performs "Tongue In Chic" & more Live on KEXP

Friday 6 November · 1:01
Hargiuem Zaboy performs "Whoa!!!" & more Live on KEXP at AXEAN Festival

Thursday 5 November · 0:59
sub:shaman performs "eat my tongue" & more Live on KEXP

Wednesday 4 November · 1:00
Çudamani performs "Rerejangan" & more Live on KEXP at AXEAN Festival

Tuesday 3 November · 1:00
Chanpan performs "buzzin" & more Live on KEXP

Monday 2 November · 1:02
Russian Circles performs "Eluvial" & more Live on KEXP

Friday 30 October · 1:00
Basajan performs "Budak Leutik Bisa Ngapung" & more Live on KEXP at AXEAN Festival

Thursday 29 October · 1:00
Yellow Fang performs "Athithan" & more Live on KEXP at AXEAN Festival

Wednesday 28 October · 1:00
motifs perform "Aug 16" & more Live on KEXP at AXEAN Festival

Tuesday 27 October · 1:00
LAIKA's Wildwood Sessions featuring Portland artists are available on our channel.

Monday 26 October · 1:00
OSEES perform "Block Of Ice" & more Live on KEXP

Friday 23 October · 1:00
The Panturas perform "Soma Gospel" & more Live on KEXP

Thursday 22 October · 1:00
Numeron performs "Blood In My Vein" & more Live on KEXP

Wednesday 21 October · 1:00
TONTRAKUL performs "Isan Lum Long (อีสานลำล่อง)" & more Live on KEXP

Tuesday 20 October · 1:10
Gillian Welch & David Rawlings perform "Brown-Eyed Women" and more Live on KEXP

Friday 16 October · 1:00
Death Cab for Cutie performs "Stone Over Water" & more Live on KEXP

Thursday 15 October · 1:00
The Sword performs "Tres Brujas" & more Live on KEXP

Wednesday 14 October · 1:00
Altin Gün performs "Neredesin Sen" & more Live on KEXP

Tuesday 13 October · 1:00

KCRW on its own channel

Its last month, newest first

Joy Oladokun: Live On KCRW

Wednesday 11 November · 16:45
Jakob Nowell's (of Sublime) Must-Listen Albums

Tuesday 10 November · 8:54
Music in Nature | 8 Hour Ambient Mix

Monday 9 November · 8:01:49
Joy Oladokun on radical hope, the acoustic guitar, and love | KCRW Interview

Monday 9 November · 26:02
This Is Lorelei: Live On KCRW

Wednesday 4 November · 16:37
Lucy Dacus' Must-Listen Albums

Tuesday 3 November · 9:26
Darkmosphere | 5 Hour Ambient Mix

Monday 2 November · 5:00:04
J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. on touring, old gear, and breaking CD players | KCRW Interview

Monday 2 November · 12:33
Peter Bjorn and John: Live on KCRW

Wednesday 28 October · 53:23
Melody's Echo Chamber's Must-Listen Albums

Tuesday 27 October · 4:19
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's Must-Listen Albums

Tuesday 20 October · 12:50
Legendary pop group Menudo on their career, legacy, and riding a motorcycle on stage | KCRW

Monday 19 October · 35:46
Ambient Mix for Relaxing | 10 Hours

Thursday 15 October · 10:04:57
STRFKR Explain Their Career Using an iPod

Wednesday 14 October · 7:21
Busta Rhymes' Must-Listen Albums

Tuesday 13 October · 5:38

Melody's Echo Chamber "I Follow You" Live On KCRW

Friday 6 November · 0:46
Melody's Echo Chamber's Must Listen CD

Thursday 5 November · 0:51
Rostam's Must-Listen CD

Wednesday 4 November · 1:08
Moby "Natural Blues" (ft. Jacob Lusk) Live On KCRW

Sunday 1 November · 0:37
Sébastien Tellier "La Ritournelle" Live On KCRW

Friday 30 October · 0:54
Peter Bjorn & John "Young Folks" Live on KCRW

Thursday 29 October · 0:55

Whose this all is

Austin City Limits is KLRU’s, the public television station in Austin, and it is broadcast on PBS. It is the longest-running music series in American television: its pilot was shot on 17 October 1974 with Willie Nelson, it was taped in Studio 6A on the University of Texas campus for its first thirty-six seasons, and it has been taped at ACL Live at The Moody Theater since February 2011. Read off Wikipedia’s article on it on 2026-09-25. The Live Room is neither of those rooms, and Stimpunks has no connection to the show, KLRU or PBS and is not endorsed by any of them.

KEXP is a listener-supported radio station in Seattle, run by the non-profit Friends of KEXP, with its studios at the Seattle Center; read off Wikipedia’s article on it on 2026-09-25. Every KEXP session here is on the station’s own channel, and each video’s own description names the players, the host and everybody who engineered, mixed and filmed it — follow a strip through to YouTube for the full credits. Stimpunks has no connection to KEXP and is not endorsed by it.

KCRW is a non-profit public radio station in Santa Monica, by its own account in every one of its videos. Its sessions here are all on its own channel; most were played in the performance studio at its headquarters, two at Apogee Studio and one at The Village Studios, each strip saying which, and each video’s description credits the players and the crew. Stimpunks has no connection to KCRW and is not endorsed by it.

The month under the desk is each studio’s own channel, read every morning, and its titles are the channels’ own, as written.

Every strip on the desk names the channel its video is on. Some are the show’s own; the others are on channels that collect recordings, and two of those say in their own descriptions that the recording is not theirs. None of these artists, labels or channels is affiliated with Stimpunks, and none of them endorses us. The full list, with links, is in the liner notes.

The room’s name is written on masking tape in Just Another Hand, by Astigmatic, under the Apache License 2.0; everything else is B612, by Nicolas Chauveau, Thomas Paillot, Jonathan Favre-Lamarine and Jean-Luc Vinot, under the SIL Open Font License — a face drawn for the displays in an aircraft’s cockpit, which is the nearest thing to the legend on a desk.

HOW LOUD DO YOU WANT IT?

Starts wherever your device says. Nothing moves, flashes, or plays until you say so — and in here nothing moves at any setting. The red lamp stays lit and stays still, and the loudest thing in the room is whichever session you put on.

Job marker — a roll of masking tape dropped under the desk, with a marker beside it

You have found a job marker. The Adventurer’s Guild is a shopfront on the street, and it posts jobs that send you round these rooms. Take the code below to its board and that job is done. Nothing here is scored, nothing expires, and one is a perfectly good number of jobs to do.

The job: What night was it?

Before the code: One session on the desk was taped on a night most people know by name. Which night?

Hint 1

It is on the Leonard Cohen strip.

Hint 2

The strip gives the tour and the year as well as the night.

Last hint

The last night of October.

Give me the answer

The answer is Halloween. Leonard Cohen's first time on Austin City Limits was taped on Halloween night 1988, on the I'm Your Man tour, and first broadcast the next year. Every strip on the desk says where and when its session was taped before you press it.

Taking the answer is a real way through this, not a lesser one. Nothing is watching and nothing is written down.

Quest code: TALKBACK

Hand it in at the Adventurer’s Guild →

While the red light is on

Austin City Limits Austin, Texas

Billy Strings on Austin City Limits

Cassandra Wilson on Austin City Limits

Brandi Carlile: the Hall of Fame episode

Tedeschi Trucks Band on Austin City Limits, 2016

Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble on Austin City Limits, 1989

John Prine on Austin City Limits, 2005

Merle Haggard on Austin City Limits, 1978

Leonard Cohen on Austin City Limits, 1988

Steve Miller Band on Austin City Limits, 2011

KEXP Seattle, Washington

Screaming Females on KEXP

The Bobby Lees on KEXP

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on KEXP, 2022

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on KEXP, 2019

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard on KEXP, 2017

Die Spitz on KEXP

Panic Shack on KEXP

Faetooth on KEXP

Built To Spill on KEXP

AURORA on KEXP

Thievery Corporation on KEXP

Waxahatchee on KEXP

Prewn on KEXP

KCRW Santa Monica, California

Wet Leg, Live From KCRW HQ

Alabama Shakes on KCRW, 2015

Courtney Barnett, Live on KCRW

Tears for Fears, Live from The Village Studios

Silvana Estrada, Live From KCRW HQ

Kokoroko, Live From KCRW HQ

Norah Jones on KCRW, 2016

Under the desk: the studios’ own month

Austin City Limits on its own channel

KEXP on its own channel

KCRW on its own channel

Whose this all is