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13 Songs for Halloween: The Decemberists - “The Shankill Butchers”

The Crane Wife track finds inspiration in a real group of killers active in the late '70s/early '80s in Belfast, Northern Ireland.


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Review Revue

Review Revue: The Walkabouts - Cataract

This week's Review Revue spotlights the Walkabouts album Cataract. See what KCMU DJs thought back in the day.


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Music News

Watch Jenny Lewis Fall Down the "Rabbit Hole" on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

While a man in a giant bunny suit flirts with her through the performance.


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Music News

Leonard Cohen Releases a Posthumous New Song/Video for “Happens To The Heart”

The nine-track album Thanks For The Dance, crafted by Cohen's son, will be released November 22.


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Sound & Vision: Izaac Mellow Wishes They Could Work Less

Izaac Mellow tells KEXP about their day job at an Internet service provider's call center.


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Features

13 Songs for Halloween: Sonic Youth - "Death Valley '69" (Among Others)

The experimental New York band went through a real creepy period in the mid-'80s.


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Music News

PJ Harvey Covers the Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Classic "Red Right Hand"

Her version will appear on the 2LP Peaky Blinders soundtrack album coming out 11/15.


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Music News

Courtney Barnett Covers Fellow Australians Loose Tooth's “Keep On”

The track appears on the upcoming Milk Records compilation Milk On Milk.


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Local Music KEXP Premiere

Rave Holly and Bujemane Forge a Bond with Wrecked Cars in "Theoretical" Video (KEXP Premiere)

The rising local stars goof around in Georgetown for the video of their darkly playful collaborative track.


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From the Archives:

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Sub Pop 30th Anniversary Count-Up

In 2018, KEXP celebrated the 30th anniversary of local record label Sub Pop with a four-month retrospective, "counting up" every catalog number in their vast discography of over 1,200 releases. Dig into the archives of our catalog coverage, featuring in-depth coverage on the history of their releases.


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