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Beirut Perform "Gallipoli" on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Zach Condon-led band perform the title track from their recently-released fifth studio album


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Grouper's Liz Harris Unveils New Double Album Under the Moniker Nivhek

The experimental ambient record follows last year's Grid of Points


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Live Reviews

Live Review: Ólafur Arnalds at the Moore Theatre 1/26/19

On January 26, 2019, Icelandic artist Ólafur Arnalds played the Moore Theatre for the All Strings Attached tour


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SOAK Shares Lovelorn New Single "Valentine Shmalentine"

The timely tenderhearted single comes from her forthcoming sophomore record Grim Town


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Review Revue

Review Revue: The Clash - Cut the Crap

This week's Review Revue spotlights the album Cut the Crap by The Clash. See what KCMU DJs thought back in the day.


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Music News

These New Puritans Share William Blake-Inspired Single "Anti-Gravity"

The song is the third single from the UK duo's forthcoming album Inside the Rose


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International Clash Day

International Clash Day in Mexico with Cultural Journalist Luli Serrano Eguiluz

Throughout this week, KEXP speaks with different referents, writers, and music journalists from Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Guatemala, and Mexico to give us an opinion and more detailed framework of what happened back in 1979. Today, cultural journalist Luli Serrano Eguiluz talks about Mexic…


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International Clash Day

Straight to Hell on a Paper Plane: How MIA’s Clash-Sampling Breakout Hit Became a Generational Anthem

As we celebrate International Clash Day, we look back at the M.I.A. hit sampling the band's Combat Rock classic "Straight To hell"


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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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