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Iceland Airwaves

KEXP Live at Iceland Airwaves 2018, Day 4: Team Dreams (Sin Fang, Sóley, & Örvar Smárason)

An Icelandic supergroup kicks off our final day at KEX in support of their excellent debut collaboration Team Dreams


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Local Music KEXP Premiere

Dirty Rugs Rolls Out the Video for "We're All Dying (I Feel Alive)" (KEXP Premiere)

Seattle's Dirty Rugs roll out their new single and accompanying video for "We’re All Dying (I Feel Alive)."


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Local Music KEXP Premiere

Heed Their Warning: Seattle's OCEANWIRES Share Debut Track + Video (KEXP Premiere)

Dave Einmo (Head Like a Kite) and Aaron Starkey (Gibraltar) combine forces as OCEANWIRES; watch and listen to their debut single, out today.


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Iceland Airwaves

KEXP Live at Iceland Airwaves 2018, Day 3: Fontaines DC

The Dublin act makes their second appearance on KEXP this year with another invigorating performance at KEX Hostel in Reykjavik, Iceland.


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Throwaway Style Local Music Album Reviews

Throwaway Style: Spesh Channel the Ghosts of Manchester on Famous World

On their debut record, the Seattle quartet deliver an assured and stellar effort by imagining themselves in another specific rainy region.


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Iceland Airwaves

KEXP Live at Iceland Airwaves 2018, Day 3: Aurora

The Norwegian songwriter brings a brilliant blend of electronic-pop music and art-rock to the KEX Hostel in Iceland.


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Iceland Airwaves

KEXP Live at Iceland Airwaves 2018, Day 3: Flamingods

Our first non-Icelandic act of the festival at KEX hostel gives us a world tour or sounds and heavy doses of psychedlia.


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Interviews

Slug from Atmosphere Looks Back at His Crazy Life on the New Album Mi Vida Local

Minneapolis, Minnesota, hip-hop group Atmosphere released their latest LP, Mi Vida Local, last month. KEXP catches up with rapper Slug, one half of the duo.


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Music News

Christine and the Queens Share Video for Chris Track "The Walker"

The cinematic video follows previous videos for “Doesn’t Matter” and “5 Dollars."


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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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