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New Music Reviews (8/5)

Each week, Music Director Chris Sanley and Associate Music Director Alex Ruder share brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation. See what we added this week, including new releases from Jack White, Killer Mike, meg elsier, and more.


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight in a Perfect World: mui zyu

London-based British Hong Kong musician mui zyu shares a transportive guest DJ mix that swims through ambient, jazz, classical, and new age sounds.


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Album Reviews

New Music Reviews (7/29)

Each week, Music Director Chris Sanley and Associate Music Director Alex Ruder share brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation. See what we added this week, including new releases from Carsick Cars, Crack Cloud, Cults, and more.


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight in a Perfect World: Masha Mar

Serbian-born, LA-based DJ/producer Masha Mar delivers an infectious guest DJ mix full of energetic Italo disco cuts, white-label edits, contemporary house anthems, and her own recent single.


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Mechanical Breakdown

Mechanical Breakdown: Radondo

Radondo connects the dots between Italo Disco, EBM and experimental rock within his productions.


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight in a Perfect World: Nourished By Time

Baltimore-bred, London-based musician Marcus Brown reveals the funky and eclectic sounds that inspire his genre-blurring project Nourished By Time on his unpredictable guest DJ mix.


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Album Reviews

New Music Reviews (7/22)

Each week, Music Director Chris Sanley and Associate Music Director Alex Ruder share brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation. See what we added this week, including new releases from Childish Gambino, Denzel Curry, GUM & Ambrose Kenny-Smith, and more.


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Mechanical Breakdown

Mechanical Breakdown: Violet Poison

Violet Poison is the proto-EBM/Industrial side-project of Italian producer and DJ Francesco Baudazzi, previously known as Obtane, the techno project he shut down in 2012.


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight in a Perfect World: bad tuner

Brooklyn's bad tuner shares the iconic tracks that inspired his recent breakthrough EP alongside his latest favorite dancefloor anthems on his high-energy guest DJ mix.


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Sub Pop 30th Anniversary Count-Up

In 2018, KEXP celebrated theĀ 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 ourĀ catalog coverage, featuring in-depth coverage on the history of their releases.


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