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Tons of great new albums are hitting the racks today, and you can stream most of them online, too: Pixies, Solange, Danny Brown, Nicolas Jaar, just to name a few. And, Bon Iver offers his latest, 22, A Million, for online stream, and includes this bonus video for the track "715 - CR∑∑KS." Watch be…


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Fall Fundraising Drive: What's Your Reason?

Today is your last chance to donate during KEXP’s Fall Fundraising Drive. All week long, music lovers like you have told us why they choose to power KEXP and make a gift.


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Local Music Song of the Day

Song of the Day: Anomie Belle - Lovers

Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s song, selected by Midday S…


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Video Roundup KEXP Suggests

KEXP Presents: Macefield Music Festival 9/30-10/2

For the fourth year, KEXP is proud to sponsor the Macefield Music Festival, happening this weekend, Friday, September 30th through Sunday, October 2nd, throughout Ballard. As always, the line-up looks like a KEXP playlist, with this year's headliners including Zola Jesus, legendary UK art-rock band…


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Reykjavik Calling 2016

Reykjavik Calling returns to Seattle on Saturday, October 15th for a seventh year of exciting performances by some of the best musicians and bands emerging from Seattle and Iceland.


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Thursday Music News

Seattle sweethearts Tacocat share a new video today. It's super-meta, but watch a clip for "The Internet" right here... on the internet. The clip, directed by Faye Orlove, is its own Throwback Thursday through technology from that familiar AOL mail icon to emoticons and more. You won't find it on …


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Live Video Local Music

Live Video: Ghosts I've Met

The acoustic, rainy-day ballads of Ghosts I've Met, fronted by Seattle's Sam Watts, are minimal in structure, soothing in spirit, sotto voce in tone, and come with a heavy sense of hope and fleeting moments. Having just released a new body of songs for his 2016 album, Night Repairs, Watts continues…


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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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