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Song of the Day: Wild Cub - Colour

Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part 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 featured song, selected by Mi…


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Live Reviews

Live Review: Tame Impala w/ The Growl @ The Orange Peel, Asheville, NC 2/22/13

It's summer in Australia right now. Massive touring festivals like Big Day Out and Soundwave are consistently drawing 50,000+ crowds - in record heat, no less - but Tame Impala frontman Kevin Parker is 9,500 miles away from his native Perth in the midst of a sold-out winter tour of 1200-seater club…


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Iceland Airwaves Song of the Day

Song of the Day: Sin Fang - Look at the Light

Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part 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 featured song, selected by Mi…


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Live Video

Live Video: Wild Cub

Had they come around some 25 years ago, Nashville's Wild Cub would surely have been "pretty in pink." Formed only a year ago by singer/songwriter Keegan DeWitt and multi-instrumentalist Jeremy Bullock, the Nashville group sounds less like their Music City contemporaries and more like they belong on…


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Daily Roundups

Tuesday Music News

Low are back with the less Tweedy influenced track "So Blue" from their upcoming album, The Invisible Way. Building to a humble intensity with piano and guitar alike, the track demonstrates that they're still creating moving slowcore/indie music and not just slow music. Their album will be out Marc…


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In Stores Now

Out This Week 2/26

Radiohead fans are tweaking for today's release of Thom Yorke's new project, Atoms for Peace. The group - featuring producer Nigel Godrich on keys, Ultraista's Joey Waronker on drums, Flea on bass, and Forro in the Dark founder Mauro Refosco on additional percussion - formed originally as the backi…


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Song of the Day

Song of the Day: Local Natives - Breakers

Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part 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 featured, selected by Midday …


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Daily Roundups

Monday Music News

If you've been missing Karen O and all her crazy costumed amazing-ness - Yeah Yeah Yeahs have finally released a single from their upcoming album Mosquito on Zane Lowe on BBC 1. "Sacrilege" features a full gospel choir near the end and is sure to satisfy all those lovers of Yeah Yeah Yeahs previous…


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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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