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Live Video Trans Musicales

KEXP at Trans Musicales: Flamingods

Today, we continue sharing our discoveries from the Trans Musicales festival in Rennes, France, where last December we captured twelve exclusive sessions. We’re sharing with you one unique session per week, and you can watch all the previously released ones here. This week’s feature is of Flamingod…


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In Stores Now Reviews

New Music Reviews (3/16)

Each week KEXP's Music Director Don Yates and other KEXP DJs share brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what's coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from Preoccupations, Yo La Tengo, Sango, Mount Eerie, and more.


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Daily Roundups

Friday Music News

New music videos from Run The Jewels and Belle & Sebastian, plus a new single from Sunflower Bean


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Album Reviews

Album Review: Hot Snakes - Jericho Sirens

San Diego post-hardcore outfit Hot Snakes return with their first album in 14 years, Jericho Sirens, out now via Sub Pop Records


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Interviews Local Artist Spotlight Upstream Music Fest + Summit

Local Artist Spotlight: Kyle Craft

Kyle Craft’s singular brand of bordello glam-rock is coming to Upstream Music Fest. For the first of our Local Artist Spotlights leading up to the festival, we speak to the Portland singer/songwriter about his approach to his craft of writing and recording.


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight In A Perfect World: Black Milk

Fresh off the release of his critically-acclaimed 7th studio album titled FEVER, Black Milk offers up an exclusive guest DJ mix for Midnight in a Perfect World


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Fundraising Drives

Behind the Board with Julian Martlew, KEXP Audio Engineer

You may not know Julian Martlew’s name, but if you listen to KEXP you certainly know his voice. In addition to lending his distinctive tone to countless KEXP underwriting spots, Julian provided the voice of the Algo-Rhythm 3000 in our recent 2001-themed Spring Drive clip.


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Features

KEXP Pays Tribute to National Walkout Day and Parkland Shooting Victims

In solidarity with the students participating in National Walkout Day on March 14, 2018 KEXP played 17 minutes of music, along with voices from the students affected by the Parkland school shooting.


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Daily Roundups

Thursday Music News

A new single from Courtney Barnett, music videos from Arcade Fire and Kamaiyah, and Liz Phair announces a re-issue of Exile In Guyville


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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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