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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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Album Reviews

New Music Reviews (7/15)

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 Clairo, Remi Wolf, Brijean, and more.


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight in a Perfect World: Bolis Pupul

Fresh off the release of his touching debut album Letter To Yu, Belgian-Chinese musician Bolis Pupul shares an evocative and artful guest DJ mix.


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Mechanical Breakdown

Mechanical Breakdown: Stacy Christine

Los Angeles-based DJ Stacy Christine brings a mix to Mechanical Breakdown that can be playful to deep and dark.


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight in a Perfect World: DJ Lux

Seattle's own DJ Lux takes the listener on a hypnotic dancefloor journey through deep, dubby, trippy house rhythms on his guest DJ mix.


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Album Reviews

New Music Reviews (7/1)

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 Aaron Frazer, Hiatus Kaiyote, Omar Apollo, and more.


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Throwaway Style Features Local Music

Throwaway Style: Power Strip's Trip Through the Metaphysical Wilderness

Martin Douglas speaks to the Seattle-based experimental musician about the various parts of the region they’ve lived in and how that influences the process of making their far-reaching music.


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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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