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Remembering Greg Tate

Larry Mizell Jr. and Riz Rollins pay tribute to the iconic writer and artist Greg Tate.


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For Your Consideration

For Your Consideration: On Mach-Hommy’s Pray for Haiti and the Spiritual Reward of the Classic Rap Album

Martin Douglas explores the enigmatic Haitian-American rapper’s opus and its entry into the pantheon of the genre’s hallmark works.


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For Your Consideration

For Your Consideration: WILLOW Time Warps to the Early Aughts on lately i feel EVERYTHING

KEXP staff make the case for some of their favorite albums of the year ahead of our Top 90.3 Countdown. Jasmine Albertson reflects on WILLOW's underrated 'lately i feel EVERYTHING,' and the joy of pristine heart-on-its-sleeve pop punk.


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2021 Countdown

KEXP DJs Top 10 Albums of 2021

KEXP DJs share their favorite albums of the year. Tune in this Friday, December 17th to see if their favorites (and yours!) make the 2021 Top 90.3 Albums countdown!


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For Your Consideration

For Your Consideration: Arca Proposes Experimental Mutation with kick ii, iii, iiii, iiiii

KEXP's Latin American Content Producer and co-host of El Sonido, Albina Cabrera, gives us a tour of one of the strongest releases of 2021: kick ii, iii, iiii and iiiii by the experimental music producer and composer ARCA. These four new albums dropped in a week come to complete the cycle of "kick I…


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For Your Consideration

For Your Consideration: Little Simz's Sometimes I Might Be Introvert Soundtracked the Highs, Lows of an Uncertain Year

KEXP's Rachel Stevens reflects on one of her favorite albums of 2021 ahead of the Top 90.3 Countdown.


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For Your Consideration

For Your Consideration: Fred Again.. Turns Heartbreak and Grief Into Dancefloor Catharsis with Actual Life

KEXP's Tia Ho reflects on one of her favorite albums of the year ahead of our Top 90.3 Countdown


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight In A Perfect World: Doza

Veteran Seattle-based DJ/producer Doza weaves a seamless journey through exquisite deep house grooves on his guest DJ mix for Midnight In A Perfect World.


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Interviews

“There She Is…”: Xenia Rubinos on Una Rosa, Trusting Herself, and the Melody That Haunted Her

A childhood memory, a lamp, and a painful blockage helped the songwriter and singer, Xenia Rubinos, achieve a personal tribute with Caribbean roots on Una Rosa, her new album.


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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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