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KEXP Suggests: Earth Day 2015 Resources

All day long for Earth Day, KEXP DJs John Richards, Cheryl Waters, and Kevin Cole have been showcasing recycling and reuse with a day of music featuring sampled music, re-using beats and recycling old songs to create new ones. (Check out some examples on the KEXP Blog here.)


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KEXP Suggests: 2015 EMP Pop Conference, April 16–19

Festival season might have just kicked off in the Californian desert, but there's another major musical gathering going on this weekend – the fourteenth annual EMP Pop Conference. This year's conference is titled Get Ur Freak On: Music, Weirdness, and Transgression, and across the numerous roundtab…


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Pickathon 2015 Initial Lineup Revealed!

Don't let the name fool you. Pickathon isn't just about banjos and guitars... well, not just, anyway. Among a roster of today's best purveyors of old timey sounds, you'll find many KEXP favorites of hip hop, soul, R&B, garage and indie rock, dazzling audiences of all ages each year on the sunli…


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Timber! Outdoor Music Festival 2015: Lineup Announced

Hot on the heels of the Capitol Hill Block Party announce, the Timber! Outdoor Music Festival share their initial lineup for their 2015 event, and it sounds like it's gonna be fun times in the forest this summer! This July 16th through 18th, head out to the rural splendor of Carnation, Washington f…


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Capitol Hill Block Party 2015: Initial Lineup Announced!

Summer just got hotter, as the Capitol Hill Block Party has announced the first wave of bands playing their annual festival, scheduled for July 24th through July 26th in Seattle. The sidewalks are gonna sizzle with headliners like TV on the Radio, The Kills, RATATAT, Toro Y Moi, Built to Spill, and…


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KEXP Suggests: Treefort Music Fest 2015 3/25-3/29

The name says it all with Boise's Treefort Music Fest — think intimate clubhouse, and since this is the Northwest, think very big tree. The line-up is tremendous: not just national acts, such as Foxygen, TV on the Radio, Viet Cong, Rubblebucket, Trampled by Turtles, and hometown heroes Built to Spi…


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KEXP Suggests: Body Language at Barboza 2/17/15

Brooklyn electronic group Body Language will be throwing a dance party in Barboza. You need to be there.


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Sasquatch! Music Festival Line-Up Announced!

The line-up for the 2015 Sasquatch! Music Festival was just announced, and it looks like it's going to be an another amazing Memorial Day weekend! Head out to The Gorge Amphitheater the weekend of May 22nd through 25th, and you'll see performances from:


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Treefort Music Fest 2015: Additional Lineup Announced

Last month, we shared the first wave of bands playing the 2015 Treefort Music Fest, March 25th - 29th, 2015 in downtown Boise, Idaho. Today, we've got the next batch to share, and it's a doozy! Hometown heroes Built to Spill will take the stage, as well as Syrian artist Omar Souleyman. Both of Mont…


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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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