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KEXP’s Community Partnership & Benefit Show: Rain City Rock Camp For Girls

Tomorrow night at Barboza, Audioasis presents Gibraltar, Dust Moth, and Wishbeard as part of KEXP’s Community Partnerships Initiative, a concert series that highlights and raises money for a local non-profit. This concert also marks the release of Wishbeard EP.


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Local Music KEXP Suggests

KEXP Suggests: Out to Lunch Summer Concert Series featuring Hey Marseilles this Friday

These beautiful days of summer won't last forever. You might as well make the most of them. The Metropolitan Improvement District, in cooperation with Downtown Seattle Association, is here to help. Their Out to Lunch Summer Concert Series features a diverse lineup of bands and artists performing fo…


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Local Music Song of the Day

Song of the Day: Stag - Another Summer

Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of 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 song, featured on the Afte…


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Local Music Song of the Day

Song of the Day: Gabriel Mintz - Castles Fall

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


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Bumbershoot Local Music Live Reviews

Bumbershoot 2013: Day 1

Saturday's Bumbershoot festivities got the 2013 season off to a great start. With the turnout highlight of the day going to rising Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar, and with a three way tie for most dancing going to !!!, Charles Bradley, and Crystal Castles, the day was an eclectic bunch of gems. Bein…


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Live Video Local Music

Live Video: Portugal. The Man at The Triple Door

It's no surprise Portugal. The Man broke into "Dayman" midway into their set during their Triple Door performance for KEXP last month. Not only has the band been playing their own gorgeous rendition of the song, taken from a classic episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, during shows and hav…


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Local Music KEXP Suggests

Scene and Unheard: Vigil and Bummershoot Festival 2013!

On any given weekend in Seattle, there are a million amazing shows to see - from jazz at a coffee shop or theater, to a grunge show at a DIY space, to a major act at any one of our large venues. Maybe this weekend you want to try something new, maybe you heard one song by this small electronic, fol…


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Live Video Local Music

Live Video: Charms

If Charms’ Facebook and Bandcamp pages are any indication, the Seattle band LOVES candy and chips. Perhaps as a result, the trio play driving rock and roll songs that feel like a sugar rush mixed with a touch of Cool Ranch. Big, boisterous songs come from this group, which has only been together fo…


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Local Music

KEXP Q&A with La Luz

La Luz is one of Seattle’s hottest groups. Comprised of Shana Cleveland, Marian Li Pino, Abbey Blackwell and Alice Sandahl, the four-piece, known for its alluring combination of doo-wop and surf rock, is putting out work left and right and even inventing a new way to watch a show: with audience mem…


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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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