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Wednesday Music News

Cat Power announces first album in six years, Frankie Cosmos shares a new video, and new music from Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, Animal Collective, and D.R.A.M.


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Local Music KEXP Premiere

Portland’s Loose Offer a Relentless Summer Parable with “Heatstroke” (KEXP Premiere)

Serendipitously aligned with a real-life Pacific Northwest heat wave, the Portland band captures the feeling of the beating sun in Cascadia with jagged riffs and shot-along melodies.


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Tuesday Music News

Minus the Bear announce break up and final EP plus new music from Wild Nothing, Waxahatchee, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, and The Hold Steady plus Alt-J get a remix from Alchemist and Trooko featuring Danny Brown.


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KEXP Premiere

Soft Science Shares a Dreamy Rorschach Test with Their “Diverging” Music Video (KEXP Premiere)

Sacramento dream-gaze act ponders feelings of insignificance with a video that pushes the maxim of "open to interpretation."


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Daily Roundups

Monday Music News

New music from Animal Collective and The Love Language, Father John Misty and Bully share new videos, and Snail Mail and Waxahatchee team up to cover Sheryl Crow.


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Friday Music News

Mac DeMarco covers Japanese musician Haruomi Hosono and new music from Suede, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, and The Internet.


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Daily Roundups

Thursday Music News

Sufjan Stevens' 2006 album The Avalanche is getting released on vinyl for the first time, DJ Koze and Superorganism remix Gorillaz, new music from Metric, plus Cults and Lord Huron share covers.


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Daily Roundups

Wednesday Music News

New music from Childish Gambino, Nothing, Madeline Kenney, and Beak>, plus Interpol share a video for "The Rover."


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Daily Roundups

Tuesday Music News

Album announcements from Mudhoney, The Lemon Twigs, and John Grant plus Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood shares sheet music and Oneohtrix Point Never announces a new EP.


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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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