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Cloud Nothings Announce New Album and Share Lead Single, "The Echo of the World.”

Cloud Nothings announce their fifth studio album Last Building Burning and share "The Echo of the World"


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Jeff Tweedy Is Releasing A Memoir This Fall

Jeff Tweedy has announced a new memoir titled Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back): A Memoir of Recording and Discording With Wilco, Etc.


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Smokey Brights Turns Sonder into a Undeniable Groove with “Different Windows” (KEXP Premiere)

Seattle's Smokey Brights delve into disco grooves with the first single from their Different Windows EP, out Sept. 21 via Freakout Records


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Radiohead's Thom Yorke Announces 2018 U.S. Solo Tour

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has announced a solo U.S. tour for late this fall.


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Aretha Franklin Reported Gravely Ill

The Queen of Soul is reported to be "gravely ill" and is surrounded by friends and family at a hospital in Detroit.


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Musicians Band Together To Save The Showbox In Open Letter, Including Sleater-Kinney, Run The Jewels, The xx, Death Cab and more

Ben Gibbard, Mike McCready, Duff McKagan, and Macklemore lead a group of artists to help save The Showbox


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Ryan Hemsworth Announces New Album and Shares Single "Think About U"

The Canadian producer announces a new solo album, Elsewhere, and has shared the single "Think About U" featuring Joji


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Sixth Annual Freakout Festival Lineup Announced

Freakout Records makes the first lineup announcement for 2018's Freakout Festival, featuring All Them Witches, The Grizzled Mighty, Stas THEE Boss, and more.


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Pearl Jam Cover The White Stripes at First Home Show

Pearl Jam played the first of their home shows last night and played a number of covers, including The White Stripes' "We're Going to Be Friends"


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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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