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Interviews

Wulitzer, Backing Singers, and Going Blonde: St. Vincent on the ‘70s and her new album Daddy’s Home

DJ Cheryl Waters chats with Annie Clark about her latest record, reinvention, and the fashion and aesthetics of her latest era


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KEXP Premiere

Ben Zaidi Honors the Influence and Impact of Chris Cornell with "My Friend Chris" (KEXP Premiere)

Future soul musician Ben Zaidi has unveiled a new single in tribute to Chris Cornell on the four-year anniversary of his death


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Album Reviews

New Music Reviews (5/17)

Each week, Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by Morning Show Producer Owen Murphy) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from St. Vincent, CHAI, Patrick Paige II, and more.


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Features

Hapa Book Club: An Annotated Playlist + Reader by No-No Boy

No-No Boy's Julian Saporiti shares music and books for fostering conversation around the Asian American experience.


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight In A Perfect World: Maral

Los Angeles-based Iranian-American producer and DJ Maral boldly stitches together a wide array of musical styles from all over the world on her adventurous guest DJ mix for Midnight In A Perfect World.


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Rewind

Viva! Cibo Matto: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Their Breakthrough Debut LP

In honor of Pushing Boundaries, and in celebration of the album's 25th anniversary, KEXP's Janice Headley revisits Cibo Matto's genre-defying 1996 debut full-length Viva! La Woman.


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Sound and Vision

From a Japanese Internment Camp to Broadway, Hollywood, and Activism: Nobuko Miyamoto Shares Her Story in Album

KEXP's Sound & Vision speaks to Nobuko Miyamoto, whose latest album, 120,000 Stories, was named after the approximate number of people who were sent to Japanese internment camps during World War II.


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Interviews

Merry Clayton on How Trauma, Faith, and Real Friends Created 'Beautiful Scars' (KEXP Interview)

Merry Clayton takes 20 feet forward on new album Beautiful Scars and speaks to KEXP about the road there


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KEXP Premiere

Rachel Lime Combs the Cosmos for Connection on "Voyager 3" (KEXP Premiere)

Minneapolis musician Rachel Lime shares the very '80s-indebted video for "Voyager 3" via KEXP


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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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