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#PlayingAtMyHouse: Soundtracks

With #PlayingAtMyHouse, each week KEXP will announce a music-related theme to our audience and ask our listeners for examples of each theme by sharing songs on social media with #playingatmyhouse.


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Album Reviews

New Music Reviews (5/18)

Each week, KEXP’s Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what's coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from Perfume Genius, Parisalexa, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, and more.


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News

R.I.P. Groundbreaking Seattle Filmmaker Lynn Shelton

Accomplished Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton passed away yesterday evening, May 15, in Los Angeles at a University of Southern California hospital. She was 54.


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Music News

R.I.P. Phil May of The Pretty Things

Lead vocalist of the iconic British rock group The Pretty Things, has died due to complications from hip surgery following a bicycle accident. He was 75.


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Sound and Vision

Sound & Vision: DEVO's Gerry Casale Reflects on the 50th Anniversary of the Kent State Shootings

The deaths of those Kent State students 50 years ago this week both changed our nation and changed Gerald as a person and as an artist forever.


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight In A Perfect World: Gold Chisme

Chicago-born, Seattle-based Latinx DJ and electronic producer Gold Chisme brings a non-stop dance party on her Midnight In A Perfect World guest DJ mix that seamlessly bounces between irresistible house, disco, funk, boogie, and Latin rhythms.


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Review Revue

Review Revue: Some Velvet Sidewalk - Appetite for Extinction

This week's Review Revue spotlights the Some Velvet Sidewalk album Appetite for Extinction. See what KCMU DJs thought back in the day.


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Features

How to Support Seattle Independent Record Stores

KEXP talks to local independent record stores about ways we can support them during the current stay-at-home order, and what the future looks like for retail.


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KEXP Premiere

Figg Patiently Pines on Decade-Delayed Single "Pink Is the New Blues" (KEXP Premiere)

KEXP is exclusively streaming the new single from the long-awaited debut record from Seattle-based duo Figg


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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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