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For Your Consideration

For Your Consideration: On TV on the Radio's Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes, Magic Negroes, and Undervalued Classics

Martin Douglas argues for the Brooklyn band's full-length debut to be entered into the pantheon of classic albums from the early 21st Century, while exploring a controversial trope and the band's past and future critical acclaim.


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For Your Consideration

For Your Consideration: J Dilla’s Donuts Celebrates the Fractured Unpredictability of Life

KEXP is counting down our listeners top voted albums of the last 50 years in conjunction with our 2022 fall fundraising drive. In conjunction, KEXP's Editorial team is presenting 'For Your Consideration' some of their all-time favorite albums and what they mean to them. Today Dusty Henry reflects o…


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For Your Consideration

My Life in the Key of Stevie

KEXP is counting down our listeners top voted albums of the last 50 years in conjunction with our 2022 fall fundraising drive. In conjunction, KEXP's Editorial team is presenting 'For Your Consideration' some of their all-time favorite albums and what they mean to them. Today Larry Mizell, Jr. refl…


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KEXP 50

50 Years of Music: 1998 – Silver Jews - "Random Rules"

As KEXP celebrates its 50th anniversary, we're looking back at the last half-century of music. Each week in 2022, KEXP pays homage to a different year and our writers are commemorating with one song from that year that resonates with them. This week, Martin writes a short fiction story based on wha…


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Album Reviews

New Music Reviews (10/10)

Each week, Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Alex) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation.


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Interviews Sound and Vision

Sound & Vision: Zoon’s Daniel Monkman Connects with their Ojibway Heritage and Community through Moccasin Gaze Music

Daniel Monkman makes music under the name Zoon, blending shoegaze with traditional First nations. sounds like a tribal drum. KEXP’s Dusty Henry spoke with Zoon to learn how making music brought them closer to their Ojibway heritage.


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight in a Perfect World: Mr. Linden

Mr. Linden is the alias of Jeremy Linden, an Alaska-raised, Seattle-based DJ, designer, and producer who's an integral part of the local underground electronic music community.


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Throwaway Style Interviews Local Music

Throwaway Style: Enumclaw and Me

From their very first show to the eve of their debut full-length, Martin Douglas follows "the best band since Oasis" through a meteoric year.


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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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