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Rain City Relief Aims to Assuage Pandemic-Related Financial Adversity for Local Emerging Artists

Seattle businesses and nonprofits merge to release the benefit compilation Rain City Relief that strives to provide financial support to emerging local artists


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Local Music Music News

Portland’s Floating Room Announce Shima EP, Share Excellent and Furious Lead Single “Shimanchu”

Songwriter Maya Stoner pays homage to her Uchinanchu heritage while pushing back against the condescension she feels daily with a new amped-up sound.


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Features

Breaking Borders: Nine Collaborations to Listen To, Here and Now

Members of Faro, an alliance of cultural media across nine different countries in Ibero-America, share a selection of recent collaborations between artists from different countries.


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight In A Perfect World: CalvoMusic

Baltimore-based electronic producer and "New Club Waves" pioneer CalvoMusic delivers a high-energy mix that bridges the gap between Baltimore Club music, Jersey Club music, and more.


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Album Reviews

New Music Reviews (9/20)

Each week, Music Director Don Yates 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 Little Simz, José González, Sleigh Bells, and more.


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KEXP Premiere

Letting Up Despite Great Faults Conjure the Concept of Love as Completion for "Gemini" (KEXP Premiere)

Austin shoegaze outfit Letting Up Despite Great Faults share the video for the lead single off their first full-length in seven years.


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Powering KEXP

How It Started, How It’s Going

Last summer, KEXP released a statement marking our commitment to becoming an antiracist organization, in which we spoke to the kind of organization we aspire to be. In an ongoing effort to be transparent about this journey, we wanted to share how it’s been going.


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Feedback

Feedback: Justin LaBo, Nyles Lannon, & Greg Bertens of Film School

Justin LaBo, Nyles Lannon, & Greg Bertens of Film School share some of the tools they use to conjure up the dreamy sounds we love.


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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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