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Sound & Vision: Lupe Flores's Situ Tacos

Martin Douglas visits Ballard Avenue's finest Lebanese-Mexican eatery and speaks to its founder, who also happens to play drums in one of the city's greatest rock bands.


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Aquí y Ahora: Post-Rock in Latin America

Every year, KEXP presents special programming for Aqui y Ahora, a month-long celebration of music and stories from Latin artists here in Seattle and across the world. KEXP’s Roddy Nikpour heard from five artists that you might classify as ambient, shoegaze, or post-rock.


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exude: Trans Art & Care in Berlin

Sharlese talks to Mel and Hanna of exude, a project based out of Berlin to platform music + art by our trans* community.


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Shaper of Change: Celebrating Octavia Butler Through Sound

Seattle native and conceptual artist Mia Imani introduces us to Octavia Butler’s teachings and musicians whose songs explore time travel, space, and Black liberation on Earth and beyond.


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Sound & Vision: Ty Segall Rings Bells at Treefort Music Fest 2024

KEXP Staff Reporter Martin Douglas speaks to the California rocker about his latest album, Three Bells.


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PANORAMA GENERAL: EL 2022 HABLA ESPAÑOL

Un breve recorrido por algunos de los 42 álbumes del 2022 en la música Latinoamericana, en español y en spanglish curado por Albina Cabrera, Latin American Content Producer y co-host de El Sonido. Para esta entrega, convocamos a los periodistas musicales Richard Villegas y Nuria Net, para que dibuj…


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The Big Picture: Looking Back at the Best Latin American Music of 2022

Latin Ameerican Content Producer and El Sonido co-host Albina Cabrera curates a brief overview of 42 albums in Latin American music. For this installment, we called on music journalists Richard Villegas and Nuria Net to help us illustrate the big picture of this past year.


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Reflecting on The Smile's Performance at KEXP

Writer Ijeoma Oluo shares her impressions on the band's set and the willingness to embrace change.


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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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