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While on a recent tour down under, Phantogram turned out a Radiohead cover for Australian radio station Triple J's Like a Version series. Hear their take on the 2007 In Rainbows track "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" below. The New York duo of Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter are continuing to tour in support …


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Local Music Song of the Day

Song of the Day: SISTERS - Buck

Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s selection, featured on The…


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Thursday Music News

Back in 2014, legendary shoegaze greats Slowdive reunited for a performance at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival. With their peers Ride and Lush both reuniting after two years and writing new music, it's no surprise that Slowdive have done the same. Stream the track "Star Roving" below, their f…


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Review Revue

Review Revue: Jimmy and the Mustangs

Jimmy and the Mustangs might be lovely people without a bone of misogyny in their bodies (they did, according to their "I swear a member of the band didn't write this" Wikipedia page, make their live debut opening up for the Go-Go's), but there are a few things about their debut album, Hey Little G…


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Song of the Day

Song of the Day: Little Children - (we used to feel) Higher

Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s selection, featured on The…


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Wednesday Music News

It's looking like we'll have a new Arcade Fire album in 2017! Drummer Jeremy Gara confirmed to Red Bull Poland that they've finished recording all the tracks for the new LP, and it "should come out this year." He adds, the band are "still mixing and trying to decide which songs will end up on the …


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight In A Perfect World: Michael Mayer

Michael Mayer is an internationally renowned electronic producer, DJ, and in-demand remixer, as well as a co-founder of the influential German label Kompakt Records. Based in Cologne, Mayer works under his own name and as one-half of SuperMayer, consistently displaying under either guise his refine…


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Song of the Day

Song of the Day: La Sera - Queens

Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part of our Song of the Day podcast subscription. This podcast features exclusive KEXP in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent artists that our DJs think you should hear. Today’s selection, featured on The…


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Tuesday Music News

We're weeks away from the release of the new Cloud Nothings album, Life Without Sound, and here's another sneak peek with a video for the track "Internal World." Director Jonny Look provides an instructional clip from the "Department of Human Being Assimilation," which may or may not help the liza…


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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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