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2012 Top Ten List Spotlight: Mel

For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2012, leading up to our 2012 Top Album Countdown, as voted on by our listeners! Tune in on Friday, December 28th to hear if your picks made the list!

2012 Top Ten List Spotlight: Sean

For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2012, leading up to our 2012 Top Album Countdown, as voted on by our listeners! Tune in on Friday, December 28th to hear if your picks made the list!

Black History Month All Year Round: Gifted Gab Discusses Ohio Players, Chaka Khan, and the Ubiquity of Music

Seattle rapper Gifted Gab talks about celebrating black history all your round, getting her musical education from her mom, and offers inspiring words to other minority artists trying to make their own way.

Beach House Share Kaleidoscopic Video For "Drunk In L.A." and a Sonic Boom Remix of "Black Car"

Beach House shares a Sonic Boom-directed video for "Drunk In L.A." and a Sonic Boom-remixed single of "Black Car," both from this year's 7

How It Felt to Be Something On: Thoughts on the 20th Anniversary of Sunny Day Real Estate's Third LP

Writer Ian King reflects on Sunny Day Real Estate's How It Feels to Be Something On as the album turns 20 years old this month.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra Announce Jazz-Inspired Instrumental Album IC-01 Hanoi

Unknown Mortal Orchestra follow-up this year's Sex & Food with an instrumental album recorded partially in Hanoi, Vietnam and share lead single "Hanoi 6"

2017 Top Ten List Spotlight: DJ Alex

For the rest of the year, we'll be spotlighting our KEXP DJs Top Albums of 2017, leading up to our 2017 Top 90.3 Album Countdown! Check out the Top 90.3 Albums of 2017, as voted on by our listeners. And check out more top albums from KEXP DJs here.

Vampire Weekend Share First New Songs In Six Years, Detail New Album Father of the Bride

"Harmony Hall" and "2021" are the first taste from the band's first record since 2013's Modern Vampires of the City

Leave a Clean Camp and a Dead Fire: Juno's This is the Way it Goes and Goes and Goes Has Been Going for 20 Years

On its 20th anniversary, writer Ian King goes another round with Juno's debut LP This is the Way it Goes and Goes and Goes.

Victoria Legrand of Beach House on the Sacredness of Fireflies and (Much) More

Victoria Legrand, co-founder of dream-pop band Beach House, talks to KEXP about her origins in singing, how the band has stayed together now for 15 years, and what she remembers most from conversations with her fans.

Danny Denial and DoNormaal Strive to Have a Good Time on "I'm not your type" (KEXP Premiere)

In advance of the Seattle-based multidisciplinary artist's new solo album dropping next year, Denial offers this dark and heady single featuring DoNormaal.

Midnight In A Perfect World: Arlo Parks

Currently in the midst of a pivotal breakthrough year, West London's Arlo Parks shares an exclusive guest DJ mix for Midnight In A Perfect World full of inspirational favorites and contemporary classics that carry a magnetic nocturnal vibe.

Music That Matters, Vol. 621 - Big Gay Podcast 2018

Celebrate Pride with this year’s Big Gay Podcast, which is bigger and gayer than ever. Hosted by DJ Riz, Larry Rose, and DJ Tim, this threesome bring you an eclectic mix by, for, and about the LGBTQ community with songs from Donormaal, Rostam, Jenn Champion, Shamir, Erik Blood, serpentwithfeet, and…

Music That Matters, Vol. 693 - Iceland Airwaves 2019

DJ Kevin Cole guides you through some of the best of this year’s Iceland Airwaves Music Festival, one of the world’s premier music discovery festivals showcasing awesome new and emerging Nordic artists alongside forward-thinking international acts across all genres!

DJ Riz: Samora Pinderhughes, Meshell Ndegeocello, Tristan de Liège

To celebrate Riz's 35-year milestone, we get two extra song recommendations in this episode! Isabel joins Riz at his house to discuss four new songs and two old favorites.

Ivy Revives Their Decades-Long Career Alongside Adam Schlesinger on “Traces of You”

It's been 14 years since their last album, but Ivy has reassembled to share Traces of You, which came out September 5.

Tuesday Music News

Fresh from her feature on this week's episode of "Twin Peaks," Sharon Van Etten has shared a remix to a track she wrote and released last year in honor of the victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting, which happened one year ago yesterday. Titled "Not Myself," Etten explained the reasoning for its r…

Thursday Music News

It had been a five years absence before Canadian electro-pop twosome Junior Boys released their latest, Big Black Coat, earlier this year. Now, just over five months later, they share a new EP which you can stream in its entirety below. Kiss Me All Night features four tracks -- three new, and one …

Wednesday Music News

Local hip hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis return with the sentimental track "Growing Up," dedicated to Macklemore’s baby daughter, Sloane. He says on his website, "When you try to escape yourself, life has an interesting way of creating situations that force you to come back. To look at who yo…

Monday Music News

It's been four long years, but folk-rock band Beirut will return with their fourth album, titled No No No, on September 11th via 4AD. Founding member and frontman Zach Condon reveals in a press release that the past years of touring and a messy divorce resulted in his hospitalization in Australia …

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