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Smokey Brights Turns Sonder into a Undeniable Groove with “Different Windows” (KEXP Premiere)

Seattle's Smokey Brights delve into disco grooves with the first single from their Different Windows EP, out Sept. 21 via Freakout Records


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Music News

Radiohead's Thom Yorke Announces 2018 U.S. Solo Tour

Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke has announced a solo U.S. tour for late this fall.


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Interviews

Still Searching For Sugar Man: A Chat w/ Sixto Rodriguez

KEXP chats with the Detroit-based musician about how he learned to write music, what it was like playing those first big shows in South Africa, and what he thinks about first when he wakes up in the morning.


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Music News

Aretha Franklin Reported Gravely Ill

The Queen of Soul is reported to be "gravely ill" and is surrounded by friends and family at a hospital in Detroit.


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Album Reviews

New Music Reviews (8/10)

Each week KEXP's Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what's coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from Tirzah, Cullen Omori, Oh Sees, and more.


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Music News

Musicians Band Together To Save The Showbox In Open Letter, Including Sleater-Kinney, Run The Jewels, The xx, Death Cab and more

Ben Gibbard, Mike McCready, Duff McKagan, and Macklemore lead a group of artists to help save The Showbox


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Music News

Ryan Hemsworth Announces New Album and Shares Single "Think About U"

The Canadian producer announces a new solo album, Elsewhere, and has shared the single "Think About U" featuring Joji


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Features

Scarves Up! KEXP and the Sounders Celebrate the Relationship Between Soccer and Music

Ahead of DJ John Richards leading the Scarves Up tradition at this Sunday's match against FC Davis, we look back at KEXP's history with the Sounders.


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Rewind Sub Pop 30

Double Take: Revisiting Shabazz Palaces' 2017 Quazarz Parallel Albums

On Double Take, KEXP's dynamic duo of Martin Douglas and Dusty Henry explore the great double-albums in history by each focusing on one part's musical, lyrical, and historic themes. First up are the parallel albums released by Shabazz Palaces on the same day in 2017: Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Sta…


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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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