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Live Video: Warpaint

Heads Up on the dance floor! LA band Warpaint sound the drums on their rhythmically driven third LP by infusing their typically broody post-punk with more hypnotic dub and funk grooves. The battle-ready four-piece charged the KEXP live room to perform their first single, "New Song", and three other…


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Song of the Day: Mateo Kingman - Sendero Del Monte

Every Monday through Friday, we deliver a different song as part 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. This week, we are featuring songs by …


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Live Video: Atmosphere

As you'd expect after 20 years of performing together, Atmosphere bring a boatload of topics to their new LP, Fishing Blues. The personal and political wind throughout the hip hop duo's emotive songs, which flow between Slug's sharp rapping and Ant's soulful production. Recently, the Minneapolis v…


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Live Reviews

Live Review: She Wants Revenge Debut Album 10 Year Anniversary at Showbox 10/21/16

“How much is your 15 year old self flipping out right now?” That’s the text I got from Brittany right after we saw the date go up. She Wants Revenge, celebrating the 10th birthday of their 2006 debut by playing the album in its entirety at the Showbox. Wait, 10 years? Has it already been that long?…


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Community Partnership Benefit Concerts

Net proceeds benefitLatino Community Fund of Washington State and Open Doors for Multicultural Families.This year, KEXP partnered with Seattle Foundation to relaunch and expand the impact of the KEXP Community Partnership Program to achieve a new level of public engagement, awareness, and support f…


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Shovels & Rope LIVE at KEXP

KEXP is excited to present an intimate session with boot-stompin’ Southern spouses Shovels & Rope in the KEXP Gathering Space at 3 PM. The duo will present tracks from their latest LP, Little Seeds, out now on New West Records.


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Music That Matters

Music that Matters: The Long Goodbye

Check out some of the KEXP DJ’s favorite artists from the Pacific Northwest and around the world on-the-go. KEXP’s Music That Matters weekly podcast brings you an exclusive mix of new music from the world’s best independent artists.


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Local Music Song of the Day

Song of the Day: Chris Staples - Golden Age

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 song, featured on The Midd…


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KEXP Presents: R Day with Thunderpussy and Hobosexual 10/22

It's not a gathering of pirates. (That would be "ARRRR Day.") It's R Day, a party at the Old Rainier Brewery this Saturday, October 22nd from 5:00 to 11:00 PM. In fact, Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee and City of Seattle Mayor Ed Murray have officially proclaimed the day "Rainier Beer’s R Day," so…


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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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