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KEXP Premiere

Letting Up Despite Great Faults Conjure the Concept of Love as Completion for "Gemini" (KEXP Premiere)

Austin shoegaze outfit Letting Up Despite Great Faults share the video for the lead single off their first full-length in seven years.


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Powering KEXP

How It Started, How It’s Going

Last summer, KEXP released a statement marking our commitment to becoming an antiracist organization, in which we spoke to the kind of organization we aspire to be. In an ongoing effort to be transparent about this journey, we wanted to share how it’s been going.


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Feedback

Feedback: Justin LaBo, Nyles Lannon, & Greg Bertens of Film School

Justin LaBo, Nyles Lannon, & Greg Bertens of Film School share some of the tools they use to conjure up the dreamy sounds we love.


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight In A Perfect World: Hildegard

Montreal-based musicians Helena Deland and Ouri recently joined forces for their new collaborative project Hildegard and together they share their love of wide-ranging experimental moody sounds on their exclusive guest DJ mix for Midnight In A Perfect World.


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Album Reviews

New Music Reviews (9/13)

Each week, Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from Little Simz, Low, Bomba Estéreo, and more.


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight In A Perfect World: Anjimile

Boston-based nonbinary trans musician Animile shares some all-time classic songs alongside meaningful deep cuts from their record collection on their exclusive guest DJ mix for Midnight In A Perfect World.


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Throwaway Style Local Music Album Reviews

Throwaway Style: Shannon & the Clams Stand on the Edge of Sweeping Change on Year of the Spider

On their lavish and stirring sixth album, the Portland-via-Bay Area band explore massive life changes and adversity with arguably their most diverse set of songs. Martin Douglas explores.


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight In A Perfect World: Blockhead

Just ahead of the release of his new album 'Space Werewolves Will Be The End Of Us All,' influential NYC producer Blockhead shares an exclusive guest DJ mix for Midnight In A Perfect World packed with cerebral underground hip-hop, dusty folk gems, and sweet psychedelic soul.


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Interviews

“A World Where Many Worlds Fit”: Kimmortal and Gabriel Teodros on Black and Asian Solidarity

The two Pacific Northwest rappers deep dive into the lyrics of their song "Solidarity," discuss the importance of acknowledging our shared racial history as resistance, and shed light on how if oppression is collaborative, then our freedom has to be.


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From the Archives:

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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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