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Kate Bush Is Releasing a Book of Song Lyrics Spanning Her 40-Year Career

Kate Bush announces her first book, a collection of her song lyrics spanning the past 40 years titled How To Be Invisible: Selected Lyrics


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Kurt Vile Announces New Solo Album Bottle It In and Shares "Backasswards"

Kurt Vile announces his seventh solo album Bottle It In and shares the 10-minute opus "Bassackwards"


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Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and The National’s Aaron Dessner Find Harmony in the Future Past with Big Red Machine

With their debut collaborative album as Big Red Machine, two of indie music’s most consistent players look outside themselves and create some of their most flourishing work yet.


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KEXP Record Fair 2018: DJ Kevin Cole, Prince, and “Irresistible Bitch”

All week long in advance of KEXP’s third annual Record Fair this Saturday, Sept. 8, Afternoon Show host DJ Kevin Cole gives us a look inside his record collection at some of his rarest and most loved records.


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Sylvan Esso and Collections of Colonies of Bees Team Up for Cover of Califone's "Funeral Singers"

Sylvan Esso and Collections of Colonies of Bees recorded a cover of Califone's "Funeral Singers" while on tour together this summer.


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Listen To a New Version of David Bowie's "Beat of Your Drum"

Parlophone shares an updated version of David Bowie's 1987 song "Beat of Your Drum" from their new box set David Bowie Loving the Alien (1983-1988)


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R.I.P. Mac Miller

The Pittsburgh rapper and producer was found in his San Fernando Valley home after an apparent drug overdose. He was 26.


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Okkervil River Shares Two New Songs "New Blood" and "Skiptracer"

Will Sheff's project Okkervil River has shared two outtakes from their latest album In the Rainbow Rain


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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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