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Colleen Green Shares New Disco-Tinged Single "I Wanna Be Ignored"

Colleen Green is reissuing her 2016 cassette EP with four new songs called Casey’s Tape / Harmontown Loops


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Primal Scream Announce Release of Original Recordings of 1994's Give Out But Don't Give Up

The original recording sessions from Give Out But Don't Give Up were unearthed in Andrew Innes' basement and are being released this fall


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Throwaway Style Local Music Album Reviews

Throwaway Style: Whitney Ballen Explores Deep Emotional Wreckage on You're a Shooting Star, I'm a Sinking Ship

The Issaquah-based singer/songwriter's debut full-length is an arresting chronicle of when love goes wrong and exploring all the broken pieces left in the harsh realm of a breakup.


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Review Revue

Review Revue: Beasts of Bourbon - The Axeman's Jazz

This week's Review Revue spotlights the album The Axeman's Jazz by Beasts of Bourbon. See what KCMU DJs thought back in the day.


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Local Music KEXP Premiere

Seattle’s Sloucher Returns with Contemplative Fury on “Existentialist” (KEXP Premiere)

Two years after their debut album Certainty, the Seattle indie-rock outfit returns with an explosion of brutal energy.


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KEXP Premiere

Atlanta's Gringo Star Continue to Bring Killer Riffs with “Back To The City” (KEXP Premiere)

The group shares the title track from their upcoming album, Back to the City, out this Friday, Aug. 24 via Nevado Music.


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Interviews

A Kind of Madness: Jason Pierce of Spiritualized on the New Album And Nothing Hurt

Jason Pierce, aka Spiritualized, talks to KEXP about his first new album in six years, And Nothing Hurt, out September 7th via Fat Possum/Bella Union.


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Music News

Empress Of Announces Sophomore Record and Shares "When I'm With Him"

Lorely Rodriguez announces a new Empress Of album titled Us and shared its lead single "When I'm With Him"


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Soccer Mommy Shares Stripped-Down Cover of "I'm On Fire"

Soccer Mommy has shared a cover of Bruce Springsteen's 1984 hit "I'm On Fire"


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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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