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How To Dress Well Shares New The Anteroom Single "Body Fat"

Tom Krell calls it "the song I've been trying to write for the last 5 years."


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New Music Reviews (10/12)

Each week, KEXP’s Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases (joined this week by DJ Abbie Gobelli). See what's coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from Matthew Dear, Kurt Vile, Yowler, Elvis Costello, and more.


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Sampha Shares New Song For the Beautiful Boy Soundtrack

"Treasure" is another gorgeous piano ballad from the British singer


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Album Reviews

Album Review: Matthew Dear's Bunny Is Strange and Mesmerizing and His Best Album To Date

Six years since the release of his last album under his birth name, Matthew Dear has crafted a wildly varied, eclectic, and mesmerizing journey of an album with Bunny


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Interviews KEXP Events

May I Interest You in a Brief Survey: Reykjavik Calling's Icelandic Bands Answer Our Questions

This year's Reykjavik Calling will take place in the Gathering Space tomorrow, October 13th, featuring Icelandic acts Vök and Gyda – as well as Seattle's very own NAVVI. In anticipation of the event, we asked the former two groups a few burning questions.


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KEXP's DJ Shannon on Hosting Frightened Rabbit on the Air in 2007

DJ Shannon shares her experience hosting Frightened Rabbit on the KEXP airwaves in 2007.


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Throwaway Style Local Music Album Reviews

Throwaway Style: Wild Powwers Update the Ghosts of Grunge on Skin

On a special Friday edition of Throwaway Style, Martin Douglas explores the new album from the Seattle grunge (not "neo-grunge") trio.


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Review Revue

Review Revue: Sacrilege - Behind The Realms of Madness

This week's Review Revue spotlights the album Behind The Realms of Madness by Sacrilege. See what KCMU DJs thought back in the day.


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Music News

Run The Jewels Share Hard-Hitting Single For Marvel's Venom Soundtrack

"Let's Go (The Royal We)" was originally intended for the Blade Runner 2049 soundtrack


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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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