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Keep Your Eyes Ahead: Looking Back with Brandon Summers of The Helio Sequence

On the tenth anniversary of The Helio Sequence’s landmark album Keep Your Eyes Ahead, frontman Brandon Summers opens up about what was really in his sights.


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Jason Lytle Shares New Song "Color Of Dirt" From Upcoming Three-Song Split Release

The Grandaddy frontman teams up with Kramies and Little Wings for a three-song split single titled 3ingle


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Review Revue

Review Revue: David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

This week's Review Revue spotlights the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie. See what KCMU DJs thought back in the day – albeit about 12 years after its original release.


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Throwaway Style Local Music Album Reviews

Throwaway Style: Jock Tears Prove Themselves Way Too Cool for Toxic Masculinity on Bad Boys

The Vancouver punk quartet's debut album is 18 minutes of hysterical and endlessly catchy punk music with a sometimes blistering, sometimes melancholy feminist spirit.


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight In A Perfect World: IVVY

The alias of non-binary Seattle-based DJ/producer Madi Levine, IVVY blends together 11 new unreleased tracks that perfectly showcase their heady, propulsive, and absorbing style of analog techno on their guest DJ mix for Midnight in a Perfect World.


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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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