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Seattle’s High Pulp Soundtrack Your Balmy Summer Nights with Their Debut LP Bad Juice (KEXP Premiere)

The 10-piece Seattle funk-fusion outfit emerges with their debut album stacked with maximalist grooves and dazzling summer vibes.


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Local Music Live Reviews

Live Review: Death Cab For Cutie, Khu.éex', and The Black Tones at The Paramount 6/23

A free show for The Paramount's 90th anniversary highlight a changing Seattle from one of its most stable and established musical landmarks.


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Album Reviews

New Music Reviews (6/22)

Each week KEXP's Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what's coming up this week below, including reviews for new releases from Let's Eat Grandma, Kamasi Washington, Gang Gang Dance, and more.


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Daily Roundups

Monday Music News

Tyler the creator shares his spin on a Jacquees track, Gorillaz perform new album in full, Forth Wanderers share a video, and a Radiohead rarity emerges.


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Interviews

All This Useless Energy: Jeff Rosenstock Talks Cartoons, Fascism, and his latest LP POST-

The former Bomb The Music Industry frontman talks about his new album, scoring Cartoon Network's Craig of the Creek, and the political thought that prompted his latest album POST-


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Interviews

Steve Martin and Martin Short on Friendship, Live Shows, and Music

Steve Martin and Martin Short have been friends for over 35 years and now they've taken their relationship to the stage, both as a Netflix special and as a touring act. The fellows were kind enough to share their time with KEXP's Owen Murphy.


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Daily Roundups

Friday Music News

Death Cab for Cutie perform new song on The Late Show plus new music from Underworld and Iggy Pop, Wet, Sleigh Bells frontwoman Alexis Krauss, and Beak.


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Throwaway Style Local Music Album Reviews

Throwaway Style: Seeing Green with Dumb

The Vancouver band's fourth release in a little over two years is a high-concept ball of threadbare post-punk. In a special Friday edition of Throwaway Style, Martin Douglas explores the shades of green displayed on the album.


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Local Artist Spotlight Local Music

Local Artist Spotlight: SassyBlack

Catch Sassyblack at our GAYEXP event on June 23 in the KEXP Gathering Space.


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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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