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50 Years of Music: 1973 – Pink Floyd - "Time"

Each week in 2022, KEXP pays homage to a different year and our writers are commemorating with one release from that year that resonates with them. This week, Roddy Nikpour reflects on Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic The Dark Side of the Moon, the album’s continuing influence, and how it helps connect hi…


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Fred again… Breaks Down Every Song on Actual Life (April 14 - December 17 2020)

The superproducer reflects on choosing joy, the power of the Instagram scroll, and the voices that make up his deeply moving instant classic album.


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50 Years of Music: 2016 – Y La Bamba - "Ojos Del Sol"

As KEXP celebrates its 50th anniversary, we’re looking back at the last half-century of music. Each week in 2022, KEXP pays homage to a different year and our writers are commemorating with one song from that year that resonates with them. This week, Albina reflects on the 2016 Y La Bamba song “Ojo…


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Interviews

Adam Miller on Making Music Post-Chromatics, His Seattle Years, and Why He’d Choose K Records Over Guitar Virtuosos

Former Chromatics guitarist and founding member Adam Miller chats with KEXP about his new solo instrumental record Gateway, his many inspirations, and recreates meeting David Lynch


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50 Years of Music: 1986 – Throwing Muses - "Hate My Way"

As KEXP celebrates its 50th anniversary, we're looking back at the last half-century of music. Each week in 2022, KEXP pays homage to a different year. This week, Janice Headley reflects on teenage angst and the 1986 Throwing Muses song "Hate My Way."


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KEXP 50 Local Music

On Unwound's Live Leaves and the Healing from Breaking Up

Martin Douglas processes some very personal stuff while listening to a posthumously released collection of the South Sound art-punk heroes' 2001 live recordings.


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50 Years of Music: 2001 – The Strokes - "Someday"

As KEXP celebrates its 50th anniversary, we're looking back at the last half-century of music. Each week in 2022, KEXP pays homage to a different year and our writers are commemorating with one song from that year that resonates with them. This week, Jasmine Albertson looks back at The Strokes' 200…


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Interviews KEXP 50 Local Music

Phil Elverum Speaks About the Microphones' 2000 Masterpiece It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water

Martin Douglas speaks to the epochal Anacortes musician all about his stunning second LP as the Microphones and whether or not it has gotten the recognition it deserves.


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Interviews KEXP 50 Local Music

Phil Elverum Speaks About the Microphones' 2000 Masterpiece It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water

Martin Douglas speaks to the epochal Anacortes musician all about his stunning second LP as the Microphones and whether or not it has gotten the recognition it deserves.


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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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