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50 Years of Music: 2006 – Ghostface Killah - "Whip You With a Strap"

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. As we jump back to 2006, Martin Douglas shares his reflecti…


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50 Years in Latin Music: 1993

KEXP's Latin American Content Producer & co-host of El Sonido Albina Cabrera takes us through the music of Ibero-America in 1993.


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2018: The Year That Bad Bunny Broke All the Rules

It’s time to head into 2018, a year that makes Albina Cabrera think of her arrival to Seattle, as well as the arrival of the debut album from Puerto Rican artist Bad Bunny, who performs March 1st in our city’s Climate Pledge Arena.


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KEXP 50 Sound and Vision

A 1972 DJ Remembers The Year In Music When This Station Began 50 Years Ago

Emily Fox catches up with Leroy Skeers who goes by the name Leroy Henry on air. He DJed at KCMU from 1972-1975.


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1972: Glam, Soul, and Rock N’ Roll

As KEXP kicks off our 50th anniversary celebration, DJ and Director of Editorial Larry Mizell, Jr. rhapsodizes on the music released the year our station was founded.


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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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