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Spesh Juxtapose the Sweet and the Sadomasochistic in Their Video for "Tomato Rose" (KEXP Premiere)

Seattle band Spesh premiere a video for the track "Tomato Rose", mostly sweet, but subtly sadomasochistic.


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Local Music KEXP Premiere

Dirty Rugs Rolls Out the Video for "We're All Dying (I Feel Alive)" (KEXP Premiere)

Seattle's Dirty Rugs roll out their new single and accompanying video for "We’re All Dying (I Feel Alive)."


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Heed Their Warning: Seattle's OCEANWIRES Share Debut Track + Video (KEXP Premiere)

Dave Einmo (Head Like a Kite) and Aaron Starkey (Gibraltar) combine forces as OCEANWIRES; watch and listen to their debut single, out today.


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Throwaway Style Local Music Album Reviews

Throwaway Style: Spesh Channel the Ghosts of Manchester on Famous World

On their debut record, the Seattle quartet deliver an assured and stellar effort by imagining themselves in another specific rainy region.


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Throwaway Style Local Music Album Reviews

Throwaway Style: Seaan Brooks Tries to Maneuver Out of the Shadow of Death on Heaven Only Knows

The Tacoma MC takes a bold step away from the black cloud hovering over his life and into singularity as an artist.


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Pedro The Lion Announces New Album Phoenix, Shares “Yellow Bike”

David Bazan shares the first new music under his old moniker since 2004 Achilles’ Heel


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Features Local Music

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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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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Rewind Local Music

Dispatches from a Placeholder: A Story About Elliott Smith's New Moon

As we celebrate the life of Elliott Smith, who left the world fifteen years ago, Martin Douglas shares a personal story of bonding over his final released collection of songs.


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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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