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New Music Reviews (11/8)

Each week, Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what we added this week, including new music from Snail Mail, Nation of Language, serpentwithfeet, and more.


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New Music Reviews (11/1)

Each week, Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what we added this week, including new music from The War on Drugs, Theon Cross, Nightmares on Wax, and more.


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Album Reviews

New Music Reviews (10/25)

Each week, Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what we added this week, including new music from Lana Del Rey, Parquet Courts, Helado Negro, and more.


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New Music Reviews (10/18)

Each week, Music Director Don Yates (joined this week by DJ Alex) shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases. See what we added this week, including new music from Xenia Rubinos, Julia Shapiro, Baby Keem, and more.


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New Music Reviews (10/11)

Each week, Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation. See what we added this week below, including new releases from James Blake, Lala Lala, Porches, and more.


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New Music Reviews (10/04)

Each week, Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation. See what we added this week below, including new releases from Tirzah, Illuminati Hotties, Andy Shauf, and more


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Album Reviews

New Music Reviews (9/20)

Each week, Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from Little Simz, José González, Sleigh Bells, and more.


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Album Reviews

New Music Reviews (9/13)

Each week, Music Director Don Yates shares brief insights on new and upcoming releases for KEXP's rotation. See what we added this week below (and on our Charts page), including new releases from Little Simz, Low, Bomba Estéreo, and more.


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Throwaway Style Local Music Album Reviews

Throwaway Style: Shannon & the Clams Stand on the Edge of Sweeping Change on Year of the Spider

On their lavish and stirring sixth album, the Portland-via-Bay Area band explore massive life changes and adversity with arguably their most diverse set of songs. Martin Douglas explores.


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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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