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Sixteen Again: Death Cab For Cutie, Phantom Planet, and More Look Back on The O.C. Soundtrack

Jasmine Albertson delves into The O.C. soundtrack in an attempt to dissect the impact it had on the artists featured on the soundtrack, as well as the overall cultural music landscape.


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Music News

Arcade Fire Working on New Album While Under Quarantine

Frontman Win Butler celebrates his 40th birthday with a message for fans via social media.


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Music News

Cast of That Thing You Do! Reunite for Livestream Benefit and Tribute to Adam Schlesinger

The fictional band from the 1996 Tom Hanks film will support the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund.


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight In A Perfect World: Camea

Seattle-born, Berlin-based DJ and electronic producer Camea delivers a hypnotic guest DJ mix for Midnight in a Perfect World full of cerebral minimal tech-house rhythms including selections from her new album 'Dystopian Love.'


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Features

What’s #PlayingAtMyHouse? KEXP Wants to Hear Your ‘Mood Lifters’

Each week KEXP is asking you to share songs on social media based off a theme with #playingatmyhouse


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Throwaway Style Local Music

Throwaway Style: Seattle's Life in Quarantine

Martin Douglas reaches out to a handful of Throwaway Style alumni about how COVID-19 is affecting their lives personally and artistically.


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Sound and Vision

Sound & Vision: The Unusual Story Behind The Postal Service

KEXP DJ Marco Collins spoke with music journalist Charles R. Cross about Postal Service's Give Up as a part of Sound & Vision’s occasional series “Northwest Classics."


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Midnight In A Perfect World

Midnight In A Perfect World: Poliça

Minneapolis band Poliça share an intimate guest DJ mix for Midnight in a Perfect World that brings together a wide-range of genres including R&B, shoegaze, jazz, slowcore, soul, hip-hop, techno, and more.


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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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