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Announcing the 2015 Macefield Music Festival Line-Up

Get ready, Ballard: Market Street is gonna shake with the Macefield Music Festival, October 2nd through 4th in this beautiful, historic 'hood.


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Wednesday Music News

Both Mac DeMarco and Run the Jewels filmed sessions for the Black Cab Sessions video series — sadly, not together, but it's still pretty darn great. Watch our gap-toothed friend perform a solo acoustic version of "The Way You'd Love Her" off his forthcoming Another One, and see El-P and Killer Mik…


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Tuesday Music News

The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach has shared more information about his upcoming album with his new music project called The Arcs. The 14-track album is called Yours, Dreamily and will drop on September 4. They've shared a laid-back, folksy number called "Stay in My Corner." Listen, below. [CoS]


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Monday Music News

Aw man, not again! On Friday night, after The Replacements' performance at Primavera Porto in Barcelona, Spain, frontman Paul Westerberg said it would be the last time they'd play together. (The band first formed in 1979, and first broke up in 1991, before their 2012 reunion.) Westerberg told the …


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Friday Music News

Florence & the Machine have announced their new summer and fall tour schedule for How Big How Blue How Beautiful. They will hit several festivals like Bonnaroo and Austin City Limits, before their final stop brings them here to Seattle. Key Arena will host Florence Welch and company on October…


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Thursday Music News

The siblings behind JEFF The Brotherhood are certainly characters, and in the video for the track "In My Mouth" the boys are at the end of their strings. Created, filmed, and edited by Halle Ballard, the clip transforms them into puppets for the track off their latest full-length Wasted On The Dre…


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Wednesday Music News

If you missed The Jesus and Mary Chain on their recent stop at The Showbox, you can at least pick up the new live album they've just announced: Live at Barrowlands. Originally released for Record Store Day, the 2008 Scottish show celebrated the 30th anniversary of their debut, Psychocandy, and wil…


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Capitol Hill Block Party Daily Roundups KEXP Suggests

Capitol Hill Block Party 2015: Final Lineup Announce

Just when you thought this year's Capitol Hill Block Party couldn't get any better, today they added over 40 more bands to the line-up, including everyone's Sasquatch fave, Father John Misty. Get ready for fun the weekend of July 24th through July 26th at the corners of Broadway and 12th Ave and E …


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Tuesday Music News

Yo La Tengo will release their latest album Stuff Like That There on August 28. The album will include covers of the Cure, Hank Williams, and others, as well as some reworkings of Yo La Tengo's own music. Today you can hear their cover of Special Pillow's "Automatic Doom" and an updated version of…


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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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