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Smoking Cigarettes with Neko Case

KEXP's Rachel Stevens reflects on the 20th anniversary of Neko Case's landmark Blacklisted


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Throwaway Style Rewind Local Music Album Reviews

Throwaway Style: On THEESatisfaction's Sub Pop Albums and the Loneliness of Being First

To celebrate International Women's History Month, the impending arrival of our Black Constellation podcast, and the 10-year anniversary of awE naturalE, Martin Douglas basks in the brilliance of Stas and Cat's two Sub Pop-issued albums.


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Throwing Muses' Limbo Turns 25: Kristin Hersh & Gilbert Hernandez on the Album Artwork and More

As the Throwing Muses album Limbo turns 25 today, KEXP resurfaces an old interview with frontwoman Kristin Hersh and legendary comic artist book artist Gilbert Hernandez, who did the album artwork.


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Being Isn’t Certain: Arthur Russell’s World of Echo at 35

KEXP's Dusty Henry revisits a classic record from the underground cellist experimentalist icon and finds greater understanding for his work at large.


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Give Violence a Chance: Five Years of G.L.O.S.S.'s Trans Day of Revenge

Before breaking up due to the pressures of their sudden explosion in popularity, the Olympia band created one of the most important punk releases in recent memory. Martin Douglas explores.


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Ode to a Black Man: The Dirtbombs' Ultraglide in Black at 20

Martin Douglas examines one of the most beloved artifacts from Detroit's much ballyhooed early-'00s garage-rock scene.


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Viva! Cibo Matto: Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Their Breakthrough Debut LP

In honor of Pushing Boundaries, and in celebration of the album's 25th anniversary, KEXP's Janice Headley revisits Cibo Matto's genre-defying 1996 debut full-length Viva! La Woman.


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We Are Ever New: Looking Back at Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Masterful Keyboard Fantasies

Looking back at the new age opus and an underheard masterpiece that may give peace and perspective in our current moment.


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Rewind: Ty Segall's Melted Turns 10

Martin Douglas revisits the California garage rocker's 2010 "anti-masterpiece."


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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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