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Out This Week 7/17

By Jacob Webb | Published: July 17, 2012

Although many Seattleites may have this weekend’s Capitol Hill Block Party on their minds, there’s a flurry of new music this week to keep your ears busy until this weekend. Easily the week’s highest profile release, Frank Ocean‘s Channel Orange is turning out to be one of the frontrunners for 2012′s Album of the Year.Read more...

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Out This Week 7/10

By Jacob Webb | Published: July 10, 2012

With summer finally coming into Seattle, your car/stereo/other music player is certainly in need of some fresh new music. One of this week’s biggest releases is also one of the year’s most anticipated: Swing Lo Magellan, the sixth studio album from Dirty Projectors. Dave Longstreth and company holed up in New York for a yearRead more...

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Out This Week 7/3

By Jim Beckmann | Published: July 3, 2012

As you’d expect this holiday week, the list of new releases is very short. However, there are a handful of albums you’ll want to check out, and each embraces the spirit of independence, just as we on the KEXP blog are celebrating our nation’s independence by profiling some of the great independent record labels. AmongRead more...

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Out This Week 6/26

By Jim Beckmann | Published: June 26, 2012

You’ll find plenty of great new music for the long days and late nights of summer among this week’s new releases. aA reunited Beachwood Sparks offer sunny Cali vibes on their first album in 11 years, featuring a warm blend of folk, pop, and mellow psychedelia -- just right for kicking back on your lawnRead more...

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Out This Week 6/19

By Jim Beckmann | Published: June 19, 2012

A Fiona Apple album is a rare thing, both for its scarcity -- this is her first album in seven years -- and for the quality of art pop that her contemporaries just seem unable to match. Today sees the release of The Idler Wheel, short for a title longer than this sentence. Fans couldn’tRead more...

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Out This Week 6/12

By Jim Beckmann | Published: June 12, 2012

Following an 18-year hiatus, soul singer Bobby Womack returns to top this week’s list of new releases with The Bravest Man In The Universe, which easily ranks among the legendary singer’s best albums to date. Following the approach he took with the late Gil Scott-Heron’s excellent final record, producer and XL Recordings head Richard Russell,Read more...

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Out This Week 6/4

By Jacob Webb | Published: June 5, 2012

It’s always hard to follow up a breakthrough records, but Japandroids have not only met any expectations that may have been placed on them, they’ve set themselves to break out to a bigger audience that no one, even the band themselves, may have ever expected them to reach. Although we’re only halfway through the year,Read more...

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Out This Week 5/29

By Jim Beckmann | Published: May 29, 2012

Easily one of the better performances during Sasquatch! this past weekend came from New York band The Walkmen. On stage, the boys looked snazzy and were dressed appropriately for the sharp numbers they played from Heaven -- that’s their sixth studio album which, according to our Music Director, Don Yates, is “an impeccably crafted setRead more...

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Out This Week 5/22

By Jim Beckmann | Published: May 22, 2012

A chorus of strong female voices top this week’s list of new releases, none more promising than that of young London-via-Ontario singer-songwriter Al Spx, a.k.a. Cold Specks, whose head turning debut, as our Music Director, Don Yates, describes, is “a powerful, emotionally moving set of gospel-steeped folk-pop with a dark, hushed sound featuring muted guitarsRead more...

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Out This Week 5/15

By Jim Beckmann | Published: May 15, 2012

A pair of duos top this week’s list of new releases. Baltimore’s Beach House (Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand) have undoubtedly the most anticipated release out this week, if not this year, with their second Sub Pop released LP, and if you thought 2010′s Teen Dream was beautiful, wait until you hear Bloom. Our MusicRead more...

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