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Terrestrial Doom: 30 Songs For Our Age Of Anxiety

December 11, 2019 • This year-end playlist showcases the music that best captured 2019's ever-wary mood, presented here in three 10-song movements of personal anxiety, global dread and moral resolution.

New Music Friday: Our Top 7 Albums Out On May 24

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New Music Friday: Our Top 7 Albums Out On May 24

May 24, 2019 • The best new albums out this week include a stirring call for social justice from soul and gospel legend Mavis Staples, rapper YG's remembrance of Nipsey Hussle, lo-fi rock veterans Sebadoh and more.

New Music Friday: Our Top 7 Albums Out On May 24

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Sebadoh Rebuilds, Rekindles And Reinvents With 'Act Surprised'

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Sebadoh Rebuilds, Rekindles And Reinvents With 'Act Surprised'

May 16, 2019 • The band kicks off its fourth decade with a string of spiky, aggressive three-minute rock songs whose jagged edges hide a throbbing heart.

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Review: Lou Barlow, 'Brace The Wave'

August 26, 2015 • Brace The Wave keeps the Sebadoh singer's sound stripped to its barren bones, an approach suited to the pleas and confessions therein.

All Songs Rewind: The Legacy Of The '90s

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All Songs Rewind: The Legacy Of The '90s

July 7, 2015 • While Bob Boilen's out, Katie Presley and All Songs intern Julian Ring are replaying their favorite episodes of the podcast. Today: A look back at the '90s.

All Songs Rewind: The Legacy Of The '90s

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Sebadoh, 'A State Of Mine'

January 29, 2014 • In its latest video, the band finds itself fretting about the trappings of adulthood: fears about making enough money, learning valuable life lessons and caring for their children.

First Listen: Sebadoh, 'Defend Yourself'

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First Listen: Sebadoh, 'Defend Yourself'

September 8, 2013 • The band's first album since 1999 once again mixes unlikely sensibilities: miserablism made vital by gritty forcefulness, scabrousness harnessed in the pursuit of beauty. Even as singer Lou Barlow offers up clear-eyed postmortems of a wrecked marriage, Defend Yourself exudes the live-wire energy of musicians brought back from the brink.

Sebadoh, 'Defend Yourself'

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Favorite Sessions

Sebadoh, 'Keep The Boy Alive' (Live)

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August 26, 2013 • Lou Barlow and Jason Loewenstein released their first Sebadoh album in 14 years, Defend Yourself, in September 2013. They visited KEXP in Seattle to give fans a taste of the new material.

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All Songs Considered

New Radiohead, Plus Sneak Previews Of Atlas Sound, Circulatory System, Lou Barlow

August 17, 2009 • On this edition of All Songs Considered, a new single from Radiohead plus Atlas Sound, Circulatory System and more.

New Radiohead, Plus Sneak Previews Of Atlas Sound, Circulatory System, Lou Barlow

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Song Of The Day

Sebadoh: On Love's Collapse, 'Soul and Fire'

July 14, 2008 • By the time Lou Barlow opens his mouth to sing, Sebadoh's 1993 single "Soul and Fire" has already conveyed a knotty bundle of conflicting emotions: They're all there in the aching, deliberately paced opening notes. From there, Barlow catalogs a relationship's combustible ingredients before announcing, "I think our love is coming to an end."

'Soul and Fire' by Sebadoh

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