Swingin' Doors host Don Slack presents the latest Music That Matters podcast featuring new songs from The So So Glos, Waco Brothers, Kristin Kontrol and more. 1. Acapulco Lips - Awkward Waltz 2. Tacocat - I Love Seattle 3. Summer Cannibals - Full Of It 4. PUP - If This Tour Doesn't Kill You, I Will 5. The So So Glos - Dancing Industry 6. Diarrhea Planet - Life Pass 7. White Lung - Below 8. Nothing - ACD 9. Greys - Blown Out 10. Zig Zags - They Came For Us 11. Waco Brothers - DIYBYOB 12. Parker M...
May 27, 2016•56 min
Whether you're attending in person or in spirit, Midday Show host Cheryl Waters presents the perfect soundtrack for your trip to Sasquatch! Music Festival this year. 1. Sufjan Stevens - Should Have Known Better 2. Julia Holter - Feel You 3. Briana Marela - Surrender 4. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love 5. Mac DeMarco - Blue Boy 6. M. Ward - Girl from Conejo Valley 7. The Twilight Sad - There's a Girl In the Corner 8. Frightened Rabbit - Get Out 9. Wolf Alice - Moaning Lisa Smile 10. King Giz...
May 20, 2016•1 hr 17 min
Morning Show host John Richards presents the 6th installment of KEXP's Runner Powered Podcast. 1. LUH - I&I 2. onDeadWaves - Blue Inside 3. Hammock - Everything and Nothing 4. School of Seven Bells - Ablaze 5. Fly Moon Royalty - Grown Man 6. Cullen Omori - Cinnamon 7. Minor Victories - Folk Arp 8. The Big Pink - Hightimes 9. Big Deal - Say Yes 10. You Won't - Ya Ya Ya 11. Caveman - Never Going Back 12. Versing - Early Spring Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donate See omnystudio.com/li...
May 13, 2016•50 min
Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole proves that the world is a beautiful musical place with a diverse set of new sounds that span the globe, including music from Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta, Australia, Sweden, Scotland, Niger, and Connecticut's The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die. 1. The Sun Days - Don't Need To Be Them 2. PAWS - No Grace 3. The Coathangers - Make It Right 4. Bombino - Akhar Zaman (This Moment) 5. The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer A...
May 06, 2016•45 min
Variety Mix host DJ Shannon brings you songs from the bands she's championing on her show, including The Crookes, Sticky Fingers, Man of Moon, Oh Malô and more. 1. The Crookes - I Wanna Waste My Time on You 2. Sticky Fingers - Outcast At Last 3. Balthazar - Then What 4. Telegram - Follow 5. The Intelligence Service - Can't Believe 6. Man of Moon - Sign 7. Frightened Rabbit - Get Out 8. Foreignfox - Monsoon 9. Three Blind Wolves - Stay Calm Ali 10. Mt. Doubt - Afterglow 11. Minor Victories - A Hu...
Apr 29, 2016•1 hr 16 min
Midday show host Cheryl Waters presents a new mix of great music, featuring songs from Kyle Craft, Fauna Shade and more. 1. Kyle Craft - Pentecost 2. Woods - Sun City Creeps 3. Prism Tats - Pacifist Masochist 4. DMA's - Timeless 5. DRÆMHOUSE - Lucky 6. Conner Youngblood - Diamonds 7. Kevin Morby - I Have Been to the Mountain 8. Pure X - Thousand Year Old Child 9. Fauna Shade - No Nostalgia 10. Eleanor Friedberger - He Didn't Mention His Mother 11. Sunflower Bean - I Was Home 12. Grant-Lee Philli...
Apr 22, 2016•57 min
Morning Show host John Richards presents a podcast of happy, upbeat music to bring in the Spring. This podcast features great new music from Manatee Commune, Prince Rama, Yuck and more. 1. Manatee Commune - Clay feat. Marina Price 2. Eleanor Friedberger - False Alphabet City 3. Little Scream - Love as a Weapon 4. Oberhofer - Sun Halo 5. Painted Zeros - Pretty Rig 6. Twin River - Antony 7. Islands - Charm Offensive 8. The Kills - Doing It To Death 9. Prince Rama - Now Is The Time of Emotion 10. W...
Apr 15, 2016•46 min
Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole drops 10 new musical treasures from the Nordic hinterlands to the Pacific Northwest including new Finnish rap, Icelandic chill, cinematic Seattle electronica and a healthy blast of rock from Bob Mould. 1. Bob Mould - The End of Things 2. Muncie Girls - Balloon 3. Big Ups - National Parks 4. Júníus Meyvant - Gold Laces 5. Vök - Waiting 6. Farao - TIAF 7. Agent Fresco - Wait for Me 8. View - Lace (feat. LCMDF) 9. IG88 - Wayside (feat. JPM) 10. Africaine 808 - The Awa...
Apr 08, 2016•39 min
This week Variety Mix host DJ El Toro compiles sixteen of his favorite new songs, a mix of the melancholy, moody, and melodramatic—plus a couple eleventh-hour barnstormers to make you tap your toes. The legendary chef Julia Child, who praised iceberg lettuce in her essential 1989 book The Way to Cook, inspired the title of this podcast. 1. Boyfriends - I Thought We Had Plans 2. Seth Bogart - Plastic 3. Gazebos - Boys I Like 4. Erik Blood - Quiet 5. Julianna Barwick – Nebula 6. Cat's Eyes - Chame...
Apr 01, 2016•1 hr 11 min
Midday Show host Cheryl Waters presents another blissful set of tunes to delight your senses. 1. Daughter - New Ways 2. M83 - Do It, Try It 3. George Clanton - Bleed 4. STRFKR - Never Ever 5. Frightened Rabbit - Get Out 6. onDeadWaves - California 7. The Jayhawks - Quiet Corners & Empty Spaces 8. Fruit Bats - From A Soon To Be Ghost Town 9. Ringo Deathstarr - Stare At The Sun 10. Dude York - Love Is 11. Jacuzzi Boys - Happy Damage 12. Male Gaze - The Shining Path 13. Trust - Capitol 14. PONZ...
Mar 25, 2016•1 hr
Morning Show host John Richards shares some of the best music being made in Seattle as well as London, Brooklyn, LA and more. 1. Beach Skulls - Santa Fe 2. Iggy Pop - Break Into Your Heart 3. The Dirty Nil - No Weaknesses 4. SWMRS - Drive North 5. Eagulls - Skipping 6. Flowers - Ego Loss 7. Amber Arcades - Right Now 8. Tangerine - Sunset 9. Naked Giants - Easy Eating 10. Charles Bradley - Change For The World 11. Coast Modern - Hollow Life 12. TEEN - Tokyo 13. Silver Torches - Cal Support the sh...
Mar 18, 2016•49 min
Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole takes you up and down- rocking your world and then helping you chill the fuck out. 1. PJ Harvey - The Wheel 2. Pinkshinyultrablast - The Cherry Pit 3. Bill Ryder-Jones - Satellites 4. M. Ward - Confession 5. Quilt - Roller 6. Samaris - Wanted 2 Say 7. DJ Béeso - (-.-) 8. Lymbyc Systym - Generated Bodies 9. Sóley - I Will Find You 10. Gangly - Fuck with Someone Else 11. Vök - Waterfall 12. Úlfur Eldjárn - Poyekhali! Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donate See ...
Mar 11, 2016•1 hr 2 min
DJ Miss Ashley celebrates Women's History Month, featuring new tracks from some very talented female artists, including Madrid-based, all-female quartet Hinds, sister duo Bleached, local reggae singer and multi-instrumentalist Chava Mirel of Clinton Fearons Boogie Brown Band, and many other leading ladies. 1. Hinds - Castigadas en el Granero 2. Frankie Cosmos - Sinister 3. Bleached - Keep on Keepin' On 4. Thao & the Get Down Stay Down - Nobody Dies 5. Quilt - Roller 6. Eleanor Friedberger - ...
Mar 04, 2016•56 min
Join Midday Show host Cheryl Waters for a great mix of mostly new music, including selections from Northwest artists along with a strong showing from Australia and New Zealand. 1. Kyson - You 2. Marlon Williams - Dark Child 3. Dr. Dog - Bring My Baby Back 4. Royal Headache - Carolina 5. School of Seven Bells - Open Your Eyes 6. Nadia Reid - Seasons Change 7. The Cave Singers - That's Why 8. Fey Moth - Coasts of Japan 9. Snuff Redux - Stop the Judge 10. Wray - Apacheria 11. Black Lips - Freedom F...
Feb 26, 2016•1 hr 1 min
Join the host of the very first and the 500th Music That Matters podcast for a mix of new music from all over the world including Greece, Sydney, London, NYC, Copenhagen, Seattle and more! 1. ADKOB - Lung Capacity 2. Fews - The Zoo 3. Sulk - Black Infinity (Upside Down) 4. The Callas - It's Sunday I'm Bleeding 5. The Castillians - You & Me 6. The Last Shadow Puppets - Bad Habits 7. Bill Ryder-Jones - Two to Birkenhead 8. Eleanor Friedberger - Sweetest Girl 9. Givers - Bermuda 10. Lust For Yo...
Feb 19, 2016•48 min
Audioasis host DJ Sharlese presents KEXP's Sound Off! podcast. Featuring bands participating in the 2016 Sound Off! competition, the premiere Northwest battle of the bands hosted by the Experience Music Project (EMP) Museum. 1. Copalis - Deep End 2. COSMOS - House Warming 3. Jazzy Tee - Heartless Grl 4. Party Shark - Pick & Choose 1 5. Animal Camera - Diane 6. Crews - One by One 7. Paris Alexa - All You Guys 8. Travis Thompson - No Se Feat. Ryan Caraveo 9. Dre'zy and Too Smoove - I Found Tha...
Feb 12, 2016•51 min
Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole turns to face the strange changes with a music mix for the ages including new Ty Segall, Paul Westerberg, Operators, and local music from Damien Jurado, Crater, Pillar Point and more. 1. Hinds - Garden 2. Hippo Campus - South 3. Nevermen - Mr. Mistake 4. Operators - Cold Light 5. TRAAMS - Succulent Thunder Anthem 6. Ty Segall - Candy Sam 7. Crater - Habits Die 8. Pillar Point - Lafayette 9. Mark McGuire - The Undying Stars 10. Nicola Cruz - Colibria 11. Mr. Silla -...
Feb 05, 2016•1 hr 16 min
Midday Show host Cheryl Waters has her eye on a bunch of great records coming out in early spring. Here's a sneak peek at some songs she knows you will love. 1. M. Ward - Girl From Conejo Valley 2. Hey Marseilles - Eyes on You 3. GEMS - w/o U 4. Lucius - Born Again Teen 5. ANOHNI - 4 Degrees 6. Radiation City - Juicy 7. Damien Jurado - Exit 353 8. Thao & the Get Down Stay Down - Nobody Dies 9. Surf Rock Is Dead - Anymore 10. Talisco - The Keys 11. Nada Surf - Believe You're Mine 12. PWR BTTM...
Jan 29, 2016•59 min
Morning Show host John Richards presents a mix of some his favorite new music, featuring Savages side-project Kite Base, new music from Shearwater, and upcoming music from Belfast duo Ex Magician. 1. TRAAMS - Costner 2. Ex Magician - Job Done 3. Holy Esque - Hexx 4. Beliefs - Leaper 5. Working for a Nuclear Free City - Bottle Rocket 6. Kelley Stoltz - Cut Me, Baby 7. Merchandise (feat. Dum Dum Girls) - Red Sun 8. Shearwater - Quiet Americans 9. Wildhoney - Laura 10. Coldair - Pretty Mind 11. Lus...
Jan 22, 2016•49 min
DJ Larry Rose takes you on a musical adventure that includes infectious electropop, punky angular guitar rock, harmonious guitar pop, fresh electronic grooves, and songs about waves and liquids. 1. Animal Collective - Floridada 2. Small Black - No One Wants It To Happen To You 3. Hibou - Dissolve 4. The Afghan Whigs - The Lottery 5. Kestrels - The Moon Is Shining Our Way 6. Palehound - Molly 7. POW! - Liquid Daydream 8. Shopping - Wind Up 9. Quilt - Eliot St. 10. EZTV - Bury Your Heart 11. Angel...
Jan 15, 2016•59 min
Cheryl Waters shares the promise of the new year by starting off 2016 with a mix of great new music 1. Elephant Stone - The Devil's Shelter (feat. Alex Maas) 2. Wray - Hypatia 3. Hibou - When the Season Ends 4. Martin Courtney - Northern Highway 5. Wild Nothing - TV Queen 6. The Cave Singers - That's Why 7. Night Beats - Sunday Mourning 8. Sudakistan - Concrete Djungle 9. Royal Headache - My Own Fantasy 10. The Besnard Lakes - Golden Lion 11. Day Wave - We Try But We Don't Fit In 12. Mavis Gary ...
Jan 08, 2016•1 hr 5 min
KEXP Variety Mix host Reeves does his first ever Music That Matters podcast, featuring tracks from the end of 2015 and from anticipated releases of 2016. 1. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Aerobed 2. The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - I Can Be Afraid of Anything 3. DIIV - Bent (Roi's Song) 4. Protomartyr - Why Does It Shake? 5. Death Index - Dream Machine 6. Death by Unga Bunga - Stare At the Sun 7. Hinds - Chili Town 8. Gun Outfit - Only Ever Over 9. Jono McCleery - This ...
Jan 01, 2016•1 hr 1 min
Midday show host Cheryl Waters presents a sampling of brand new and yet-to-be-released tunes to get you excited. 1. Kevin Morby - Moonshiner 2. Quilt - Eliot St. 3. Lemolo - Hold Light 4. Holy Esque - Hexx 5. Battleme - Shake Shake 6. Maserati - Rehumanizer II 7. Heaters - Kamikaze 8. Beach Slang - Young & Alive 9. Quarto Negro - Orlando 10. Ra Ra Riot - Water 11. Small Black - No One Wants It To Happen To You 12. Youryoungbody - Smuther 13. John Grant - Disappointing 14. Animal Collective -...
Dec 11, 2015•59 min
Swingin' Doors host Don Slack plays a variety of songs from albums to be released in 2016. 1. Charlie Hilton - Pony 2. Beverly - Crooked Cop 3. Eleanor Friedberger - He Didn't Mention His Mother 4. Quilt - Eliot St. 5. Deep Sea Diver - Secrets 6. Sunflower Bean - Wall Watcher 7. Night Beats - Sunday Mourning 8. Battleme - Shake Shake 9. Marlon Williams - Hello Miss Lonesome 10. Mount Moriah - Calvander 11. Freakwater - The Asp And The Albatross 12. Conrad Keely - In Words Of A Not So Famous Man ...
Dec 05, 2015•46 min
DJ Chilly of El Sonido collects a bunch of his favorite Latin beats from 2015 for this mixtape, featuring all sorts of different styles from around the globe. 1. Buyepongo - Maestros (Captain Planet and Canyon Cody Remix) 2. Novalima - Mi Canto 3. Kiko Villamizar - La Remolacha 4. Nicola Cruz - Colibria 5. Ságan - Oceánico 6. Disco Ruido! - Amorfos (feat. Mercedes Nasta) 7. Astro - Caribean 8. Daniel Haaksman feat. Bulldozer - Sabado (Aero Manyelo Remix) 9. MPeach - Malania 10. Mr. Pauer - Pasió...
Nov 27, 2015•1 hr 25 min
Sonic Reducer host Jenn plays some punk and hardcore songs from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. 1. Downtown Boys - Monstro 2. Lysol - Clean Living 3. Listen Lady - Hey Listen 4. C.C.T.V. - Paranoia 5. Coneheads - 1982 6. Dreamdecay - CEILINVG FAN 7. Pure Disgust - I.D.O.Y.S. 8. G.L.O.S.S. - Outcast Stomp 9. Long Knife - Negative Mental Attitude 10. The Flex - The Flex 11. Bosnia - Hot Date 12. Flesh World - Sturdy Swiss Hiker 13. Behavior - 78 Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donate See ...
Nov 20, 2015•39 min
Morning Show host John Richards presents a new Runner Powered Podcast. 1. Caspian - Sad Heart of Mine 2. Sharon Van Etten - Words 3. Youth Lagoon - The Knower 4. !!! - Sick Ass Moon 5. Other Lives - Reconfiguration 6. Roger Lion - A Dead Man's Song 7. José González - Leaf Off / The Cave 8. Holy Esque - Fade 9. Wolf Alice - Moaning Lisa Smile 10. Jacuzzi Boys - Sun 11. The Dead Weather - I Feel Love (Every Million Miles) 12. Morning Harvey - Smith Street Swap Meet 13. Fernando - Save Me 14. Small...
Nov 13, 2015•1 hr 4 min
Even though the clouds are moving in, it's always beautiful blue skies with all the great music on KEXP! 1. Cloud Cult - No Hell 2. Mercury Rev - The Queen of Swans 3. Natasha Kmeto - Grind (Feat. Tunde Adebimpe) 4. John Grant - Down Here 5. Low - No Comprende 6. Ought - Beautiful Blue Sky 7. Mammút - Blood Burst 8. Tamaryn - Softcore 9. Dilly Dally - The Touch 10. The Rebel Light - Strangers 11. Futurebirds - Deadbeat Hits 12. Sweet Jesus - Getting Over 13. Worriers - They / Them / Theirs 14. P...
Nov 06, 2015•1 hr 13 min
Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole and Online Content Manager Jim Beckmann preview the 2015 Iceland Airwaves Music Festival with a diverse mix of hip-hop, indie rock, electro pop and punk from 17 Icelandic artists including GusGus, Sóley, Júníus Meyvant and Low Roar. 1. Vök - Waterfall 2. GusGus - Obnoxiously Sexual 3. Hjaltalín - We Will Live For Ages 4. Gangly - Fuck with Someone Else 5. East of My Youth - Only Lover 6. Emmsjé Gauti - Strákarnir 7. Úlfur Úlfur - Tarantúlur 8. Reykjavíkurdætur - Óg...
Oct 30, 2015•1 hr 27 min
DJ El Toro presents nineteen of his favorite new tracks (including a couple of recently unearthed archival gems) for singing, dancing, shredding, and sulking. Lather, rinse, repeat. 1. Mocean Worker - Julius, Irving, Berlin 2. Peaches (feat. Kim Gordon) - Close Up 3. Escort - Animal Nature 4. Tunde Olaniran - Don't Cry 5. Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - One in a Million 6. Valley Maker - Take My People Dancing 7. Sam Gleaves - Two Virginia Boys 8. Public Image Ltd - Know Now 9. Shop...
Oct 23, 2015•1 hr 22 min
