Kexp Presents Music That Matters

DJ Kevin Cole lays in all down with a rad mix of new music discovery featuring Daniel Avery, Hollie Cook, Lake Jons, and Holy, plus a tribute to Jóhann Jóhannsson. 1. Khruangbin - Maria También 2. Hollie Cook - Stay Alive 3. The James Hunter Six – Blisters 4. Lake Jons - Call Me 5. No Age  - Send Me 6. Holy - Night On Earth 7. Long Neck -  Elizabeth 8. Tenderfoot - Break Apart 9. Daniel Avery - Slow Fade 10. Jóhann Jóhannsson – The Drowned World (Live on the Afternoon Show, 4/20/2017)Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Some say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Others say that the Music That Matters podcast, when hosted by KEXP's Morning Show host John Richards, is the most important podcast of the day. One thing is for sure, it's the right thing to do and the tasty way to do it.    1. Kasbo - Snow In Gothenburg  2. EMA - Moptops 3. Mint Field - Quiero Otono De Nuevo 4. Crater - Novocaine  5. Austra - Change The Paradigm 6. The Blow - Get Up 7. Amen Dunes - Miki Dora  8. Dr. Dog - Listening In  9. Jay Som - Pirouette 10. Vundabar - Diver 11. Hockey Dad - I Wanna Be Everybody  12. Hookworms - Static Resistance13. Strand of Oaks - Passing OutSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ahead of the 2018 MoPOP Sound Off! semifinals, Audioasis host/Expansions rotating host Sharlese showcases the 12 Northwestern Under 21 artists competing in the local music competition.   1. Dreadlight – Blister (Oregon City, OR) 2. Jawzilla – Family Reunion Pt. 1 (Tacoma, WA) 3. Maiah Wynne – Ballad for an Old Soul (Gresham, OR) 4. Strawberry Mountain – Vice House (Seattle, WA) 5. Micaiah Sawyer – Rest (Olympia, WA) 6. NËSTRÄ – Bucolic (Lynnwood, WA) 7. Sam Foster – Needles in my Mind (Issaquah, WA) 8. Step Dads – The Wall (Bellingham, WA) 9. Beyond the Woods – Flight (Everett, WA) 10. Claudine Magbag – U Got (Marysville, WA) 11. EyezOthelo – Mindful Illustration (SeaTac, WA) 12. Misundvrstood – Party feat. Gypsy Temple (Seattle, WA)Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Take a deep breath and dive in with Cheryl Waters as she plunges into a pool of new music with new tracks from Preoccupations, Sunflower Bean, and Ought.   1. Cock & Swan – Never Been So Lost 2. Fever Ray – Mustn't Hurry 3. Dream Wife – Somebody 4. Sunflower Bean – Crisis Fest 5. Eels – The Deconstruction 6. Gingerlys – Turtledoves 7. Bette Smith – Jetlagger 8. Destroyer – Tinseltown Swimming in  Blood 9. Ought – These 3 Things 10. Preoccupations – Espionage 11. Heaters – Black Bolt 12. Shame – One RizlaSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Musical alchemist DJ Kevin Cole provides the soundtrack to penetrate the darkness and fear that obscures our awareness of the divine chord.  Includes new songs from Dessa, Sufjan Stevens, Gord Downie, and other cosmic creators.    1. Dessa - Fire Drills 2. Tus Nua - Fight! 3. The Luxembourg Signal - Blue Field 4. Nabihah Iqbal,  Saw U Twice 5. Sufjan Stevens - Tonya Harding (in Eb major) 6. Bekon - Cold As Ice 7. Falon Sierra - Sprained Ankles 8. Gord Downie -  A Natural 9. Airiel -  Molten Young Lovers 10. Pia Fraus - Autumn Winds 11. Boulevards -  Donezo 12. Ikebe Shakedown – BrushfireSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Goth is back from the dead and everybody is wearing black and dangly earrings. Atticus takes you on a journey throughout the various dark jams that he's been listening to lately, from goth tinged electropop to shoegaze to garage and everything in between.    1. Odonis Odonis - Check My Profile 2. TR/ST - Bicep 3. Ritual Howls - This is Transcendence 4. L.A. Witch - Drive Your Car 5. Has A Shadow - The Flesh 6. The Soft Moon - Burn 7. Night Sins - Crystal Blue 8. Death of Lovers - The Absolute 9. Blood Pleasures - New Bodies 10. Zola Jesus - Veka 11. Actors - Crystal 12. Drab Majesty - Dot in the Sky 13. Boy Harsher - Motion 14. Porches - Find Me  15. El Perro Del Mar - Fight For LifeSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Music that Matters podcast that defies description yet has that Barton Fink feeling with songs from great new artists (make sure to listen to HOLY!) and old favorites like Buffalo Tom, Elvis Perkins and Geowulf.    1. Elvis Perkins - There Go the Nightmericans 2. Jonathan Wilson - Over the Midnight 3. Hatchie - Sure 4. Geowulf - Hideaway 5. Milagres - Flame 6. TR/ST - Destroyer 7. HOLY - Heard Her 8. Amusements Parks On Fire - Our Goal To Realise 9. Buffalo Tom - All Be Gone 10. Mind Spiders - Outside 11. Unlikely Friends - King of the Last CallsSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DJ Kevin Cole looks back at musical highlights of 2017 and ahead with anticipation and great expectations!   1. Alvvays - In Undertow 2. Wolf Parade - You're Dreaming 3. Žen - Žal (Strand) 4. Mammút - Breathe Into Me 5. Ride - Charm Assault 6. ГШ (Glintshake) - Убожество 7. Oligarkh - Maria Devo,  8. ODESZA - Late Night 9. Cock & Swan - PERG (Honing) 10. Shabazz Palaces - Shine A Light 11. Mikko Joensuu - There used to be a darkness 12. DoNormaal - Ego Slave 13. The True Loves - The Dirty 14. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Matter of Time 15. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Cumberland Gap 16. Casper Skulls - Primeval 17. Waxahatchee - Silver 18. Thunderpussy - Velvet Noose 19. Kevin Morby - City Music 20. Laura Marling - Wild Fire 21. Julie Byrne - Sleepwalker 22. Nilüfer Yanya - Baby LuvSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DJ Larry Rose tr/sts that you'll not be a hater and love this podcast that dude, is like a washed out fantasy about a lost horizon on the moon and we're not liars.   1. TR/ST - Destroyer 2. Washed Out - Hard To Say Goodbye 3. Nabihah Iqbal - Zone 1 to 6000 4. Dude York - Break Up Holiday 5. Moon Palace - Full Moon Heart 6. Hater - Rest 7. Milo - Ornette's Swan Song 8. Lost Horizons - Reckless 9. Vivian Fantasy - Florist 10. Liars - Cred Woes11. The Luxembourg Signal - Are You Numb?Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

To paraphrase Stefon from Weekend Update, John Richards' latest podcast has everything...a naked giant, a Superchunk, and an FKL. What's an FKL? It's that thing where a KEXP DJ plays the bestest songs on a podcast, ever. 1. Makeness - Loud Patterns 2. FKL - A Different Street 3. Shopping - The Hype 4. Alyeska - Stones 5. Naked Giants - The Age of Information 6. DoM - Gud Tymes 7. Citizen - Fever Days 8. Smokey Brights - Come to Terms 9. Roadkill Ghost Choir - Classics (Die Young) 10. Superchunk - What a Time to be Alive 11. Cut Worms - Song of the Highest TowerSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Variety mix host and general renaissance man Troy Nelson paints a portrait of his latest musical tastes with new tracks from Sneaks, Kelley Stoltz, and Curtis Harding. 1. Sneaks - Look Like That 2. Mux Mool - Oh Yeah 3. Frankie Rose - Trouble 4. Cherry - Buttoned Up 5. Timber Timbre - Grifting 6. Kelley Stoltz - Empty Kicks 7. ShitKid - Alright 8. Curtis Harding - Face Your Fear 9. Four Tet - Two Thousand and Seventeen 10. Mogwai - Party In the DarkSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DJ Kevin Cole crushes it on his latest new music mix featuring Kiasmos, the Gunn-Truscinski Duo, John Maus, Hundred Waters and the cross cultural collaboration of heavyweights Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet.   1. Autonomics - Southern Funeral 2. Flat Worms - Pearl 3. Oh Sees - Jettisoned 4. Cock & Swan - What Was Life? (What's Your Problem?) 5. John Maus - The Combine 6. Porches - Find Me 7. Hundred Waters - Wave To Anchor 8. Shredders - Fly As I Dare 9. GDJYB - That Day I Went To His Funeral 10. Ages and Ages - How It Feels 11. Gunn-Truscinski Duo - Flood And Fire 12. Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet - Eh Ya Ye 13. Kiasmos - BlurredSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cheryl Waters' final mix of 2017 is a wild one, with dreamy and heavy sounds taking you on a looping, rollicking ride with new tunes from A Giant Dog, Mister Heavenly, and Nick Hakim.   1. Nick Hakim feat. Jesse and Forever - Miss Chew 2. Nearby - Breakers 3. Gordi - Heaven I Know 4. Mister Heavenly - Makin' Excuses 5. Tomo Nakayama - Pieces of Sky 6. Langhorne Slim - Zombie 7. Katie Ellen - Wild Heart 8. L.A. Witch - Baby In Blue Jeans 9. The Clientele - Lunar Days 10. A Giant Dog - Roller Coaster 11. Pinkshinyultrablast - Find Your Saint 12. Chad VanGaalen - Mind Hijacker's Curse 13. Worriers - Future Me 14. Wand - Bee Karma 15. The Woggles - What You Think We AreSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

John in the Morning invades your "Dreams" and insists "You Would Have To Lose Your Mind" to "Poor the War Away" "In Another Century" which sends us back to "Primeval" times where it's a "Private Understanding" that one must "Bendover" when you are sent a "Dispatch From Mar-A-Lago" that has a picture of dice rolled to "Snake Eyes" on it. It's then you know that we've entered the Age of "Aquarius".   1. Alice Boman - Dreams 2. Lor - Aquarius 3. The Barr Brothers - You Would Have to Lose Your Mind 4. Karl Blau - Poor the War Away 5. The Church - Another Century 6. Until the Ribbon Breaks - Here Comes the Feeling 7. Casper Skulls - Primeval 8. Protomartyr - A Private Understanding 9. A Giant Dog - Bendover 10. L7 - Dispatch from Mar-a-Lago 11. No Age - Soft Collar Fad 12. Trouble - Snake EyesSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DJ Shannon brings you her latest favorite gems from bands such as Blaenavon, Shame, Ride, the Casual Sexists, Lea Porcelain, Paradise and Creatures.   1. Blaenavon - Lonely Side 2. Shame - Concrete 3. Ride - Pulsar 4. Control of the Going - Love You More 5. Paradise - Goodbye 21st Century 6. Lea Porcelain - Similar Familiar 7. New Candys - Excess 8. Out Lines - Buried Guns 9. Featherwest - A Baby Not Yet 10. Yassassin - Cherry Pie 11. Creatures - Enola 12. Dream Version - Fight Fair 13. James Holt - Whatever Happened to John? 14. The Casual Sexists - Karakara 15. Pollen Count - Remote One 16. Cloud Castle Lake - TwinsSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The latest mix from Cheryl Waters comes from all kinds of places and artists, featuring new songs from Zola Jesus, Ty Segall, and Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings.  1. Kevin Morby - City Music 2. Django Django - Tic Tac Toe 3. Widowspeak - When I Tried 4. Dream Wife - Somebody 5. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - Matter of Time 6. L.A. Witch - Baby In Blue Jeans 7. Moon Palace - Shapeshifter 8. Ty Segall - Alta 9. Weaves - Walk Away 10. Zola Jesus - Soak 11. Bully - Feel The Same 12. METZ - CellophaneSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DJ Kevin Cole previews the best of Iceland Airwaves 2017 with new tracks from Högni, Hórmónar, Mammút, JFDR, Vök, Sóley, Glintshake ГШ, Mikko Joensuu, and more!    1. Mammút - The Moon Will Never Turn On Me 2. Hey  Elbow - Quest 3. JFDR - White Sun  4. Vök - BTO 5. ГШ (Glintshake) - Убожество 6. Pale Honey  - Get These Things Out of my Head 7. Hórmónar - Kynsvelt 8. Högni - Komdu með 9. Lára Rúnars - Rosir 10. aYia - Ruins 11. Fai Baba - Can't Stop Loving You 12. Gordi - Can We Work It Out  13. Mr. Silla - Holding On 14. Sóley - Sing Wood To Silence  15. Amiina - Telegram 16. Mikko Joensuu  - There Used To Be A Darkness 17. Yagya - Young Suns of NGC 7129  Support the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Morning Show host John Richards presents the 9 gazzilionth podcast featuring a plethora of the finest new music for your ear-hole.   1. Florist - What I Wanted To Hold 2. Cock & Swan - PERG 3. Haley Hendrickx - Oom Sha La La 4. Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness 5. Holiday Ghosts - Paranoia 6. Peeling - Away From You 7. Andrew Hung - Say What You Want 8. Cults - I Took Your Picture 9. Great Grandpa - Teen Challenge 10. Bully - Kills To Be Resistant 11. A.D.K.O.B - Helium 12. Faith Healer - Light of Loving 13. Actors - Crystal 14. Ariel Pink - Time To LiveSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Audioasis host/Expansions rotating host Sharlese spins a continuous, danceable set with a spectrum-spanning mix of silvery electronic music featuring new songs from Boy Harsher, Youryoungbody, and Sally Dige. 1. Iv/An - Somewhere There's a Hunger Strike 2. Wire Spine - Hellraiser 3. Frequence Noir - I Could Die 4. High-Functioning Flesh - Stationed 5. Boy Harsher - Motion 6. Webdriver Torso - Web_006 7. Haunted Horses - Assembly 8. Sextile - Ripped 9. Mala Herba - Rusa ki 10. Benway's Bureau - Flutter Dance 11. Sally Dige - Holding On 12. Delusional Signals - Kino 13. Youryoungbody - 4everSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

DJ Kevin Cole surfs the sea of possibility on Sidestep The Spiral, a head spinning new music mix featuring Lamb, Makthaverskan, Battle Me, Versing, Faye Webster, Nilüfer Yanya, and more. 1. Who Is She? - Seattle Freeze 2. Worriers - The Possibility 3. Versing - Body Chamber 4. Battleme - No Truth  5. Makthaverskan - In My Dreams  6. Lamb - Illumina 7. Moonchild  - Every Part (For Linda) 8. Casper Skulls - Lingua Franca 9. Turnover - Butterfly Dream 10. Faye Webster - Remember When  11. Nilüfer Yanya - Baby Luv  12. Shigeto - Ice Breaker  13. Boy Harsher- MotionSupport the show: https://www.kexp.org/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.