KEXP Presents Music That Matters

Jaunt along with Morning Show host John Richards on his latest musical exploration. Recorded in a booth that was about 100 degrees and on a day when he was wacked out with illness, this week's podcast is both international and electronic, tropical and twisted, and possibly bubonic to boot. 1. Big Spider's Back - Secret Chief 2. Austra - Spellwork 3. Gardens & Villa - Black Hills 4. Boris - Attention Please 5. City Center - Obvious 6. Dreissk - Beholden 7. California Wives - Tokyo 8. Chad Valley - Fast Challenges 9. Selebrities - Can't Make Up My Mind 10. Yacht - Dystopia 11. Death Set - Slap Slap Slap Pound Up Down Snap 12. Ceremony - Not Tonight 13. Cuckoo Chaos - Jesus Flag

June is National LGBT Pride Month, and DJ El Toro invites you to celebrate with the 3rd annual Big Gay Podcast. You want to talk about diversity? Here's 75 minutes of fresh sounds by queer performers, ranging from conscious Seattle hip-hop and wig-flippin' garage rock to 8-bit electronica and neoclassical chamber music. 1. Hercules & Love Affair - Painted Eyes 2. Jessica 6 - Prisoner of Love 3. MEN - Off Our Backs 4. Big Freedia - Almost Famous 5. Noddy - Grind! 6. THEESatisfaction - Pause 7. Psychic Friend - Once A Servant 8. Hunx and His Punx - Lovers Lane 9. Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds - Goldin Browne 10. Torche - U.F.O. 11. Early Day Miners - Hold Me Down 12. John Grant - Jesus Hates Faggots 13. Light Asylum - Skull Fuct 14. Unicorn Kid - Dreamcatcher 15. Diamond Rings - You & Me 16. Owen Pallett - A Man with No Ankles 17. Holcombe Waller - Risk of Change 18. Baby Dee - Yapapipi 19. Stephin Merritt - Forever and a Day

These are beautiful things: Puppies, sunsets, life, and DJ Kevin Cole's latest podcast, which features new music from Woods, Vetiver, Joseph Arthur, and more! 1. Vetiver - Wonder Why 2. The Ladybug Transistor - Fallen and Falling 3. Woods - Any Other Day 4. The Devil Whale - Magic Numbers 5. The Loose Salute - It's A Beautiful Thing 6. Joseph Arthur - Gypsy Faded 7. Ikebe Shakedown - Kumani Walk 8. Ocote Soul Sounds - Pathways 9. Loga Ramin Torkian - Az Pardeh (Through The Veil) 10. No Surrender - Give It Up

DJ Alex is back with a hot batch of fresh, underground, cutting-edge beats for your listening pleasure! Whether it's next-level hip-hop, party-starting house jams, heart-tugging dubstep tunes, or cosmic synth-pop anthems, this expansive podcast is bound to get you moving and grooving. Turn up the volume, let the sounds flood your senses, find your inner rhythm, and trust in your spirit. 1. The Physics - These Moments 2. Valentin Stip - Anytime Will Do 3. Baths - Seaside Town 4. Africa Hitech - Light the Way 5. Shabazz Palaces - Swerve... The Reeping Of All That is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding) 6. Samiyam - Escape 7. MED - This Is Your Life (f. Blu) 8. Young Montana? - Bad.day 9. Kid Smpl - Morning 10. Buck UK - Separate 11. Dauwd - Could It Be 12. Ear Pwr - Mountain Home 13. Ford & Lopatin - Joey Rogers 14. Purity Ring - Ungirthed 15. Toddla T - Take It Back (Dillon Francis Remix) 16. Wiley - Numbers In Action 17. Dubbel Dutch - Fem Pressure 18. Cosmic Revenge - Memories (Beat Connection Remix) 19. RL Grime - Die 4 Me

In this latest podcast, John Richards plays all music with little interruption. Hear some of John’s recent favorites as heard on the Morning Show, including the latest from Washed Out, John Maus, up and comer EMA, and much more. 1. Washed Out - Eyes Be Closed 2. Echo Tongues - Aniborne 3. Dag för Dag - I Am the Assassin 4. John Maus - Believer 5. EMA - The Grey Ship 6. Motopony - Wait for Me 7. No Surrender - Silver Hall 8. Holy Ghost! - Do It Again 9. Love Inks - Blackeye 10. Ganglians - Jungle 11. Generationals - Ten-Twenty-Ten 12. Gold-Bears - Record Store

You won't know which door is which after checking out Kevin Cole's latest mix featuring new Ravenna Woods, Marissa Nadler, David Bazan, and Bill Callahan. 1. Ravenna Woods - Headless Men 2. Howe Gelb & A Band Of Gypsies - Uneven Light Of Day 3. David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights - Diamond Mine 4. Marissa Nadler - Baby, I Will Leave You In The Morning 5. Bill Callahan - Drover 6. David Bazan - People 7. Tokimonsta - Day Job 8. Kid Smpl - Morning (Archie Pelago Remix) 9. Sports - Prizefighter 10. Holy Ghost! - Hold On

In celebration of KEXP's new Latin music show "El Sonido," DJ Chilly once again curates an all Latin mixtape podcast, featuring lots of dance tracks with some hip-hop, reggae, indie-folk, dream pop and classic cumbia mixed in for good measure. 1. Mexican Institute of Sound - Carnaval 2. Quantic & His Combo Barbaro - Un Canto A Mi Tierra (J-Boogie Remix) 3. Rosendo y Su Banda - Me Voy Pa'La Costa 4. DJ Afro - Rata 5. Mr. Pauer - Cumbión Del Sur 6. Los Rakas - Ta Lista 7. Tarik feat. DJ Krazy - La Guial De La Foto 8. Systema Solar - Sin Oficio 9. DJ Dus - K Le Pasa 10. Zuzuka Poderosa - Entra e Sai (Sonora Remix) 11. Petrona Martinez - Sepiterna (Thornato Remix) 12. Algodón Egipcio - El Dia Previo 13. Fernando Milagros - Av. Perú 14. Fidel - Emocionado 15. Uproot Andy - El Puchi Lockoff 16. Mexicans With Guns - Dame Lo 17. Bomba Estéreo - La Boquilla (Dixone Remix) 18. Atropolis - Asi Asi Asi (feat. Noelia Fernandez) 19. José Larralde - Quimey Neuquen (Chancha Via Circuito Remix)

The happy songs on this latest podcast, presented by Cheryl Waters, range from dreamy to jaunty to driving, and they'll make you wanna tilt your face towards the sun, throw your hands in the sky and sing, and maybe dance a little too. Enjoy new songs from Handsome Furs, Black Lips, The Antlers and more. 1. Handsome Furs - What About Us 2. The Wilderness of Manitoba - Summer Fires 3. Chris Bathgate - Poor Eliza 4. Elliott Brood - Northern Air 5. The Donkeys - I Like The Way You Walk 6. The Wooden Birds - Two Matchsticks 7. Eef Barzelay - Shaker Star 8. Here We Go Magic - Hands in the Sky 9. The Antlers - Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out 10. My Morning Jacket - Holding On To Black Metal 11. The Globes - A Stitch Couldn't Save The World 12. Black Lips - Modern Art 13. Bibio - Take Off Your Shirt 14. Orchestra Poly-Rhythmo - Von Vo Nono

All good things come to those who wait. If good things mean talking. Welcome to your spring/summer podcast jam with no interruptions presented by the Morning Show's John Richards. 1. Blue Sky Black Death - Our Hearts Of Ruin 2. New Division - Bucharest 3. Rainbow Arabia - Without You (alternative version) 4. Apparat - Ash/Black Veil 5. Moby - Sevastopol 6. Milagres - Glowing Mouth 7. The One AM Radio - Sunlight 8. Pulseprogramming - First They Fire 9. Asobi Sexsu - Perfectly Crystal 10. MNDR - Cut Me Out 11. The Kills - DNA

DJ Alex’s sonic odyssey to discover the freshest in electronic and hip-hop beats has led him from his own backyard of Seattle to exotic locations all over the world, including layovers in California, Toronto, the UK, and even Russia! From bombarding to blissful, his latest podcast will be right at home on your trusty pair of headphones, blasting in your car with the windows down, or causing a ruckus on the most adventurous of dancefloors. Here’s to beats and being strange. 1. Wagon Christ - Introfunktion 2. Don't Talk to the Cops! - Guess I'm Strange 3. Co. fee - Destroy & Rebuild 4. Fly Moon Royalty - Higher 5. Hard Mix - Memories 6. Okay Colour - Golden Child 7. Groundislava - New Flesh 8. Gold Panda - Marriage (Baths Remix) 9. The Good Sin x 10.4 Rog - All For You 10. Stateless - Miles To Go 11. d'Eon - Tongues 12. Koreless - 4AD 13. Pixelord - Kiwi Dream 14. Ill Cosby - Gold 15. Jacques Greene - Another Girl 16. Jed and Lucia - Helium 17. Matthewdavid - Like You Mean It 18. James Pants - Dreamboat 19. Sister Crayon - Here We Never Die 20. Shlohmo - Places 21. Blue Sky Black Death - Sleeping Children Are Still Flying

DJ Kevin Cole keeps it short, sweet and rockin' with new music from The Cute Lepers, Beach Fossils, My Goodness and more! 1. Charles Leo Gebhardt IV - Teach My Heart 2. The Cute Lepers - Noisy Song 3. Beach Fossils - What A Pleasure 4. Craft Spells - Party Talk 5. Crystal Stilts - Shake the Shackles 6. Moon Duo - Mazes 7. My Goodness - Blackout Baby 8. The Kills - DNA 9. Yarn Owl - Seashell Wind Chime

Great music can get you through so much. Good days, dark days and the roller-coaster of day in between. Thank you to all the hard-working musicians who brighten our days and get us through the tougher ones. Cheryl Waters presents a sampling of those wonderful artists and their music, including lots of local talent, as usual. 1. Thunderball - Enter the Brahmin 2. Charles Bradley - The World (Is Going Up in Flames) 3. Eef Barzelay - Shaker Star (Terri Tarantula cover) 4. Typhoon - Claws, Pt. 1 5. Deerhoof - Behold A Marvel In The Darkness 6. Yuni In Taxco - Neutral Currents 7. Air Waves - Knockout 8. Parts & Labor - Rest 9. Japandroids - Heavenward Grand Prix 10. The Megaphonic Thrift - Candy Sin 11. Capsula - A Night In The Ocean 12. Hello Echo - The Coming Days 13. Viva Voce - Analog Woodland Song

The moodiest of the moody is collected here in the latest podcast by Morning Show host John Richards. From classical to folk, from dark Twin Peaks inspired spooky to the local musicians who brave the dark elements recording songs, this one should be listened to before summer finally takes over. 1. Yuna - Someone Out of Town (Live on KEXP) 2. Joshua Morrison - September 3. Legendary Oaks - One Inch Plantation 4. Dirty Beaches - Lord Knows Best 5. Balmorhea - Bowspirit 6. Pale Sketcher - The Rainy Season 7. Austra - The Beat and the Pulse 8. Oberhofer - Away FRM U 9. Mazes - Most Days 10. Buffalo Tom - Guilty Girls 11. Yuck - Georgia 12. Soft Circle - First Time

DJ Tim plays some of his favorite tunes of thus year with a heavy focus on our great Pacific Northwest scene and some awesome National stuff too. If this is a preview of what's to come in music in 2011, then it's gonna a be pretty amazing year! 1. Loch Lomond - Blue Lead Fences 2. The Curious Mystery - Cool Kids in Tha Valley 3. Toro Y Moi - Go With You 4. Starfucker - Astoria 5. La Serra - Hold 6. Webelos - If You Choose to Stay 7. Craft Spells - After The Moment 8. Nite Jewel - It Goes Through Your Head (DaM FunK's Club Dub) 9. Noddy - Clear As A Bell 10. Fergus & Geronimo - Where The Walls Are Made Of Grass 11. Witch Gardens - Lifeguard 12. Karl Blau - Celebrate By Singing 13. Dirty Beaches - Lord Knows Best 14. Sister Crayon - I'm Still the Same Person

DJ Kevin Cole slam dunks his current faves on yo' ass with new music from Low, Eleventh Dream Day, Middle Brother, Capsula and many others. 1. Acrylics - Molly's Vertigo 2. BOAT - Forever In Armitron 3. Middle Brother - Someday 4. Campfire OK - Hard Times 5. Brown Recluse - Impressions of a City Morning 6. Paris Suit Yourself - Sometimes 7. Rainbow Arabia - Sequenced 8. The Deer Tracks - Ram Ram 9. Low - Try to Sleep 10. Capsula - Hit 'n' Miss 11. Those Darlins - Be Your Bro 12. Eleventh Dream Day - Satellite 13. Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place