Music That Matters, Vol. 156 - Northwest Festival PreviewSunshine, drum circles and water parks aren't the only things that the summer months have to offer, there's also music festivals! DJ Sharlese gives you a preview of three summer festivals she's excited to attend: The Capitol Hill Block Party, What The Heck Fest, and PDX Pop Now! Yay for Summer!
Tracklist:
1. Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
2. The Maldives - By The Wind Sailor (Live @ KEXP)
3. Mika Miko - Beat The Rush
4. They Live - Meth Heads
5. Cryptacize - Mythomania
6. Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping
7. The Vibrarians - The Woods
8. Arrington de Dionyso - Kedalaman Air
9. Benoit Poulard - Idyll
10. At Dusk - For a Reason
11. Magic Johnson - Las Malas
12. Dykeritz - Chasing the Wheel Away
13. Ethan Rose & Laura Gibson - Sun
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Music That Matters, Vol. 135 - Local Variety Dance Party MixAudioasis Producer Sharlese and her assistant Reese have a lot in common, including a shared appreciation of cupcakes and pounding the pavement in search of new and exciting bands from the Northwest. Indulge your sweet tooth in some of their favorite Northwest finds of the beginning of 2009.
Tracklist:
1. Fresh Espresso - Show Me How You Do
2. The Beats, Man - Freedomtown
3. Photosynthesis - 9th Street
4. KHV (Katharine Hepburn's Voice) - Crushin' Out
5. Weekend - Tait Toi Sois Belle
6. Grynch - It's Go Time
7. TacocaT - Volcano
8. Dyme Def - 3 Bad Brothaaas (remix)
9. The Last Slice of Butter - Family
10. D. Black - On The Go
11. CMYK - Last Dance
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Music That Matters, Vol. 127 - NW Series 5: South Puget SoundDJ Sharlese continues her series of regional Northwest bands, this time focusing on the variety of sounds coming from the south of Puget Sound. In this volume, you'll hear a selection of bands and artists mainly from Tacoma, WA, but also from Auburn and Olympia.
Tracklist:
1. Paris Spleen - Tamby
2. People Under The Sun - Weird Liars In Love
3. Friskey - Hershey Kiss
4. Wallpaper - Shag Carpet
5. Makeup Monsters - Calamine
6. The Elephants - Humans Extinct
7. David Wolf - Nocnitsa feat. Jesse Hill of The Next Door Neighbors
8. Clemm Rishad - Sky
9. Kusikia - Heart
10. The Drug Purse - Upside Down Girl
11. Umber Sleeping - The Sky Show
12. Don't Tell Sophie - Look No Cavities
13. The Fucking Eagles - Out Of This World
14. Can-U - Don't Walk Away
15. Lozen - So Long
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Music That Matters, Vol. 115 - DJ Shani's Local PicksMusic That Matters, Vol. 115 - DJ Shani's Local Picks DJ Shani presents her current favorite Seattle bands in her 3rd Music That Matters Podcast. Check it out to hear new or unreleased tracks from bands like Panda and Angel, Truckasauras, Past Lives, AFCGT, The Curious Mystery, and more!
Tracklist:
1. Love Tan - Ring Ring
2. Past Lives - Reverse The Curse
3. Portable Morla - Ode To A Willow
4. Mars Accelerator - Slow Science (When You're Right, You're Right)
5. The Curious Mystery - Outta California
6. Flexions - Ex-boss
7. Arbitron - Purge
8. The Limbs - Five Four
9. The Dead Science - Make Mine Marvel
10. Sokai Stilhed - Raw
11. Unlearn - Still Life With Actress
12. Panda and Angel - Make It Easier
13. Diminished Men - A Housewive's Dram
14. The Sea Donkeys - Lost At Sea
15. AFCGT - 2 Legged Dog
16. Truckasauras - Angels Sound Like Bottle Rockets
17. Daguerreotypes - Telegram to Tegucigalpa
18. The Luna Moth - Ghost Lilies Of The Whale Time
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Music That Matters, Vol. 113 - NW Series 4: PortlandDJ Sharlese continues her series of regional Northwest bands, this time focusing on the variety of sounds coming out of Stumptown. In this volume, you'll hear a selection of her favorite bands performing at Musicfest NW on September 3rd - 6th.
Tracklist:
1. The Shaky Hands - World's Gone Mad
2. The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
3. The Whips and The Whales - I Thought I Walked
4. Horse Feathers - Albina
5. The Joggers - Golden Wage
6. Spoon - You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
7. Starfucker - German Love
8. Atole - Satyricow (Copy Remix)
9. Lackthereof - Choir Practice
10. Animal Farm - Move It
11. Rachel Taylor Brown - Stagg Field
12. Blitzen Trapper - Crushing The Wheat
13. Boy Eats Drum Machine - The Crack In The Sea
14. Southern Belle - Sunnyside
15. Swim Swam Swum - Not In Your Way
16. White Fang - My Invisiable Hands
17. Dykeritz - The Apple Is Blue
18. We're From Japan! - Extraneous Zoo Animal
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Music That Matters, Vol. 112 - Meet Me at the AudioasisHannah Levin has been hosting KEXP's long-running local music show, Audioasis, for a little over a year and a half now, and one of the most enjoyable parts of her job is the thrill of our weekly in-studio performances. Every Saturday evening between 6 and 9 p.m., KEXP invites two local bands to stop by and play a few songs. We've been fortunate enough to capture some stellar performances, so Hannah figured it was high time to cull the archives and pull out some of her favorites.
Tracklist:
1. Rocky Votolato - Tinfoil Hats (Live @ KEXP)
2. New Faces - Cracks (Live @ KEXP)
3. Champagne Champagne - Cover Girl (Live @ KEXP)
4. The Intelligence - Dating Cops (Live @ KEXP)
5. J. Tillman - Seven States Across (Live @ KEXP)
6. Team Gina - Stars (Live @ KEXP)
7. Schoolyard Heroes - Dude, Where's My Skin? (Live @ KEXP)
8. Calvin Johnson - Pine Shaped Boy (Live @ KEXP)
9. The Duchess and the Duke - Mary (Live @ KEXP)
10. Past Lives - Strange Symmetry (Live @ KEXP)
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Music That Matters, Vol. 103 - What The HeckDJ Sharlese hosts the latest in her series of podcasts focusing on NW artists. This time, she features bands scheduled to play What The Heck Fest 2008, a 3-day festival taking place in Anacortes, WA, on July 18-20.
Tracklist:
1. Little Wings - Boom
2. Lake - Oh The Places
3. Love Tan - Nothing Belongs to You
4. Lucky Dragons - Wooden Cave Loop
5. Mirah and Spectratone International - Gestation of the Sacred Beetle (Live @ KEXP)
6. Karl Blau - Bird Song
7. The Gift Machine - Back to the Source 8. Dear Nora - Solo Wanderer
9. Calvin Johnson - Good and Crazy (Live @ KEXP)
10. Photosynthesis - Shadows and Sparks
11. Coconut Coolouts - (Please Don't Break Me Out Of) Party Jail
12. The Moondoggies - Side of the Road
13. D+ - Double Crossed
14. The Blow - Come On Petunia
15. Mt. Eerie - A Sentimental Song
16. TacocaT - Leotard
17. Your Heart Breaks (ft. Kimya Dawson) - Torrey Pines
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Music That Matters, Vol. 85 - Hip-Hop As We Know ItDJ Sharlese and Ra Scion of Common Market bring you a bit of the NW hip-hop scene.
Tracklist:
1. D. Black (feat. Dyme Def) - Welcome to the Life
2. Kingzmen - Fly Den a Mufucka
3. Footprints - No Ordinary
4. Grynch- That's Hip-Hop
5. Fatal Lucciauno - Focus
6. SK - Dolla Dolla
7. GMK - Over My Shoulder
8. Fatal Lucciauno - Q.U.E.E.N.
9. Joe King - 40 Bar Dash
10. D. Black - Fuckin With Me
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Music That Matters, Vol. 83 - NW Series 3: BellinghamDJ Sharlese hosts the third in a series of podcasts that profile bands from specific areas around the Northwest. This Music That Matters podcast features bands from the current scene in Bellingham, WA.
Tracklist:
1. Yes, Oh Yes - Being Stupid Is The New Hunting & Gathering
2. Karate Kitchen - Fernando
3. The Braille Tapes - Question: Have You Ever Seen A Douche Bag? Answer: No
4. Go Slowpoke - Kiss Now, Drunk Later
5. I Love You Avalanche - Pleiades
6. Asthmaboy - EraseHer
7. Jonathan McIntyre - The Path Home Rarely Changes
8. Yogoman Burning Band - Chaka Chaka
9. The Russians - Arab Lover
10. Counselor - Check Makeout
11. Black Eyes and Neckties - Tide Of Bones
12. Cicadas - Can't Stop Steve Holland (Coma Rad: Part Three)
13. The Wastelanders - Sets Me Burning
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Music That Matters, Vol. 80 - Portland RocksLisa Wood, one of the hosts of KEXP's Audioasis, moved to Portland a year ago and is discovering a new batch of Northwest bands. She brings you this Music That Matters podcast, dedicated to Portland bands that she thinks you need to hear.
Tracklist:
1. Red Fang - Prehistoric Dog
2. Swim Swam Swum - Is Life
3. Kleveland - Flat Tax
4. Boy Eats Drum Machine - From an Oregon Shore
5. Black Elk - Toss You to the Wolves
6. My Life in Black and White - Sink or Swim
7. 31 Knots - Man Become Me
8. Throwback Suburbia - Lonely With You
9. The Ones - Yeah, You Make It
10. Caves - Get on With It
11. The Crash Engine - So it Goes
12. Jeremy Wilson - Love Ain't No Good
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Music That Matters, Vol. 66 - Geezerfest Northwest PodcastFor two days in late August of 2007, more than a dozen northwest bands from Seattle's legendary "grunge" heyday reunited and played to enthusiastic, and eventually very tired, old fans. Lifetime local music fan and current host of KEXP's NW music show Audioasis, Abe Beeson took this as inspiration to spin 10 classic cuts from bands of this era that aren't Mudhoney, Nirvana, Soundgarden or Queensryche for a podcast that'll have you pulling out the flannel and digging in to your own stack of 7" vinyl treasures. The ten bands on this not-"grunge" podcast span the gamut of ultra-cool basement recordings of (in many cases) forgotten local geniuses.
Tracklist:
1. Swallow - Zoo
2. Seaweed - Inside
3. Skin Yard - Start at the Top
4. Mono Men - Burning Bush
5. Beat Happening - The This Many Boyfriends Club
6. Girl Trouble - When Opposites Attract
7. Hammerbox - Size of the World
8. Stumpy Joe - Basket Case
9. Coffin Break - Kill the President
10. Tad - Sex God Missy
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Music That Matters, Vol. 62 - NW Series 2: OlympiaDJ Sharlese hosts the second in a series of podcasts that profile bands from specific areas around the Northwest. This Music That Matters podcast features bands from the current scene in Olympia.
Tracklist:
1. Kickball - Polar Bears
2. The Old Haunts - Fuel on Fire
3. Kimya Dawson - I Like Giants
4. Skrill Meadow - Clarkwood
5. Lake - Behave
6. Scream Club - Protégé
7. Romanteek - Place To Go
8. TWIN - Malefick
9. Ben Kamen - When The Horizons Longing
10. Angelo Spencer - J'ai Avale Une Mouche
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Music That Matters, Vol. 53 - Levin's Local LovesHannah Levin, host of KEXP's Audioasis and author of the music column Rocket Queen, presents her debut podcast with a sampling of her favorite local artists, from '90s rabble-rousers Bikini Kill and Unwound to forthcoming tracks by newer bands such as the Intelligence and Grand Archives.
Tracklist:
1. Unwound - Dragnalus
2. Kleveland - Johnny is a Klepto
3. Root Beer Barrels - Ever Been So Bored That You Want to Kill Yourself?
4. The Fucking Eagles - He Won't Love You Like I'll Leave You
5. Brandon Daniel - All or Nothing: Backdown
6. The Lights - Setting Sun
7. Sleater-Kinney - One More Hour
8. Grand Archives - Sleepdriving
9. Bikini Kill - Rebel Girl
10. The Intelligence - Dating Cops
11. Llama - Love
12. J Tillman - Jesse's Not a Sleeper
13. Team Dresch - Hate the Christian Right
14. Love As Laughter - In Amber
15. Gerard Collier - For Taking My Baby Away
16. Visqueen - Houston
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Music That Matters, Vol. 47 - NW Series (Canada)DJ Sharlese hosts the first in a series of podcast that will profile bands from specific areas around the Northwest. This Music That Matters podcast features Northwest bands from Canada.
Tracklist:
1. Vincat - Werewolves
2. The Doers - Doin' Your Taxes
3. Run Chico Run - Famous For Being Famous
4. They Shoot Horses - Empty Head
5. The Paper Cranes - I'll Love You Till My Veins Explode
6. The Tranzmitors - Dancing In The Front Row
7. Fake Shark-Real Zombie - Designer Drugs
8. You Say Party! We Say Die! - The Gap
9. P:ano - Dark Hills
10. Listening Party - Jesus Christ I Don't Know
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Music That Matters Vol. 45: The New Northwest Rock RevivalDon Slack spotlights some of the bands spearheading the resurgence of rock in the Pacific Northwest.
Tracklist:
1. The Blakes - Two Times
2. The Whore Moans - X Ray Eyes
3. Autolite Strike - South Bronx
4. The Earaches - Right Now!
5. Thee Emergency - Get It Up
6. The Hands - Cold Ground
7. Ape City R and B - Dynomite
8. The Fucking Eagles - Dirty Gold
9. The Invisible Eyes - Can't Wake Up
10. Skullbot - Lookout
11. Shim - The Highway
12. The Valley - On Swallows Nest
13. Vindaloo - Electromatik Lunatic Dance
14. Iceage Cobra - Deathmobile
15. The Whore Moans - I Say Blood Three Times
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Music That Matters Vol. 36: New music from the Pacific NorthwestJohn Richards hosts Music That Matters Vol. 36, featuring new music from some of the Northwest's finest artists.
Tracklist:
1. Man Plus - Sister Says I'll Love Again
2. Shorthand For Epic - Hamhands
3. The Earaches - So Into You
4. The Hands - Lies Lies Lies
5. The Blakes - Streets
6. Coho - Until We Get There
7. The Lonely Forest - Skeleton Grip
8. Key Note Speaker - Reaction
9. Vindaloo - Electromatik Lunatic Dance
10. These Arms Are Snakes - Deer Lodge
11. Pufferfish - Rest Stop
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