KEXP Presents Music That Matters

The beat is correct on this summery mix of futurismo Brazilian breaks, Argentinean nectar, afro-beat inspired jazz, sharp drest hip-hop, and plenty of new Seattle sounds (good!). Please enjoy this set by Kevin Cole for your happy consideration. 1. The Cute Lepers - It's Summertime Baby 2. Telekinesis! - All of a Sudden 3. Jesse Sykes - In the Summertime 4. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal 5. Kassin+2 - Tranquilo 6. Cloud Cult - Ghost Inside Our House 7. NOMO - Three Shades 8. Natalia Clavier - Dormida 9. Mochipet - Sharp Drest 10. The Cool Kids - Bassment Party 11. James Pants - Crystal Lite

DJ 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. 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

DJ Shannon brings you music with sun, water, magic, teenagers, days, blooms, balloons and clocks. A springy summer mix. Relax, sit back and enjoy the better things in music. 1. South - Better Things 2. Chairlift - Evident Utensil 3. The LK - Stop Being Perfect 4. Magic Wands - Teenage Love 5. People of Water - Pink Conch 6. Sunny Day Sets Fire - Teenagers Talking 7. Peggy Sue and The Pirates - Television 8. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Moving Clocks Run Slow 9. Foals - Balloons 10. The Voom Blooms - Lucille 11. Matt Costa - Mr. Pitiful 12. Violens - Already Over 13. Days - Downhill 14. The Crimea - The 48A Waiting Steps 15. Pela - Good Foot on a Bad Doorstep

Join DJ Shani on her second KEXP podcast where she plays her favorite tunes of the past few months from bands that she's totally excited about and hopes you will be too. At the end, we think you'll all agree that there's really nothing better than a box of records, especially when it's raining all the time outside (yeah, Seattle, we're talking to you... it's JUNE, didn't you know?!) 1. Guinea Worms - Box Of Records 2. Bonnie Prince Billy - Lie Down In The Light 3. The Black Swans - Shake 4. Mattress - Mirror 5. The Child Readers - Young Worlds - Try To Hear! 6. Catatonic Youth - Control My Gun 7. Indian Jewelry - Temporary Famine Ship 8. Cheveu - Dog 9. Experimental Aircraft - Upper East Side 10. Nothing People - In The City 11. Blank Dogs - Crystal Ladies 12. Lucky Dragons - Givers 13. Nat Baldwin - Lake Erie 14. Corespondents - In The Face Of Those Who Want Us Hurt

Back in 1908, KEXP had a vision... it was a new century, the first passenger flight was flown, explorers were just reaching the North Pole, and William Howard Taft became the twenty-seventh President of the United States, and there was KEXP podcasting... what? it's "Volume" 100 and not "year" 100? -- oh, well, only 98 more years to go! 1. Power Douglas - Pangea 2. A Place to Bury Strangers - Missing You 3. No Age - Eraser 4. The Bell - On and On 5. Factory Floor - Bi-Polar 6. Sunset - Man's Heart Complaint 7. We Were Promised Jetpacks - Quiet Little Voices 8. Ting Tings - Great DJ 9. Lykke Li - Little Bit 10. Carter Tanton (of Tulsa) - Mass (recorded LIVE on KEXP) 11. The Real Tuesday Weld - Love at the Death Hotel (from Esopus #10) 12. Palodine - Woman of Cain 13. Nick Cave - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!

DJ Alex, KEXP's newest and youngest DJ, takes you on an eclectic ride around the world and under the radar, exposing independent artists currently roaming the underground. Tune in and indulge in a mix that's guaranteed to add a strut to your step and make your brain itch a little. 1. Metaform - Urban Velvet 2. Ruckus Roboticus - Here We Go 3. Louis La Roché - On the Floor 4. Tobias Fröberg - Slipping Under the Radar 5. diskJokke - Staying In 6. Spoon - Don't You Evah (Matthew Dear Mix) 7. Quiet Village - Circus of Horror 8. Blue Sky Black Death - A Private Death 9. Dosh - Hit and Pearle 10. Eliot Lipp - See What It's About 11. Karl Blau - Lake King's Daughter 12. Subtle - Exiting Arm 13. Artemis Jackson - Asps and Adders 14. The Wet Secrets - Secret March 15. Rafter - Love Time Now Please 16. Kutiman - Music Is Ruling My World 17. Charlie Why! - In The Sun 18. Carrie - 1981 19. Panda and Angel - The End Is Not So 20. Milosh - Then It Happened

Hey! DJ Rachel just made you your very own Spring mixtape! She knows how excited you are for summer and she put together some songs to get you though the rainy, flower-blooming, allergy-filled days of Spring. Summer's almost here, I swear. Sit tight and enjoy some rarities, previously unreleased tracks, demos, covers, noise, and more! 1. Thomas Function - Snake on the Grass 2. Man Party - Dance Monkey 3. Catatonic Youth - I've Had It 4. The Dutchess and the Duke - Reservoir Park (7" version) 5. Carrots - Beverly 6. Bow + Arrow - We Bricklayers 7. J. Tillman - Steel on Steel 8. Katharine Hepburn's Voice - Jerry Death 9. The Kills - U.R.A. Fever 10. Eddie Current Supression Ring - Get Up Morning 11. T.V. Cohran - Roadbirds 12. Your Heart Breaks - God Speed John Glen (Live @ KEXP) 13. Thee Oh Sees - The Coconut 14. Strap Straps - Kill for Jesus 15. Fuck Buttons - Bright Tomorrow 16. Pyramids - Fuzzy Grave 17. Liars - Army of Me (courtesy of Stereogum)

You say "Sass-quatch," I say "Sauce-squatch" -- whatever your preference, the three-day festival is sure to rock your socks off with a stellar assortment of bands including Ghostland Observatory, Beirut, Fleet Foxes, Blue Scholars, and so much more. Download this podcast for the lowdown on all things Sasquatch and get one hell of a mixtape to listen to as you make the trek out to the Gorge. 1. Flight of the Conchords - Business Time 2. Dead Confederate - The Rat 3. Yeasayer - Sunrise 4. Ghostland Observatory - Heavy Heart 5. Pela - Tenement Teeth 6. White Rabbits - Kid On My Shoulders 7. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal (LIVE on KEXP) 8. Grand Archives - Torn Blue Foam Couch 9. Beirut - A Sunday Smile 10. Joshua Morrison - Home 11. Sera Cahoone - Only As The Day Is Long 12. Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie Or Maybe 13. Throw Me The Statue - About To Walk 14. Cold War Kids - Tell Me In the Morning 15. Thao With the Get Down Stay Down - Bag of Hammers 16. Rogue Wave - Lake Michigan 17. Say Hi - Northwestern Girls 18. The Morning Benders - Waiting for a War 19. The Blakes - Lintwalk 20. Blue Scholars - Joe Metro 21. Jamie Lidell - Hurricane

Rock out and learn stuff at the same time. Kevin Cole presents songs about an early 20th century farmer's rebellion, the Swiss-Algerian explorer and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, and the skin disease Alopecia. Plus, someone still loves Boris Yeltsin. Get schooled by this Music That Matters podcast. 1. The Little Ones - Forgive Yourself 2. Frightened Rabbit - I Feel Better 3. DJ Dolores - Danger Global Warming 4. Testbild! - Labyrinthine 5. Metaform - PCH 6. Why? - Fatalist Palmistry 7. Nortec Collective - Mama Loves Nortec 8. Common Market - Black Patch War 9. You Me and Iowa - Tommy Hall 10. Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin - Boring Fountain 11. Destroyer - Foam Hands

This one is for all the nerds, misfits, introverts, and folks who simply march to the beat of their own drummer. For MTM 95, DJ El Toro parsed through recent music by some of his favorite oddballs, plus some newer acts that skew left-of-center. Dig into this mix of avant garde disco, orchestral pop, smart aleck hip-hop, and distinctive singing, and let your freak and/or geek flag fly proudly. 1. Hercules & Love Affair – Hercules Theme 2. Final Fantasy – Hey Dad 3. LD & The New Criticism – What You Will 4. Cadence Weapon – New Face of Fashion 5. Shy Child – Drop The Phone 6. Thalia Zedek Band – circa the end 7. Head Like A Kite – Before We Go To Bed 8. M83 – Graveyard Girl 9. Baby Dee – Fresh Out of Candles 10. James Pants – We're Through 11. PWRFL POWER – It's Okay 12. Bon Iver – For Emma 13. Russian Circles – Harper Lewis

The Republic Tigers, Plants and Animals, Sea Wolf, Le Loup, The Dodos, and other beasties inhabit Cheryl Waters' menagerie of news songs in this Music That Matters podcast. 1. Jose Gonzalez - Down the Line 2. Le Loup - A Celebration (LIVE @ KEXP) 3. The Republic Tigers - Buildings and Mountains 4. Plants and Animals - Bye Bye Bye 5. Ladytron - Black Cat 6. The Heavy - Coleen 7. Kassin +2 - Samba Machine 8. Man Plus - My Kind of People 9. Sea Wolf - The Cold, the Dark and the Silence 10. Jim Noir - Don't You Worry 11. Jason Anderson - The Post Office 12. The Dodos - Fools 13. The Helio Sequence - Can't Say No 14. Bauhaus - Too Much Twenty First Century

For this installment of KEXP’s Music That Matters podcast series, DJ Chilly collects some of his recent favorites in hip-hop, dub, drum and bass, and other beats. It's delivered in a full-on mixtape style for repeated neck crackability 1. Boreta - Bubblin' In The Cut 2. Big Quarters - Sign Of The Time 3. Living Legends - The Gathering 4. Ghislain Poirier - No More Blood (feat. Face-T) 5. Mnolo - Guerra Futbol 6. The Lions - Cumbia Del Leon 7. One Be Lo - Rebirth 8. Kublakai - All Else Fails 9. Akrobatik - Put Ya Stamp On It (feat. Talib Kweli) 10. Othello - Rot 11. Dub Fanatic - Steak And Fries 12. Rustie - Jagz The Smack 13. DJ Mayonnaise - Quiet On The Set 14. Boys Noize - Let’s Buy Happiness (Proxy Remix) 15. DJ Kentaro - Trust 16. PG-13 And Wake - Lyrical Soda Paper 17. Substantial - Resurrection Of The House Party 18. Del The Funky Homosapien - Bubble Pop 19. The Physics - Bran New Thang 20. Cex - Bolton Hill

DJ Troy Nelson takes you through another podcast, this time spinning mostly brand new music that he is currently excited about. There's nothing like hearing brand new music, especially from brand new artists that take you by complete surprise! From up-and-comers to unknowns waiting to be discovered to a Bowie cover that doesn't suck -- it's all here in this Music That Matters podcast. 1. Tea Cozies - Pretty Pages 2. The Jet Age - Maybe Love's a Transmission 3. Evangelicals - Skeleton Man 4. Xiu Xiu - Under Pressure (feat. Michael Gira) 5. The Epochs - Opposite Sides 6. Bronze Fawn - Lumber 7. Grynch - The Youngest in Charge 8. Glass Candy - Lovin' Machine 9. The Ettes - You Can't Do That to Me 10. Lumerians - Organ Grinder

We're not really sure what this podcast is about. It is quite possible that this is more than just a random collection of really new songs thrown together by Kevin Cole... or maybe not. Either way, these songs are amazing. It is music that matters... after all. 1. New Faces - My Alarm 2. Born Ruffians - Hummingbird 3. The Ruby Suns - Tane Mahuta 4. The Lions - Jungle Struttin' 5. Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Beat (Health, Life, Fire) 6. She and Him - Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? 7. Bubblegum Lemonade - Ten Years Younger 8. Manhattan Love Suicides - Heat and Panic 9. Joseph Arthur - Morning Cup 10. Headlights - Get Your Head Around It 11. Devotchka - Transliterator

DJ Shannon rocks Austin, the "Music Capitol of the world," looking for the next big thing. Listen to some of the best upcoming bands of 2008. 1. Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone 2. Esser - I Love You 3. Mason Proper - Bonemen 4. The Shout Out Louds - You Are Dreaming 5. The Ting Tings - Great DJ 6. These New Puritans - Infinity(Live @ KEXP) 7. Dodos - Fools 8. Lightspeed Champion - Dry Lips 9. Jeremy Warmsley - Take Care 10. OX.EAGLE.LION.MAN - Fatherhood 11. Health - Triceratops 12. White Denim - Let's Talk About It