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Music That Matters, Vol. 704 - The 2010s in Review Jan 17, 2020

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KEXP DJs Cheryl Waters, Kevin Cole and John Richards pick their favorite songs of the decade, from Arcade Fire to Lizzo, Deerhunter to A Tribe Called Quest, and discuss the personal and cultural impact of music in the 2010s.
1. Arcade Fire - Ready to Start
2. LCD Soundsystem - You Wanted A Hit
3. Sharon Van Etten - Don’t Do It
4. The Chemical Brothers - Swoon
5. Frightened Rabbit - The Loneliness and the Scream
6. Phantogram - When I’m Small
7. Deerhunter - Desire Lines
8. M83 - Midnight City
9. Of Monsters and Men - Little Talks
10. Grimes - Genesis
11. Alt-J - Fitzpleasure
12. Parquet Courts - Stoned and Starving
13. Macklemore and Ryan Lewis - Same Love
14. The Lumineers - Ho Hey
15. Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
16. Courtney Barnett - History Eraser
17. Foals - Bad Habit
18. Empire of the Sun - Alive
19. ODESZA - All We Need
20. The War on Drugs - An Ocean In Between the Waves
21. King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Cellophane
22. Ty Segall - The Hand
23. Strand of Oaks - Shut In
24. TV On The Radio - Trouble
25. Kendrick Lamar - The Blacker The Berry
26. FIDLAR - West Coast
27. A Tribe Called Quest - We The People….
28. Júníus Meyvant - Color Decay
29. Car Seat Headrest - Vincent
30. Michael Kiwanuka - Love & Hate
31. Alvvays - Plimsoll Punks
32. Ghostpoet - Immigrant Boogie
33. IDLES - Television
34. Childish Gambino - This Is America
35. Fontaines D.C. - Big
36. Lizzo - Juice

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Music That Matters, Vol. 703 - Special PNKSLM Edition Jan 10, 2020

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In this unique edition of Music That Matters, KEXP’s Atticus focuses on Sweden’s PNKSLM Recordings (Sudakistan, Chemtrails, HOLY). Along with playing some of his favorite releases, he talks with founders Luke Reilly and Johan Alm about the origins and future of the label, what it takes for them to sign a new band, touring in the US vs Europe and more. Get ready for a mix of sweet garage and punk from across the world while gaining insight into the label where it all began.
1. Sudakistan - Two Steps Back
2. High Sunn - Those Last Words
3. Sleep Eaters - Valley of Dogs
4. MISS WORLD - (U Watch My) Stories (But U Don't Like My Posts)
5. Shit Girlfriend - Mummy’s Boy
6. Chemtrails - I’ll Never Be
7. Spice Boys - Spice City Boys
8. HOLY - You shine on me (feat. Boys)
9. Beach Skulls - Baby’s A Liar
10. Arre! Arre! - I Feel It All
11. Mind Rays - Cease / Commence
12. ShitKid - Get jealous
13. Les Big Byrd - Snö Golem
14. Hollow Ship - We Were Kings

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Music That Matters, Vol. 702 - With Precision We Design The Decade Jan 03, 2020

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KEXP’s Stas THEE Boss, host of Street Sounds, brings you this week’s mix, featuring music from Pink Lotion, Kassa Overall, Akai Solo & Pink Siifu and more: “A carefully crafted experience with astral intentions. I desire freedom in music. Genres are cute but not necessary. Pulling mostly from the Pacific Northwest, I give a healthy dose of what you've truly needed all along.”

1. Figmore - Practice
2. Akai Solo & Pink Siifu - Labor Day (feat. KingCarterSlums)
3. High Pulp - Not By Chance (feat. JusMoni)
4. Kiefer - Be Encouraged
5. Kassa Overall - Please Don't Kill Me (feat. Joel Ross & Theo Croker)
6. Brown Calculus - UFO Daze
7. Pink Lotion - Find Me Two
8. Def Dee & Language Arts - Dry Land
9. Outlaw1 - Blak Madonna
10. Sunni Colón - Technicolor
11. MoRuf - Canal Street (feat. Ikenna)

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Music That Matters, Vol. 701- New Year, New Me! Dec 27, 2019

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Start the New Year with new music as DJ Kevin Cole features current favorites from all over the world including Slovakia, Colombia, Canada, Australia, Germany, Iceland, Senegal, Great Britain, Belgium, Croatia, Mexico, the USA, and the Pacific Northwest. Bringing the world together through the power of music!
1. Sløtface - New Year, new me
2. Shopping - Initiative
3. SONS - Keep On Going
4. Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Our Quiet Whisper
5. SAULT - Why Why Why Why Why
6. Clairo - Softly
7. Ezra Collective - Space Is The Place (Reprise)
8. Alps 2 - Arron’s Here
9. Katarína Máliková - Vodník
10. Jon Hopkins & Kelly Lee Owens - Luminous Spaces
11. COMA - Sparkle
12. Punčke - Chk Chk
13. El Shirota - Más de Una Vez
14. BAMBARA - Serafina
15. Sin Fang - Smother
16. The Waterboys - London Mick
17. of Montreal - Polyaneurism
18. Charly Bliss - Supermoon
19. Lido Pimienta - No Pude
20. Yirim Seck - Clicks
21. Polyrhythmics - Yeti, Set, Go

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Music That Matters, Vol. 700 - I Got Myself A Present Dec 20, 2019

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Sonic Reducer host and holiday music collector Brian Foss shares 13 festive tracks - Christmas music for people who don’t like Christmas music. The mix features songs from Mike Krol, Sweet Reaper, Mariya May and Kathleen Edwards.
1. Mike Krol - Won’t Be Alone Tonight
2. Rubber Band Gun - I Got Myself A Present
3. SAPIN - Christmas Eve
4. Jagged Jaw - Pink Xmas Tree
5. Sweet Reaper - Holidaze
6. Thee Mightees - Christmas Song
7. Frankie and the Lake County Collective - I’m So Over Christmas
8.Mariya May - Mama’s On The Floor (It’s Christmas)
9. Oceans of Mars - Christmas With The Devil
10. The Dead End Streets - Climate Change Christmas
11. Cutthroat Brothers - Candy Cane
12. Kathleen Edwards - It’s Christmastime (Let’s Just Survive)
13. Regal - Love Your Christmass

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Music That Matters, Vol. 699 - Queen of the Rodeo Dec 13, 2019

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Moody, defiant, empowered, and completely original. Every song on Cheryl Waters’ latest musical collage is fit for a Queen. This mix features compelling tracks from Vivian Girls, Seratones, Squid and Orville Peck.

1. Cigarettes After Sex - Heavenly
2. Black Nite Crash - Come Easy
3. Squid - The Cleaner
4. Vivian Girls - Sick
5. The Coathangers - Step Back
6. Seratones - Gotta Get To Know Ya
7. oso oso - charlie
8. Sleater-Kinney - Reach Out
9. Mega Bog - Diary of a Rose
10. Julia Jacklin - Pressure to Party
11. Greys - Burning Chrome
12. Oh, Rose - 25, Alive
13. Katie Ellen - Still Life
14. Orville Peck - Queen of the Rodeo

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Music That Matters, Vol. 698 - Mellow Winter Edition Dec 06, 2019

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Say "hovvdy" (howdy) to a great set of mellow music favorites from John Richards that would fit right in on any Lite FM...in Hell.

1. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - In Good Faith (feat. Joan Shelley)
2. Bonny Light Horseman - Deep In Love
3. Futurebirds - Waiting On a Call
4. Carter Tanton - Steep Angles On The Back Wheels
5. Long Beard - Means to Me
6. Sera Cahoone and Tomo Nakayama - Crows
7. Hovvdy - So Brite
8. somesurprises - High Rise
9. The Sunday League - I Liked It When You Weren’t Yourself
10. HOLY - Forget About Life
11. Lower Dens - Galapagos
12. Dan Deacon - Sat By A Tree
13. The Districts - Hey Jo

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Music That Matters, Vol. 697 - New Sounds of the Levant: Radical New Music from the Middle East Nov 29, 2019

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KEXP Wo’Pop host Darek Mazzone spent time in Amman, Jordan this summer. He dug deep into music from all over the region and selected tracks that best reflect the ever changing nature of this amazing part of the world, including music from Palestine's DAM (دام), Jordan's Yazan Sarayrah (يزن صرايرة), Lebanon's Issam Hajali (عصام حاج علی) and many more.
1. El Khat / القات - Ya Raiyat / يا راعيات
2. Autostrad - Ama Aldubul / أم الدبل
3. S H I R A N / شيران - Ya Banat Al Yaman (Live)
4. Satti / ساتی - Commitment (feat. Natalie Demerjian) / كوميتمنت
5. DAM / دام - Prozac / بروزاك
6. El Morabba3 / المربع و الفرعي - Ya Zein (feat. El Far3i) / يا زين
7. Yazan Sarayrah / يزن صرايرة - Erheb / ارحب
8. Sofiane Saidi & Mazalda - Gasbah Trisinti
9. TootArd / توت أرض - Musiqa / موزیکا
10. Liraz / لیراز - Zan Bezan / زن بزن
11. Ayloul / أيلول - Ya Rait / يا ريت
12. Issam Hajali / عصام حاج علی - Ana Damir El Motakallim

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Music That Matters, Vol. 696 - Pre-Winter Chillout Nov 22, 2019

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Most of us get stressed out this time of year, right? RIGHT?? Expansions’ own DJ Brit is here to help you chill the bleep out. A very nice hour of ambient and experimental music for you to get a hot stone massage to.

1. Black Lodge Singers - On the Move
2. Susumu Yokota - The Future of Ecstasy
3. Floating Spectrum - Eruption
4. Christopher Tignor - Your Slow Moving Shadow, My Inevitable Night
5. Pita - Two Top Five
6. Starkey - Simple Hive
7. Sleepertrain - Disappear
8. Land of Light - Between Two Grains of Water
9. Ocean Moon - Cloud Garden
10. Papivores - Heard by Stones
11. Young Spirit - Beautiful Dancing
12. Olan Mill - The Point, The Circle, and The Sphere
13. Steve Hauschildt - Subtractive Skies
14. Emptyset - Blade
15. Violet - Bed of Roses
16. Northern Cree - Jealous Fool
17. Oiseaux-Tempête - Out of Sight

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Music That Matters, Vol. 695 - Seeker Nov 15, 2019

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Midday Show host Cheryl Waters is back with another dynamic mix of her latest favorites in global and local sounds. Encompassing everything from jangle pop to soul, anthemic rock to proto-punk, this is a mix for seekers of all kinds. Among the artists featured are Bon Iver, SAULT, (Sandy) Alex G, Clairo, and Death Valley Girls.
1. Bon Iver - Hey, Ma
2. Angel Olsen - Lark
3. Marika Hackman - conventional ride
4. Wye Oak - Evergreen
5. Lower Dens - I Drive
6. SAULT - Let Me Go
7. Patrick Watson - Dream For Dreaming
8. (Sandy) Alex G - Southern Sky
9. Jenn Champion - Turn Up The Radio (feat. Victor Le Masne)
10. Clairo - Bags
11. Dude York - Box
12. FEET - Petty Thieving
13. Angie McMahon - Keeping Time
14. Juliana Hatfield - It’s So Weird
15. Mikal Cronin - Show Me
16. Fernando Viciconte - I Don’t Know (feat. Luther Russell)
17. Death Valley Girls - Dream Cleaver

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