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A Deeper Listen KEXP
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4.9 • 137 Ratings
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On A Deeper Listen, host Emily Fox and other storytellers from KEXP talk with artists about the stories behind their songs and the experiences that inform their work. Through each conversation, we uncover the humanity behind the music, allowing us to hear it in a whole new way.
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Salt Cathedral Contemplates Screen Addiction, Climate Change, and Our Children’s Future
Salt Cathedral is a New York via Bogota Colombia duo. Their song, "Terminal Woes," is the most played song on KEXP so far this year.
“This song came from that upsetness of thinking, we’re not taking care of our planet. As a woman in my 30s, thinking should I have children? Should we bring more children into this world because it’s a difficult world and it’s warming up and there’s no climate justice,” says Salt Cathedral’s Juliana Ronderos.
Ronderos, Salt Cathedral’s Nicolas Losada, and KEXP’s Emily Fox talk more about the future of children in the screen addiction era and how these themes are addressed in Salt Cathedral’s latest album, 'Before It’s Gone.'
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Hurray for the Riff Raff: “Grief is not a punishment, it’s an act of love”
Alynda Segarra of Hurray for the Riff Raff talks about their new album, 'The Past Is Still Alive.' They share some of the stories that informed the album, like hitchhiking and train hopping around the country. They also talk about their experience helping those struggling with addiction, and how grief is an act of love.
“A lot on this record is about how grief is not a punishment, it’s an act of love and it’s just another expression of love,” Segarra says.
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Introducing: A Deeper Listen
On April 9, we're launching a new podcast right here on this feed. A Deeper Listen will be KEXP's new destination for transformative conversations with artists – the ones you already know and love, and the ones you have yet to discover. We’ll hear from renowned and emerging talents of all musical styles about the stories behind their songs and the life experiences that are inextricable from their work. As we uncover the humanity behind the music, we’ll also gain the tools to listen more deeply.
Over the past five years, Sound & Vision has brought you behind the scenes of the music industry through a variety of stories and formats. With A Deeper Listen, we dig deeper into our most popular type of feature: unfiltered, authentic conversations with artists. Each episode will go beyond the surface to bring us into the world of the artist and find new dimensions to their music.
Take a deeper listen with us every Tuesday, right here, starting April 9.
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Trans Musicales Highlights
KEXP’s Morgan Chosnyk talks us through this year’s Trans Musicales festival in France and shares five of her favorite live sessions KEXP captured while at the festival. Those sessions are now available on KEXP’s YouTube channel:
Raül Refree
Moja
Chalk
Flore Laurentienne
Ana Lua Caiano
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Eurosonic Festival Highlights
The Eurosonic Festival features emerging artists from Europe. KEXP Drive Time DJ, Kevin Cole, attended the festival and saw about 50 of the roughly 280 performers there. In this episode, he talks about some of his favorite performances.
Songs featured in this episode:
"Sluntseto Trepti" by TRIGAIDA
"Kota Bandung" by Nusantara Beat
"Liberate" by Izzy And The Black Trees
"Esto me pertenece" by Dame Area
"Found Love" by freekind.
"Tristesse" by Zaho de Sagazan
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Artists Reclaiming Their Masters
News about artists battling with record labels to reclaim the master – or original – recordings of their songs has come to the forefront in recent years. But it’s not just big-name artists making those moves. KEXP’s Meerah Powell has the story on musicians from smaller record labels who are pushing to get back their masters.
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Customer Reviews
Thoughtful, beautiful and fortifying
Thank you so much for producing this incredible show! I was really moved by the different interviews and all the historical context you shared, especially about song codes, which have been utilized by oppressed communities across the globe. Would love to see KEXP make even more Palestinian art-focused content!
Bringing Communities Together
Thank you for such a thoughtful, touching, and inclusive dive into the current struggle for Palestinian rights and human rights around the world. Our communities need more narratives that bring people together around shared humanity, trauma, and collective action. This mini series struck the perfect chord, and is a piece that I would share with friends and family across the political spectrum as an informative and educational tool. This is exactly the kind of message that I count on KEXP to articulate and amplify.
Mind-expanding Music Industry Discovery
I can’t recommend this podcast highly enough. The range of stories, the variety of reporters and interview styles, the bits of laughter and joy - all wrapped in actual learning about music - is amazing. Well- and thoughtfully produced. Even if you don’t think of yourself as loving music enough to listen to such a podcast, S&V will change your mind.