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Song of the Day Podcast

Today's featured song, featured on the Morning Show with John Richards, is “Magazines” by Western Haunts from the 2014 self-released album Western Haunts.

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The Argentinian, by way of Spain, band Capsula have thrilled us with many live performances already, but during their most recent session at KEXP, they share with us a few inspirations for their stratospheric sound.

Gil-Scott Heron // photo by Mischa Richter

Black History Month Spotlight

Throughout February, KEXP is celebrating Black History Month by spotlighting some of the most outstanding African American artists in modern music history. Read more here.

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Live Video: John Grant

Fully embracing both his American upbringing and his adoptive home of Iceland, John Grant performs to a packed Kex Hostel in Reykjavik during KEXP's broadcast at Iceland Airwaves.

Today on KEXP: 2/19/2014

12am		Larry Rose - Variety Mix
1am		Morgan - Variety Mix
6am		John Richards - The Morning Show
10am		Cheryl Waters - The Midday Show
1pm		Mas Ysa LIVE on KEXP - In-Studio
2pm		Kevin Cole - The Afternoon Show
6pm		Greg Vandy - Roadhouse
7:30pm		Tony Furtado session on KEXP - In-Studio
9pm		DJ El Toro - Variety Mix

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Producer and host Hannah Levin has been covering metal as a print journalist for the better part of a decade and has hosted KEXP’s local music show, Audioasis, since 2007. She fell in love with metal the first time she heard “The Trooper” by Iron Maiden, and has been unable and unwilling to shake her addiction since. Her tastes in modern metal tend towards the angular, arty and math-y, but she also has a fierce affection for the old school, particularly the artists that forged the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. When not engaging in circuitous debates about what is “true metal”, she studies pilates, writes a music column for Seattle Weekly and strives to maintain a Cookie Monster vocal-free zone.

Co-host Tanner Ellison is a digital artist and musician living and working in Seattle. He has been in love with metal since he was a little grub. Tanner has played guitar and done vocals in many terrible punk and metal bands over the years and was a guest DJ for KEXP’s punk show, Sonic Reducer. His tastes range widely from the most awesome crescendos of epic viking power metal to the dregs of the most guttural, brutal, grind your face off death metal. When not sharpening battle axes and hanging out in spooky caves, he shreds on his beat up guitar and draws pictures of dragons and space wizards.

Over the last several years, there’s been a huge influx of progressive, hard-edged artists who have synthesized punk and DIY elements with their love of classic metal, resulting in a gold rush of independent-minded bands with as much brain as brawn. Acts like Pelican, Isis, Mastadon, the Sword, Kylesa, Torche and SunnO)) are all examples of this phenomenon, as is the bumper crop of Northwest artists leading this charge, including Helms Alee, Red Fang, Madraso, Akimbo, the Valley and Mico de Noche.

S&D; scours the globe for unearthed gems in all of metal’s subgenres, from thrash and grindcore to death and black metal (the later of which is definitely Tanner’s area of expertise). We also re-examine the classics, from Priest and Motorhead to Venom and Slayer. If you take your rock hard, heavy and brutal, Seek and Destroy will give you the sonic bludgeoning you’ve been craving.

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DJ Kevin Cole compiles an outstanding collection of new music on this week's Music That Matters podcast. Our Song of the Day podcasts feature School of Language and Posse. Our Live Performances podcast features Noah Gundersen and Mutual Benefit. And our Video of the Week podcast features Ásgeir.
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Episode #266 : Ásgeir - "King and Cross" Ásgeir performing "King and Cross" live on KEXP from KEX Hostel during Iceland Airwaves 2013. Recorded November 1, 2013. Thumbnail photo by Morgen Schuler.

Song of the Day Podcasts

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Feb/19Western Haunts - Magazines
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Feb/18Ming City Rockers - I Wanna get out of here but I can't take you anywhere
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Feb/17School of Language - Between The Suburbs
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DJ curated mixes

Feb/14 - Listen To What I've Found (#395)
featuring: Kevin Cole
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Feb/07 - Inform, Educate, Entertain (#394)
featuring: Cheryl Waters
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Jan/31 - What You Need (#393)
featuring: John Richards
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