DJ Miss Ashley: Mumu Fresh, Tierra Whack, Beyoncé, Macklemore
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Isabel chats with DJ Miss Ashley about four songs that are playing in her headphones lately and one foundational track that ties them all together. Plus, Ashley shares a protest song that doesn't hold back. Then, KEXP Music Director Chris Sanley shares one standout release that’s an early summer bop.
Songs featured:
- Mumu Fresh – “Be Good To You"
- Tierra Whack – “Shower Song"
- Beyoncé – "Texas Hold 'Em"
- Lauryn Hill – “To Zion”
- Macklemore – "Hind’s Hall"
- Ginger Root – "No Problems"
Listen to the full songs on KEXP's "In Our Headphones 2024" playlist on Spotify or the “What's In Our Headphones” playlist on YouTube.
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Hosted and produced by: Janice Headley and Isabel Khalili
Mixed by: Emily Fox
Mastered by: William Myers
Editorial director: Larry Mizell Jr.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In Our Headphones. |
| 0:06.0 | Your chance to discover the songs KEXP DJ's don't want you to miss. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Janice Hedley and I'm Isabel Kelly and this is your |
| 0:16.0 | never-ending source for new music discovery from listener-powered |
| 0:20.0 | K-E-X-P. |
| 0:31.0 | Hey this is Isabel and for this episode I'm joined by DJ Miss Ashley but before we get into her song choices, I want to address you. |
| 0:35.3 | As you may know, we launched this podcast a couple months ago as an evolution of our |
| 0:39.6 | Song of the Day podcast, which had been running for close to 20 years and simply delivered one full |
| 0:45.8 | song each day with no hosts, no talking. |
| 0:49.1 | We understand that moving to this talk-based format is a big change and it's not for everyone. |
| 0:54.8 | But if you're listening and you have been enjoying this new series and how it brings you |
| 0:58.8 | context about the music straight from K-E-X-P-Djes, we'd love to hear from you. So if you could take a moment right now or after listening to this episode, |
| 1:07.0 | to leave a positive review, tell us what you like about in our headphones. That would mean a lot to us. |
| 1:12.0 | You can do this on Apple Podcasts or if you're |
| 1:14.3 | listening somewhere else with an option for ratings and reviews you can do it |
| 1:18.2 | there. And as always you can write feedback to us directly at headphones at k-e-X-P.org. Okay I think that's enough |
| 1:27.1 | preamble for today but I want to get into my conversation with Ashley the DJ |
| 1:31.5 | producer and my good friend Ashley thank you for being here with me today |
| 1:36.0 | thank you for the invite I'm stoked to be here I notice you're coming up on 15 years as a |
| 1:41.1 | DJ at K-E-X-P which is wild did you always yeah did you always think that this would be a career for you |
| 1:47.7 | Never thought it would be actually when I originally started as an intern at K-E-X-P I had my mindset on production. |
| 1:55.7 | I wanted to work behind the scenes. |
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