KEXP DJ Brian Foss on Colorado’s Cheap Perfume
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Brian Foss, one of the hosts of KEXP’s punk show Sonic Reducer, joins Evie Stokes to talk about protest music, punching nazis, and the feminist punk rock band Cheap Perfume. Cheap Perfume has a new song out called “Woke Mind Virus” via Snappy Little Fingers.
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| 0:00.0 | In Our Headphones is made possible in part by Thorntail Hard Agave. |
| 0:04.3 | Storefinder at drinkthorntail.com. |
| 0:07.2 | From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones, |
| 0:11.2 | a podcast about the songs that we just can't get enough of lately. |
| 0:14.2 | This is Yvie Stokes, and this week I'm talking with my friend Brian Foss, a DJ here at |
| 0:19.3 | K-E-X-P. |
| 0:20.5 | And Brian, you have a new song that you're going to share with us today. |
| 0:23.6 | What did you bring? |
| 0:24.7 | This is a cheap perfume is the name of the band. |
| 0:27.8 | They were a feminist punk band from Colorado. |
| 0:30.6 | They've been around since about 2017. |
| 0:33.2 | This song is called Woke Mind Virus, and it is a protest song. |
| 0:37.8 | And in this current world we live in, and let's be honest, we have creeping fascism. |
| 0:44.6 | It's not even creeping. |
| 0:46.1 | I like hearing protest music. |
| 0:49.5 | I like hearing people sing about what's actually going on today. |
| 0:52.8 | And cheap perfume. |
| 0:54.3 | This is, I mean, the whole anti-woke thing is so stupid to me. |
| 0:58.8 | What is wrong with being aware of things? |
| 1:01.3 | And it's, or being respectful to people of other cultures and other backgrounds with people |
| 1:05.4 | that are different than you. |
| 1:06.7 | But, you know, so it's like cheap perfume. |
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