KEXP DJ Evie Stokes on the return of Chicago’s Pixel Grip

In Our Headphones

KEXP

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Evie Stokes, host of KEXP’s Drive Time show, talks with producer Lilly Ana Fowler about underground industrial trio Pixel Grip’s new single “Split,” triple entendres, and making music in these troubled times. Pixel Grip’s new self-released album, Percepticide: The Death of Reality, is out now.

Hosted by Evie Stokes
Produced by Lilly Ana Fowler
Mastered by: William Myers
Production support: Serafima Healy
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0:00.0	From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to in our headphones, a podcast about the songs that we just can't stop listening to.
0:08.2	This is Yvie Stokes, and this week I'm talking with Lily Anna Fowler, who is the producer of both Drive Time at K-E-X-P and this podcast.
0:16.3	Hi, Lily.
0:16.9	Hi, Yipi.
0:17.9	So we chose a song together today.
0:20.7	You want to talk about it?
0:21.8	Yeah, pixel grip split.
0:24.1	That's a banger.
0:25.6	So we need to shout out Charlize here because I believe that's how you learned about the song.
0:31.3	Yeah, Charlize Metcalf.
0:32.4	So she produced the afternoon show on KexP, and she's also the host of Mechanical Breakdown on KexP.
0:37.7	I cannot recommend that show enough.
0:39.3	She's an incredible programmer and live DJ, and this was a recommendation from her.
0:43.5	So, thanks, Charlize.
0:44.9	Thanks, Charlize.
0:46.2	So Pixel Group is a trio out of Chicago, right?
0:53.3	And this single was their, like, their first single of the year in advance of their new album,
0:59.8	which is out as of today.
1:01.5	Have you seen the name of the album?
1:03.1	No, what is it?
1:04.0	It's percepticide, the death of reality.
1:09.0	Is that a dark title or what?
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