KEXP DJ Jewel on DOOM GONG’s Denim Psych
In Our Headphones
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Host Evie Stokes talks to KEXP DJ Jewel about the Kentucky band DOOM GONG and their unique brand of “denim psych.” Jewel shares the band’s song “The Future is a Choice" and talks about the band’s proclivity for wearing “Canadian tuxedos” on stage. The song comes from the group's 2025 self-released album, MEGAGONG.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to In Our Headphones. My name is Evie Stokes. I'm here today with DJ Jewel, the host of Astralplane, here on K-EXB, a show on Wednesday evenings from 7 to 10 p.m. Pacific Time. |
| 0:13.8 | And, Jewel, you brought something to share with the class today. What do you have for us? |
| 0:19.3 | I'm so excited about this song and this band. |
| 0:22.8 | They are from Louisville, |
| 0:24.2 | Kentucky. They're called Doom Gong. |
| 0:26.9 | And this song is called The Future is a Choice. |
| 0:46.9 | And this song is called and now I love them. |
| 0:49.4 | Have you been following them for a while? |
| 0:50.9 | Not really. |
| 0:59.1 | So I think I first heard of maybe last year they play the Tree Fort Festival. And my friend Maxwell, who is one of my cool friends who finds things early and make sure I know, he was like, |
| 1:05.7 | hey, you got to check out Doom Gong. And I checked out, I think this album, Megagong, that this track is |
| 1:10.7 | from, had not come out yet. But their first two albums had come out. And I checked out, I think this album, Megagong, that this track is from, had not come out yet. |
| 1:12.0 | But their first two albums had come out. And they were good and I liked them. But it didn't |
| 1:17.2 | really stick with me until I saw them live. When I was in Austin, Texas for Levitation, they |
| 1:25.4 | happened to be playing around the same time. So I caught them, and they are |
| 1:29.4 | incredible live. So it's just to set the stage, it's a seven-piece band, two drummers, as well as a |
| 1:37.7 | percussionist, who don't worry, there is a big gong. There's definitely a large gong happening. |
| 1:44.0 | Guitar, bass, two keyboards. |
| 1:47.0 | One of the keyboardists and one of the alt percussionists, they also play trumpets. Like, it's crazy. It's a lot going on. And they are precise. So the band is started by a bunch of music school nerds basically, and you can tell |
| 2:05.3 | because they all freaking rip. Yeah, yeah. They really know what they're doing when it comes to |
| 2:10.2 | musicianship. Yeah, definitely. So they've released three albums and a live record in the last three |
| 2:16.1 | years. They've been really busy. And I read that this was the third and the final album in a trilogy that is Doom Gong. So are they, they're going to keep going as this band? Do you know? Have you heard? Oh my gosh. I don't know. I hope so. I really hope so because I think they're, they're finally starting to to pick up for sure. So the first two records, in your opinion, |
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