KEXP DJ Mike Ramos on Seattle’s Coral Grief
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Mike Ramos tells host Evie Stokes about how Coral Grief’s "Rockhounds” provides the perfect soundtrack for a roadtrip. He also says the band’s new single reminds him of Capitol Hill’s old indie scene. Coral Grief’s new album Air Between Us is out now on Suicide Squeeze Records (digital), Anxiety Blanket Records (vinyl), and Den Tapes (cassette).
Hosted by Evie Stokes
Produced by Lilly Ana Fowler
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Photo Credit: Che Hise Gattone
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| 0:00.0 | In Our Headphones is made possible in part by Thorntail Hard Agave. Storefinder at drinkthorntail.com. 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. This is Evie Stokes, and this week I'm talking with my friend Mike Ramos. All right, Mike, you have a new song that you're going to share with us today, |
| 0:22.4 | and I want to know what you got. This is like the end of my overnight show. This is the chiller, |
| 0:28.8 | like one of my wind-down songs that I put in at the end of, you know, my show. First three hours |
| 0:34.8 | can be kind of high energy just to keep me awake mostly as a parent |
| 0:38.9 | overnight DJ. And so that last hour, I kind of, you know, start to calm it down, smooth it out, |
| 0:43.5 | kind of get it ready for, you know, whatever the early DJ has, you know, to start the day with. |
| 0:48.1 | And this first single from this new album from Coral Grief just immaculate like i love the rollout that |
| 0:58.5 | was behind it i love the video they put out with it and uh it's just it like it's so blissful it kind |
| 1:06.5 | of has that just like little descending kind of melodic sound to it, the baseline and the guitar |
| 1:11.5 | melody kind of play off of each other, but it kind of rocks still. You know, it's still kind of, |
| 1:15.4 | it still kind of has some energy to it. So it kind of has a little bit of like driving, you know, |
| 1:20.5 | like, you know, rhythm to it for sure. And yeah, it just comes together super nicely. A lead |
| 1:26.2 | singer, Lena is a real quick. |
| 1:29.3 | Just kind of a coworker here at KXP, not to, you know, be too. |
| 1:33.9 | Not to call her out. |
| 1:34.9 | Not to be too, you know, conflict of interesty here. |
| 1:38.0 | But, and yeah, her voice just kind of ties it all together. |
| 1:40.9 | It's that perfect, like, relaxed kind of, you know. And it's, it's, if you know |
| 1:45.9 | her as a person, it's exactly her personality into a musician. And it's exactly her voice, like, |
| 1:51.7 | almost, like if you hear her talk, it's almost exactly the same, but it just fits so well on these |
| 1:56.5 | tracks. And I think it's just a perfect blend of just like the vocal interacting with the rhythm underneath and then the kind of interweaving |
| 2:02.8 | Baseline and the kind of melodic guitar and yeah it just |
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