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🗓️ 24 June 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Host Evie Stokes talks with KEXP staff writer Martin Douglas about D.C.'s newest punks SEXFACES, their song “James Osterberg,” zine soundtracks, and Iggy Pop's government name. SEXFACES’s new album Bad Vibes OST is out now on Slovenly Recordings.
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. |
0:07.4 | This is Eby Stokes, and this week I'm talking with Martin Douglas. |
0:10.7 | So, Martin, you're a staff reporter at K-E-X-P, and you've been a writer for years. |
0:14.7 | Tell me a little bit about your work. |
0:17.7 | 20 years this summer I've been writing about music on the internet. |
0:22.6 | All right. You chose a new track that you're going to share with us today. What you got? |
0:26.6 | It is called James Osterberg by the band Sex Faces. |
0:31.6 | And tell me about Sex Faces. |
0:34.6 | Sex Faces are a band from DC. They They're real deep in punk scene. They've been, their four |
0:43.3 | members have been members of various bands throughout, you know, bands I won't even reference |
0:49.8 | here because people are probably already getting their phones out to Google this band. |
0:56.1 | So I won't make it any tougher on them. |
0:59.3 | I found out about them. |
1:01.3 | So the thing is, like, because I've been a music journalist for so long, people ask me, |
1:07.3 | where do you find your music? |
1:09.9 | Where do you find the music that you like? |
1:11.9 | And a lot of it is, I still read a lot of music journalism. |
1:18.2 | I have a lot of friends in the game. |
1:20.6 | I have a lot of friends in bands and lovers of music in general. |
1:25.8 | And this one came from my friend Evan Minsky's newsletter called |
1:30.8 | Seesaw. And I remember it had to have been like just a month ago, maybe like six weeks ago. |
1:40.0 | And I read the website and he had the description of sex faces and then he ran an interview |
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