The Weekly Mix, Vol. 739 - Great Songs for a Shitty Year
The Runcast with John Richards
KEXP
4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The eternal optimist, DJ Kevin Cole, brings you an awesome mix of great new music rising from the ashes of the dumpster fire that has been 2020. Helping provide comfort, inspiration, and distraction, hear new music from Deep Sea Diver, Bill Callahan, Mexican Institute of Sound, Kelly Lee Owens, Songhoy Blues, and more!
1. Deep Sea Diver - Impossible Weight (feat. Sharon Van Etten)
2. Mr. Gnome - Gold Edges
3. Songhoy Blues - Worry
4. Æ MAK - i dance in the kitchen (feat. Seba Safe)
5. BIIANCO & Chong the Nomad - Put You in the Kitchen
6. Mexican Institute of Sound & Gaby Moreno - Yemayá
7. Kelly Lee Owens - On
8. Maajo - Esukey (feat. Ismaila Sané)
9. Pillow Queens - Handsome Wife
10. Girl Friday - Amber’s Knees: A Matter of Concern
11. Lo Tom - Start Payin’
12. Adia Victoria - South Gotta Change
13. Cartalk - Las Manos
14. Pete Krebs & The Gossamer Wings - Faraway, Blue
15. Bill Callahan - Cowboy
Kevin Cole is the host of Drive Time on KEXP, Tuesdays through Fridays from 4-7pm PT on KEXP.org, the KEXP app or 90.3 FM in Seattle.
Watch Pillow Queens perform Live on KEXP from Iceland Airwaves 2019
Watch Bill Callahan perform Live on KEXP at Home
Read KEXP's feature on Mexican Institute of Sound as part of 2019's NRMAL Festival preview
Read about Kelly Lee Owens' "On" on KEXP's Song of the Day feature
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kevin Cole, host of Drive Time, and welcome to KXP's The Weekly Mix Podcast. |
| 0:05.9 | It's been a hard year. The hits, and I'm not talking musically, just keep coming. |
| 0:10.4 | But through these difficult times, amazing music keeps rising out of the ashes. |
| 0:14.7 | And on today's podcast, I'll share with you songs that have helped make sense of it all |
| 0:18.8 | and or provide a comfort, relief, |
| 0:21.0 | and inspiration. Like the title track from Deep Sea Divers' upcoming October 16th full-length, |
| 0:27.0 | Impossible Wait, a song featuring Sharon Van Etton. |
| 0:30.1 | Music This is what it feels like walking in a straight line, straight talk, clicking in my ear. |
| 0:57.0 | This is what it feels like a cliffed I've broken mind wondering how I've got here. |
| 1:05.0 | A million times tongue-tied spit it out, never, I think I'm addicted to the fear. |
| 1:11.6 | Stuttering my heart, from the hurry I've stopped, dragging my heels around, dragging my heels around. |
| 1:21.6 | But that, who was then, and this is my |
| 1:30.3 | I try so hard not to let you all hell |
| 1:37.3 | It's an impossible way |
| 1:41.3 | The wall you're but just down now |
| 1:45.0 | Steady as the wheel turns on my way |
| 1:54.0 | It's okay |
| 1:55.0 | Picking up the pieces, put them down |
| 1:58.0 | Stuttering my heart From the hurry up |
| 2:02.6 | Stop |
| 2:03.6 | Dragging my heels around |
| 2:05.6 | Dragging my heels around |
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