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August picks: Shoegazers, '90s country, MN singles and enchanting vocals

KAXE | By Malachy Koons
Published September 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM CDT
A collage of seven album covers. From left to right in the top row: A blue-grey watercolor painting of mountains, a reddish orange painting of a woman lying next to a skull, a green apple with peel around it, a purple back of a guitar. From left to right in the bottom row: A woman in a white dress with shimmering water around her, a man in a leather jacket with a skyline behind him, a dimly lit man with a cowboy hat playing guitar.
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Artwork from the KAXE Music Team's favorite music of Aug. 2025

The KAXE Music Team wraps up their favorite music released in August on the "Monthly Music Recap," heard on "Headwaters," including The Spine Stealers and Young Dervish.

We brought in a ringer.

With Music Director Kari Hedlund busy planning Grand Rapids Riverfest, KAXE reporter and fellow music lover Megan Buffington stepped in like she's been talkin' tunes (and razzin' DJ Dang) her whole life.

A man with a white v-neck t-shirt and black leather jacket stands with a city skyline in the background.
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Her favorites from the month of August included the '90s country of Zach Top, plus the enchanting voices of Seattle late bloomer Dean Johnson and Wisconsin folk duo The Spine Stealers.

The calendrically challenged DJ Dang chose Old Crow Medicine Show founding member Ketch Secor's solo debut and a pair of Minnesota singles from Duluth chanteuse Ingeborg von Agassiz and Minneapolis highlife singer Obi Original.

The Music Team's love for Minnesota music continued with Malachy Koons, who picked shoegazers she's green, guitar slayer and maker Young Dervish and Big Thief with Laraaji.

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Listen to the full recap above.

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Malachy Koons
Malachy started his radio career in 2017 at a college radio station, where he played weird music in the middle of the night to possibly no one. On a good night maybe his parents were listening. Nonetheless, he was hooked on public radio and is still doing it today.


He joined Northern Community Radio in 2022, where he gets to share his passion for local music as Producer of Minnesota Mixtape, an all Minnesota music show airing Fridays at 10 a.m. and Saturdays at 3 p.m. You can also find him hosting Headwaters and curating The Setlist.
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