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Introducing 'Monthly Music Recap,' your source for fresh releases and listening inspo

A music library filled with CDs taken from KAXE.
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Kari Hedlund
A portion of KAXE's music library.

Listen as the KAXE Music Team puts a wrap on music released in February and other great listens in the "Monthly Music Recap," part of our new "Headwaters" program.

When KAXE rolled out the new 2025 programming, including Headwaters and After Dark, keeping it local was a big focus, as was leaning into what we do best. And for the music team, we love to listen to and talk all things music!

At the end of each month, the three of us — Malachy Koons, Dan Gannon aka DJ Dang, and me, Music Director Kari Hedlund — get together in the Monthly Music Recap. We chat about our favorite songs and albums released that month, music we’re looking forward to, or just songs we are feeling.

Take a listen to our recap of February, which brought us a new truly joyful song from Valerie June, new collaborative release from Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory, the reemergence of '70s funk band Cymande, a new solo album from Drive-By Truckers frontman Patterson Hood and more.

What are you listening to? Join the music conversation! Text email us anytime at 218-326-1234 or send us an email.

The Music Director since 2014, Kari (pronounced Car-ee) Hedlund oversees the music programming and content you hear each day on KAXE. She hosts Headwaters every Wednesday (9 a.m. and 10 p.m.) and is co-host to Heidi Holtan on the Thursday Morning Show.
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