Fresh Picks

Artwork for four albums and three singles displayed in black square frames over a blurry blue-green background. In the top row from left to right: A person carrying a marimba on their back with the sun setting behind them, a hazy blue-green tinted photo of a woman wearing a red bandana, two people holding an upright bass and acoustic guitar inside a gold frame with red around it. In the bottom row from left to right: A woman in a dress with her arms above her head, a woman in a dark room with sun coming through a window, a pot on a hot plate with steam rising from it, and hard to make out red and white image of an amp with foliage around it.

Music

Fresh Picks: Just in time for Autumn, blues stew, marimba madness and MN blues-rock from '76

The KAXE Music Team on new music from Angela Autumn, Son Rompe Pera, Cedar County Cobras, Kiko Mizuhara, Brandy Clark, Menahan Street Band and Meels. Plus, The Lamont Cranston Band in '76.

A collage of artwork for new albums and singles. They are displayed in square black frames.

Music

Fresh Picks: Jazz is alive, contrasting feelings, rockin' troubadour, Sub Pop MN, Sparks fly in '76

Malachy Koons, Dan Gannon, Andrew Dziengel

The KAXE Music Team on new music from Ezra Collective, Sylvan Esso, Pokey LaFarge, Downtown Boys, Valerie June, Willi Carlisle, and Ex:Re. Plus our Pick From '76, Sparks.

Artwork for four new albums, three new singles and one album from 1976, displayed in black square frames over a blurry green an brown background.

Music

Fresh Picks: Billy's sorrow, progressive soul, sober fun, stratospheric cumbia, Red Lake boom bap and Emmylou in '76

Kari Hedlund, Malachy Koons, Julia Schrenkler

The KAXE Music Team on new music from Billy Strings, Jungle, Medium Build, Empanadas Ilegales, Meshell Ndegeocello, Thomas X and Mary Bragg. Plus Emmylou in '76!

Music

Fresh Picks: Alabama Shakes again, goodbye Strings, skateboard mixtapes, blues collab, "Jubilee" vibes, Picks of Parton

Kari Hedlund, Malachy Koons, Dan Gannon

The KAXE Music Team on new music from Alabama Shakes, Billy Strings, Ruthie Foster, I Will Die In This Jean Jacket, Sylvan Esso, Ezra Collective, and Jake Xerxes Fussell.

Artwork for three albums and five singles displayed in black square frames of varying sizes. The largest is in the middle and features a blonde person yelling with their mouth open, the blue background is also used for the background of the full image. There are two frames that are the next biggest, one has a horse standing in front of a high rise apartment building and the other has a man sitting in a field of marijuana smoking a pipe. The five smallest squares have: a swirling dragon painting, two faces back to back with colors rising from them, a close up of a mouth with a gril that says "peyote," a boxer leaning against the ropes, and a bearded man in a cowboy hat.

Music

Fresh Picks: A new Lucinda?, Geese meets The Feelies, slow-burning country, Blaze Foley tribute, Tosh in '76

Kari Hedlund, Malachy Koons, Dan Gannon, Andrew Dziengel

The KAXE Music Team on new music from Brennan Wedl, Westside Cowboy, Jon Muq, Ambré, Sierra Ferrell, Uncle Lucius and Making Movies. Plus Peter Tosh is this week's Pick From '76.

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Fresh Picks: Megasounding, sister soul, messy folk, Irish folk-punk, West African soul, boogie classic rock, and T. Rex in '76

Kari Hedlund, Malachy Koons, Andrew Dziengel, Jennifer Barr

The KAXE Music Team on new music from Megasound, Womack Sisters, Margaret Glaspy, The Mary Wallopers, Ibibio Sound Machine, Angela Autumn, and Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs. Plus T. Rex in '76.

Music

Fresh Picks: Afro-disco, indie-pop summer, MN bluesman, instant jams and Joni in '76

Kari Hedlund, Malachy Koons

The KAXE Music Team on new music from Adrian Younge, Suki Waterhouse, PK Mayo, Danielle Ponder, Valerie June and FINICK. Plus: Joni Mitchell is our Pick From '76.

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Fresh Picks: Ear-catching vocals, summertime jam, soul anticipation, choogling, country concept and MN funk from '76

Kari Hedlund, Malachy Koons

The KAXE Music Team on new music from Shannon Lay, THAO, The Womack Sisters, Greg Freeman and Ian Noe. Plus Minnesota's Band of Thieves is our Pick from '76!

Artwork for five albums and three singles in black square frames over a blurry black and white background.

Music

Fresh Picks: Stout storytelling, a moving debut, bootleg?, jazz celebration, soul exploring and 'sunny' Lou Reed

Kari Hedlund, Malachy Koons, Dan Gannon, Andrew Dziengel

The KAXE Music Team on new music from John R. Miller, Laura Hugo, Charley Crockett, Nicholas Payton, Butcher Brown, Joy Oladokun, Leon Bridges, and Creekbed Carter Hogan.

Artwork for five albums and four singles in white frames over a black background.

Music

Fresh Picks: Post-punk sleaze, Daptone mambo, MN trip-hop, London to Jamaica, Didion-inspired, Beach Boys in space and Ronstadt in '76.

Kari Hedlund, Malachy Koons, Dan Gannon, Julia Schrenkler

The KAXE Music Team on new music from Yard Act, Orquesta Akokán, The Real Chuck NORAD, Umut Adan & Zebânis, Ezra Collective, Jess Williamson, Panda Bear & Sonic Boom, and Ronstadt in '76!