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

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!

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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.

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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!

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Fresh Picks: Soul longing, no skip Americana, collaborative joy, feral and spicy, Nigeria in MN and Rush in '76

Kari Hedlund, Malachy Koons, Heather Johnson

The KAXE Music Team on new music from Baby Rose, Allison Russell, John R. Miller, Margaret Glaspy, Obi Original & The Black Atlantics, and Rush for our Pick From '76.

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Fresh Picks: Backporch music through a new lens, surprise drops and the weight of grief

Kari Hedlund, Dan Gannon

The KAXE Music Team highlights recent singles and albums you should listen to, including the latest from Billy Strings, new Sad Daddy and more.

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Fresh Picks: Location, location, location! Pacific NW, Absaroke, Cairo and The Lijadu Sisters in '76

Kari Hedlund, Dan Gannon, Jennifer Barr

The KAXE staff highlights our album of the week from Orquestra Pacífico Tropical and a load of songs from artists like Wild Horses, along with our Pick from '76 featuring The Lijadu Sisters.

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Fresh Picks: Loads of sugar, freedom and power

Kari Hedlund, Dan Gannon, Malachy Koons

The KAXE Music Team highlights recent singles and albums you should listen to including releases from Tift Merritt, Lizzie No, The California Honeydrops and Danielle Ponder.

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Fresh Picks: Southern rock, Cree neo-soul, no-skip folk, MN country, Anatolian funk and Blondie in '76

Kari Hedlund, Malachy Koons, Dan Gannon, Megan Buffington, Andrew Dziengel, Jennifer Barr

The KAXE Music Team on new music from Duane Betts, LOV, Bella White, Greg Mendez, Molly Brandt, Sosyete '25, Crooked Fingers, and Blondie's debut from '76.

A collage of artwork from new albums and singles. Made up of nine white frames of differing sizes with the largest in the middle, all over a blurry background. In the middle is a grid of purple squares with some sun and moon emblems, the background appears to be the same image but blurry. At each corner of the middle square are four smaller squares. Top left has a photo of a truck to the side of a road, the top right has yellow and orange horizontal stripes that merge with a man's vest of the same colors, bottom left has woman with curly brown hair and a blue dress with her face peeled back to reveal the same image repeating, the bottom right has a painting of a riverboat on water. Then attached to each side of the largest square are four even smaller squares. The top is a woman wearing an orange bandana, the left middle is woman wearing a green dress and holding it away from her leg, the middle right is woman in a white dress standing on a path with green foliage around her, and the bottom is a blue image with a metal fist punching.

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Fresh Picks: Desert psych, family roots, Daptone Motown, TX roots rock and riverboat bluegrass in '76

Kari Hedlund, Malachy Koons, Dan Gannon

The KAXE Music Team on new music from Baby Cool, Jalen Ngonda, Bedouine, Ryan Bingham, Ibibio Sound Machine, Mollie Elizabeth, Ruthie Foster, Seun Kuti, and John Hartford in '76.

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Fresh Picks: Gritty alt-rock, Gil-Scott reimagined and a Thin Lizzy summer

Kari Hedlund, Malachy Koons, Dan Gannon

The KAXE Music Team on new music from Deer Tick, Brian Jackson, Bebe Stockwell, MADMADMAD and Orquesta Akokán.