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Dan Gannon

Get to know the volunteers behind the mic on KAXE. This week we find out more from longtime On the River DJ and former Blue Monday host, Janet Florine.

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Fresh Picks: Country soul, samba funk, alt-folk vignettes, Joan Armatrading in '76

The KAXE Music Team highlights music from Charley Crockett, Charlotte Cornfield, Jazz Is Dead, Jobi Riccio, Brother Wallace and Beth Orton. Plus, "Joan Armatrading" turns 50.

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Beyond the Voice: Kristi Miller

Dan Gannon

Get to know the volunteers behind the mic on KAXE. This week, we find out more from a volunteer since Day 1 — it's DJ, "Green Cheese" host and local music legend, Kristi Miller.

A collage of sqaures with artwork for 3 albums and 4 singles over a blurry black and white background. In the middle and largest square is black and white artwork of a woman with long hair. In a smaller square to the left is a green background with three emeralds. To the right is a blue and red frame of four people in black and white. In even smaller squares are the front of a post card, a group of musicians in a truck bed, a woman and a longhorned cow, and a woman kneeling against a black backdrop.

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Fresh Picks: Showstopping vocals, Rock 'n' Roll University, soul jazz, Bowie in '76

Malachy Koons, Dan Gannon, Andrew Dziengel

The KAXE Music Team highlights music from Makthaverskan, The Outfit, Parlor Greens, Kacey Musgraves, Kelsey Lu, John R. Miller and André Tanker. Plus 50 years of Bowie.

A woman and man stand next to each other looking at the camera with their images duplicated around them in a psychedelic swirl.

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Sotomayor finds beauty in imperfection on 'WABI SABI'

Kari Hedlund

Mexican electronic duo Sotomayor talk about their new album "WABI SABI," working as siblings, and how embracing imperfection shaped their journey after the pandemic.

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Fresh Picks: Future soul, Afropop, timeless Americana, higher vibrations, martini music and more

Kari Hedlund, Malachy Koons, Andrew Dziengel

The KAXE Music Team highlights new releases from Tedeschi Trucks Band, Bill Callahan, Ireke, The Montvales, Irreversible Entanglements, Widowspeak, and Emanuela Hutter.

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Fresh Picks: True rebel music, sweet and gritty country, a songwriter steps out and jazz-punk fusion

Kari Hedlund, Malachy Koons, Dan Gannon

The KAXE Music Team highlights new music from Tinariwen, Cat Clyde, Morgan Nagler, Jalen Ngonda, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Julianna Riolino, Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis.

A man in black with long brown hair putting a record onto a records player. He is DJing under a tent in a parking lot.

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Archivist Justis Brokenrope unearths long-lost albums by Native musicians

Malachy Koons

The Sičháŋǧu Lakȟóta educator brought the music of his archival project Wathéča Records to KAXE's airwaves.

Two men side by side with information on three shows they are playing. A poster for their tour.

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Two Native art and music icons upcoming Northern Minnesota tour

Malachy Koons

Gary Farmer (Cayuga) and Keith Secola (Anishinaabe) are bringing the Ancestral Fires tour to Virginia, Bemidji and Grand Rapids, March 12-14, 2026.

Four album covers stacked on top of each other with another one laid over in the center of the image.

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Latest 'Spin That Ish' with Friko, Sotomayor, Brother Wallace, Ratboys and more

Kari Hedlund

The KAXE Music Team talks their favorite releases from February 2026 featuring music from Lala Lala, Big Richard, Altın Gün, Flora Hibberd and Gogol Bordello.