KEXP Announces Song of the Day Podcast

KEXP Announces Song of the Day Podcast

SEATTLE, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- KEXP (90.3 FM and KEXP.ORG) announces KEXP's Song of the Day -- a new podcast service beginning February 6, 2006. This podcast will feature a new song every day that subscribers will receive automatically when they go to iTunes or KEXP.ORG.

KEXP's Song of the Day podcast will feature exclusive in-studio performances, unreleased songs, and recordings from independent musicians that KEXP thinks listeners should hear along with songs from more well-known artists. In the first few weeks, listeners will receive unreleased songs from Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Tom Brousseau and Silversun Pickups, live studio performances from Mike Doughty, They Might Be Giants and Northwest hip-hop band Common Market, and studio recordings from Cloud Cult, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and Calexico/Iron and Wine.

Here is KEXP's Song of the Day line-up for the first ten days:
Monday 2/6 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists "Sons of Cain"
Tuesday 2/7 Cloud Cult "Transistor Radio"

Wednesday 2/8 Clap Your Hands Say Yeah "Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood"

Thursday 2/9 They Might Be Giants "New York City"
Friday 2/10 Common Market "Connect For"
Monday 2/13 50 Foot Wave "Hot, Pink, Distorted"
Tuesday 2/14 Calexico/Iron and Wine "Burn That Broken Bed"
Wednesday 2/15 Silversun Pickups "Lazy Eye"
Thursday 2/16 Tom Brousseau "Portrait of George Washington"
Friday 2/17 Mike Doughty TBD live from 10/3

KEXP is at the forefront of music podcasting. KEXP is currently offering three full-song podcast subscriptions to its listeners worldwide. KEXP began producing monthly full-song podcasts in July of 2005, making KEXP the first radio station in the U.S. to offer music podcasts of this scope. In December 2005 alone, KEXP podcasts received a half-million hits.

Currently listeners can subscribe to the following podcasts:

Music That Matters -- hosted by KEXP DJs featuring their favorite songs from national and Northwest artists

KEXP Live Performances -- exclusive performances from KEXP live in-studio sessions

Sonarchy -- live performances featuring experimental Northwest artists

A complete listing of KEXP podcasts is available at: http://www.kexp.org/podcasting.asp . Listeners can subscribe to these podcasts as well as KEXP's Song of the Day podcast at iTunes or KEXP.ORG.

About KEXP Public Radio

KEXP Radio is an influential, innovative non-commercial music radio station based in Seattle, supported by its membership of contributing listeners. KEXP programs a wide and deep mix of music spanning multiple genres, including alternative rock, electronic, hip-hop, roots, country, world, blues and in-depth specialty programs. Listeners enjoy this non-commercial service at 90.3 FM in Seattle and 91.7 FM in Tacoma and Olympia, and throughout the world at KEXP.ORG

In the spring of 2004, KEXP.ORG was ranked number six among all audio streaming services on Arbitron's internet broadcasting service and, furthermore, was ranked first among all streaming AM and FM radio stations currently webcasting. Also, KEXP won the Webby for Best Radio Station website in 2004 and in the winter of 2005 won the PLUG Independent Music Award for best Non-Commercial Radio Station.

KEXP has a mission to enrich people's lives culturally by providing a wide and deep array of music, and technologically by exploring, developing and applying relevant technology to deepen or extend music experiences. Past first-ever technology services include KEXP's 14-Day online streaming archive where listeners can listen to any portion of the past fourteen days of programming, its online real time playlist where listeners can discover what is being played, and its 1.4 megabits per second uncompressed audio stream. All of these projects were developed in partnership with the world-class computing and networking experts at the University of Washington.

The station is governed by the Friends of KEXP, a non-profit organization operating the station on behalf of the University of Washington, which holds the FCC license. Experience Music Project provides generous financial support and the University of Washington computing and communications group provides KEXP with streaming services, technical support, development of new streaming applications and other technical developments.

Contact: Courtney Miller 206-520-5813

comiller@kexp.org

Source: KEXP Public Radio

CONTACT: Courtney Miller of KEXP Public Radio, +1-206-520-5813, or
comiller@kexp.org

Web site: http://www.kexp.org/

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