Until now, KEXP’s Bay Area station has simply been a simulcast of the Seattle version. But that’s changing.
Brushing up against the 6 p.m. final call at the Caffe Vita located in KEXP’s Gathering Space, half a dozen members of a local book club file out into the summer heat. On the other side of the glass, DJ Mike Ramos enters the booth, setting up to fill in for the 7pm show.
Much has changed since Ramos joined Seattle’s iconic independent music radio station in 2012. (For instance, the Gathering Space itself didn’t open until 2016.) But KEXP’s programming principles of championing local artists and multiple genres have
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