August 1, 2025 • 9 mins
Fox Fest 2025 is back this weekend!
On Saturday, August 2, the beloved summer music festival returns with a full day of live music, local eats, and community vibes—all taking place across two stages in the heart of St. Matthews.This year’s lineup features a powerhouse roster of regional and national talent including Softspoken, Foxbat, Throwback Thursday, Soul Circus, Mary Mary, Sigmatic, Ipcus Pinecone, End of Me, and Doombots. While the full lineup is set to be revealed in the official festival poster, the headliner’s identity remains a mystery until June 23. To build hype, their name will appear blurred out on the promo poster—so stay tuned for the big reveal!
Fox Fest 2025 Details:
📍 Fox Den – 3814 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY
📅 Saturday, August 2, 2025
⏰ Doors open at 1:00 PM
🎟️ Tickets: $20 ADV / $30 Day Of
🔞 21+ Event
🎶 2 Stages | 10 Bands
On Saturday, August 2, the beloved summer music festival returns with a full day of live music, local eats, and community vibes—all taking place across two stages in the heart of St. Matthews.This year’s lineup features a powerhouse roster of regional and national talent including Softspoken, Foxbat, Throwback Thursday, Soul Circus, Mary Mary, Sigmatic, Ipcus Pinecone, End of Me, and Doombots. While the full lineup is set to be revealed in the official festival poster, the headliner’s identity remains a mystery until June 23. To build hype, their name will appear blurred out on the promo poster—so stay tuned for the big reveal!
Fox Fest 2025 Details:
📍 Fox Den – 3814 Frankfort Ave, Louisville, KY
📅 Saturday, August 2, 2025
⏰ Doors open at 1:00 PM
🎟️ Tickets: $20 ADV / $30 Day Of
🔞 21+ Event
🎶 2 Stages | 10 Bands
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Foxfest twenty twenty five, and that brings in Jared Fox Matthews,
who owns three thousand restaurants and is always working doing
nine hundred jobs and wants good to see again.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Jared, Good to see you, Good to see you. Just
trying to feed the people. You're hanging with. Good folks
here when you're hanging with Nappy Roots. Absolutely, absolutely, this
is a pleasure. This is Uh, We're always trying to
take Fox FECs, Foxfest to the next level, and this
is this is doing it with Nappy.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Update me on your lives, guys, how are.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
You feeling great? Uh, still living the dreams, still living
to life. Like you said, we're performing August second this Saturday,
so it's kind of like a trifecta. We're performing. We
got our beer in the building. You know we brew beer. Now,
I saw that sitting in front of you.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yes, watermelon, chicken and grits.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That is a great combo.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
This is a golden ail. The name of the brew
brewer is called Atlantucky. It's in Atlanta, one seventy north
Side Drive. But the trifacta, the third part is we
are doing we want a good thing for Love City
with our homeboy, Jared, and that's what this is all
about right here.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, I know Love City is important. Tell me about it, Jared. Yeah, absolutely. So.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
The proceeds were donating to Love City, which is an
organization in the Portland area Shohn and Inga. They started
it probably ten years ago. I went there, kind of
heard what they were doing, got on the board, and
it's an amazing organization down in Portland. They're basically just
(01:30):
kind of getting kids involved and playing basketball, and they
started gardens out there and now they have Mighty Oak Academy,
which is a school out there and it's a great school,
free tuition as long as you live in the Portland area.
It's basically just trying to teach kids how to how
to do life and survive.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And they're good people, sewing An Inga, They've got it
in their heart. Andy, you introduced me to them and
they've been great. They've been in here to visit. Yeah,
tell me about this new song we just heard be Still.
I know you guys are excited to get more music
out for people to hear. Better off to the name
of this new one who put this together.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Shout out to my man Adaway Blake he's the producer
of this record, and he's produced pretty much our last
five albums or So So Young Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Native, and this song. I love this song.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Actually, this is one of my favorites off this new
project that we're doing. This song actually blends all the
music musical genres that we loved and that inspired us
to make music. So of course you got the hip
hop and it's kind of more from like an upbeat,
you know, dance type of hip hop song into like
a country and then it goes into R and B
(02:44):
and then it goes into gospel. So like, if you
listen to this song all the way through, you get
all the genres of music. And I mean it's emotional,
you know what I'm saying. It's a beautiful record.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
How did you guys find each other at school at Western?
Just your buddies and then somebody thought we need to
get into a studio.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, the short version, the medium long version. I got
there at ninety three. Skinny got there at ninety three.
Me and Skinny had ran into ran into each other
on campus, and before Nappy Roofs was was a concept,
we was just some adventurous kids on campus. You know,
(03:22):
we had just escaped the hood. I had just escaped
the hood. So I was like, man, I'm in college.
This is a great place to bleep, great great place
to be excuse me. And so we went from adventures
to wanting to do something positive and we.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Started rapping adventures.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
We started rapping, and this was in like ninety five,
and then I ended up going off to the Army.
While I was gone, Skinny and hooked up with Fish Scales.
Fish Scale was on a bar on the basketball team.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
And then in the.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Midst of all of this, Be still was rapping since
he was like eleven years old and he was a
part of Skinny's family before Skinny Eve knew it.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
He was living in I'm not living, but he was.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Not like like it's So we played at Newburg Boys
and Girls Club. We played t ball with his little
brother and his sisters. So I knew his whole family
except for him, and he's the big brother. So I
never met him until like like about to go to college,
and I couldn't believe it, Like I'm like, I know,
hi yo.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I went to school with his brother bro.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Like I got pictures in the eighties with his family,
his young his younger siblings. But you know, he's like
a few four or five years older than his brother,
so we never really crossed paths.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
But it's so crazy.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I exchanged mixtapes the day that I seen in my
you know, like you said, I'm a friend of the family.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
So I go into the house.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I'm a senior in high school, just graduated, you know
what I'm saying, but supposed to be, you know, playing
football for Western Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
But that's another story.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
But yeah, I go into the Hughes residence with your
skinny family and and I just go into refrigerator.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I waved to the family, Hey, what's up.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
We'll grab something at refrigerator cause you know, like I said,
you know, it's like an extended family.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
That's what a family does.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
And Skinny is sitting at the table looking at me, like,
who is this dude? You'd just let in his house
in refrigerator like it. So him and I kind of
had a little like little moment of who are you?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Who are you? You know what I'm saying. He's like,
I live here, you don't you know what I'm saying.
I ain't never seen.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
So after we got past all of that, we exchanged mixtapes,
and that's the first time I actually heard them rap,
and so they listened to mys my music on the
way to Western that summer. I listened to their music
on the way to Western that summer, and then we
just we hooked up the first day pretty much.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So then when I got back from the Army, Skinny
was like, man, I want you to hear his mixtape.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
And it was be Steel's mixtape.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So he said, when we get back to college, it's
own and popping. So I get back. This was like
ninety seven, I think, yeah, ninety seven, and we immediately
jumped in the studio.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
We recorded Country Assess.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
They got in the hands of Atlantic Records about a
year later. They was like, meet us in Nashville. We
want to, you know, talk about doing the deal.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
And nerve racking, wasn't it You're going to do a deal,
and it's like works out.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Man, it happened like overnight, but it you know, I'm
it took longer than that, but it.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Was just like it happened so fast. For me, it
happened fast.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
But that guy you heard on earlier, John Michael Montgomery,
same thing. He's playing some little hanky talk in Lexington,
somebody from Atlantic Records. So a guy who knows somebody
the Atlantic Records is there and he hitch them up
or whatever. It says. You got to here this guy.
So he says, you never know when somebody hears you,
and next thing you know, they're talking about you to
(06:44):
somebody in Boom.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Like do some work.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, just put some work, put your best work out,
put your best foot forward, and you never know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Where were you in the army they send you off some.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, I was in the Army Reserve. So I done
my my boot camp, I done my A I T
and now today I came back to Bowl of Green
to finish up with school and keep rapping. But I
was doing my weekends a month, so I went everywhere
El Paso, I was in Tullahoma, Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
But what was even crazier is that.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
When I got out, Napa Rousse had hit. This was
like two thousand and two, and this is when we
went overseas to Kuwait and my unit on the tour
on the USO tour, the unit that I was in
was over there and a bd U's but I was
on stage rapping.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
So it was just like, man, this is crazy right.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Here, and the guys' supposed to be here with us.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
So yeah, this is you know, and we're still doing it.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's so great again.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
August second perform Saturday.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yes, sir Jared, where are we performing on Saturday? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
So it's at Foxton and the Hardest Saint Matthews. We
got two different stages, eleven different bands, I mean, all
different genres from hip hop to trade of rock.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You know, we like to explore it all and this
is great. This is like a this is like a
history book.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I'm listening to you because like when they went into
the studio, I was probably the first guy to buy
their CD because I love these guys and it's just
pretty pretty awesome to see them performing at FOXSS Issues.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
You got all kinds of people performing too, Soul Circus,
Mary Mary, Sigmatic, End of Me, Doom Box, all kinds
of folks performing. And it starts at one yep, doors
open at one o'clock. Music starts at two o'clock and
we're going all the way. And the weather's great.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
That Jesus the other day and I said, man, can
we get some eighty four sunny no chance of rain?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Bam, yeah, it's on yet.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Ruth is in the building of course, and great.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Great food everywhere as always.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, yeah, So we're doing street style food. So like you,
there's like six different food trucks coming out of the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
We have different chefs putting together. Dano is going to
be out there.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
We're doing a whole Dano's food truck menu with Dano's wing,
Dano his new Bloody Mary mix which is fantastic, sorry
bloody Mary seasoning. We got some steak tips going there,
so yeah, come on out, and once again, you're not
running a marathon for a good calls. You're drinking beer,
listening to good music and eating good food.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I love the sound of that. A lot easier than
going running America right right, yeah, be still clutch, could
see both of you guys, see much love as always.
That's Nappy Roots. You can see them Saturday. It's the
thirty fourteen Frankfurt Avenue. The Fox Down is the location
for that. So great having those guys. These are more
Kentucky greats man of all time. We are we are
(09:36):
a talent hotbed in this Commonwealth of Kentucky. Back in
a minute news radio, Wait forty w Ain't chick do
this song?
Foxfest twenty twenty five, and that brings in Jared Fox Matthews,
who owns three thousand restaurants and is always working doing
nine hundred jobs and wants good to see again.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Jared, Good to see you, Good to see you. Just
trying to feed the people. You're hanging with. Good folks
here when you're hanging with Nappy Roots. Absolutely, absolutely, this
is a pleasure. This is Uh, We're always trying to
take Fox FECs, Foxfest to the next level, and this
is this is doing it with Nappy.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Update me on your lives, guys, how are.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
You feeling great? Uh, still living the dreams, still living
to life. Like you said, we're performing August second this Saturday,
so it's kind of like a trifecta. We're performing. We
got our beer in the building. You know we brew beer. Now,
I saw that sitting in front of you.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yes, watermelon, chicken and grits.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That is a great combo.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
This is a golden ail. The name of the brew
brewer is called Atlantucky. It's in Atlanta, one seventy north
Side Drive. But the trifacta, the third part is we
are doing we want a good thing for Love City
with our homeboy, Jared, and that's what this is all
about right here.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Yeah, I know Love City is important. Tell me about it, Jared. Yeah, absolutely. So.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
The proceeds were donating to Love City, which is an
organization in the Portland area Shohn and Inga. They started
it probably ten years ago. I went there, kind of
heard what they were doing, got on the board, and
it's an amazing organization down in Portland. They're basically just
(01:30):
kind of getting kids involved and playing basketball, and they
started gardens out there and now they have Mighty Oak Academy,
which is a school out there and it's a great school,
free tuition as long as you live in the Portland area.
It's basically just trying to teach kids how to how
to do life and survive.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
And they're good people, sewing An Inga, They've got it
in their heart. Andy, you introduced me to them and
they've been great. They've been in here to visit. Yeah,
tell me about this new song we just heard be Still.
I know you guys are excited to get more music
out for people to hear. Better off to the name
of this new one who put this together.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Shout out to my man Adaway Blake he's the producer
of this record, and he's produced pretty much our last
five albums or So So Young Atlanta.
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Native, and this song. I love this song.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Actually, this is one of my favorites off this new
project that we're doing. This song actually blends all the
music musical genres that we loved and that inspired us
to make music. So of course you got the hip
hop and it's kind of more from like an upbeat,
you know, dance type of hip hop song into like
a country and then it goes into R and B
(02:44):
and then it goes into gospel. So like, if you
listen to this song all the way through, you get
all the genres of music. And I mean it's emotional,
you know what I'm saying. It's a beautiful record.
Speaker 1 (02:52):
How did you guys find each other at school at Western?
Just your buddies and then somebody thought we need to
get into a studio.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Well, the short version, the medium long version. I got
there at ninety three. Skinny got there at ninety three.
Me and Skinny had ran into ran into each other
on campus, and before Nappy Roofs was was a concept,
we was just some adventurous kids on campus. You know,
(03:22):
we had just escaped the hood. I had just escaped
the hood. So I was like, man, I'm in college.
This is a great place to bleep, great great place
to be excuse me. And so we went from adventures
to wanting to do something positive and we.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Started rapping adventures.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
We started rapping, and this was in like ninety five,
and then I ended up going off to the Army.
While I was gone, Skinny and hooked up with Fish Scales.
Fish Scale was on a bar on the basketball team.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
And then in the.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Midst of all of this, Be still was rapping since
he was like eleven years old and he was a
part of Skinny's family before Skinny Eve knew it.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
He was living in I'm not living, but he was.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Not like like it's So we played at Newburg Boys
and Girls Club. We played t ball with his little
brother and his sisters. So I knew his whole family
except for him, and he's the big brother. So I
never met him until like like about to go to college,
and I couldn't believe it, Like I'm like, I know,
hi yo.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
I went to school with his brother bro.
Speaker 5 (04:29):
Like I got pictures in the eighties with his family,
his young his younger siblings. But you know, he's like
a few four or five years older than his brother,
so we never really crossed paths.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
But it's so crazy.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
I exchanged mixtapes the day that I seen in my
you know, like you said, I'm a friend of the family.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
So I go into the house.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
I'm a senior in high school, just graduated, you know
what I'm saying, but supposed to be, you know, playing
football for Western Kentucky.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
But that's another story.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
But yeah, I go into the Hughes residence with your
skinny family and and I just go into refrigerator.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
I waved to the family, Hey, what's up.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
We'll grab something at refrigerator cause you know, like I said,
you know, it's like an extended family.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
That's what a family does.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
And Skinny is sitting at the table looking at me, like,
who is this dude? You'd just let in his house
in refrigerator like it. So him and I kind of
had a little like little moment of who are you?
Speaker 4 (05:20):
Who are you? You know what I'm saying. He's like,
I live here, you don't you know what I'm saying.
I ain't never seen.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
So after we got past all of that, we exchanged mixtapes,
and that's the first time I actually heard them rap,
and so they listened to mys my music on the
way to Western that summer. I listened to their music
on the way to Western that summer, and then we
just we hooked up the first day pretty much.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
So then when I got back from the Army, Skinny
was like, man, I want you to hear his mixtape.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
And it was be Steel's mixtape.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
So he said, when we get back to college, it's
own and popping. So I get back. This was like
ninety seven, I think, yeah, ninety seven, and we immediately
jumped in the studio.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
We recorded Country Assess.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
They got in the hands of Atlantic Records about a
year later. They was like, meet us in Nashville. We
want to, you know, talk about doing the deal.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
And nerve racking, wasn't it You're going to do a deal,
and it's like works out.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Man, it happened like overnight, but it you know, I'm
it took longer than that, but it.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
Was just like it happened so fast. For me, it
happened fast.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
But that guy you heard on earlier, John Michael Montgomery,
same thing. He's playing some little hanky talk in Lexington,
somebody from Atlantic Records. So a guy who knows somebody
the Atlantic Records is there and he hitch them up
or whatever. It says. You got to here this guy.
So he says, you never know when somebody hears you,
and next thing you know, they're talking about you to
(06:44):
somebody in Boom.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (06:46):
Like do some work.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, just put some work, put your best work out,
put your best foot forward, and you never know.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Where were you in the army they send you off some.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Well, I was in the Army Reserve. So I done
my my boot camp, I done my A I T
and now today I came back to Bowl of Green
to finish up with school and keep rapping. But I
was doing my weekends a month, so I went everywhere
El Paso, I was in Tullahoma, Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (07:11):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
But what was even crazier is that.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
When I got out, Napa Rousse had hit. This was
like two thousand and two, and this is when we
went overseas to Kuwait and my unit on the tour
on the USO tour, the unit that I was in
was over there and a bd U's but I was
on stage rapping.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
So it was just like, man, this is crazy right.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Here, and the guys' supposed to be here with us.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
So yeah, this is you know, and we're still doing it.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
That's so great again.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
August second perform Saturday.
Speaker 1 (07:48):
Yes, sir Jared, where are we performing on Saturday? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:51):
So it's at Foxton and the Hardest Saint Matthews. We
got two different stages, eleven different bands, I mean, all
different genres from hip hop to trade of rock.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
You know, we like to explore it all and this
is great. This is like a this is like a
history book.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
I'm listening to you because like when they went into
the studio, I was probably the first guy to buy
their CD because I love these guys and it's just
pretty pretty awesome to see them performing at FOXSS Issues.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
You got all kinds of people performing too, Soul Circus,
Mary Mary, Sigmatic, End of Me, Doom Box, all kinds
of folks performing. And it starts at one yep, doors
open at one o'clock. Music starts at two o'clock and
we're going all the way. And the weather's great.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
That Jesus the other day and I said, man, can
we get some eighty four sunny no chance of rain?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
Bam, yeah, it's on yet.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Ruth is in the building of course, and great.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Great food everywhere as always.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah, yeah, So we're doing street style food. So like you,
there's like six different food trucks coming out of the kitchen.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
We have different chefs putting together. Dano is going to
be out there.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
We're doing a whole Dano's food truck menu with Dano's wing,
Dano his new Bloody Mary mix which is fantastic, sorry
bloody Mary seasoning. We got some steak tips going there,
so yeah, come on out, and once again, you're not
running a marathon for a good calls. You're drinking beer,
listening to good music and eating good food.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
I love the sound of that. A lot easier than
going running America right right, yeah, be still clutch, could
see both of you guys, see much love as always.
That's Nappy Roots. You can see them Saturday. It's the
thirty fourteen Frankfurt Avenue. The Fox Down is the location
for that. So great having those guys. These are more
Kentucky greats man of all time. We are we are
(09:36):
a talent hotbed in this Commonwealth of Kentucky. Back in
a minute news radio, Wait forty w Ain't chick do
this song?
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