John Richards

Good morning Seattle, and welcome to the Monday edition of The Morning Show. How are you doing? Reach out to us during the show at dj@kexp.org. On this day in 1985, the Live Aid benefit concert took place in London, Philadelphia, Sydney, and Moscow. Read the full break down and story of this performance from U2 here: www.rollingstone.com

The song U2's Bono riffed near the end of their live performance of "Bad" at Live Aid, which happened 35 years ago on this day in 1985.

Samples Lou Reed's 1972 song "Walk on the Wild Side"

This new one from Detroit's Moodymann is out now: moodymann.bandcamp.com

This first new album in eighteen years from the "The Godfather of Neo Soul" is out now: royayers.bandcamp.com

Originally appearing on 2010's 'I'm New Here,' this track from Gil Scott-Heron's 13th (and final) album received this re-imagining ten years later from American jazz drummer and bandleader, Makaya McCraven.

Request for long-time listener Simon in Sherbrooke, Québec

Seattle's DLO3 recently released this cover of the Marvin Gaye classic, and you can get it here: delvonlamarrorgantrio.bandcamp.com

Teddy Pendergrass, left paralyzed after a 1982 car crash, returned to the stage at the Live Aid concert on this day in 1985 in front of a live audience of about 1.5 billion television viewers. It was his first live performance since the accident. Pendergrass then performed this Diana Ross classic "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)"with Ashford and Simpson. Watch video of it here: www.dailymotion.com

Read our tribute to Bill Withers, who passed away on March 30th of this year here: www.kexp.org

Michael J. Moore from NPR wrote about this one, "SAULT's latest and best album, is a capital-B Black record that funnels rage and sorrow into contemplative streams of thought, over equally brooding music meant to slow your heart rate." saultglobal.bandcamp.com

Find the Texas trio's new album here: khruangbin.bandcamp.com

On this day in 1985, Run D.M.C. took the stage at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia for the historic Live Aid benefit show that aired to 1.9 billion tv viewers. “For us it was a lot of pressure ’cause [concert promoter] Bill Graham personally requested that we be there,” DMC told Rolling Stone in 2016. “At first, from what I hear, when Bill Graham brought our names up, people was like, ‘What? Why would you want them here? They’re not even gonna be around in three or four years.’ But Bill Graham — rest in peace — personally said, “I will not participate if you don’t have Run-D.M.C. here.” Watch the performance here: www.youtube.com

According to their Bandcamp page, Keleketla! is an expansive collaborative project, reaching outward from Johannesburg to London, Lagos, L.A. and West Papua. Find this release here: keleketla.bandcamp.com

Seattle's Chong the Nomad is one of the many artists that will be featured for REFILL, a community-driven live streamed benefit concert to help raise money for the Seattle Artist Relief Fund (SARF), a Black-led community response to help provide direct financial support to artists who have been affected by Covid-19. It airs on July 19th, find more info here: www.kexp.org

On this day in 1985, Sade took the stage at Wembley Stadium in London for her performance at the historic Live Aid benefit show to an audience of 1.9 billion television viewers. Watch the performance of this song here: www.youtube.com

New song from Anderson .Paak that references both police brutality and COVID-19. The artwork for this single features a long list of names of black people who have been recent victims of police brutality: Ahmaud Abrery, Breonna Taylor, Philando Castile, Alton Sterling, Trayvon Martin, and George Floyd, to name a few. Read more about it here: www.complex.com

Happy 27th anniversary to Bjork's debut album (aptly titled 'Debut'), released on this day in 1993!

The lines from this 1993 song, "My friend says we're like the dinosaurs, only we are doing ourselves in much faster than they ever did" reflect the unfortunate things the human race does to themselves.

On this day in 1985, The Cars took the stage at John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia for the historic Live Aid benefit show that aired to 1.9 billion tv viewers. Watch video of them performing "Drive" here: www.youtube.com

The first new album in eleven years from Doves is due to arrive on September 11th. Find pre-order info for their fifth LP, 'The Universal Want' here: dovesofficial.com

Recent new single from the Danish band who are currently working on the follow-up album to their 2016 debut, 'A Youthful Dream.' yungband.bandcamp.com

Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner joins on backing vocals for this first new single from Future Islands in three years. No LP announcement yet, but stay tuned...

New single from Elvis Costello that he recorded in Helsinki, Finland because, “I wanted to go somewhere nobody knew me. So, this is ‘The Helsinki Sound.'"

Recorded at the same time as 2015's 'The Waterfall,' but only released last week. Jim James has announced though that the band has a completely new record ready to go, but they're holding on to it until they can tour for it live.

"Am putting in a birthday request for my partner Nathaniel this morning. He is a KEXP amplifier and a huge huge fan of you and your show which has been a part of his extensive morning puttering routine since moving to the PNW five years ago. We moved to Seattle from Olympia at the end of February right before everything changed so exploring the city has been different then we imagined but we’ve been doing our best! Luckily he’s my very favorite adventuring companion. Can you please play Bright Eyes cover of Devil Town? He’s a huge fan of this version and Friday Night Lights." - Elisabeth

"As a pediatric bone marrow transplant doc, this pandemic is scary in a lot of ways, but certainly none of us is alone. Would also love to hear the Mountain Goats "This Year" because 2020." - Lisa

"It has been a few years since we last requested a bday song for our son Wesley, but we're listening this morning and would love to hear one of his favorites. He's six today! If you can fit it in can you please play Ooh LA LA by Run the Jewels?" - Molly

johnrichards 8:12 AM terrible segue coming up alert Lisa LeClair 8:14 AM HAHAHAHAHA Owen 8:14 AM BRAK!!! Hi from The Morning Show team, it's Monday, for the record.

Eric wrote us in this morning and noted, "my daughter learned the days of the week from the Clash’s version of Police on my Back that you played one morning on the way to daycare." Runnin' Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday! What have I done?

Watch David Bowie performing this one live 35 years ago today at the historic Live Aid benefit show to 1.9 billion tv viewers here: www.youtube.com

Some people think we don't have the right To say it's my country Before they give in, they'd rather fuss and fight Than say it's my country

From rapper and actor Donald Glover. This song went on to win all four Grammy categories it was nominated in.

Beyonce recently announced a new visual album 'Black Is King,' that will be released on July 31st to the Disney+ network. Proceeds from the sale of this recent single will support Black-owned small businesses in need, through the singer's BeyGOOD initiative: www.beyonce.com

New single from the band that hails from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Watch them performing live at KEXP in 2018 here: www.youtube.com

This compilation album that was released in 2010 features rare and unreleased tracks from Jingo, Dackin Dackino and Geraldo Pino, and a selection of other songs from the archives of Africa. strut.bandcamp.com

Intended to be on the Canadian band's debut EP, but didn't show up until 'Neon Bible,' their sophomore effort.

New one from Songhoy Blues, a band from Timbuktu, Mali. The group is one of the principal subjects of the 2015 documentary film "They Will Have To Kill Us First" which tells the story of extremists that gained control, banned music in Mali, and destroyed instruments and radio stations during this conflict. Find their work and story here: songhoyblues.com

This song from Midnight Oil touches on both the mistreatment of the indigenous people in Australia, and to raise awareness of the Aboriginal children that were taken from their families between the years 1910 and 1970.

The Dixie Chicks have dropped the Dixie out of their name, and this new single that reference current public protests. Watch for their new album 'Gaslighter' to arrive on July 17th.

Paul McCartney's mic was dead for the first two minutes of this song that he performed live with Alison Moyet, David Bowie, Pete Townshend and Bob Geldof at Live Aid on this day in 1985. Watch the video here: www.youtube.com

Birthday request for Mark this morning for this one that features recordings from the first moon landing by a manned spacecraft (Apollo 11) in 1969.

References Bowie's 1969 song "Space Oddity". Watch the video for "Ashes to Ashes" here: www.youtube.com

Closing track on the debut album from Brooklyn band Nation of Language. 'Introduction, Presence' is out now, get it here: nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com

Watch Queen's iconic performance at the historic Live Aid benefit show that happened 35 years ago today in front of billions of viewers here: www.youtube.com

Part of a box set that compiled Pearl Jam's 2005 and 2006 shows at the Gorge.

In an interview with No. 1 magazine, member Andy Fletcher said about this one, "… we were experimenting with various new technology that was available. We now had Emulators and Synclaviers and we wanted to move into a new area of sound."

Watch the scene from this live performance that was recorded at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood for the Talking Heads "Stop Making Sense" film here: www.youtube.com

Happy 31st birthday to Leon Bridges, born on this day in 1989! This has been The Morning Show. We'll see you all again at 6:00 AM tomorrow. Take care of yourselves, friends.