John Richards

Good morning, Wednesday! It's 318 days since Seattle's pandemic lockdown and time for The Morning Show! --- Husband and Wife Don and Karen Peris lead this band that hails from Lancaster, PA. theinnocencemission.com

The Ocean Blue formed in the late 80's in Hershey, PA. Lead vocals/guitarist David Schelzel played an acoustic set on The Morning Show at KEXP in 2013. blog.kexp.org

New Radicals broke up in 1999—just months after the release of their 1998 single “You Get What You Give," but reunited to deliver a one-time performance 22 years after at the Biden/Harris inauguration! - bit.ly

Love → Building on Fire is a song by rock band Talking Heads, released as a single in 1977. The single preceded the band's debut album by seven months.

"Radiohead fans were really lovely – they said: "Ed, what kind of record are you making?" And I was like, "I'm making an existential dance record." Read more from our exclusive interview with the Radiohead guitarist about his solo debut here: www.kexp.org

This solo number by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke is from the soundtrack for the 2009 romantic fantasy, New Moon.

The legendary Tom Jones has shared his cover of Todd Snider's “Talking Reality Television Blues”. His new covers LP is expected to arrive later this year. - bit.ly

The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy were a San Franciso-based hip-hop musical ensemble, active during the early 1990s. Their lyrics addressed a wide range of social issues, like the Mass Media bias and abuse in "Television, the Drug of the Nation". - bit.ly

Mr. Lif is Boston rapper Jeffrey Haynes, and 'I Phantom' is his debut release. It received production help from Run the Jewels member El-P. mrlif.bandcamp.com

Ugly Duckling is an American hip hop group that formed around 1993 in Long Beach, California. Ugly Duckling's members include Dizzy Dustin (Dustin McFarland), Young Einstein (Rodney Pleasant Jr.) and Andy Cooper. The band decided to take the name Ugly Duckling because they felt like outcasts on the Southern California hip hop scene of the mid-1990s. www.uglyduckling.us

A request from Matt! In an effort to raise money for support.savethechildren.org, on January 9th, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor, Mariqueen Maandig Reznor, and Atticus Ross helped celebrate David Bowie’s life and legacy by performing a rendition of "Fashion" for A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day! This performance included the Bowie alumni band members including Carlos Alomar, he of the amazing guitar lick that inspired Bowie’s “Fame.”

Bowie doing this cover of the Pixies song that appears on their 1988 album 'Surfer Rosa.'

PIxies covered the late, great Leonard Cohen in 1991 with the track, "I Can't Forget". The track originally appears on Cohen's 1988 release, "I'm Your Man".

"Everybody Knows" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen and collaborator Sharon Robinson. It has often been covered and used in soundtracks.

Good morning! I was hoping you could play a request for an 8 year old named Alsea (al-c) Hazel Petersen in Portland Oregon. She’s been fed a steady diet of kexp from her dad, usually with a smile. I’ve sung a bedtime song to her for years and I was hoping you could play luckiest guy on the lower east side. I try to request it for her every year. She lives to hear it on the air, rather than from her dad’s scratchy old voice. Many thanks to all of you. John, you have gotten me through some rough times. All best- Andy P

Kate Bush sang backup - that's her singing "Jeux Sans Fronteires," which is French for "Games Without Frontiers." This song is about the childish antics of adults. - bit.ly

It’s minus a thousand here. And on days like this I imagine what it would be like to live in Australia where I would head out for a noon swim in the warm ocean. Instead of shoveling the walk in long underwear. And in this dream Quivers would be playing some tunes on the patio. It’s a nice dream. You’re not always on my mind -Shayne in Calgary

Wake me when its over - Longwave If u could fit it in 🙏🏻 Btw I’ve been doing to 10 min mornings (I’ve been pushing to do it for a few years) But you reinforced it ❤️🙏🏻❤️ Cheers brother Mike in Fart Lauderdale

Good morning John! Can you play anything by TV On the Radio? Thank you -Terresa

“Over You” is the lead single off of Aaron Frazer’s debut album, 'Introducing... ' produced by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach. Frazer is also the co-lead singer and and drummer of Durand Jones and the Indications. aaronfrazermusic.com

Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio will be LIVE on the Lawn In The Morning this Friday, Jan 29!

Happy birthday to Margo Timmins! Born January 27, 1961, the lead vocalist of the Canadian band Cowboy Junkies turns 60 today.

Yo John! Happy New Year! Day 7! This High Tide track by Lemolo is probably one on my favorite songs of all time. Bless you KEXP -Neil ====== Three songs from Seattle artist Lemolo's album Swansea are in the new Netflix series Fate The Winx. It’s the #1 show on Netflix right now! Lemolo was LIVE on KEXP in September of 2019. You can watch the full performance here: www.youtube.com

Australia's Middle Kids second album `Today We’re The Greatest’, is due out March 19th. Remember that time they were live on KEXP...remember...THAT WAS AWESOME. www.youtube.com

Off the sixth full-length album from the French music artist. ilovem83.com

Happy 265th birthday to Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart! He was born on this day in 1756. -- Matt: "BUMP THAT S***!" - Rick in LA: Ah... Real hair music -- Peter: Wow! Unexpected Mozart! Closed my eyes for that one and went somewhere else. Thank you for that moment

Happy birthday to Mike Patton, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Faith No More. Born in 1968, he is 53 today...or 212 years younger than Mozart. Coincidence?

Here's an English translation: "He was the first punk ever to set foot on this earth He was a genius from the day of his birth He could play the piano like a ring and a bell And everybody screamed: Come on, rock me Amadeus With a bottle of wine in one hand and a woman in the other His mind was on rock and roll and having fun Because he lived so fast he had to die so young But he made his mark in history Still everybody says: Rock me Amadeus" bit.ly

Trio was a German band, formed in the town of Großenkneten, West Germany in 1979. The band is most known for the 1982 song "Da Da Da" which was a hit in 30 countries worldwide.

This was one of the songs in the '80s to make a point about the brinkmanship and paranoia/hysteria surrounding the issue of war. The song talks about Nena and the listener buying 99 red balloons in a shop and letting them go, for fun. These balloons show up on the radar as unidentified objects and both sides scramble planes and go to full alert to counteract a perceived nuclear attack, when in fact it is the most childlike of things, a bunch of balloons. bit.ly

"The Robots" is a single by German electronic-music group Kraftwerk, which was released in 1978. The single and its B-side, "Spacelab", both appeared on the band's seventh album, The Man-Machine.

German musician Peter Schilling's sequel to David Bowie's 1969 song "Space Oddity".

Bowie shared a flat in Berlin with Iggy Pop from 1976-1979.

Phoenix lead singer Thomas Mars explained the track is about the French capital city: "It's a song about Paris," he said. "Paris in 1901 was better than it is now. So the song is a fantasy about Paris." bit.ly

"Ca Plane Pour Moi" roughly translates as "This Life's for Me." Plastic Bertrand is a Belgian recording artist and television presenter whose real name is Roger Jouret. He also takes part in Scrabble tournaments at international level. bit.ly

This French language song is based on an English language poem written by Bonnie Parker herself a few weeks before she and Clyde Barrow were shot, entitled "The Trail's End".

Claude M'Barali, professionally known as MC Solaar, is a French rapper of Senegalese and Chadian origin.