John Richards

Six Minute song for the top of the hour. Good morning.

Makes me want to paint my face with a blue band.

Call in at 206-903-KEXP and Michael will find a cd that has the song you want on it so that John can play it.

Apparently Morrissey's concert at Benaroya this summer was fairly standard. He posted photos of the Queen flipping the bird and tore off his shirt. There was a giant gong blog.kexp.org

Donnie Darko Theme: Commence.

Hard to play the Elbow song without playing one of these

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Prince doesn't care about many things.

You could sing all you need is love right on top of this song. Happy Birthday John.

Check out Warpaint's in studio from summer 2014 kexp.org

Grimes released this video to accompany this song as a thank you to fans and just other people www.youtube.com

Jah-Wave, Portland Reggae, dance pop

Another song from Craft Spells' drummer Peter Michel's project Hibou. Playing at Neumos on Nov. 4 Read about him here: blog.kexp.org

You can watch them play this song in the studio here: kexp.org

Zwan! en.wikipedia.org

Two albums out this year: Man Plans God Laughs and Live from Metropolis Studios

More from Lennon on his birthday

So warm and nice. factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com

Hot new track.

Donald Byrd Horns

Memories of John in the Morning at Night: blog.kexp.org

6 year old Finnegan, we hope you will enjoy the show.

OH, yeah. This is that big audio dynamite side project.

A while ago now, KEXP made some Documentaries about various musical genres. Soundgarden features prominently in the Grunge episode. blog.kexp.org

John is getting make-up in the booth, currently. Live-update on the in studio photoshoot.

Brand new stuff...release is next week. Cardiff outfit paying homage to the Cure.

This song was released on Bandcamp on August, 31 of this year. 31.08 Tyler Zypreksa

Photoshoots: www.theblondesalad.com

Inheaven have a zine: www.thelineofbestfit.com

The Benefits of Giving to KEXP are manifold: www.kexp.org

Oldschool review: blog.kexp.org

Ticket giveaway: text 206-903-5397 Deerhunter!

Foals in studio: blog.kexp.org

If you haven't seen the Ian Curtis Dance, you should. www.youtube.com

New New Order blog.kexp.org

John will be giving a Town Hall talk on Nov. 11th + show with Noah Gunderson and Rocky Votolato.

Speaking of Radiohead: a trailer for the Paul Thomas Anderson directed doc on Jonny Greenwood's new collaboration with Israeli composer Shye Ben Tzur can be seen here: pitchfork.com

Learn about what Aretha Franklin, now 72, thinks about feminism, Beyonce and who should star in her biop in an interview with Rolling Stones from December. www.rollingstone.com

Locals Grace Love and the True Loves just left Seattle on tour so if you're in Seattle you'll have to wait a bit to see them live. www.graceloveandthetrueloves.com Luckily you can read about their performance at Bumbershoot this year on the KEXP blog: blog.kexp.org

Happy Birthday to PJ Harvey! She turns 46 today. www.pjharvey.net