John Richards

John Richards

John Richards

The Morning Show
Last show: Wednesday, Oct 23 2024, 7AM
john@kexp.org
Thursday, Sep 17 2015, 6AM
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Founding member of The Afghan Whigs, Greg Dulli, started The Twilight Singers in 1997 as a side project! Also a cover of Bjork!
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The Twilight Singers covered Bjork in the last song who was in The Sugarcubes before going solo!
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Going from one Justin Robertson remix to another Justin Robertson remix, he remixed The Sugarcubes, The Stone Roses and a ton of other bands!
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6:26 AM
1st spin?!
Ian Brown was the lead singers of The Stone Roses and released this solo album in 2007!
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Ian Brown enlisted the help of Andy Rourke, bassist of The Smiths for the making of his album The World is Yours
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Morrissey was once the lead singer of the previous band, The Smiths!
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Jesse Tobias played guitar on that last Morrissey track and plays e-bow on this Twilight Singers song!
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Mark Lanegan sings on the previous Twilight Singers album!
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6:43 AM
4th spin
Mark Lanegan covered this Leadbelly song with Kurt Cobain
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Nirvana covered a traditional folk song, Where Did You Sleep Last Night, most famously recorded by Leadbelly before Nirvana and several other bands covered it.
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6:55 AM
1st spin?!
The Backbeat Band was comprised for the soundtrack to the film Backbeat and features Dave Pirner, Greg Dulli, Thurston Moore, Don Fleming, Mike Mills and Dave Grohl who played with Nirvana. This was also a one off performance on the MTV Video Awards and Nirvana recorded the last song on MTV's Unplugged!
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6:57 AM
13th spin
Mike Mills, multi instrumentalist for R.E.M. played bass in the Backbeat Band
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7:00 AM
38th spin
This song features Kate Pierson of the B-52's who was also on the previous R.E.M. song
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Iggy Pop started out as the lead singer of The Stooges!
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John Cale of The Velvet Underground produced the first Stooges record and played sleigh bells on I Wanna Be Your Dog
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7:15 AM
70th spin
Lou Reed played in The Velvet Underground!
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7:16 AM
38th spin
David Bowie and Mick Ronson produced Transformer by Lou Reed and sang on Satellite of Love!
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Brian Eno played on The Berlin Trilogy of David Bowie records and helped write DJ!
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7:26 AM
29th spin
Brian Eno has recorded a couple albums with David Byrne!
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David Byrne was the lead singer of the Talking Heads!
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7:35 AM
31st spin
Tina Weymouth, founding member and bassist of the Talking Heads sings backup on this Gorillaz song!
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The Good The Bad & The Queen is a supergroup with Damon Albarn who is also in Gorillaz!
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Paul Simonon played in The Good The Bad & The Queen and was the bassist for The Clash!
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Joe Strummer was the lead singer of The Clash!
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Joe Strummer covered this song by Bob Marley and The Wailers!
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7:56 AM
148th spin
This Beastie Boys song samples the Bob Marley track Could You Be Loved
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8:04 AM
84th spin
This Beck record was produced by the Dust Brothers who also produced Paul's Boutique by the Beastie Boys!
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8:08 AM
62nd spin
Jack White helped write and played bass on Go It Alone by Beck!
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Jack White plays in The Raconteurs!
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Patrick Keeler who drums for the Raconteurs is also the current drummer of The Afghan Whigs!
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8:23 AM
71st spin
The drummer of Big Star, Jody Stephens, sings on The Afghan Whigs' song Now You Know
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Alex Chilton from Big Star sings on this song by The Replacements
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Paul Westerberg is the lead singer, guitarist and song writer from The Replacements!
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This Screaming Trees song was on the Singles soundtrack along with the previous Paul Westerberg song!
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The Gutter Twins is a collaboration between Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan who played in the Screaming Trees!
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8:43 AM
60th spin
Mark Lanegan is one half of the Gutter Twins!
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8:46 AM
117th spin
PJ Harvey is featured on the last Mark Lanegan track!
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8:50 AM
9th spin
Thom Yorke, lead singer of Radiohead, sings on the last PJ Harvey song
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8:53 AM
127th spin
This New Order song was covered by Radiohead during a 2007 live webcast!
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9:02 AM
9th spin
Electronic is a duo comprised of Bernard Sumner of New Order and Johnny Marr!
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Johnny Marr of Electronic plays on this Modest Mouse album!
Modest Mouse and The Black Heart Procession
Wednesday, Oct 30, 2024  
Event Info
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9:10 AM
139th spin
James Mercer of The Shins sings on the previous Modest Mouse song!
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9:12 AM
44th spin
James Mercer of the Shins is one half of Broken Bells!
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9:15 AM
14th spin
Danger Mouse is the other half of Broken Bells and is also half of DANGERDOOM
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9:19 AM
70th spin
This Black Keys record was produced by Danger Mouse, half of DANGERDOOM
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9:26 AM
1st spin?!
Blakroc is The Black Keys and this song features RZA!
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RZA of Wu -Tang Clan is featured on the last song by Blakroc
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9:31 AM
50th spin
Wugazi is a mashup of Wu-Tang Clan and Fugazi
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9:34 AM
44th spin
Fugazi is half of the mashup that is Wugazi
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9:40 AM
11th spin
The bassist of the Julie Ruin, Kathi Wilcox sings on Fugazi's Full Disclosure! Fugazi's Ian MacKaye founded Dischord who released this Julie Ruin record!
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9:41 AM
97th spin
Kathleen Hanna of The Julie Ruin is also the lead singer of Bikini Kill!
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9:44 AM
33rd spin
Kathleen Hanna is married to Adam Horowitz, also known as Ad-Rock, of the Beastie Boys!
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9:46 AM
117th spin
This Johnny Cash album was produced by Rick Rubin who also produced Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill
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Johnny Cash covered this Soundgarden song on his Unchained album!
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9:53 AM
26th spin
Matt Cameron is the drummer for Pearl Jam and Soundgarden!
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10:01 AM
120th spin
This album was largely recorded at Josh Homme's Pink Duck Studio
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