John Richards

John Richards

John Richards

The Morning Show
Last show: Wednesday, Oct 23 2024, 7AM
john@kexp.org
Wednesday, Nov 19 2014, 6AM
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Kermit and the Cookie Monster perform LCD Soundsystem. It's on the KEXP blog: blog.kexp.org. And we review "Shut up and Play the Hits" here: blog.kexp.org
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Get a free KEXP "Song of the Day" of "Through Me" from Chemical Brother Tom Rowlands: blog.kexp.org. "Alive Alone" features guest vocals from Beth Orton.
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Features vocals from Mazzy Star. The KEXP blog covers Heligoland: kexp.org
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Get a free KEXP "Song of the Day" download of "Cherry" from the Chromatics: blog.kexp.org. And you can listen to the full performance of Glass Candy and the Chromatics play a double header set in the KEXP studio live on Audioasis from 2011: kexp.org
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6:33 AM
60th spin
Live video of XX playing KEXP in 2012: blog.kexp.org.
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KEXP reviews Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me on the blog: blog.kexp.org
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6:39 AM
77th spin
Video of alt-J playing live at KEXP last month: blog.kexp.org. They play The Crystal Ballroom in Portland on December 16.
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6:42 AM
238th spin
Get a free KEXP "Song of the Day" download of "Nothing Ever Happened": blog.kexp.org. KEXP Blog coverage of Deerhunter's 2013 Bumbershoot show: blog.kexp.org
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Animal Collective playing live on KEXP from the Cutting Room Studios in 2012: blog.kexp.org. "My Girls" was KEXP's song of the day on January 20, 2009. Get a free download here: blog.kexp.org.
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Smokey Brights played live at KEXP last year: kexp.org
KEXP & Cloudbreak Music Festival Present: Smokey Brights 10 year Anniversary 2024
Friday, Nov 22, 2024  
Event Info
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Live video -- a great performance at KEXP in 2011: blog.kexp.org. You can get "Window Sill" as a free KEXP "Song of Day" download here: blog.kexp.org
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Ming City Rockers treated KEXP listeners to an exclusive set featuring songs from their 2014 self-titled debut album, live from The Cutting Room Studios in New York City last month: www.kexp.org
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7:10 AM
78th spin
Steve Mason by request. Get Steve's "All Come Down" as a free KEXP "Song of the Day" download: blog.kexp.org.
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7:15 AM
264th spin
Brooklyn group TV On The Radio brought their otherworldly urban soul sound to the KEXP studios 10 years ago for a live set of experimental, electronic and alternative rock: kexp.org. They play Key Arena on December 9.
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7:23 AM
51st spin
KEXP reviewed Turn Blue on the blog here: blog.kexp.org. And their performance at Key Arena earlier this month here: blog.kexp.org. You can catch them in Atlanta on December 11th or in Austin on December 19th.
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7:26 AM
33rd spin
Live video of Mark Lanegan playing at KEXP this past summer: blog.kexp.org.
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7:28 AM
107th spin
Real Estate by request this morning. They played live at KEXP last March. Video of that great performance here: blog.kexp.org. Get "It's Real" as a free KEXP "Song of the Day" download here: blog.kexp.org.
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Hear tour stories and wisecracks about British culture in this close-up live interview of Belle and Sebastian from 2004 along with some great music: kexp.org. Belle and Sebastian play January 26th at the Auckland Laneway Festival, New Zealand, January 29th in Sydney at the Enmore Theatre, and January 31st in Australia at the Taronga Zoo, Sydney.
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Placebo tours the UK starting March 24 in London.
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7:40 AM
5th spin
Watch Haerts playing live at KEXP a year ago: blog.kexp.org. Download "Wings" as a free KEXP "Song of the Day": blog.kexp.org.
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7:43 AM
44th spin
St. Lucia plays with Haerts tonight at Terminal 5 in NYC. St. Lucia live on KEXP from last January: kexp.org. The KEXP blog reviews their Sasquatch! Launch PArty performance from February: blog.kexp.org.
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Haircut One Hundred play Cadogan Hall in Chelsea on December 2009: www.haircutonehundred.net
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The Young Evils live video from the KEXP Bumbershoot Music Lounge in 2012: blog.kexp.org. "When Sally Walked in the Rain" free download from KEXP's "Song of the Day": blog.kexp.org
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7:56 AM
11th spin
The Hoot Hoots and the Young Evils play tonight at the Pacific Science Center. Free KEXP "Song of the Day" download “Go For A Walk” from their 2012 EP release Feel The Cosmos: blog.kexp.org
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8:00 AM
38th spin
London quartet Yuck left a big impression on us with their ‘90s-inspired sound of squalling guitar riffs combined with boy/girl vocals. They blasted through a sonic set of singles off their latest album, Glow & Behold, live at KEXP last February. Watch their melodic set of gauzy guitars and dreamy vocals below: blog.kexp.org.
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Our 2009 review of The Stone Roses self titled album from the KEXP blog: blog.kexp.org
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8:11 AM
42nd spin
mr. Gnome's fourth album, The Heart of a Dark Star, was officially released yesterday. See more about the Cleveland duo and the new album at: www.mrgnome.com
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8:15 AM
58th spin
Watch the Raveonettes play live on KEXP at the Cutting Room Studios in NYC from 2010: blog.kexp.org. They play the Mao Live House in Shanghai on November 21. You can get the "Last Dance as a free KEXP "Song of the Day download here: blog.kexp.org.
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8:19 AM
1st spin?!
Watch Scottish electropop group CHVRCHES play live on KEXP as part of our Musicfest NW broadcast last year: blog.kexp.org.
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KEXP Documentaries covers Siouxie and the Banshees in our Portraits of Post-Punk: kexp.org.
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8:27 AM
190th spin
KEXP Documentaries covers Bjork as an "Electronic Innovator": blog.kexp.org
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Jim Carroll by request this morning. He is best-known for writing The Basketball Diaries (when he was only 12 years old.) KEXP Documentaries covered that and other aspects of Jim's life and work in “Poets and Music”: blog.kexp.org.
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8:49 AM
148th spin
Still hard to look at that cover. From the archives: our review of Locust Abortion Technician:blog.kexp.org
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"Games Without Frontiers" from 1980 with Kate Bush on backing vocals.
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Peter Gabriel covering Vampire Weekend's "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" complete with self reference.
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Vampire Weekend play live on KEXP from 2007: kexp.org
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9:06 AM
40th spin
Graceland was released in 1986. It reached #3 on Billboard in the US and topped the UK album chart.
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9:10 AM
1st spin?!
In 1968, Elvis returned to Memphis to record From Elvis in Memphis at American Studios, including "Suspicious Minds." Original recordings produced by Chips Moman and Felton Jarvis.
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"Radio Radio" was released by Elvis Costello and The Attractions in the UK in October 1978.
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KEXP Documentaries covers The Ramones in "Punk Evolution" kexp.org.
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9:22 AM
14th spin
KEXP DJ Michele Myers covers the story of Joy Division, and its lead singer Ian Curtis, on the KEXP blog: blog.kexp.org. "Transmission" was released on Factory Records in October 1979.
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The KEXP blog reviewed New Order's first Seattle date in over half a decade this past July: blog.kexp.org. And reviews 2013's Lost Sirens here: blog.kexp.org
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9:32 AM
36th spin
This is Galaxie 500s second studio album, released in 1989 on Rough Trade Records and recorded at Noise NY in NYC.
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After Galaxie 500 broke up in 1991, singer/guitarist Dean Wareham formed Luna. Bonnie & Clyde was released in 1995.
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9:43 AM
9th spin
Diving into French hip hop. This was MC Solaar's first live album, released in 1998.
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More Serge from Seattle's Light in the Attic Records: lightintheattic.net
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9:57 AM
124th spin
Download "Baby Lee" free here: blog.kexp.org
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Check out the KEXP review of Teenage Fanclub's "A Catholic Education" on our blog. blog.kexp.org
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