John Richards

Beirut’s Zack Condon was featured on Sharon Van Etten’s “We're All Right”

Kirsty MacColl’s covering of Billy Bragg’s “New England”

Billy Bragg and Wilco performing together on “California Stars”

Wilco's frontman Jeff Tweedy performing an original track from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot!

Wilco's Jeff Tweedy Performing Bob Dylan's "Simple Twist of Fate"

And now we have a Bob Dylan original "Mr. Tambourine Man"

Now we have a timeless Johnny Cash original "Folsom Prison Blues"

Carl Perkin's performing his classic "Blue Suede Shoes"

Here's Drive By Truckers performing a song about Carl Perkins and the early rock and roll titans!

Sound Familiar? Now we have Booker T's "Potato Hole" with Drive By Truckers as the backing band!

Del Shannon's Runaway's was featured on the American Graffiti soundtrack as well as Booker T.

Buddy Holly's "That'll Be The Day" was featured on the American Graffiti soundtrack with Del Shannon!

Now here's Modest Mouse's cover of Buddy Holly's "That'll Be The Day" featured on Rave On Buddy Holly compilation!

Here we have a Modest Mouse original "Dashboard" from 2007's "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank"

The Smith's guitarist Johnny Marr contributed on Modest Mouse's "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank"

Now here we have former Smith's frontman Steven Morrissey with "Everyday Is Like Sunday"

Steven Morrissey was the founder and president of New York Dolls official fan club!

Here we have Devo appearing on the "Rock N Roll High School" soundtrack alongside The Ramones!

Now we have Devo's cover of The Rolling Stone's (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction!

This leads us to The Rolling Stone's classic "Sympathy for the Devil"

The Rolling Stone's song was in a Superbowl Commercial with William Defoe, who was the green goblin in the Spiderman movie which inspired the Broadway play whose music was composed by U2!

Here we have "Miss Sarajevo" which was the only single from the 1995 album Original Soundtracks 1 by Passengers (U2) and producer Brian Eno.

Here we have a collaboration with Brian Eno & David Byrne entitled "Regiment"

Now we have Stereo MC's "What Is Soul?" sampling Brian Eno & David Byrne's "Regiment"

Stereo MC's supported Happy Monday's 1990 tour!

Happy Monday's Shaun Ryder was featured, co-wrote, and appeared in the music video for this song with the Gorillaz!

Here is the Gorillaz's lead single "Feel Good Inc." featuring De La Soul from the album Parlophone!

Mint Royale's "Show Me" features Pos from De La Soul

Mint Royale sampled Shocking Blue's "Acka Raga" in the track "From Rusholme with Love"

Nirvana covered Shocking Blue's "Love Buzz" who released it as a debut single in 1988.

Here's Nirvana with a Lead Belly cover from MTV's Unplugged in New York!

Now we have the original track "In The Pines (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)" from Lead Belly!

Here's Nick Cave with a cover of Lead Belly's "Black Betty"

Here we have Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds featuring PJ Harvey with a traditional track "Henry Lee"

"Rid with Me" is the title track from PJ Harvey's 1993 studio album which was produced by Big Black's Steve Albini!

Here we have Steve Albini fronted Big Black with the track "Kerosene"

Big Black frontman Steve Albini also produced The Pixies "Surfer Rosa"

Kim Deal of the Pixies was also in the Breeders!

Tanya Donelly who was also in the Breeders founded the band Belly!

Belly founder Tanya Donelly was also a member of Throwing Muses!

Throwing Muses was made up of half-sisters Tanya Donelly and Kirsten Hersh and was formed during high school!

Kirsten Hersh covered Cat Steven's "Trouble"

Elliot Smith with his version of Cat Steven's "Trouble"

Here is The Helio Sequence's cover of Elliot Smith's "Satellite"

Shabazz Palaces are playing a showcase with label mates The Helio Sequence on Thursday, September 26th at the Showbox at the Market!

Pickwick appeared on KEXP vol. 8 with Shabazz Palaces!

Sharon Van Etten appeared on the Pickwick song "Lady Luck"

While the National's latest album features a variety of collaborators which include Sharon Van Etten, here is a track that features St. Vincent's Annie Clark on backing vocals!

St. Vincent collaborated with David Byrne on last year's "Love This Giant"

Here is a cover of NXS by St. Vincent and Beck

St. Vincent recorded "Never Tear Us Apart" with Beck's record club.

Beck sampled James Brown's "Get Yo Offa That Thing" for the last song.

Wilson Picket, and James Brown did a little split single together!

Finally N.W.A.!!! Here is a sample from Wilson Pickett's "Get Me Back on Time, Engine Number 9".

Ice Cube was in N.W.A.! Who doesn't know every word to this song?

Del the Funky Homosapien and Ice Cube are cousins? Dang right they are!! Now you know!!!

Del is in Deltron 3030 with Dan the Automator. The connections keep a coming folks!!

Damon Albarn the dude from Blur has been on a couple Deltron 3030 albums.

Damon Albarn is also in this band. Wow! What a busy, busy, busy guy.

Paul Simonon is from the Clash. He also played with Damon Albarn in The Good, the Bad, & Queen. So, glad we made it to the Clash!!!

A sample!! From "Straight To Hell"!!!!

Diplo is in Major Lazer. He produced M.I.A.'s album that we just played. He we go!

Major Lazer have some guest on this album. Amber Coffman is one of them, and she is in the band Dirty Projectors. Dirty Projectors will lead us to the next song. I can't wait!!

"Rise Above"? Isn't that a Black Flag song? Wow! Mind BLOWN!!!

What a awesome song!! Both versions are great!!

Henry Rollins was in Black Flag. Henry Rollins also played the first Lollapalooza, with his band Henry Rollins Band. The Butthole Surfers also played that darn thing. We be connecting!!

Gibby Haynes from Butthole Surfers was on vocals from the original single of this same song.

Al Jourgensen from Ministry is on 1000 Homo DJs. Trent Reznor was also in this band, but was not credited because of label dispute. TVT wouldn't let him appear. Was rumored to use a vocal distortion to fool label people..

Led Zep cover!! Trent does it right!! Doing vocals for this song is Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

From a Led Zeppelin cover to a Led Zeppelin original!! Loving this six degrees stuff!!!

Beastie Boys using "When the Levee Breaks" for a sample. Turn this one up!!!

Beastie Boys and Public Enemy are both hip hop groups. Just kidding!! "Funky Drummer" is the shared sample. Got you guys!!

Song features Chuck D. Connected!

J Mascis co-produced and sang some back up vocals on Sonic Youth's album Goo. So here we are with Dinosaur Jr. doing a Cure cover. What could be next?

Same song. Original artist. You should hear my version I sing for karaoke!!

Written by John Lennon, this song appears on their classic 1968 self titled White Album.

Beatles cover from Rubber Soul.

Another Beatles cover from the seminal British band.

The Jam covered "Move on Up" live several times. Their version of the track also appears on their album "Extras."