The Runcast with John Richards

Some say breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Others say that the Music That Matters podcast, when hosted by KEXP's Morning Show host John Richards, is the most important podcast of the day. One thing is for sure, it's the right thing to do and the tasty way to do it.    1. Kasbo - Snow In Gothenburg  2. EMA - Moptops 3. Mint Field - Quiero Otono De Nuevo 4. Crater - Novocaine  5. Aust...

Ahead of the 2018 MoPOP Sound Off! semifinals, Audioasis host/Expansions rotating host Sharlese showcases the 12 Northwestern Under 21 artists competing in the local music competition.   1. Dreadlight – Blister (Oregon City, OR) 2. Jawzilla – Family Reunion Pt. 1 (Tacoma, WA) 3. Maiah Wynne – Ballad for an Old Soul (Gresham, OR) 4. Strawberry Mountain – Vice House (Seattle, WA) 5. Micaiah Sawyer –...

Take a deep breath and dive in with Cheryl Waters as she plunges into a pool of new music with new tracks from Preoccupations, Sunflower Bean, and Ought.   1. Cock & Swan – Never Been So Lost 2. Fever Ray – Mustn't Hurry 3. Dream Wife – Somebody 4. Sunflower Bean – Crisis Fest 5. Eels – The Deconstruction 6. Gingerlys – Turtledoves 7. Bette Smith – Jetlagger 8. Destroyer – Tinseltown Swim...

Musical alchemist DJ Kevin Cole provides the soundtrack to penetrate the darkness and fear that obscures our awareness of the divine chord.  Includes new songs from Dessa, Sufjan Stevens, Gord Downie, and other cosmic creators.    1. Dessa - Fire Drills 2. Tus Nua - Fight! 3. The Luxembourg Signal - Blue Field 4. Nabihah Iqbal,  Saw U Twice 5. Sufjan Stevens - Tonya Harding (in Eb major) 6. Bekon...

Goth is back from the dead and everybody is wearing black and dangly earrings. Atticus takes you on a journey throughout the various dark jams that he's been listening to lately, from goth tinged electropop to shoegaze to garage and everything in between.    1. Odonis Odonis - Check My Profile 2. TR/ST - Bicep 3. Ritual Howls - This is Transcendence 4. L.A. Witch - Drive Your Car 5. Has A Shadow -...

The Music that Matters podcast that defies description yet has that Barton Fink feeling with songs from great new artists (make sure to listen to HOLY!) and old favorites like Buffalo Tom, Elvis Perkins and Geowulf.    1. Elvis Perkins - There Go the Nightmericans 2. Jonathan Wilson - Over the Midnight 3. Hatchie - Sure 4. Geowulf - Hideaway 5. Milagres - Flame 6. TR/ST - Destroyer 7. HOLY - Heard...

DJ Kevin Cole looks back at musical highlights of 2017 and ahead with anticipation and great expectations!   1. Alvvays - In Undertow 2. Wolf Parade - You're Dreaming 3. Žen - Žal (Strand) 4. Mammút - Breathe Into Me 5. Ride - Charm Assault 6. ГШ (Glintshake) - Убожество 7. Oligarkh - Maria Devo,  8. ODESZA - Late Night 9. Cock & Swan - PERG (Honing) 10. Shabazz Palaces - Shine A Light 11. Mik...

DJ Larry Rose tr/sts that you'll not be a hater and love this podcast that dude, is like a washed out fantasy about a lost horizon on the moon and we're not liars.   1. TR/ST - Destroyer 2. Washed Out - Hard To Say Goodbye 3. Nabihah Iqbal - Zone 1 to 6000 4. Dude York - Break Up Holiday 5. Moon Palace - Full Moon Heart 6. Hater - Rest 7. Milo - Ornette's Swan Song 8. Lost Horizons - Rec...

To paraphrase Stefon from Weekend Update, John Richards' latest podcast has everything...a naked giant, a Superchunk, and an FKL. What's an FKL? It's that thing where a KEXP DJ plays the bestest songs on a podcast, ever. 1. Makeness - Loud Patterns 2. FKL - A Different Street 3. Shopping - The Hype 4. Alyeska - Stones 5. Naked Giants - The Age of Information 6. DoM - Gud Tymes 7. Citizen - Fever D...

Variety mix host and general renaissance man Troy Nelson paints a portrait of his latest musical tastes with new tracks from Sneaks, Kelley Stoltz, and Curtis Harding. 1. Sneaks - Look Like That 2. Mux Mool - Oh Yeah 3. Frankie Rose - Trouble 4. Cherry - Buttoned Up 5. Timber Timbre - Grifting 6. Kelley Stoltz - Empty Kicks 7. ShitKid - Alright 8. Curtis Harding - Face Your Fear 9. Four Tet - Two...

DJ Kevin Cole crushes it on his latest new music mix featuring Kiasmos, the Gunn-Truscinski Duo, John Maus, Hundred Waters and the cross cultural collaboration of heavyweights Trio Da Kali & Kronos Quartet.   1. Autonomics - Southern Funeral 2. Flat Worms - Pearl 3. Oh Sees - Jettisoned 4. Cock & Swan - What Was Life? (What's Your Problem?) 5. John Maus - The Combine 6. Porches - Find Me 7...

Cheryl Waters' final mix of 2017 is a wild one, with dreamy and heavy sounds taking you on a looping, rollicking ride with new tunes from A Giant Dog, Mister Heavenly, and Nick Hakim.   1. Nick Hakim feat. Jesse and Forever - Miss Chew 2. Nearby - Breakers 3. Gordi - Heaven I Know 4. Mister Heavenly - Makin' Excuses 5. Tomo Nakayama - Pieces of Sky 6. Langhorne Slim - Zombie 7. Katie Ellen - Wild...

John in the Morning invades your "Dreams" and insists "You Would Have To Lose Your Mind" to "Poor the War Away" "In Another Century" which sends us back to "Primeval" times where it's a "Private Understanding" that one must "Bendover" when you are sent a "Dispatch From Mar-A-Lago" that has a picture of dice rolled to &...

DJ Shannon brings you her latest favorite gems from bands such as Blaenavon, Shame, Ride, the Casual Sexists, Lea Porcelain, Paradise and Creatures.   1. Blaenavon - Lonely Side 2. Shame - Concrete 3. Ride - Pulsar 4. Control of the Going - Love You More 5. Paradise - Goodbye 21st Century 6. Lea Porcelain - Similar Familiar 7. New Candys - Excess 8. Out Lines - Buried Guns 9. Featherwest - A Baby...

The latest mix from Cheryl Waters comes from all kinds of places and artists, featuring new songs from Zola Jesus, Ty Segall, and Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings.  1. Kevin Morby - City Music 2. Django Django - Tic Tac Toe 3. Widowspeak - When I Tried 4. Dream Wife - Somebody 5. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - Matter of Time 6. L.A. Witch - Baby In Blue Jeans 7. Moon Palace - Shapeshifter 8. T...

DJ Kevin Cole previews the best of Iceland Airwaves 2017 with new tracks from Högni, Hórmónar, Mammút, JFDR, Vök, Sóley, Glintshake ГШ, Mikko Joensuu, and more!    1. Mammút - The Moon Will Never Turn On Me 2. Hey  Elbow - Quest 3. JFDR - White Sun  4. Vök - BTO 5. ГШ (Glintshake) - Убожество 6. Pale Honey  - Get These Things Out of my Head 7. Hórmónar - Kynsvelt 8. Högni - Komdu með 9. Lára Rúnar...

Morning Show host John Richards presents the 9 gazzilionth podcast featuring a plethora of the finest new music for your ear-hole.   1. Florist - What I Wanted To Hold 2. Cock & Swan - PERG 3. Haley Hendrickx - Oom Sha La La 4. Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness 5. Holiday Ghosts - Paranoia 6. Peeling - Away From You 7. Andrew Hung - Say What You Want 8. Cults - I Took Your Picture 9. Great Gra...

Audioasis host/Expansions rotating host Sharlese spins a continuous, danceable set with a spectrum-spanning mix of silvery electronic music featuring new songs from Boy Harsher, Youryoungbody, and Sally Dige. 1. Iv/An - Somewhere There's a Hunger Strike 2. Wire Spine - Hellraiser 3. Frequence Noir - I Could Die 4. High-Functioning Flesh - Stationed 5. Boy Harsher - Motion 6. Webdriver Torso - Web_...

DJ Kevin Cole surfs the sea of possibility on Sidestep The Spiral, a head spinning new music mix featuring Lamb, Makthaverskan, Battle Me, Versing, Faye Webster, Nilüfer Yanya, and more. 1. Who Is She? - Seattle Freeze 2. Worriers - The Possibility 3. Versing - Body Chamber 4. Battleme - No Truth  5. Makthaverskan - In My Dreams  6. Lamb - Illumina 7. Moonchild  - Every Part (For Linda) 8. Casper...

Focus on the present and join Cheryl Waters in the moment for a mix of fresh new tracks from Iron & Wine, Kelley Stoltz, and Wolf Parade.   1. Iron & Wine - Call It Dreaming 2. Jessica Lea Mayfield - Sorry Is Gone 3. Shake Some Action! - Waiting For the Sun 4. The Mynabirds - Shouting At the Dark 5. Kelley Stoltz - Looking For A Spark 6. Peaking Lights - A Phoenix and a Fish 7. Slowdive -...

John Richards wraps up the the 2017 installments of the Runcast with Vol. 10, a mix to get you over the wall and across the finish line.   1. The National - Start a War (Live on KEXP) 2. The War on Drugs - Red Eyes 3. Waxahatchee - Silver 4. The Wild Reeds - Only Songs 5. Typhoon - Common Sentiments 6. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Terrified 7. Trentemoller - Never Fade 8. School of Seven Bells -...

DJ Michele Myers spins a dance party mix of beats, rock & soul with new tunes from Odesza, Joe Goddard, and Shabazz Palaces!   1. Ladyhawke - Dangerous 2. Lucius - Turn it Around 3. Ex Hex - Don't Wanna Lose 4. Sharon Jones - This Land is Your Land 5. Joe Goddard - Home 6. Goldfrapp - Anymore 7. Odesza - Late Night 8. Filthy Friends - The Arrival 9. The Olympians - Sirens of Jupiter 10. Shabaz...

DJ Kevin Cole provides your perfect post-apocalyptic ash rain soundtrack with tons of great new music including tracks from Bully, Ghostpoet,  Frankie Rose, Jane Weaver, and local bands New Age Healers, The True Loves, and Dot Comet.  Let it rain! 1. New Age Healers - Love Is For Free)  2. Alex Lahey - Every Day's The Weekend 3. Filthy Friends - Any Kind of Crowd 4. Bully - Running 5. Blis. - Take...

With diving women, lazy eyes, and bubblegum (sometimes), Cheryl Waters takes you through multiple dimensions of new music with new tunes from artists including Dent May, Rainer Maria, and Lo Tom. 1. Au. Ra – Above The Triangle 2. Jen Cloher – Forgot Myself 3. Beaches – When You're Gone 4. Rainer Maria – Suicides and Lazy Eyes 5. Dent May – Picture On A Screen 6. Guided By Voices – Steppenwolf...

John Richards' latest installment of the Runcast links up tracks from Bombay Bicycle Club, Pixes, and Eagulls, among others, to soundtrack your run. 1. Elbow - New York Morning 2. Bombay Bicycle Club - Carry Me 3. !!! - Sick Ass Moon 4. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Vad Hände Med Dem? 5. Eagulls - Lemontrees 6. Broncho - Class Historian 7. Pond - Sweep Me Off My Feet 8. ADKOB - Lung Capacity 9. D...