The Runcast with John Richards

Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole takes you up and down- rocking your world and then helping you chill the fuck out.   1. PJ Harvey - The Wheel 2. Pinkshinyultrablast - The Cherry Pit 3. Bill Ryder-Jones - Satellites 4. M. Ward - Confession 5. Quilt - Roller 6. Samaris - Wanted 2 Say 7. DJ Béeso - (-.-) 8. Lymbyc Systym - Generated Bodies 9. Sóley - I Will Find You 10. Gangly - Fuck with Someone Else...

DJ Miss Ashley celebrates Women's History Month, featuring new tracks from some very talented female artists, including Madrid-based, all-female quartet Hinds, sister duo Bleached, local reggae singer and multi-instrumentalist Chava Mirel of Clinton Fearons Boogie Brown Band, and many other leading ladies.   1. Hinds - Castigadas en el Granero 2. Frankie Cosmos - Sinister 3. Bleached - Keep on Kee...

Join Midday Show host Cheryl Waters for a great mix of mostly new music, including selections from Northwest artists along with a strong showing from Australia and New Zealand.   1. Kyson - You 2. Marlon Williams - Dark Child 3. Dr. Dog - Bring My Baby Back 4. Royal Headache - Carolina 5. School of Seven Bells - Open Your Eyes 6. Nadia Reid - Seasons Change 7. The Cave Singers - That's Why 8. Fey...

Join the host of the very first and the 500th Music That Matters podcast for a mix of new music from all over the world including Greece, Sydney, London, NYC, Copenhagen, Seattle and more!    1. ADKOB - Lung Capacity 2. Fews - The Zoo 3. Sulk - Black Infinity (Upside Down) 4. The Callas - It's Sunday I'm Bleeding 5. The Castillians - You & Me 6. The Last Shadow Puppets - Bad Habits 7. Bill Ryd...

Audioasis host DJ Sharlese presents KEXP's Sound Off! podcast. Featuring bands participating in the 2016 Sound Off! competition, the premiere Northwest battle of the bands hosted by the Experience Music Project (EMP) Museum.   1. Copalis - Deep End 2. COSMOS - House Warming 3. Jazzy Tee - Heartless Grl 4. Party Shark - Pick & Choose 1 5. Animal Camera - Diane 6. Crews - One by One 7. Paris Ale...

Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole turns to face the strange changes with a music mix for the ages including new Ty Segall, Paul Westerberg, Operators, and local music from Damien Jurado, Crater, Pillar Point and more.   1. Hinds - Garden 2. Hippo Campus - South 3. Nevermen - Mr. Mistake 4. Operators - Cold Light 5. TRAAMS - Succulent Thunder Anthem 6. Ty Segall - Candy Sam 7. Crater - Habits Die 8. P...

Midday Show host Cheryl Waters has her eye on a bunch of great records coming out in early spring. Here's a sneak peek at some songs she knows you will love.   1. M. Ward - Girl From Conejo Valley 2. Hey Marseilles - Eyes on You 3. GEMS - w/o U 4. Lucius - Born Again Teen 5. ANOHNI - 4 Degrees 6. Radiation City - Juicy 7. Damien Jurado - Exit 353 8. Thao & the Get Down Stay Down - Nobody Dies...

Morning Show host John Richards presents a mix of some his favorite new music, featuring Savages side-project Kite Base, new music from Shearwater, and upcoming music from Belfast duo Ex Magician.   1. TRAAMS - Costner 2. Ex Magician - Job Done 3. Holy Esque - Hexx 4. Beliefs - Leaper 5. Working for a Nuclear Free City - Bottle Rocket 6. Kelley Stoltz - Cut Me, Baby 7. Merchandise (feat. Dum Dum G...

DJ Larry Rose takes you on a musical adventure that includes infectious electropop, punky angular guitar rock, harmonious guitar pop, fresh electronic grooves, and songs about waves and liquids.   1. Animal Collective - Floridada 2. Small Black - No One Wants It To Happen To You 3. Hibou - Dissolve 4. The Afghan Whigs - The Lottery 5. Kestrels - The Moon Is Shining Our Way 6. Palehound - Molly 7....

Cheryl Waters shares the promise of the new year by starting off 2016 with a mix of great new music 1. Elephant Stone - The Devil's Shelter (feat. Alex Maas) 2. Wray - Hypatia 3. Hibou - When the Season Ends 4. Martin Courtney - Northern Highway 5. Wild Nothing - TV Queen 6. The Cave Singers - That's Why 7. Night Beats - Sunday Mourning 8. Sudakistan - Concrete Djungle 9. Royal Headache - My Own F...

KEXP Variety Mix host Reeves does his first ever Music That Matters podcast, featuring tracks from the end of 2015 and from anticipated releases of 2016.   1. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Aerobed 2. The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - I Can Be Afraid of Anything 3. DIIV - Bent (Roi's Song) 4. Protomartyr - Why Does It Shake? 5. Death Index - Dream Machine 6. Death by Unga...

Midday show host Cheryl Waters presents a sampling of brand new and yet-to-be-released tunes to get you excited.   1. Kevin Morby - Moonshiner 2. Quilt - Eliot St. 3. Lemolo - Hold Light 4. Holy Esque - Hexx 5. Battleme - Shake Shake 6. Maserati - Rehumanizer II 7. Heaters - Kamikaze 8. Beach Slang - Young & Alive 9. Quarto Negro - Orlando 10. Ra Ra Riot - Water 11. Small Black - No One Wants...

Swingin' Doors host Don Slack plays a variety of songs from albums to be released in 2016.   1. Charlie Hilton - Pony 2. Beverly - Crooked Cop 3. Eleanor Friedberger - He Didn't Mention His Mother 4. Quilt - Eliot St. 5. Deep Sea Diver - Secrets 6. Sunflower Bean - Wall Watcher 7. Night Beats - Sunday Mourning 8. Battleme - Shake Shake 9. Marlon Williams - Hello Miss Lonesome 10. Mount Moriah...

DJ Chilly of El Sonido collects a bunch of his favorite Latin beats from 2015 for this mixtape, featuring all sorts of different styles from around the globe.    1. Buyepongo - Maestros (Captain Planet and Canyon Cody Remix)  2. Novalima - Mi Canto  3. Kiko Villamizar - La Remolacha  4. Nicola Cruz - Colibria  5. Ságan - Oceánico  6. Disco Ruido! - Amorfos (feat. Mercedes Nasta)  7. Astro - Caribe...

Sonic Reducer host Jenn plays some punk and hardcore songs from the Pacific Northwest and beyond.   1. Downtown Boys - Monstro 2. Lysol - Clean Living 3. Listen Lady - Hey Listen 4. C.C.T.V. - Paranoia 5. Coneheads - 1982 6. Dreamdecay - CEILINVG FAN 7. Pure Disgust - I.D.O.Y.S. 8. G.L.O.S.S. - Outcast Stomp 9. Long Knife - Negative Mental Attitude 10. The Flex - The Flex 11. Bosnia - Hot Date 12....

Morning Show host John Richards presents a new Runner Powered Podcast.   1. Caspian - Sad Heart of Mine 2. Sharon Van Etten - Words 3. Youth Lagoon - The Knower 4. !!! - Sick Ass Moon 5. Other Lives - Reconfiguration 6. Roger Lion - A Dead Man's Song 7. José González - Leaf Off / The Cave 8. Holy Esque - Fade 9. Wolf Alice - Moaning Lisa Smile 10. Jacuzzi Boys - Sun 11. The Dead Weather - I Feel L...

Even though the clouds are moving in, it's always beautiful blue skies with all the great music on KEXP!   1. Cloud Cult - No Hell 2. Mercury Rev - The Queen of Swans 3. Natasha Kmeto - Grind (Feat. Tunde Adebimpe) 4. John Grant - Down Here 5. Low - No Comprende 6. Ought - Beautiful Blue Sky 7. Mammút - Blood Burst 8. Tamaryn - Softcore 9. Dilly Dally - The Touch 10. The Rebel Light - Strangers 11...

Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole and Online Content Manager Jim Beckmann preview the 2015 Iceland Airwaves Music Festival with a diverse mix of hip-hop, indie rock, electro pop and punk from 17 Icelandic artists including GusGus, Sóley, Júníus Meyvant and Low Roar.   1. Vök - Waterfall 2. GusGus - Obnoxiously Sexual 3. Hjaltalín - We Will Live For Ages 4. Gangly - Fuck with Someone Else 5. East of M...

DJ El Toro presents nineteen of his favorite new tracks (including a couple of recently unearthed archival gems) for singing, dancing, shredding, and sulking. Lather, rinse, repeat.   1. Mocean Worker - Julius, Irving, Berlin 2. Peaches (feat. Kim Gordon) - Close Up 3. Escort - Animal Nature 4. Tunde Olaniran - Don't Cry 5. Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - One in a Million 6. Valley Ma...

Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole drops nothing but 100% cruelty free bonafide jams. No imitation, factory produced beats. Never.      1. Salad Boys - No Taste Bomber  2. Cold Beat - Am I Dust  3. Danny Newcomb & The Sugar Makers - Known World  4. Palehound - Molly  5. Shopping - Wind Up  6. Dungen - Flickor Och Pojkar  7. Other Lives - Beat Primal  8. Promised Land Sound - She Takes Me There  9....

Midday Show host Cheryl Waters loves Fall and her reward is more great music, including a song called Halloween and beaucoup bands from Seattle.   1. The Weather Station - Shy Women 2. Sóley - Halloween 3. Youth Lagoon - The Knower 4. Israel Nash - LA Lately 5. Hamilton Leithauser & Paul Maroon - My Reward 6. Seapony - A Place We Can Go 7. Pony Time - Time Tells Me 8. The West - Out of Sync 9....

Afternoon Show host Kevin Cole drops more hits than Sadaharu Oh on this miracle mix of new music.    1. Hibou - Dissolve 2. Tamaryn - Sugar Fix 3. John Grant - Disappointing 4. Ever So Android - Moment 5. Wild Ones - Dim The Lights 6. Thunderbitch - Eastside Party 7. The Atom Age - It's A Mess 8. Worriers - Parts 9. The School - Every Day 10. Gospel Machine - Just Call Me 11. Slime - My Company Su...

Autumn calls for fuzzy sweaters and fuzzy music. Listen to Midday Veil, Blank Realm and more with fuzzy songs, feedback drenched guitars and lo-fi indie rock on this latest mix that emotes the dark days of the season.   1. Pony Boy - When Tomorrow Never Comes 2. Midday Veil - Babel 3. Ms. John Soda - Hero Whales 4. Helen - Motorcycle 5. Dead Leaf Echo - Lemonheart 6. Lou Barlow - Redeemed 7. Ferna...

DJ Alex shines a spotlight on 12 artists performing at this year's 12th annual Decibel Festival, Seattle's premier electronic music and arts event, happening all over the city from September 23rd to September 27th! As with years past, tune in to get a taste of this year's massive, diverse international roster and check out dbfestival.com for more information.   1. Dylan Stark - Ashen 2. Natasha Km...

Wo' Pop host Darek Mazzone presents new Polish music to make you fat and happy, inspired by the OFF Festival in Katowice, Poland, and featuring nu-folk, electro-acoustic improvisation, cranking garage and gritty urban hip hop, and so much more!    1. Sutari - Kupalnocka  2. Galus - Theearth  3. Kristen - The Secret Map  4. Małe Miasta - Już prawie tańczę  5. Pr08l3m - Heat  6. Tania O. - Na wystaw...