Inspirational music and messages to lift you up wherever you are on your running journey.

1. HÆLOS - Last Days
2. Petite Noir - Blurry
3. Kele - Someone to Make Me Laugh
4. Fever Ray - Carbon Dioxide
5. LP Giobbi - Body Breathe (feat. Monogem)
6. Acid Arab & Wael Alkak - Ya Mahla
7. Jake Shears - Devil Came Down the Dance Floor (feat. Amber Martin)
8. Bonobo & Jacques Green - Fold
9. Skinny Pelembe - Like a Heart Won't Beat
10. Shalom - Happenstance
11. Noble Rot - Casting No Light (feat. Colin Newman)
12. WITCH - Avalanche of Love (feat. Sampa the Great)
13. Ritmo Machine - Isla del Ritmo
14. Beach Vacation - Lay Low

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Host John Richards kicks off the new season of The Runcast with songs and messages of hope, inspiring you to run to heal.

1. ODESZA - Hopeful
2. M83 - Oceans Niagara
3. Petite Noir - Finding Paradise
4. Steve Mason - The People Say
5. Lucky Lo - I Will Always Be You
6. The New Pornographers - Angelcover
7. deary - Fairground
8. Alaska Reid - Back to This
9. Plains - Problem With It
10. Ladytron - Misery Remember Me
11. Frankie Rose - Sixteen Ways
12. Temples - Gamma Rays
13. Death Valley Girls - Magic Powers
14. Fruit Bats - It All Comes Back

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The Runcast is back! Season 2 arrives right here on May 12, 2023. 

In the meantime, you can revisit previous episodes, check out KEXP's other podcasts, or drop us a line at [email protected].

Subscribe now for a new episode every 2 weeks from May to September.

This trailer features Spirit Award's "Pushing Forward" from the album 'The Fear,' out on May 19 via Share It Music.

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A party in the Bronx on August 11th, 1973 is widely considered to be the birthplace of hip-hop. The art form has since touched every corner of our world and evolved into one of the most significant cultural forces today. This year, on hip-hop's 50th anniversary, we’re giving it a proper tribute. 

50 Years of Hip-Hop is KEXP’s newest podcast. Hosted by Larry Mizell Jr, the series highlights a different year of rap history each week. Jumping around the timeline from 1973 to today, expect personal reflections, iconic tracks and albums, and conversations around the genesis of the culture. New episodes drop every Wednesday starting February 1. 

Subscribe to 50 Years of Hip-Hop now and learn more at KEXP.org.

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The Runcast’s Season 1 finale brings you an incredible lineup of songs and inspirational quotes from the heart and mind of DJ and runner John Richards. Whether it’s to power you through a long run, or just a long day, take this Runcast with you to know that you are not alone. 

1. Lydia Ramsey - I Will Wait For You
2. Alec Shaw - Spinning
3. Broken Bells - We're Not In Orbit Yet...
4. Secret Machines - Underneath the Concrete 
5. Röyksopp - Speed King
6. Editors - Vibe
7. Dazy - Peel
8. Screensaver - Repeats   
9. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - When the Lights Go
10. Raw Poetic - Ralph Ellison
11. Silversun Pickups - Hereafter (Way After)
12. Art d'Ecco - Midlife Crisis
13. Preoccupations - Fix Bayonets!  
14. Rolling Blackouts Coast Fever - Tidal River
15. The Beths - Knees Deep
16. Say She She - Pink Roses
17. Nilufer Yanya - Stabilise
18. Doss - Jumpin’
19. Röyksopp - The Night (feat. Alison Goldfrapp)
20. Cumulus - Sunbeam
21. Bright Eyes - Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh (feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
22. Rocky Votolato - Little Black Diamond
23. Kraus - Anyone
24. The Mary Veils - Bone Blossom Green
25. Holm - Intelligent Moves
26. Miss Grit - Like You
27. Bambara - Birds
28. Courting - Tennis  
29. Bill Callahan - Coyotes

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A running mixtape of motivational songs from our hearts to yours, featuring a portion of our favorite songs to run to this year. 

1. Jungle - Keep Moving
2. Sudan Archives - Selfish Soul
3. Santigold - High Priestess
4. Ibibio Sound Machine - Electricity
5. The Black Angels - El Jardin
6. Beach House - Once Twice Melody
7. Spiritualized - The Mainline Song
8. Nation of Language - The Grey Commute
9. Mt Fog - Behind a Silent Door
10. Automatic - New Beginning
11. Dazy & Militarie Gun - Pressure Cooker
12. The Beths - Silence is Golden
13. Camp Cope - Running with the Hurricane 
14. Aeon Station - Fade
15. ODESZA - The Last Goodbye (feat. Bettye LaVette)

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Inspiring stories, infused with hope, of listeners sharing what this Runcast means to them. One who runs to keep illness at bay. Another who just said goodbye to their best friend and how this community makes them feel “not alone.” Plus, an ending that surprised us all! 

1. Small Paul - Mountain
2. Night Shop - Let Me Let It Go
3. Big Joanie - In My Arms
4. Wild Pink - ILYSM
5. Precocious Neophyte - AIWA
6. Melts - Outlier
7. SPICE - Recovery
8. Beacon - Can’t Turn Back
9. Winter - Atonement (feat. Hatchie)
10. The Black Angels - El Jardin
11. NNAMDÏ - Dedication

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Songs to get you inspired to run, no matter what kind of run you are on, because once you take that first step, well, you're a runner and you are not alone! 

1. Spiritualized - Always Together With You
2. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Spitting Off the Edge of the World (feat. Perfume Genius)
3. The Beths - Silence is Golden
4. Beach Bunny – Entropy
5. Panda Bear & Sonic Boom - Go On
6. The Folk Implosion - Had Enough
7. Nikki Lane - First High
8. Death Valley Girls - When I'm Free
9. Mt Fog - Behind a Silent Door
10. The Churchhill Garden - Always There
11. High Vis – Blending
12. Marlon Wiliams - River Rival
13. Hovvdy – Town
14. Holy Ship - Beyond Frames
15. Hermanos Gutiérrez - El Bueno Y El Malo

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John Richards will be back with a brand new mix on Friday, August 26th. 

In the meantime, learn more about 50 years of KEXP at KEXP.org/50.

And check out KEXP's other podcasts, Sound & Vision, Song of the Day, Live on KEXP and Fresh off the Spaceship.

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This Runcast was recorded at the annual Ragnar race in Washington and stars The KEXP Radioheads (aka KEXP's John Richards, Kevin Cole, Morgan Chosnyk and Ken Tarleton, Sub Pop's Megan Jasper, and friends Danielle Henty and Terry Novak). Between legs of their 36-hour, 200-mile race, the runners share their favorite songs to motivate you to get moving and keep moving. 

1. Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine
2. The Vega Bodegas - All My Fish Are Dead
3. James and the Cold Gun - The Long Way Home
4. Built to Spill - Gonna Lose
5. Kyle Craft - Pentecost
6. WOOZE - I'll Have What She's Having
7. Smokey Brights - Flash Your Lights (Rudy Willingham Remix)
8. Ibibio Sound Machine - Electricity
9. Amyl and the Sniffers - I'm Not a Loser
10. The Go! Team - Everyone's A V.I.P. To Someone
11. Parts & Labor - Nowheres Nigh
12. Ginger Runner - Tall Trees, Tough Trails
13. Tacocat - I Love Seattle
14. Cassandra Jenkins - Hard Drive
15. TORRES - Dressing America
16. Kevin Morby - This Is A Photograph
17. Stef Chura - Method Man
18. Yellow Ostrich - Marathon Runner

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