On this episode, John passes the mic to another KEXP DJ and long-time runner, Kevin Cole. He brings a mix of music to motivate, inspire, and awkwardly pump your fists in the air, featuring tracks from IDLES, Jungle, Ibibio Sound Machine, and The Vega Bodegas. 

1. The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble - Time To Rebuild
2. Penelope Isles - Play It Cool (Alt Mix)

3. Oceanator - Beach Days (Alive Again)

4. Hazel English - Summer Nights

5. Supercrush - Perfect Smile

6. TORRES - Thirstier

7. Francis of Delirium - The Funhouse

8. Confidence Man - Holiday

9. Jungle - Keep Moving

10. Stars - Hold On When You Get Love And Let Go When You Give It

11. Ibibio Sound Machine - Protection From Evil

12. Public Service Broadcasting - Go!

13. Sleigh Bells - Locust Laced

14. The Vega Bodegas - Welcome to Slow Cooker

15. Body Type - Buoyancy

16. IDLES - The New Sensation

17. Camilla Munck - Blessed Be

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Musical notes, inspiring quotes, and songs that make you float from Sneaker Pimps, Automatic, The Reds, Pinks and Purples, and more.

1. S. Carey - Break Me Open
2. Zola Jesus - Lost
3. Automatic - Skyscraper
4. Working Men's Club - Widow
5. HAAi - Baby, We're Ascending
6. First Hate - Commercial
7. Good Looks - Vision Boards
8. The Reds Pinks and Purples - Let's Pretend We're Not In Love
9. Sneaker Pimps - So Far Gone (feat. Simonne Jones)
10. Tempers - Nightwalking
11. Seratones - Pleasure
12. Dylan Moon - Deep Time
13. The Haunted Youth - Shadows
14. Pom Pom Squad - Popular (feat. Matthew Caws of Nada Surf)
15. Rural Alberta Advantage - CANDU
16. Papercuts - Lodger

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KEXP's John Richards joins you on your journey to run with songs from KEXP favorites like Kevin Morby, Santigold, Warpaint, and more. On this mix, John shares how running helps him maintain both his physical and mental health, with the right music to keep motivated. As author and runner Christopher McDougall says, “We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.”

1. Kevin Morby - A Random Act of Kindness
2. Wild Pink - Q Degraw
3. Porridge Radio - The Rip
4. Matthew Dear - Talking Sleep
5. Dazy & Militarie Gun - Pressure Cooker
6. Santigold - High Priestess
7. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Blood in the Snow
8. Warpaint - Champion
9. Sudan Archives - Selfish Soul
10. Automatic - New Beginning
11. Fontaines DC - Roman Holiday
12. Bodega - Thrown
13. Yard Act - The Overload
14. Working Men's Club - Circumference
15. F!res - Into the Storm

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On the first episode of this season, John Richards talks about the joys of getting back into races and running with other people, but ultimately, the importance of running for yourself. Runners of all levels will feel welcome with the dynamic mix of high-energy, emotional and propulsive tracks designed to keep you running, featuring artists like Mitski, Toro y Moi and Dehd.

1. Camp Cope - Running with the Hurricane
2. Aeon Station - Fade
3. Nation of Language - The Grey Commute
4. Beach House - Once Twice Melody
5. Hatchie - This Enchanted
6. Mitski - The Only Heartbreaker
7. Lucius - Next To Normal
8. Odesza - The Last Goodbye
9. Ibibio Sound Machine - Electricity
10. Doss - Jumpin'
11. Toro y Moi - Magazine (feat. Salami Rose Joe Louis)
12. Spiritualized - The Mainline Song
13. The Hunt - I Can't Stand
14. Dehd - Bad Love
15. Widowspeak - Everything is Simple

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We believe that everyone who runs should have a great soundtrack. Not one curated by an algorithm, but one that’s hand-picked by a DJ who runs too. The Runcast with John Richards brings you a dynamic mix of music and inspiration to keep you company and motivate you on your run, no matter what your level.

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In case you missed the announcement, The Runcast is returning, right here, on June 3rd!

Email us at [email protected] if you have questions, feedback, or guest suggestions for the new season, launching in just ONE WEEK. Today, John stops by for a few reminders before replaying Volume 25 of the Runcast from 2021:

In his final Runcast of the year – and KEXP's final episode of The Weekly Mix – John goes freeform to create a very personal Runcast just for you. Listen for advice, motivation, inspiration, and incredible music to power your run.

1. The Antlers - Solstice
2. Big Red Machine - Phoenix (feat. Fleet Foxes & Anaïs Mitchell)
3. Big Red Machine - The Ghost of Cincinnati
4. Public Service Broadcasting - Blue Heaven (feat. Andreya Casablanca)
5. The Shivas - Undone
6. The Parrots - You Work All Day And Then You Die
7. Tycho & Benjamin Gibbard - Only Love
8. Fort Romeau - Control
9. Tycho - Pink & Blue
10. Bad Bad Hats - Walkman
11. Mac McCaughan - Dawn Bends
12. Dummy - Daffodils
13. The Violent Hearts - Everything and Nothing
14. Lord Huron - Time to Run

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In case you missed the announcement, The Runcast is returning, right here, on June 3rd!

Email us at [email protected] if you have questions, feedback, or guest suggestions for the new season, launching in just two weeks. Today, John shares details on the new season before replaying Volume 24 of the Runcast from 2021:

This edition of the Runcast is hosted by John Richards and powered by incredible music and quotes from the likes of Confucius, Danny Rojas from Ted Lasso, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. As Emerson said, "Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage."

1. Bartees Strange - Going Going
2. Dinosaur Jr - Garden
3. TORRES - Thirstier
4. The Joy Formidable - Chimes
5. Film School - Superperfection
6. Flyying Colours - Big Mess
7. Foxing - Where the Lightning Strikes Twice
8. Songhoy Blues - Worry
9. Kele - Between Me and My Maker 
10. Yves Tumor - Jackie
11. Binki - Clay Pigeon
12. Lala Lala - DIVER
13. Shamir - Running
14. Wet Leg - Chaise Longue
15. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Cold as Weiss
16. Geowulf - Round and Round

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Take your running shoes out of storage and start planning your next route because The Runcast is returning, right here, on June 3rd!

With three weeks until the new episode, John shares details on this summer's series before replaying Volume 23 of the Runcast from 2021:

John reads listeners' stories of hope amidst a pandemic, divorce, and more, showing how the runcast has inspired them, which in turn, inspires him. 

1. Mint Julep - A Rising Sun 
2. Efterklang - Living Other Lives
3. Piroshka - V.O.
4. José González - Head On
5. Ducks Ltd. - As Big As All Outside
6. Night Beats - New Day
7. Ages and Ages - Light Goes Out
8. Ora the Molecule - Die To Be A Butterfly
9. Mumu Fresh - Work
10. Nation of Language - Across That Fine Line
11. Liars - Big Appetite
12. PRONOUN -  I WANNA DIE BUT I CAN'T (CUZ I GOTTA KEEP LIVING)
13. Split Single - Satellite
14. Shine - Stare Into the Sun
15. Deep Sea Diver - Stop Pretending
16. MAN ON MAN - Stohner

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What is the Black Constellation? If you know, you'll want to listen to this podcast. If you don't, you'll want to listen, too.

"Fresh off the Spaceship" is the newest podcast from KEXP, telling the story of the highly influential yet scarcely documented artist collective. The Black Constellation has included such varied musical acts as Shabazz Palaces, THEESatisfaction, Ya Tseen and Porter Ray.

Hosted by KEXP's Larry Mizell Jr. and Martin Douglas, each episode in this 10-part series takes listeners on an audio journey connecting the stars of the Constellation, shedding light on their art and their ethos along the way.

New episodes come out every Friday from March 18 - May 27, 2022. Find out more at KEXP.org/fresh-off-the-spaceship.

Watch a video version of the trailer and explore more work from the artists of the Constellation on KEXP's Fresh off the Spaceship YouTube playlist.

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Today, we bring you an episode of KEXP's Live on KEXP podcast featuring an exclusive session with Japanese Breakfast.

There are many negative ways one could sum up 2021 but one shining bright positive title we can give it is "The Year of Michelle Zauner." The Oregon-born artist is probably best known as Japanese Breakfast and released the stellar album Jubilee this June but is also now an acclaimed author with the release of the New York Times bestseller Crying in H Mart in April. 

For this episode of Live on KEXP we share a clip of Zauner’s conversation with Cheryl Waters about how writing the book exorcised the pain and trauma so that she could portray the joy felt on Jubilee. Zauner then plays four tracks from Jubilee plus one from her side project with Crying’s Ryan Galloway, BUMPER.

Recorded June 21, 2021.

Songs performed:

1. Kokomo, IN

2. Tactics

3. Be Sweet

4. Savage Good Boy

5. Ballad O

Watch the full Live on KEXP session on YouTube

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