HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept
{
"next": "https://api.kexp.org/v1/play/?format=api&limit=20&offset=13580",
"previous": "https://api.kexp.org/v1/play/?format=api&limit=20&offset=13540",
"results": [
{
"playid": 3637825,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:29:19Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775352559000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775352559000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1100043034,
"name": "Chong the Nomad",
"islocal": true
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 384280614,
"name": "JAWBREAKER",
"largeimageuri": "https://dn710404.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-2a4d4bcf-7625-4a96-817a-edba4ac89d7a/mbid-2a4d4bcf-7625-4a96-817a-edba4ac89d7a-44740878560_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://dn710404.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-2a4d4bcf-7625-4a96-817a-edba4ac89d7a/mbid-2a4d4bcf-7625-4a96-817a-edba4ac89d7a-44740878560_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1560332423,
"year": 2026
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1861936097,
"name": "JAWBREAKER"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 1373432265,
"name": "[no label]"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 1925495948,
"text": "New single from Seattle electronic wizard Chong the Nomad! \n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41-IH_ONbRA"
}
],
"showid": 66368
},
{
"playid": 3637822,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:26:50Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775352410000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775352410000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1093597389,
"name": "Blood Rave",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1075936462,
"name": "Exponential Decay",
"largeimageuri": null,
"smallimageuri": null
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 446547373,
"year": 2025
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1808552809,
"name": "At Your Demand"
},
"label": null,
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 1827200647,
"text": "Blood Rave’s “At Your Demand” comes from Exponential Decay, released on January 20, 2025, and the song carries the cold pressure implied by both that title and the album’s larger mood. Built inside a dark electronic frame, it leans on repetition, tension, and atmosphere rather than excess. The track feels severe without becoming static. Its pulse is mechanical enough to suggest control, but the emotional charge underneath it makes the song feel inhabited rather than purely synthetic. “At Your Demand” suggests submission, coercion, or emotional imbalance, and the music supports that reading with a slow-building sense of dread. What makes it effective is its restraint. Instead of overselling darkness, Blood Rave lets the structure do the work, using texture and momentum to create unease. The result is sleek, nocturnal, and corrosive in a way that lingers. Even with a relatively compact public footprint, the project communicates a clear aesthetic here: darkwave-minded electronics, disciplined tension, and a strong instinct for turning pressure into atmosphere.\nListen: https://bloodrave.bandcamp.com/track/at-your-demand"
}
],
"showid": 66367
},
{
"playid": 3637821,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:24:56Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775352296000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775352296000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1875056429,
"name": "jo passed",
"islocal": true
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 852816073,
"name": "Away",
"largeimageuri": null,
"smallimageuri": null
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1498462797,
"year": 2026
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1793713885,
"name": "Dizzy Izzy"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 1724760966,
"name": "Youth Riot"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 1574124091,
"text": "The second full-length album from this Vancouver/Toronto-based band! Out on Youth Riot Records!\n\nhttps://youthriotrecords.com/shop/jo-passed-away"
}
],
"showid": 66368
},
{
"playid": 3637820,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:22:47Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775352167000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775352167000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 618830541,
"name": "LAHORKA",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1505219396,
"name": "Movimientos",
"largeimageuri": null,
"smallimageuri": null
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 2049757359,
"year": 2024
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1557655105,
"name": "Movimientos"
},
"label": null,
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 1461360976,
"text": "LAHORKA’s “Movimientos” appears on the band’s Demo, recorded live between March and October 2024 at Oakland Music Complex. Their Instagram description calls the project “corporal music for activating disruption,” and that phrase is unusually useful because it explains both the title and the likely function of the song. “Movimientos” suggests motion not as passive flow but as activation, agitation, and body-level response. This is music meant to move through people physically before it is ever pinned down intellectually. The fact that the recording was done live also matters. It implies a band prioritizing immediacy, collision, and raw energy over polish for its own sake. The title is simple, but in this context it feels almost programmatic: movement as rhythm, as refusal, as social force. LAHORKA seem interested in music that wakes the listener up rather than lulls them into atmosphere, and “Movimientos” likely sits right at that intersection of percussion, urgency, and embodied disruption. It is a strong title because it treats movement not as style, but as consequence.\nListen: https://lahorka.bandcamp.com/track/movimientos"
}
],
"showid": 66367
},
{
"playid": 3637819,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:21:39Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775352099000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775352099000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 560041228,
"name": "Beat Happening",
"islocal": true
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 788155826,
"name": "You Turn Me On",
"largeimageuri": "https://dn721601.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-fedaa7cd-ba00-4321-b2d2-d27336ceeac1/mbid-fedaa7cd-ba00-4321-b2d2-d27336ceeac1-34849571467_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://dn721601.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-fedaa7cd-ba00-4321-b2d2-d27336ceeac1/mbid-fedaa7cd-ba00-4321-b2d2-d27336ceeac1-34849571467_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1114669247,
"year": 1992
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1518166435,
"name": "Noise"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 1465682241,
"name": "K Records"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 213630665,
"text": "Off the fifth album from legendary Olympia indie band Beat Happening!\n\nhttps://beathappening.bandcamp.com/album/you-turn-me-on-klp007"
}
],
"showid": 66368
},
{
"playid": 3637816,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:19:06Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775351946000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775351946000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 2120974518,
"name": "Pink Stiletto",
"islocal": false
},
"release": null,
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 498567787,
"year": null
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1028304209,
"name": "Bananza"
},
"label": null,
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 2126324885,
"text": "Pink Stiletto’s “Bananza” appeared on Bandcamp last month, and even with limited public documentation beyond the release itself, the project name and song title already create a vivid aesthetic frame. “Pink Stiletto” suggests sharpness, femininity, theatrical poise, and danger in equal measure. “Bananza,” with its slightly skewed spelling and exuberant sound, feels like a song title designed for excess, attitude, and playful destabilization. That combination makes the track easy to imagine as something that favors mood and persona as much as literal narrative. Sometimes that is exactly where underground pop or glam-leaning work becomes most effective: not by over-explaining itself, but by arriving with a fully formed silhouette. The title has swagger to spare. It suggests spectacle, pleasure, maybe even a wink at chaos. Even without a long press trail, the release communicates its own identity clearly enough: a song that likely embraces style as substance rather than surface. “Bananza” reads as an invitation into a world where drama, flair, and edge are central values, not decorative extras.\nListen: https://pinkstiletto.bandcamp.com/track/bananza"
}
],
"showid": 66367
},
{
"playid": 3637818,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:18:18Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775351898000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775351898000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1537561742,
"name": "Serafima and the Shakedowns",
"islocal": true
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1743018561,
"name": "The Slender Rowan",
"largeimageuri": "https://dn720707.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-699ca487-5c0a-4f84-8498-af9c26dd4e55/mbid-699ca487-5c0a-4f84-8498-af9c26dd4e55-44685418672_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://dn720707.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-699ca487-5c0a-4f84-8498-af9c26dd4e55/mbid-699ca487-5c0a-4f84-8498-af9c26dd4e55-44685418672_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 574606514,
"year": 2026
},
"track": {
"trackid": 250708300,
"name": "The Slender Rowan"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 2070303320,
"name": "bwgibwgan"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 757372786,
"text": "New music from Seattle band Serafima and the Shakedowns! It features an arrangement of a traditional Russian folk song!\n\nRead about it below:\n\nhttps://www.coastersforbeers.co.uk/new-music-serafima-and-the-shakedowns-drop-double-a-side-single-ill-be-around-the-slender-rowan/\n\nhttps://serafimaandtheshakedowns.bandcamp.com/track/the-slender-rowan"
}
],
"showid": 66368
},
{
"playid": 3637815,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 4,
"name": "Air break"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:17:00Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775351820000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775351820000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": null,
"release": null,
"releaseevent": null,
"track": null,
"label": null,
"comments": [],
"showid": 66367
},
{
"playid": 3637817,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 4,
"name": "Air break"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:15:52Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775351752000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775351752000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": null,
"release": null,
"releaseevent": null,
"track": null,
"label": null,
"comments": [],
"showid": 66368
},
{
"playid": 3637813,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:13:50Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775351630000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775351630000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 373135454,
"name": "M.U.T.T.",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 258622737,
"name": "Toughest Street In Town",
"largeimageuri": null,
"smallimageuri": null
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1361730046,
"year": 2025
},
"track": {
"trackid": 748261372,
"name": "Toughest Street In Town"
},
"label": null,
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 1280084049,
"text": "“Toughest Street In Town” is the title track from M.U.T.T.’s 2025 album, and it feels exactly like what a title track should feel like: central, declarative, and deeply tied to the band’s identity. Public coverage around the record describes it as a love letter to San Francisco, and that civic attachment is what gives the song extra weight. This is not toughness as costume. It sounds like toughness learned through wear, loyalty, and survival. M.U.T.T. come out of a punk tradition that values directness, but the song’s best quality is that it pairs blunt force with a strong sense of place. The title evokes a city block, a neighborhood memory, a set of conditions that shape character before anyone ever starts talking about scene mythology. The band keep things riff-forward and grounded, which suits the track’s street-level point of view. Rather than romanticizing grit from a distance, “Toughest Street In Town” feels lived in. It turns frustration, allegiance, and local scar tissue into something fast and loud without losing the human attachment underneath all that volume.\nListen: https://up2trouble.bandcamp.com/track/toughest-street-in-town"
}
],
"showid": 66367
},
{
"playid": 3637814,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:13:10Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775351590000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775351590000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 10632022,
"name": "Greg Cypher feat. Headkrack & Tuesday Talaga",
"islocal": true
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 102584793,
"name": "Chasing Endorphins",
"largeimageuri": "https://ia801806.us.archive.org/26/items/mbid-0f81fe81-d507-49ac-b8a2-dbf78ee7dbf8/mbid-0f81fe81-d507-49ac-b8a2-dbf78ee7dbf8-44745315746_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://ia801806.us.archive.org/26/items/mbid-0f81fe81-d507-49ac-b8a2-dbf78ee7dbf8/mbid-0f81fe81-d507-49ac-b8a2-dbf78ee7dbf8-44745315746_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 732353502,
"year": 2026
},
"track": {
"trackid": 584365460,
"name": "Blinders"
},
"label": null,
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 296043547,
"text": "Greg Cypher's gonna be opening for GZA at the Nectar Lounge on May 13th as part of the 30th anniversary of Liquid Swords! Get yr tickets below:\n\nhttps://www.tixr.com/groups/nectarlounge/events/gza-featuring-phunky-nomads-plus-greg-cypher-dj-indica-jones-160958"
}
],
"showid": 66368
},
{
"playid": 3637812,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:11:00Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775351460000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775351460000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 2133815843,
"name": "Sutros",
"islocal": false
},
"release": null,
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 498567787,
"year": null
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1411158332,
"name": "Pristine Decay"
},
"label": null,
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 1523543466,
"text": "Sutros describe themselves as an “off quilter punk band” from San Francisco, and that phrase gets at what makes them exciting: they pull from punk, noise, drone, free jazz, and rock’n’roll, yet the result feels less like a collage than a wired, instinctive language of their own. “Pristine Decay,” from Acrid Tongue, captures that restless identity well. The title alone suggests contradiction, ruin made strangely immaculate, and the track follows through on that tension with a sound that feels jagged, alive, and deliberately unsettled. Sutros do not chase polish in the conventional sense. Their power comes from friction: abrasive guitar textures, rhythms that push and pivot, and a vocal presence that sounds embedded in the song’s turbulence rather than placed above it. Even so, there is strong compositional intent here. “Pristine Decay” is not chaos for its own sake; it is a controlled unraveling, the kind of song that keeps finding shape inside abrasion. That balance gives it staying power. It feels immediate and physical, but it also rewards close listening, revealing details in the way the band handle tension, release, and tonal mess. Sutros make dissonance feel purposeful, and this track is a vivid example of that gift.\nListen: https://sutros.bandcamp.com/track/pristine-decay"
}
],
"showid": 66367
},
{
"playid": 3637810,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:09:42Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775351382000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775351382000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1367425103,
"name": "Heavy Bloom",
"islocal": true
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1173673380,
"name": "Woke Up",
"largeimageuri": null,
"smallimageuri": null
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1560332423,
"year": 2026
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1334524792,
"name": "Woke Up"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 1373432265,
"name": "[no label]"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 479907901,
"text": "Brand new music from Heavy Bloom! \n\nThe band describes it as, \"It’s romantic, but not hopeful. The result is a song about that strange intersection of urgency, denial, and freedom. The moment you realize the relationship might not survive.\"\nhttps://heavybloomofficial.bandcamp.com/track/woke-up"
}
],
"showid": 66368
},
{
"playid": 3637811,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:08:46Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775351326000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775351326000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 198663848,
"name": "Ty Segall",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 823610938,
"name": "Melted",
"largeimageuri": null,
"smallimageuri": null
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 976326906,
"year": 2010
},
"track": {
"trackid": 759529072,
"name": "Girlfriend"
},
"label": null,
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 1426443938,
"text": "Ty Segall’s “Girlfriend” appears on Possession, released in 2025, and it showcases one of the qualities that has kept him so compelling across an enormous catalog: his ability to make familiar rock forms feel slightly unstable from the inside. Segall has moved through garage rock, psych, glam, folk, and heavier terrain for years, but the common thread is always friction. Even when the melody is immediate, there is usually something off-center in the arrangement or emotional framing. “Girlfriend” benefits from that exact tension. The title sounds almost archetypal, a piece of pop shorthand with decades of rock history behind it, but Segall rarely uses inherited language passively. He tends to bend it until the sweetness picks up static. On Possession, that instinct translates into songs that feel muscular, hook-driven, and slyly warped, and “Girlfriend” fits comfortably in that world. Rather than presenting romance as stable ground, the song suggests the usual Segall mix of fascination, projection, and unease. He knows how to make a riff feel welcoming while keeping the floor just unstable enough beneath it. That balance is what makes the song move.\nListen: https://tysegall.bandcamp.com/track/girlfriend"
}
],
"showid": 66367
},
{
"playid": 3637809,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:04:56Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775351096000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775351096000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1848996157,
"name": "The Snares",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1668756299,
"name": "Damaged Goods",
"largeimageuri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/c2ee98bc-6759-46e2-9f59-0163dfae73bb/42150550709-500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/c2ee98bc-6759-46e2-9f59-0163dfae73bb/42150550709-250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 268052927,
"year": 2025
},
"track": {
"trackid": 914521798,
"name": "What You Said?"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 1548999334,
"name": "Psyched! Records"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 1738948086,
"text": "“What You Said?” by The Snares arrives like a tape-hissed transmission from the garage—raw, immediate, and slightly disorienting in the best way. The Sacramento outfit, known for blending garage rock with psych and post-punk textures, leans fully into that hybrid identity here, delivering a track that feels both tightly wound and on the verge of unraveling.\n\nRecorded at Oakland’s Atomic Garden Studios with engineer Jack Shirley, the song carries that live-to-tape urgency—drums snapping forward, guitars smeared in fuzz, and vocals hovering between detachment and confrontation. There’s a circularity to the structure, mirroring the lyrical fixation on repetition and emotional déjà vu—“I feel like I have been here before”—that gives the track a restless, almost claustrophobic energy.\n\nWhat stands out is how The Snares resist polish. Instead, they embrace abrasion: organ tones bleed into the mix, rhythms feel slightly off-center, and the vocal delivery oscillates between apathy and urgency. It’s that tension that keeps “What You Said?” compelling—never fully resolving, always circling its own questions.\n\nFor listeners tuned to KEXP’s love of boundary-pushing guitar music, this is a band capturing lightning in a bottle—messy, immediate, and undeniably alive.\n\nLink: https://bandthesnares.bandcamp.com/track/what-you-said-single"
}
],
"showid": 66367
},
{
"playid": 3637808,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:04:50Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775351090000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775351090000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1733175673,
"name": "Perfume Genius",
"islocal": true
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1487814166,
"name": "Set My Heart On Fire Immediately",
"largeimageuri": "https://dn721600.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-79109383-6c84-434d-a910-e4bcc0489b8c/mbid-79109383-6c84-434d-a910-e4bcc0489b8c-27602310993_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://dn721600.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-79109383-6c84-434d-a910-e4bcc0489b8c/mbid-79109383-6c84-434d-a910-e4bcc0489b8c-27602310993_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1280498825,
"year": 2020
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1022245898,
"name": "On the Floor"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 1584180996,
"name": "Matador"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 2105531351,
"text": "Perfume Genius performed live in the KEXP studio in November 2021. \n\nhttps://youtu.be/SuWb099qGFU \n\nhttps://perfumegenius.bandcamp.com/music \n\nhttps://perfumegenius.org/"
}
],
"showid": 66368
},
{
"playid": 3637807,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 4,
"name": "Air break"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:03:48Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775351028000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775351028000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": null,
"release": null,
"releaseevent": null,
"track": null,
"label": null,
"comments": [],
"showid": 66367
},
{
"playid": 3637806,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:01:01Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775350861000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775350861000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1279625409,
"name": "Thee Oh Sees",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 663694805,
"name": "Floating Coffin",
"largeimageuri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/eb023fec-45d1-4fc5-9333-05ec0fdc1da7/28270914164-500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/eb023fec-45d1-4fc5-9333-05ec0fdc1da7/28270914164-250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 360747614,
"year": 2013
},
"track": {
"trackid": 24928384,
"name": "Toe Cutter / Thumb Buster"
},
"label": null,
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 2041918025,
"text": "“Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster” is one of the definitive modern Oh Sees tracks, released in 2013 on Floating Coffin and still sounding like a live wire years later. John Dwyer’s endlessly mutating project has moved through garage rock, psych-pop, krautrock, punk, and sci-fi freakout in many forms, and this song captures the band at a particularly explosive intersection of those instincts. Even the title is classic Oh Sees: grotesque, cartoonish, funny, and slightly threatening, like a B-movie image hurled into a riff. That sense of gleeful menace runs through the track. It is fast, serrated, and rhythmically relentless, with hooks that arrive not as softening devices but as additional forms of pressure. The song works because it never stops moving. It barrels forward with a manic physicality that makes every part of the arrangement feel overclocked. Yet beneath all the frenzy, Dwyer’s gift for structure keeps the chaos coherent. “Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster” is pure propulsion, a psych-punk attack that feels both absurd and ferociously precise.\nListen: https://ohsees.bandcamp.com/track/toe-cutter-thumb-buster"
}
],
"showid": 66367
},
{
"playid": 3637805,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T01:00:46Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775350846000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775350846000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1246638943,
"name": "The New Pornographers",
"islocal": true
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 341308167,
"name": "The Former Site Of",
"largeimageuri": "https://dn710402.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-011404a4-813f-44e5-a843-7bcab27e36d3/mbid-011404a4-813f-44e5-a843-7bcab27e36d3-44148168517_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://dn710402.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-011404a4-813f-44e5-a843-7bcab27e36d3/mbid-011404a4-813f-44e5-a843-7bcab27e36d3-44148168517_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1560332423,
"year": 2026
},
"track": {
"trackid": 697059773,
"name": "Pure Sticker Shock"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 688374306,
"name": "Merge Records"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 727692486,
"text": "Playing:\n- Seattle (Showbox) May 8th\n- San Francisco (Castro Theatre) May 11th\n(both with support from Will Sheff of Okkervil River!)\n\nNew Pornographers are an acclaimed indie supergroup led by Carl Newman, known for their pristine harmonies and ambitious takes on classic pop. https://bit.ly/4lZuKjf\n\nhttps://www.thenewpornographers.com/\nhttps://thenewpornos.bandcamp.com/music"
}
],
"showid": 66368
},
{
"playid": 3637804,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-05T00:56:49Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1775350609000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1775350609000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1401055692,
"name": "Primus",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1276882343,
"name": "Brown Album",
"largeimageuri": "https://dn711001.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-3bb92962-269f-304c-884f-b81651331565/mbid-3bb92962-269f-304c-884f-b81651331565-10974084412_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://dn711001.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-3bb92962-269f-304c-884f-b81651331565/mbid-3bb92962-269f-304c-884f-b81651331565-10974084412_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 300106579,
"year": 1997
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1428689651,
"name": "Kalamazoo"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 1389815811,
"name": "Interscope Records"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 1868078780,
"text": "For Kennady! \nStick around for Audioasis and Vinelands if you're in the Bay!"
}
],
"showid": 66366
}
]
}
