{"id":342772,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/342772/?format=json","airdate":"2019-06-18T01:04:00-07:00","show":5717,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5717/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Dopesmoker, Part 1","track_id":"abb6c695-17cf-49eb-9ee2-54a423094cba","recording_id":null,"artist":"Sleep","artist_ids":["6fc69ec6-3e59-4ff7-849d-b5da932abe4d"],"album":"Dopesmoker","release_id":"a97bb2e6-8e15-4f24-93be-35666727c9d1","release_group_id":null,"labels":["Southern Lord"],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"2001-01-01","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Celebrating the summer solstice with KEXP's Long Songs on the Longest Day programming by playing two favorites that are at least 6:13 minutes long. First up is \"Dopesmoker\" from Bay Area heavy metal band, Sleep. \"...[the] heaviest, sludgiest, most wicked album ever recorded is none other than Sleep’s doom metal masterpiece, Dopesmoker. A juggernaut of a concept album, Dopesmoker chronicles the epic pilgrimage of the Weedian race, an ancient people commanded by their high weed priests to “Drop out of life with bong in hand / Follow the smoke to the riff filled land.\" Read more about this epic album consisting of one 63-minute song here: https://www.guitarworld.com/blogs/sleep-s-dopesmoker-heaviest-album-ever-recorded","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}