{"id":347445,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/347445/?format=json","airdate":"2019-06-28T14:14:55-07:00","show":5786,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5786/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"Tethered","track_id":"3b32aab5-0fcf-40a6-880d-225c47dea633","recording_id":null,"artist":"Versing","artist_ids":["d74c3287-3e5c-415f-a752-21737183da93"],"album":"10000","release_id":"1a905545-045b-458f-a5d7-eff2bd7ba63c","release_group_id":null,"labels":["Hardly Art"],"label_ids":["0cf56645-50ec-4411-aeb6-c9f4ce0f8edb"],"release_date":"2019-05-03","rotation_status":"Heavy","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Like many important bands, Seattle quartet Versing got their start in college radio—Tacoma’s KUPS. The group’s main songwriter/guitarist/vocalist Daniel Salas served as alternative music director there, where he met guitarist Graham Baker, drummer Max Keyes, and bassist Kirby Lochner. Emerging from a stint as a drummer in a stoner-metal band, Salas formed Versing as a vehicle to vent obliquely about his political and social views with irony and humor. Populated with strange characters, his songs often double as “critiques of centrism and conservatism, from a leftist perspective. That’s a theme: committing to something or doing something that may be hard but is the better option. However, when I write politically, it’s more allegorical and can be interpreted beyond the political realm. I find that more interesting to write about than my personal life.”  https://bit.ly/2Lq9kg3","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}