{"id":3544302,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544302/?format=json","airdate":"2025-08-24T16:55:40-07:00","show":64377,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64377/?format=json","image_uri":"https://dn721803.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-25fc940f-f66d-449d-8047-2b53c80f6edb/mbid-25fc940f-f66d-449d-8047-2b53c80f6edb-42141707070_thumb500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://dn721803.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-25fc940f-f66d-449d-8047-2b53c80f6edb/mbid-25fc940f-f66d-449d-8047-2b53c80f6edb-42141707070_thumb250.jpg","song":"Spartak","track_id":"e346c495-0ccb-483e-ae30-a5d09c8c3002","recording_id":"ea6d1a43-2e2d-4260-9653-c04228796a76","artist":"shame","artist_ids":["3294b9ce-0bef-4080-8ae8-95bad1abd71c"],"album":"Cutthroat","release_id":"25fc940f-f66d-449d-8047-2b53c80f6edb","release_group_id":"dc299e1d-c85d-4cf3-bf70-1c628a649b93","labels":["Dead Oceans"],"label_ids":["f70f950f-2587-4f85-a5c7-b483a47bd2e9"],"release_date":"2025-09-05","rotation_status":"Heavy","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"English band shame will be on the west coast next year, playing San Francisco's Great American Music Hall on February 10th and Seattle's Neumos on February 13th.\n\nWith \"Spartak,\" guitarist Sean Coyle-Smith says he was \"basically trying to write a Wilco song,\" but the result still bristles with the London five-piece’s usual bite.\n\nLyrically, Steen takes aim at cliques and social climbers, recalling his own teenage years on the outside of the \"cool kids\" circle.\n\n\"I was a chubby teenager who liked the wrong type of music and wore the wrong type of clothes,\" he says. \"It’s just another time I’d like to say fuck you to those people, and to anyone who makes someone feel shitty for not fitting in.\" https://tinyurl.com/452kn8jr","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}