{"id":3583651,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3583651/?format=json","airdate":"2025-11-27T12:16:25-08:00","show":65223,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65223/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"On the Verge","track_id":"9c6c5082-20c4-3782-870c-256c132f7c8d","recording_id":"3d135884-9167-4986-ac13-b112f6c29900","artist":"Le Tigre","artist_ids":["2d67239c-aa40-4ad5-a807-9052b66857a6"],"album":"This Island","release_id":"eb90ed7b-be7e-438e-94b4-95ef97d2def3","release_group_id":"799d5033-ff8d-3c12-9821-4f92eb50b8a7","labels":["Universal Records"],"label_ids":["590538e9-b183-4163-ab5a-171fb021ed12"],"release_date":"2004-10-19","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Back in 2022, the usually interview-averse Kathleen Hanna spoke with L.A. Times about reforming Bikini Kill and touring post-COVID:\n\n\"Basically because I started playing with Bikini Kill again and was finally having fun singing. My health is so much better and my technical skills are way better. When I was playing with the Julie Ruin, which was the last project I did before getting back together with Bikini Kill, I was still really sick and kept having to cancel stuff. I was battling my illness to get onstage, and it just was not fun. It was a little bit of faking it. I remember playing a really bad show in Paris with Le Tigre. So now I’m like, I need to play Paris again and have it be a good show. It’s literally something that will keep me awake.\n\n\"I’ve gone through a lot of permutations as a performer. When I first got into being onstage, a lot of it was: I didn’t get love as a child, and I was looking for love in all the wrong places. I wanted anonymous strangers to applaud me. That was the difference between Bikini Kill and Le Tigre. In Le Tigre it was about me outperforming myself rather than pleasing the audience. I wasn’t looking for them to validate me. I knew what I was doing was good. So when I say I need to go back to Paris and fix it, it’s not because I give a shit that Paris hates me. It’s that I know I didn’t do my best.\"\n\nhttps://tinyurl.com/33e6bspp","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}