{"id":3584066,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3584066/?format=json","airdate":"2025-11-28T10:52:47-08:00","show":65231,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65231/?format=json","image_uri":"https://ia801507.us.archive.org/31/items/mbid-a6fcd8fa-d51f-42cf-a6a8-eb4b8addf0a5/mbid-a6fcd8fa-d51f-42cf-a6a8-eb4b8addf0a5-22471275019_thumb500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://ia801507.us.archive.org/31/items/mbid-a6fcd8fa-d51f-42cf-a6a8-eb4b8addf0a5/mbid-a6fcd8fa-d51f-42cf-a6a8-eb4b8addf0a5-22471275019_thumb250.jpg","song":"Dance This Mess Around","track_id":"be1f94b6-31a5-47dd-bee9-e1788af62f95","recording_id":"3bb87fb8-db1c-4968-8043-b4672cfd6cc9","artist":"The B‐52s","artist_ids":["127f591a-7e27-4435-92db-0780f219f3a1"],"album":"The B‐52’s","release_id":"a6fcd8fa-d51f-42cf-a6a8-eb4b8addf0a5","release_group_id":"68699ffe-f5fd-337a-8bb9-8a196157afa8","labels":["Warner Bros. Records"],"label_ids":["c595c289-47ce-4fba-b999-b87503e8cb71"],"release_date":"1979-01-01","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"The B‐52s debuted with this self-titled album in 1979.\n\n\"Even in the weird, quirky world of new wave and post-punk in the late '70s, the B-52's' eponymous debut stood out as an original. Unabashed kitsch mavens at a time when their peers were either vulgar or stylish, the Athens quintet celebrated all the silliest aspects of pre-Beatles pop culture -- bad hairdos, sci-fi nightmares, dance crazes, pastels, and anything else that sprung into their minds -- to a skewed fusion of pop, surf, avant-garde, amateurish punk, and white funk.\"\n\nRead more from this review here: https://tinyurl.com/2snhnhbf","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}