{"id":3589469,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3589469/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-10T20:27:15-08:00","show":65342,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65342/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"María también","track_id":null,"recording_id":"2f5241ee-f83a-4cbe-b432-8d9a9bec6d66","artist":"Khruangbin","artist_ids":["aea4c9b9-9f8d-49dc-b2ca-57d6f26e8634"],"album":"Maria También","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"2fce4c91-e894-4f17-b34a-7a7fb4526d6c","labels":["Dead Oceans"],"label_ids":["f70f950f-2587-4f85-a5c7-b483a47bd2e9"],"release_date":"2017-11-02","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Celebrating 50 years of KEXP/KCMU!  Here's our 2018 Feature, where we pair an artist's song from 2018 with a more recent song, to see how times/the band has changed.\n\nBetween 1925 and 1979, Iranian women gained significant rights: access to education and employment, no requirement to wear a veil, the freedom to petition for divorce and child custody, and the rights to vote and to run for public office. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 established a theocracy that largely removed women from public life, both in government and the entertainment industry. Since then, women in the country have fought to try and regain the rights they lost, with many joining grassroots activist movements like the One Million Signatures campaign and pushing for parliamentary candidates who favor restoring women's liberty.\n\nKhruangbin, a trio from Texas that commingles Middle Eastern and African influences, '70s funk and Texas soul, celebrates the relative freedom Iranian women had before the revolution with its newest video (which also serves as the announcement of Khruangbin's record, Con Todo El Mundo): https://n.pr/3qoTm9O\n\nYou can catch the video here: https://bit.ly/3raheNT","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}