{"id":3590086,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3590086/?format=json","airdate":"2025-12-12T08:54:53-08:00","show":65354,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65354/?format=json","image_uri":"https://ia801306.us.archive.org/10/items/mbid-0dcb4610-006e-35a3-8575-3fee0fa1bb83/mbid-0dcb4610-006e-35a3-8575-3fee0fa1bb83-2554558577_thumb500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://ia801306.us.archive.org/10/items/mbid-0dcb4610-006e-35a3-8575-3fee0fa1bb83/mbid-0dcb4610-006e-35a3-8575-3fee0fa1bb83-2554558577_thumb250.jpg","song":"Cherub Rock","track_id":"17e808b9-0ce4-3b73-83cf-fb9fdf0dfc67","recording_id":"40a1bdab-d6cc-4116-8cdb-736979854503","artist":"The Smashing Pumpkins","artist_ids":["ba0d6274-db14-4ef5-b28d-657ebde1a396"],"album":"Siamese Dream","release_id":"0dcb4610-006e-35a3-8575-3fee0fa1bb83","release_group_id":"a159e102-18bb-42ca-a59e-5f96a7eff241","labels":["Virgin","Hut Recordings"],"label_ids":["49b58bdb-3d74-40c6-956a-4c4b46115c9c","3dc55be1-e308-4b62-b0ac-7ddcf2845b91"],"release_date":"1993-07-26","rotation_status":"Library","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Hey John,\nWhat a great start to the morning...\nPixies, Bob Mould.......how about some Smashing Pumpkins? Cherub Rock?\nIt's my birthday today.....but sadly I've got a bad cold so staying in bed......thankfully KEXP's keeping me company with fab tunes! Cheers --Rob, in Hastings, UK\n--\nBilly Corgan: \"I wrote 'Cherub Rock' in half an hour. I heard it one day while I was driving up the road and it was one of the last songs I wrote before we did the album (\"Siamese Dream\"). The thing is, there's parts of me that wonder what would have happened if I'd spent four hours writing it, and not done something else. How much better a song would it have been?\"\n--\nThe Pumpkins performed it live on SNL in 1993: https://www.facebook.com/theyeargrungebroke/videos/smashing-pumpkins-cherub-rock-live-on-snl-1993/626996648425913/","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}