{"id":3599134,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3599134/?format=json","airdate":"2026-01-02T07:22:52-08:00","show":65539,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65539/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"WAITING FOR THE PHONE CALL","track_id":"dfde52ea-bf3a-4e2a-802e-18ea1b43cee4","recording_id":"eb5f2e4f-f8c8-4b52-a17b-fef19d63b241","artist":"The Twilight Sad featuring Robert Smith","artist_ids":["7d1a1624-784b-4f89-8ff9-b9b493cd059d","d44d63b8-3da4-4f7d-aba1-a05ba8941b44"],"album":"WAITING FOR THE PHONE CALL","release_id":"69bbf6ac-db63-4beb-a9dc-5468a3d97bb6","release_group_id":"b4798d3d-1d5d-4ff9-b4e0-9234a6d5e28f","labels":["Rock Action Records"],"label_ids":["959be696-eda5-4c9d-af24-2c8103f149f5"],"release_date":"2025-10-28","rotation_status":"Light","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"The Twilight Sad is now officially a duo featuring frontman James Graham and guitarist Andy MacFarlane. They enlisted  The Cure's Robert Smith to play guitar on their first single in 6 years.\n--\nGraham had this to say about the song in a press release: “‘Waiting for the Phone Call’ is about grief, love and mental illness. These things took over my life and I became ill. I lost the person most important to me in one of the cruellest ways. I’ve always used writing as a method of processing and coping with my emotions. My emotions became a problem and I couldn’t control them, writing music with Andy… especially the past seven years had been both the escape and the opportunity to process and try and make sense of life. We’ve all been waiting on a phone call that can change our lives at some point. This unfortunately focuses on a phone call that you never want to have.”","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}