{"id":3618413,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3618413/?format=json","airdate":"2026-02-16T20:09:28-08:00","show":65953,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65953/?format=json","image_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/0ef4c53e-7a1c-4917-9fea-7cf05c065942/3954585800-500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/0ef4c53e-7a1c-4917-9fea-7cf05c065942/3954585800-250.jpg","song":"Monstruo Verde","track_id":null,"recording_id":"9d05573f-ba23-4124-8ccf-be1f30fcab56","artist":"Las Ultrasónicas","artist_ids":["6d39f4a7-7395-4c1a-aea2-5704dfb861e7"],"album":"Yo fui una adolescente terrosatánica","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"13c68802-ccab-300e-b710-9ffe71368657","labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"1999-05-05","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"“Monstruo Verde” comes from the era of Ultrasónicas’ cult-classic Yo fuí una adolescente terrosatánica (originally released in 1999), a record often framed as a brash, funny, and transgressive jewel of the Mexican underground—garage, surf, punk, and riot grrrl spirit fused into something willfully loud and unapologetic. The song’s imagery is pure B-movie delight: a creature rising from the lagoon, dancing, gurgling, limbs flailing into a party. That cartoon-horror framing is part of the band’s power—using humor and grime as weapons, refusing respectability politics, and turning the “monster” into a dance-floor protagonist. Musically, it’s tight and nasty in the right ways: short-form rock’n’roll with punk impatience, surf-adjacent twang, and garage abrasion, all delivered with a wink that still lands like a shove. The track has endured because it captures a specific freedom: the joy of being messy, the thrill of being too much, the permission to dance like a creature in public. “Monstruo Verde” doesn’t ask you to behave—it invites you to mutate, to move, to laugh at the fear and keep dancing anyway.\u2028Listen: https://munsterrecords.bandcamp.com/track/monstruo-verde","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}