{"id":3622635,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3622635/?format=json","airdate":"2026-02-26T17:00:01-08:00","show":66037,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66037/?format=json","image_uri":"https://dn711108.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-99581850-91e1-328f-ac75-788c3e7dd681/mbid-99581850-91e1-328f-ac75-788c3e7dd681-21224266519_thumb500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://dn711108.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-99581850-91e1-328f-ac75-788c3e7dd681/mbid-99581850-91e1-328f-ac75-788c3e7dd681-21224266519_thumb250.jpg","song":"New Town","track_id":"4a3972b3-ae10-3bfd-8bf4-ee8adb989553","recording_id":"a18f8236-781b-496a-be3d-61006fe1d92c","artist":"Life Without Buildings","artist_ids":["f2fc3767-1688-4a84-be35-38b7928a1fcc"],"album":"Any Other City","release_id":"5f011174-ec6e-4573-a422-880ef5044c42","release_group_id":"b6ec1503-cc55-348c-9086-858bb71d0696","labels":["DC Baltimore 2012"],"label_ids":["8c318116-a6b6-4c00-b3fa-8d7bbf3a519a"],"release_date":"2001-02-26","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"On this day in 2001, Life Without Buildings release their first and only studio album Any Other City! \n\nNamed after a track by the influential English band Japan, this Glaswegian band featured visual artist Sue Tompkins on vocals. The band broke up after one album.\n\nTheir music valued invention, risk, wonder, imagination, and—perhaps above all other virtues—fun. And like very few bands, they were smart enough to walk away as soon as the fun stopped.\n\n\"When the band began, of course none of us really thought anyone would be interested, so there wasn't anything at stake,\" guitarist Robert Johnston recalled about a decade after their amicable break-up. \"For Sue, I think it turned from a laugh into being a commitment she'd never signed up for.\"\n\n \"I remember one [review] that said only mad people could like us,\" drummer Will Bradley said years later. \"I was happy with that. Not long afterwards, we seemed to get a lot of guys coming to our gigs with fresh head wounds, like unstitched lobotomy scars.\" https://tinyurl.com/wfv82fv7","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}