{"id":3629885,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3629885/?format=json","airdate":"2026-03-16T21:27:35-07:00","show":66201,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66201/?format=json","image_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/add51b72-0aa4-4ab9-ad0b-5fe15810b8be/40739211055-500.jpg","thumbnail_uri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/add51b72-0aa4-4ab9-ad0b-5fe15810b8be/40739211055-250.jpg","song":"Los otakus no van al cielo","track_id":null,"recording_id":null,"artist":"cacomixtle","artist_ids":["f67d9e96-6b94-4bff-8834-8340453b2a24"],"album":"Flora y Fauna del Estado de México","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"e0eaa875-a398-44a3-833a-d0ce05ff8d82","labels":[],"label_ids":[],"release_date":"2024-12-06","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"“Los otakus no van al cielo” arrives with a title that is funny, abrasive, and a little tragic all at once. cacomixtle is a rock project from Ciudad Satélite, Naucalpan, in the State of Mexico, and its Bandcamp page roots the project explicitly in Estado de México identity. The song itself is a 2026 release, issued as a stand-alone single and clocking in at just over two minutes. That brevity feels important. The title suggests satire, scene in-jokes, and internet-age melancholy compressed into a fast emotional burst, the kind of track that lands before it can overexplain itself. Even without an extensive public biography, the available release trail and the project’s surrounding catalog point toward a young rock act with a distinctly local imagination, where geography, subculture, and absurdity are all part of the songwriting texture. There is something compelling about the way the title turns a niche identity marker into a mock-apocalyptic statement. It sounds unserious until you realize how many contemporary anxieties move through that kind of joke: belonging, exile, cringe, self-recognition, and the fear of becoming ridiculous in public. The best underground songs often understand that comedy and alienation are close relatives, and this one seems to live squarely in that space. It feels sharp, fleeting, and very online, but also oddly sincere beneath the punchline.\nListen: https://cacomixtle.bandcamp.com/track/los-otakus-no-van-al-cielo","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}