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    "id": 3640386,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3640386/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-04-10T17:55:20-07:00",
    "show": 66417,
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    "song": "Nothing Ever Happened",
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    "recording_id": "9a352341-6327-4b12-951b-18d464730106",
    "artist": "Deerhunter",
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    "album": "Microcastle",
    "release_id": "c16ba271-f7e8-4a41-ac2c-c74d1dc37c5f",
    "release_group_id": "9437340a-d0a1-37a1-a7d9-6c308d3db215",
    "labels": [
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    ],
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    ],
    "release_date": "2008-10-27",
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    "is_request": false,
    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "\"However, the album’s standout track remains the outstanding “Nothing Ever Happened”, co-written by [Bradford]Cox and [the late bassist Josh] Fauver, an unrelenting, insanely memorable mix of Kraut- and punk-rock, which the band expanded during live shows into a 30-minute jam-track, incorporating Patti Smith’s guttural “Horses” repetition into the song’s climactic finale.\" \n\n Here's a look at 15 years of Deerhunter: https://beatsperminute.com/nothing-ever-happened-15-years-of-deerhunter/",
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}