{"id":3657499,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3657499/?format=json","airdate":"2026-05-21T03:29:36-07:00","show":66772,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66772/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"The New Pollution","track_id":null,"recording_id":"aa9135c4-0499-4d75-9caf-4e2025caf388","artist":"Beck","artist_ids":["309c62ba-7a22-4277-9f67-4a162526d18a"],"album":"Odelay","release_id":null,"release_group_id":"df0bfd42-78a9-40c3-a45f-a12e10d446f8","labels":["Geffen Records"],"label_ids":["0fadc2ce-f7de-4e27-bbe6-612b317e716b"],"release_date":"1996-06-17","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"The bluesy sax riff is from Joe Thomas' \"Venus\" (1976).\nhttps://wbssmedia.com/artists/detail/1289\n--\nReleased as the third single from Beck's fifth album, Odelay in 1996, \"The New Pollution\" samples the drumbeat from Gus Poole's \"Hallelujah, Alright, Amen,\" a funky disco soul track from 1970, and the bluesy sax riff is from Joe Thomas' \"Venus\" (1976).\n--\nBeck was once asked what the new pollution was. His reply, \"Human radios, sex with machines, mad eunuchs.\"\n\nhttps://www.beck.com/","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}