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GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=1440&ordering=-airdate
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Enjoy this biography of Robert Wachtel: https://www.coffeehouseguitars.co.uk/pages/guitarist/waddy-wachtel", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3603840, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3603840/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-13T12:16:56-08:00", "show": 65640, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65640/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "d52dda20-8011-40d0-ac96-3b13c9864898", "artist": "The Temptations", "artist_ids": [ "d8df96ae-8fcf-4997-b3e6-e5d1aaf0f69e" ], "album": "All Directions", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "1b715418-65d4-35d1-9fc1-b3b3a3087bcf", "labels": [ "Motown" ], "label_ids": [ "8e479e57-ef44-490c-b75d-cd28df89bf1b" ], "release_date": "1972-07-27", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone\" was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong in 1971. It was first released in May 1972 by The Undisputed Truth. Later in 1972, Whitfield cut a 12-minute version of the track with The Temptations - who considered it to be the last real classic they recorded. The A-side of this single won the Grammy for Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus, and the B-side instrumental version took the award for Best R&B Instrumental Performance.\n--\nThe great guitars are from Funk Brothers masters Melvin \"Wah Wah Watson\" Ragin and Paul Warren.\n--\nHere are the fabulous Temptations doing their number 1 hit \"Papa Was A Rollin' Stone\" live at a festival in Chicago in 1972.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZNkM0CI46g", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3603839, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3603839/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-13T12:12:08-08:00", "show": 65640, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65640/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/d2f77504-160e-424c-a6bd-a0d28de55de8/10228684152-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/d2f77504-160e-424c-a6bd-a0d28de55de8/10228684152-250.jpg", "song": "With a Little Help From My Friends", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "96a5f2b7-4dd2-4f6e-98d8-a0697865d08e", "artist": "Joe Cocker", "artist_ids": [ "32f2d6bd-c22b-42cf-a7bc-0c4b48cd2bcb" ], "album": "With a Little Help From My Friends", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "a0d14120-566a-31b8-8fb5-eeec153bef5b", "labels": [ "Interscope Records" ], "label_ids": [ "2182a316-c4bd-4605-936a-5e2fac52bdd2" ], "release_date": "1969-04-23", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "When Joe Cocker died in 2014 at age 70, Paul McCartney issued this statement regarding his version of this song: \"It was just mind-blowing, totally turned the song into a soul anthem, and I was forever grateful for him for having done that.\"\n--\nDenny Cordell produced the album with an early-career Tony Visconti helping out. While trying to get Cocker's classic primal scream on \"With A Little Help From My Friends,\" Denny Cordell had the singer belt it out a whopping 25 times, risking a vocal cord explosion. \"I never saw anyone be so cruel to another human being,\" Tony Visconti recalled to The Guardian.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3603838, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3603838/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-13T12:06:58-08:00", "show": 65640, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65640/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Save My Soul/Changing", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "187c382d-e2b7-437d-97ee-743d06dd18bf", "artist": "The Moondoggies", "artist_ids": [ "174744a2-8f85-4602-a0e6-5f2097c2e945" ], "album": "Live at KEXP, Volume Five", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "bdbbe38c-c497-48e6-ae0a-0997fceaf55a", "labels": [ "KEXP" ], "label_ids": [ "89e0503e-96f0-41b4-835f-2c542b7fcb44" ], "release_date": "2009-08-25", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "See The Moondoggies performing at KEXP's Concerts at the Mural in August, 2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF4h0eB1e-s", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3603837, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3603837/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-13T12:02:07-08:00", "show": 65640, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65640/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Aly, Walk With Me", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "0139ec9d-04c1-41c8-9c1a-537e69edde92", "artist": "The Raveonettes", "artist_ids": [ "79255a50-40df-447f-9612-2cf669080196" ], "album": "Live at KEXP, Volume Four", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "a32e5bc9-0c81-374c-a95e-7174ae588a19", "labels": [ "KEXP" ], "label_ids": [ "89e0503e-96f0-41b4-835f-2c542b7fcb44" ], "release_date": "2008-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Go back, back, back in time to see The Raveonettes perform this song live in the KEXP Bumbershoot Music Lounge in 2010: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Hl4r3zk1G4", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3603836, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3603836/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-13T11:58:30-08:00", "show": 65640, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65640/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Expecting to Fly", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Neil Young", "artist_ids": [ "75167b8b-44e4-407b-9d35-effe87b223cf" ], "album": "Decade", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "5d78e3ef-6742-3ee2-b003-9dbabc14a9d1", "labels": [ "Reprise Records" ], "label_ids": [ "af6d6f49-2b4d-40fe-86d4-241906772b59" ], "release_date": "1977-10-28", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This gorgeous song was written by Neil Young and initially appeared on the 1967 album \"Buffalo Springfield Again.\" Neil Young used outside musicians, rather than the other Buffalo Springfield band members.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3603835, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3603835/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-13T11:57:21-08:00", "show": 65640, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65640/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3603834, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3603834/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-13T11:54:00-08:00", "show": 65640, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65640/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "More", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Helado Negro", "artist_ids": [ "aa0a54b3-d37e-4c1d-a53f-b3b94a3dfcad" ], "album": "The Last Sound on Earth", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Big Dada" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2025-11-07", "rotation_status": "Light", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Here's a great essay from KEXP's Dusty Henry about how Helado Negro's 2019 album \"Two Lucky\" gudied him through grief: https://www.kexp.org/read/2022/9/7/50-years-of-music-2019-helado-negro-two-lucky/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3603833, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3603833/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-13T11:50:25-08:00", "show": 65640, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65640/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "you're a star (feat. 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Want to know more about him?: https://www.mamamia.com.au/who-is-fred-again/\n--\n He was joined by Australian punk musician Amy Taylor during his set at Leeds in August, 2025, where they first debuted \"you're a star,\" which remixes Amyl and the Sniffer's Cartoon Darkness track \"Big Dreams.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3603832, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3603832/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-13T11:43:16-08:00", "show": 65640, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65640/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "End of Summer", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Tame Impala", "artist_ids": [ "63aa26c3-d59b-4da4-84ac-716b54f1ef4d" ], "album": "Deadbeat", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Columbia Records" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2025-10-17", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This 7-minute song marks Kevin Parker's Columbia Records debut. It comes with a music video directed by Julian Klincewicz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulkdUfItyxI", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3603831, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3603831/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-13T11:40:25-08:00", "show": 65640, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65640/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3603830, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3603830/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-13T11:37:09-08:00", "show": 65640, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65640/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Rollin’ and Tumblin’ (original version)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "R.L. 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Burnside's grandson, Cedric, on drums in this live performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7PdxdXzskU\n--\nHere's what the Mississippi Encyclopedia says about this Delta blues master: https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/rl-burnside/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3603829, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3603829/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-13T11:33:10-08:00", "show": 65640, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65640/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Rollin' and Tumblin'", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Valerie June", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Rollin' and Tumblin'", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Concord" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2025-11-12", "rotation_status": "Medium", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Rollin' and Tumblin'\" is mostly remembered as a Robert Johnson song — brought to Chicago by Muddy Waters in the 1950s, and reinterpreted by Cream in the 1960s — but it was actually written and first recorded by Willie Nebern, who released only a handful of cuts in 1929.\n--\nWatch Valerie June perform this one live for KEXP listeners in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZsTjOe6gXI", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3603828, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3603828/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-13T11:28:28-08:00", "show": 65640, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65640/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The Old Law", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Father John Misty", "artist_ids": [], "album": "The Old Law", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Sub Pop Records" ], "label_ids": [ "38dc88de-7720-4100-9d5b-3cdc41b0c474" ], "release_date": "2026-01-09", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Joshua Michael Tillman (Father John Misty) will perform at:\n--The Castro Theatre in SF on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 24th and 25th\n--The Paramount Theatre in Seattle on Friday and Saturday, April 3rd and 4th\n--\nFather John Misty has shared a new track 'The Old Law' via Sub Pop. Produced by Drew Erickson and Josh Tillman, and mixed at Fivestar Studios in Los Angeles, the song was previously known to fans under the live title 'God’s Trash' and first debuted during his 2024 tour performances.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3603819, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3603819/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-13T11:20:08-08:00", "show": 65640, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65640/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Song for Sharon", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "6877957a-7e34-4a95-b43d-b898b1398efa", "artist": "Joni Mitchell", "artist_ids": [ "a6de8ef9-b1a1-4756-97aa-481bbb8a4069" ], "album": "Hejira", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "039f2ae4-36dd-3608-9103-67ce7f6c9288", "labels": [ "Asylum Records" ], "label_ids": [ "a8bea33e-67af-424a-a734-898e2dc437ed" ], "release_date": "1976-11-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This song is dedicated to Joni’s best friend, Sharon Bell, when she was growing up in Maidstone, Saskatchewan, in the 1950s, and it references the fact that Sharon had been planning a career as a professional singer, while Joni hoped to be a farm wife — but in adulthood, each realized the other’s ambition.: https://www.press-citizen.com/story/opinion/contributors/writers-group/2017/02/07/joni-mitchell-song-sharon-brings-back-memories/97296996/\n--\nThose beautiful backing vocals are Joni's voice, overdubbed. 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