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Together, they released five studio albums, with their final one being All Hours in 2011.\n\nSadly in 2020, Schlesinger died from complications due to the COVID-19 virus. In memoriam of their bandmate, the other two reunited in 2021 to release archived demos and rare footage in the form of a tribute video. The band then began their reissuing project, releasing older versions of their previous records.\n\nThe reissue project allowed Chase and Durand to discover previously unreleased demos and tapes left by Schlesinger in their Rhode Island Studio, per a press release. “The world thought IVY was gone after 2012, and for a time we did too,\" shared Chase. \"And after Adam’s death in 2020 it seemed certain... So Dominique and I are thrilled to give everyone a brand new IVY album, with our beloved Adam playing on every song!\"\n\nAll songs feature fragments recorded by Schlesinger during the IVY period. The band's keyboardist and backing guitarist Bruce Driscoll also joined to go through the archives, rework the old material, and bring the original trio back together on Traces Of You.\n\n\"You can imagine how terrible it's been to lose Adam,\" Chase added. \"The only silver lining is that we could breathe life into these songs that he contributed to and it was a great experience making this record happen.\" https://tinyurl.com/2v9ysv9z", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3550118, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550118/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:58:52-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3550117, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550117/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:55:48-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601406.us.archive.org/11/items/mbid-48ccfc65-04ab-39fb-86e1-4ef0eef30520/mbid-48ccfc65-04ab-39fb-86e1-4ef0eef30520-1916136930_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601406.us.archive.org/11/items/mbid-48ccfc65-04ab-39fb-86e1-4ef0eef30520/mbid-48ccfc65-04ab-39fb-86e1-4ef0eef30520-1916136930_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Just Can't Get Enough", "track_id": "c77541e4-6a6f-3d2b-b141-1f9110b289a2", "recording_id": "b4002abd-f47a-4db7-8002-0727fc2052db", "artist": "Depeche Mode", "artist_ids": [ "8538e728-ca0b-4321-b7e5-cff6565dd4c0" ], "album": "Speak & Spell", "release_id": "48ccfc65-04ab-39fb-86e1-4ef0eef30520", "release_group_id": "7a0e0366-91f4-3444-b45a-83b158004165", "labels": [ "Sire Records" ], "label_ids": [ "be0fec81-5c18-4494-8bbf-0d81dec006bf" ], "release_date": "1987-06-02", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Released on this day in 1987!\n\nDepeche Mode founding member and keyboardist Vince Clarke wrote this synth-pop landmark. Musically, it was inspired by \"To Cut a Long Story Short\" by Spandau Ballet, released in 1980. To that point, Clark wasn't into dance music, but the Spandau Ballet song turned him around.\n\n\"It was the first time I was actually impressed by a rhythm that went 'boom-thwack, boom-thwack,'\" he told Rolling Stone in 2000. \"It was the first time I discovered dance music for myself, and to write a song around the rhythm was quite a revelation for me. 'Just Can't Get Enough' came out of that.\"\n\nClarke had just turned 20 when he wrote this song, which turned out to be the last one he wrote for Depeche Mode. He left the band after the Speak and Spell album was released, later joining Yaz and Erasure. The \"Just Can't Get Enough\" video is the only one he appears in.\n\nEarly Depeche Mode, under the direction of Clarke, had a more upbeat sound. In a Songfacts interview with Vince Clarke, he explained: \"Martin Gore writes in a different way than I do, so that's obviously the main difference. And they've developed this kind of a rock feel to their music. I'm more a fan of pop music, or I'm more of a fan of writing pop music, that's the most difference, I guess.\" https://tinyurl.com/yc2a3vn7", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3550115, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550115/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:52:16-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia600408.us.archive.org/22/items/mbid-a74ba4cf-1218-45c6-993a-f6e48695d56b/mbid-a74ba4cf-1218-45c6-993a-f6e48695d56b-42023244396_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800408.us.archive.org/22/items/mbid-a74ba4cf-1218-45c6-993a-f6e48695d56b/mbid-a74ba4cf-1218-45c6-993a-f6e48695d56b-42023244396_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Just Like a Flower", "track_id": "138ff538-01c3-4683-b042-51b85c03260a", "recording_id": "38ed1356-b13b-49e5-b825-f5d2c7f57ae3", "artist": "Winter", "artist_ids": [ "7e8d8cfc-8ac6-47d5-836c-40d729c766d1" ], "album": "Adult Romantix", "release_id": "a74ba4cf-1218-45c6-993a-f6e48695d56b", "release_group_id": "32c45e0e-0cb6-42ba-b20f-9bfb3d3000af", "labels": [ "Winspear" ], "label_ids": [ "76320af7-a39b-4b71-8fa8-c56437f2909d" ], "release_date": "2025-08-22", "rotation_status": "Light", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Playing Barboza in Seattle on October 11th and Cafe de Nord in San Francisco on October 14th!\n\nWinter shares, \"This song captures the essence of daydreaming in your bedroom — a place where limitless imagination and inspiration can exist.\n\n\"It ties back to memories of writing songs in my old bedroom in Echo Park, CA. There were these summer nights when I’d walk back from a local show with a sense of wonder and enchantment, only to lie down on my bed and replay everything that happened in my head like a movie.\n\n\"It felt incredibly nostalgic coming back to LA to film the video. The girls were about the same age as those who inspired me during those lost LA summers. It was heart-tugging though, because it was right after the fires and David Lynch’s death, so there was an extra layer of vulnerability in the air.\n\n\"It was so beautiful to see the community come together — it made the video all the more special. In a way, we were documenting these girls in a moment in time, captured in one of their most intimate spaces.\" https://tinyurl.com/3x5322u6", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3550114, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550114/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:48:27-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721308.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-efa86b9a-e272-478d-9366-bce4ebddc089/mbid-efa86b9a-e272-478d-9366-bce4ebddc089-42143594195_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721308.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-efa86b9a-e272-478d-9366-bce4ebddc089/mbid-efa86b9a-e272-478d-9366-bce4ebddc089-42143594195_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Incomprehensible", "track_id": "4a631740-167f-4d32-a129-4a8a4b5be688", "recording_id": "ecc6ef38-c9c4-42bb-b6e8-f9e014448f8e", "artist": "Big Thief", "artist_ids": [ "9f81247f-7f57-42f3-a8ba-75bef554e591" ], "album": "Double Infinity", "release_id": "efa86b9a-e272-478d-9366-bce4ebddc089", "release_group_id": "8fd54a87-a6df-4046-a9f6-7f2f171301ba", "labels": [ "4AD" ], "label_ids": [ "a539bb1e-f2e1-4b45-9db8-8053841e7503" ], "release_date": "2025-09-05", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Big Thief are touring, and 2025 tour dates include: Sept. 17 at Channel 24 in Sacramento, CA | Sept. 19 at Edgefield in Troutdale, OR | Sept 25 at the The Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA\n\nOf this track, Adrienne Lenker shares, \"I wrote this song in the car mostly. I was in Minnesota where I grew up, visiting my grandma.\n\n\"I was with my partner and we missed our plane and we decided to drive the long way up through Canada over Lake Superior. She was sleeping and I was whispering this song into the phone microphone as I was driving.\n\n\"What’s funny is when I was writing it, I really thought it was like a huge rock and roll song but I just realized it was so quiet and felt best that way, in a way.\" https://tinyurl.com/3mrcv5ry", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3550113, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550113/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:45:55-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601807.us.archive.org/12/items/mbid-393353a9-7ebd-49b9-8af6-7093219dbdc4/mbid-393353a9-7ebd-49b9-8af6-7093219dbdc4-42484656571_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601807.us.archive.org/12/items/mbid-393353a9-7ebd-49b9-8af6-7093219dbdc4/mbid-393353a9-7ebd-49b9-8af6-7093219dbdc4-42484656571_thumb250.jpg", "song": "something in the wind", "track_id": "efb78fdd-0adf-4dfe-a2a1-63b1a5641fe3", "recording_id": "397646e2-e446-49c3-a9e5-4cef8d7dc971", "artist": "Ada Lea", "artist_ids": [ "2fdc614a-ba8e-45c8-8cce-6dfd3ec864e8" ], "album": "when i paint my masterpiece", "release_id": "393353a9-7ebd-49b9-8af6-7093219dbdc4", "release_group_id": "dadf5d16-b74d-4b93-8349-352dafc82ad2", "labels": [ "Saddle Creek Records" ], "label_ids": [ "006ea2fb-e616-4743-924a-8bda90fff909" ], "release_date": "2025-08-08", "rotation_status": "Light", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Ada Lea will be at Ballard Homestead (Abbey Arts) in Seattle on October 24th and The Knockout in San Francisco on October 29th. https://tinyurl.com/3up29fzc | https://tinyurl.com/bdet8vs8\n\nOf this track, Montreal’s Alexandra Levy confides, \"I had a dream about this song and remember nothing. There is a constant in everyone’s life, which is the dream.\n\n\"When we recorded the song, Luke, who produced it, suggested we slow it down so Tasy could improvise a busy drum solo. Then, Jonas, engineer, sped the song up to its regular speed. Like a slowed down wink to Leonard Cohen himself.\" https://tinyurl.com/2tpb65at", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3550112, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550112/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:43:17-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3550111, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550111/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:39:40-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia903407.us.archive.org/17/items/mbid-544ba81e-cfa9-4a3b-87b7-6b5b6845dc10/mbid-544ba81e-cfa9-4a3b-87b7-6b5b6845dc10-21677659092_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia803407.us.archive.org/17/items/mbid-544ba81e-cfa9-4a3b-87b7-6b5b6845dc10/mbid-544ba81e-cfa9-4a3b-87b7-6b5b6845dc10-21677659092_thumb250.jpg", "song": "The Promise", "track_id": "35aa834c-8fda-3465-bc27-82160539329b", "recording_id": "d9f96478-a818-4382-a777-b455877f30dc", "artist": "When in Rome", "artist_ids": [ "d3dcef08-31d2-45b4-8e12-e4c7ac0d26c8" ], "album": "Living in Oblivion: The 80’s Greatest Hits, Volume 5", "release_id": "544ba81e-cfa9-4a3b-87b7-6b5b6845dc10", "release_group_id": "9a7c8c1a-4193-3b9c-84ba-f7dfb3bbf9f0", "labels": [ "EMI" ], "label_ids": [ "c029628b-6633-439e-bcee-ed02e8a338f7" ], "release_date": "1995-04-04", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "When In Rome started out as a British new wave trio consisting of vocalists Clive Farrington and Andrew Mann, and keyboardist Michael Floreale. Farrington and Mann had been members of a locally popular band called Beau Leisure when they decided to strike out on their own. \n\nThis song was from their debut LP in 1988 and was an instant hit, reaching #11 on the Billboard Top 100. However, it turned out to be their only major hit. Farrington and Mann went on to other things, but they continued to stay in touch and write together.\n\nFloreale revived the group under the name When In Rome II in the mid-2000s with vocalist John Ceravolo and drummer Chris Willett. In 2009, Farrington and Mann reformed as When In Rome UK with drummer Rob Juarez.\n\nThis song was used in the 2004 hit movie Napoleon Dynamite at the end scene when Napoleon asks, \"Do you wanna play me?\" and also in the credit sequence. https://tinyurl.com/4dhwftta", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3550110, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550110/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:37:01-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn720709.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-5ea9f825-7bcf-4974-8adc-404d1c22fc39/mbid-5ea9f825-7bcf-4974-8adc-404d1c22fc39-42895384177_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn720709.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-5ea9f825-7bcf-4974-8adc-404d1c22fc39/mbid-5ea9f825-7bcf-4974-8adc-404d1c22fc39-42895384177_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Obsession", "track_id": "756cd368-ede4-406d-be36-8b8902aeac8c", "recording_id": "7c5dea73-bb93-40b3-a6ea-8c89516bce70", "artist": "Oliver Sim", "artist_ids": [ "040cb119-5d70-4f7f-af34-5d1f1c898030" ], "album": "Obsession", "release_id": "5ea9f825-7bcf-4974-8adc-404d1c22fc39", "release_group_id": "fd70ad39-774a-40e2-9a7c-7bd7255c14dd", "labels": [ "Young" ], "label_ids": [ "78cd137b-d2d4-4259-bf25-351d15e7de25" ], "release_date": "2025-08-27", "rotation_status": "Medium", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "It’s been three years since the xx’s Oliver Sim released his solo debut album Hideous Bastard, but he's back with a new track featuring complementary vocals from Katie O’Neill, bringing Sim back into the boy-girl dynamic that works so well in his main band.\n\n\"Obsession\" is, however, a move away from the xx in one important way: It’s his first song ever to not be produced by Jamie xx, but Bullion and Taylor Skye. https://tinyurl.com/3skt4pam", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3550109, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550109/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:33:59-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801005.us.archive.org/31/items/mbid-6166f66f-3923-4fa5-9b3a-8867ef515992/mbid-6166f66f-3923-4fa5-9b3a-8867ef515992-7663726103_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801005.us.archive.org/31/items/mbid-6166f66f-3923-4fa5-9b3a-8867ef515992/mbid-6166f66f-3923-4fa5-9b3a-8867ef515992-7663726103_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Living in America", "track_id": "4d08e746-c441-419d-91ee-c8760d533150", "recording_id": "1ee8ef0c-0ef3-463d-90ea-d34ff0e13fe3", "artist": "Dom", "artist_ids": [ "8c9f6dd3-4919-4417-92e9-58d25a07def8" ], "album": "Sun Bronzed Greek Gods", "release_id": "06360fd8-038a-4de7-a4cf-ada082f3591c", "release_group_id": "fb53b1c6-bf20-4d6b-b562-156821d341f3", "labels": [ "Burning Mill Records", "Astralwerks" ], "label_ids": [ "d530d800-11a1-46c3-a0dc-8c0eb1551772", "60f3af98-d6ca-4995-a9b5-b93924e2405f" ], "release_date": "2011-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "DoM is an American pop/electronic solo musical project by Dominic Cournoyer originating from Worcester, Massachusetts.\n\nWith warped vocals, fuzzy lo-fi distortion, and broken Casio keyboard lines, Dom filters a DIY aesthetic through the upbeat, sunny rhythms of pop music. https://tinyurl.com/mr2fcvaw", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3550107, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550107/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:30:31-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721704.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e412a700-ec2a-4677-b545-3f9b37c0d477/mbid-e412a700-ec2a-4677-b545-3f9b37c0d477-42870204242_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721704.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e412a700-ec2a-4677-b545-3f9b37c0d477/mbid-e412a700-ec2a-4677-b545-3f9b37c0d477-42870204242_thumb250.jpg", "song": "If We Ever", "track_id": "ee00d2e2-3ae5-43a9-93bb-2cfaef1efa08", "recording_id": "7b3b6d33-03ae-4eaa-870c-25640fa8c631", "artist": "Overmono & High Contrast", "artist_ids": [ "889b69e3-7b18-4889-b953-9f2931597204", "b841d0f2-0a2a-4cb2-a2d8-9895b7f90bfa" ], "album": "If We Ever", "release_id": "e412a700-ec2a-4677-b545-3f9b37c0d477", "release_group_id": "652fe51b-e5f4-4683-8903-5b6cccdb6aae", "labels": [ "XL Recordings" ], "label_ids": [ "14221f01-8939-4ea0-b8f1-b5a21beae80a" ], "release_date": "2025-08-26", "rotation_status": "Medium", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Overmono is a Welsh electronic music duo consisting of brothers Tom and Ed Russell. Prior to the formation of Overmono, Tom and Ed Russell both explored solo careers. Under the name \"Truss,\" Tom produced hard techno; as \"Tessela,\" Ed produced drum and bass and rave-inspired tracks including 2013's \"Hackney Parrot.\"\n\nThe brothers also performed together for a brief time in 2012 under the name \"TR/ER.\" In 2015, the duo began producing music together, with their first EP, Arla, being released on XL Recordings in 2016.\n\nOf this track, the brothers share, \"“High Contrast used to work in this record shop in Cardiff called Catapult Records. We lived on the other side of the city, but Tom would go and buy records from him there all the time. I’m pretty sure it was the first record shop I went to after I bought Tom a voucher for his birthday one year.\n\n\"Tough Guys Can’t Dance was one of those records that was just everywhere, we were all battering it, and 'If We Ever' was the anthem.\n\n\"Ahead of summer this year, we started working on our own version of 'If We Ever' just for fun, but the reaction was so wild, we ended up playing it in every set.\" https://tinyurl.com/psxk285b", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3550108, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550108/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:28:07-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3550106, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550106/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:25:26-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721503.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-06b4c4ec-1704-3454-9fa7-9daccbe3cf4e/mbid-06b4c4ec-1704-3454-9fa7-9daccbe3cf4e-42270414110_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721503.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-06b4c4ec-1704-3454-9fa7-9daccbe3cf4e/mbid-06b4c4ec-1704-3454-9fa7-9daccbe3cf4e-42270414110_thumb250.jpg", "song": "I Don’t Want to Get Over You", "track_id": "c71b19e8-b1b4-3b13-90dc-72bf1e610726", "recording_id": "5f647525-c766-495b-a378-09d0fb4096da", "artist": "The Magnetic Fields", "artist_ids": [ "3ff72a59-f39d-411d-9f93-2d4a86413013" ], "album": "69 Love Songs", "release_id": "06b4c4ec-1704-3454-9fa7-9daccbe3cf4e", "release_group_id": "5dfac852-1aed-35b2-93b6-e8f9c93fe521", "labels": [ "Circus Records" ], "label_ids": [ "715a756f-8c92-400f-94a6-68a135b6ab24" ], "release_date": "2000-05-29", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Released on this day in 1999!\n\n69 Love Songs was originally conceived as a music revue. Stephin Merritt was sitting in a gay piano bar in Manhattan, listening to the pianist's interpretations of Stephen Sondheim songs, when he decided he ought to get into theatre music because he felt he had an aptitude for it.\n\n\"I decided I'd write one hundred love songs as a way of introducing myself to the world. Then I realized how long that would be. So I settled on sixty-nine. I'd have a theatrical revue with four drag queens. And whoever the audience liked best at the end of the night would get paid.\"\n\nHe also found inspiration in Charles Ives' 114 Songs, about which he had read earlier in the day: \"songs of all kinds, and what a monument it was, and I thought, well, I could do something like that.\"\n\nMerritt wrote much of the album at Dick's Bar in New York, saying that he was \"literally there eight hours a day, writing.\" https://tinyurl.com/46r9kkre", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3550105, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550105/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:22:45-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800208.us.archive.org/18/items/mbid-48eb6f71-b190-3562-8958-9cf14b603e32/mbid-48eb6f71-b190-3562-8958-9cf14b603e32-36025293048_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800208.us.archive.org/18/items/mbid-48eb6f71-b190-3562-8958-9cf14b603e32/mbid-48eb6f71-b190-3562-8958-9cf14b603e32-36025293048_thumb250.jpg", "song": "September Gurls", "track_id": "fc3b4f52-635f-3f58-83ed-abd17fd5f323", "recording_id": "a9844e7d-ec3b-45f9-a44d-281b042948f5", "artist": "Big Star", "artist_ids": [ "21d177ba-3d51-461e-9b3f-ad9a80b419dc" ], "album": "#1 Record / Radio City", "release_id": "48eb6f71-b190-3562-8958-9cf14b603e32", "release_group_id": "05dc9b5a-6e9f-3eb8-aed9-16fe34a2d7fd", "labels": [ "Ardent Records", "Stax" ], "label_ids": [ "6a513082-581f-4f29-a972-b6fb33355cf2", "3d60c9cf-c020-49e8-a803-2189c146b880" ], "release_date": "1992-06-10", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This track was penned by vocalist Alex Chilton for Big Star's second album Radio City. Released as a single, it did not chart despite receiving excellent reviews, due mainly to poor marketing.\n\nThe song was rated #178 by Rolling Stone in their 2004 list of the Top 500 songs of all time.\n\nChilton once said of his songwriting, \"I really loved the mid '60s British pop music, all two and a half minutes long, really appealing songs. So I've always aspired to that same format, that's what I like.\"\n\nHe died of a heart attack on March 17, 2010 aged 59. He had experienced shortness of breath and chills while cutting the lawn, but did not seek medical attention, in part because he had no health insurance.\n\nDrummer Jody Stephens told Mojo magazine the \"Butch\" in Chilton's lyric refers to a DC Comics puppy dog. https://tinyurl.com/bdemdy63", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3550104, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550104/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:18:58-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia802904.us.archive.org/14/items/mbid-178e3f2b-8249-4a99-ac0e-a4dd61e299de/mbid-178e3f2b-8249-4a99-ac0e-a4dd61e299de-25718213663_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia902904.us.archive.org/14/items/mbid-178e3f2b-8249-4a99-ac0e-a4dd61e299de/mbid-178e3f2b-8249-4a99-ac0e-a4dd61e299de-25718213663_thumb250.jpg", "song": "September Again", "track_id": "bcaf60ca-1d7a-4082-a7e7-660c3516b8b4", "recording_id": "ae8d7beb-39a7-4237-bda9-8ee80630972f", "artist": "Nation Of Language", "artist_ids": [ "88927646-0c28-4b1b-a69e-cb33c400d650" ], "album": "Introduction, Presence", "release_id": "178e3f2b-8249-4a99-ac0e-a4dd61e299de", "release_group_id": "cb8dc9d9-d4bd-4ec2-88f3-f63a85beaba5", "labels": [ "[no label]" ], "label_ids": [ "157afde4-4bf5-4039-8ad2-5a15acc85176" ], "release_date": "2020-05-22", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "NoL's Ian Devaney reveals, \"'September Again' is about struggling with the feeling that with each passing year you’re only becoming a worse version of yourself—less capable of wonder or grand ambition, less sure of your footing in your own life.\n\n\"I used to just pick up a book like Crime and Punishment, or detailed histories of the Italian campaign in WWII, and those kinds of artistic/academic adventures now feel so much more daunting for some reason.\n\n\"There is a grit that is required to relentlessly pursue these things like I used to, and I can feel that part of me slipping. I tell myself it’s merely because I’ve picked a lane in life and I only have so much time, but there is always the nagging suspicion that I have, in reality, deteriorated in some meaningful way.\n\n\"The song comes out of this war within myself where one part of me is desperately wanting to get back there while another part is only looking to what lays ahead in the life I’ve made for myself.\" https://tinyurl.com/47zrh7r3", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3550103, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550103/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:14:46-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801507.us.archive.org/33/items/mbid-4bf885ac-0775-4aad-9027-246491ff245b/mbid-4bf885ac-0775-4aad-9027-246491ff245b-42326788466_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801507.us.archive.org/33/items/mbid-4bf885ac-0775-4aad-9027-246491ff245b/mbid-4bf885ac-0775-4aad-9027-246491ff245b-42326788466_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Solid", "track_id": "75371051-0d03-419d-bd93-4bca3952bf3d", "recording_id": "af149d69-6b0b-4488-a5aa-1069c7c0d809", "artist": "Cut Copy", "artist_ids": [ "caaba574-dfbc-4681-8e56-19b5150897d2" ], "album": "Moments", "release_id": "4bf885ac-0775-4aad-9027-246491ff245b", "release_group_id": "b5fe115f-fd45-4602-85cc-d415e03434a0", "labels": [ "Cutters Records" ], "label_ids": [ "dd938612-63ab-45fb-a797-831bfadd7c97" ], "release_date": "2025-09-05", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Cut Copy's first bit of new music since 2020's Freeze/Melt!\n\n\"I wrote the song as a reminder to myself that things will be ok, even when life gets turned on its head and it feels like there’s no way forward,” frontman Dan Whitford says of \"Solid.\"\n\n\"I hope in some small way it gives other people a little nudge forward in the direction of their dreams. Hang in there… we’ll be solid.\" https://tinyurl.com/5cc45kbe", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3550102, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550102/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:12:46-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3550101, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550101/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:08:22-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800406.us.archive.org/19/items/mbid-f304e7c4-f66a-4131-8685-f7edeed5e3ea/mbid-f304e7c4-f66a-4131-8685-f7edeed5e3ea-32302277547_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721603.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-f304e7c4-f66a-4131-8685-f7edeed5e3ea/mbid-f304e7c4-f66a-4131-8685-f7edeed5e3ea-32302277547_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Jackie Down The Line", "track_id": "cf4a2311-4dd9-4ce9-b1e5-dd09fb2a08b2", "recording_id": "08410e18-e94b-4ef6-8eaf-a76c720fb5ac", "artist": "Fontaines D.C.", "artist_ids": [ "fd87acc7-e0a0-4a45-bc2a-d2ab5c10be68" ], "album": "Skinty Fia", "release_id": "f304e7c4-f66a-4131-8685-f7edeed5e3ea", "release_group_id": "aa2f908a-5aba-40c1-a198-3d0ad4f43486", "labels": [ "Partisan Records" ], "label_ids": [ "d4ec5bb3-1d64-40fe-9629-ee1e452e251e" ], "release_date": "2022-04-22", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "A \"Jackeen\" is a derogatory term used by people from other parts of Ireland to describe someone from Dublin. The Irish city traditionally had a strong association with Britain, and when Queen Victoria visited Dublin, folks there waved Union Jacks as a welcome to Her Majesty. This led to them being referred to as Jackeens.\n\nFontaines D.C. singer Grian Chatten, along with the rest of the band, left Ireland to pursue his music career in London. Here, he explores the transformation of their Irish culture and identity after moving to a different country.\n\n\"It's this kind of mutation of Irishness or loss of Irishness as it exists, or fails to exist, in a different environment.\"\n\n\"Jackie Down The Line\" came together almost instantaneously when Fontaines were working on a different track but got stuck. They called it a day, and just as Chatten was leaving, he heard bassist Conor Deegan playing the song's rumbling bassline.\n\n\"I had the melody come to my head before I'd got to the door,\" he recalled. \"I turned round, and we had the song basically done in about 20 minutes.\" https://tinyurl.com/552nbbdj", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3550100, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550100/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:05:06-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800900.us.archive.org/35/items/mbid-efc696c1-20c0-4b92-8087-02c4ab0b825e/mbid-efc696c1-20c0-4b92-8087-02c4ab0b825e-17718701971_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia600900.us.archive.org/35/items/mbid-efc696c1-20c0-4b92-8087-02c4ab0b825e/mbid-efc696c1-20c0-4b92-8087-02c4ab0b825e-17718701971_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Masseduction", "track_id": "c182056b-5d1f-4c6a-a320-67edd0d57892", "recording_id": "3e2f0fd5-ebdb-4fd5-aa73-6815928f102d", "artist": "St. Vincent", "artist_ids": [ "5334edc0-5faf-4ca5-b1df-000de3e1f752" ], "album": "MASSEDUCTION", "release_id": "efc696c1-20c0-4b92-8087-02c4ab0b825e", "release_group_id": "53dd291e-372f-4f76-844b-1b5b42df6832", "labels": [ "Loma Vista Recordings", "Concord Records" ], "label_ids": [ "9c3ec056-57dd-4987-bb53-cbea027ef81c", "c5f3bc66-5e1e-47bf-8737-46612304aca6" ], "release_date": "2017-10-13", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Cool connection: St. Vincent contributes her talents to her buddy David Byrne's new album, What is the Reason for It?, released on Friday.\n\nThe album was produced by Clark and Jack Antonoff at Electric Lady Studios in Manhattan, with additional recording at Rough Consumer Studio in Brooklyn, and Compound Fracture in Los Angeles.\n\nIt features contributions from Doveman on piano, Kamasi Washington on saxophone, Jenny Lewis on guest vocals, and beat production from Sounwave, as well as pedal steel by Greg Leisz and Rich Hinman, and additional guitar and vocals from her uncle and aunt Tuck & Patti, respectively.\n\nModel and actress Cara Delevingne, whom Clark had dated before they split in 2016, provided back-up vocals. https://tinyurl.com/hz93emv8", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3550099, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3550099/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-07T16:02:00-07:00", "show": 64501, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64501/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800709.us.archive.org/7/items/mbid-16c0929d-3375-48fc-82a3-b081eb899bf9/mbid-16c0929d-3375-48fc-82a3-b081eb899bf9-42204221999_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia600709.us.archive.org/7/items/mbid-16c0929d-3375-48fc-82a3-b081eb899bf9/mbid-16c0929d-3375-48fc-82a3-b081eb899bf9-42204221999_thumb250.jpg", "song": "What Is the Reason for It?", "track_id": "5b2c3ea3-50f8-4a8d-8b0e-10b23e708711", "recording_id": "c9fe3302-8a9a-49f7-b9f7-18bf58c0447e", "artist": "David Byrne", "artist_ids": [ "d4659efb-b8eb-4f03-95e9-f69ce35967a9" ], "album": "Who Is The Sky?", "release_id": "16c0929d-3375-48fc-82a3-b081eb899bf9", "release_group_id": "153dc33e-59bc-4990-9c9d-d4c3861f541e", "labels": [ "Matador" ], "label_ids": [ "229bd4be-8cd7-442c-85b0-5007ea353abc" ], "release_date": "2025-09-05", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "David Byrne's new single features vocals from Paramore’s Hayley Williams. \n\n\"When we were finishing up the record, the producer Kid Harpoon and I were wondering, 'Oh, maybe this song, it’s a love song, or at least it’s asking what is love, what it’s about? Why do we do this? Why do other people do it? Do we know anything about it? (…)\n\n\"And I knew that [Williams] was in town, so I just texted her and said, 'Do you want to come by and sing on this?' And she said yes. And she killed it.\"\n\nByrne and Williams have also collaborated on \"Open The Door,\" a song from the new animated film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The Twits. https://tinyurl.com/2ehr2c8j", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
