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However, only seven of those songs are included on this release. http://tinyurl.com/y7c9fc8p", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3609047, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3609047/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-25T16:47:54-08:00", "show": 65753, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65753/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia802902.us.archive.org/31/items/mbid-0d390fea-3c2d-487d-a40c-19e166148203/mbid-0d390fea-3c2d-487d-a40c-19e166148203-16165823415_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia802902.us.archive.org/31/items/mbid-0d390fea-3c2d-487d-a40c-19e166148203/mbid-0d390fea-3c2d-487d-a40c-19e166148203-16165823415_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Rise Above", "track_id": "6e4c1104-69c0-313d-a455-14ef5efe6dd1", "recording_id": "aff08032-4540-45c4-b047-1d7c4d8edeaf", "artist": "Black Flag", "artist_ids": [ "9941a936-196a-4a62-ae53-a69cbc33f20e" ], "album": "Left of the Dial: Dispatches From the 80s Underground", "release_id": "0d390fea-3c2d-487d-a40c-19e166148203", "release_group_id": "912cbf3f-77f5-3290-b8ce-d2611feb7f20", "labels": [ "Rhino" ], "label_ids": [ "c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4" ], "release_date": "2004-10-12", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"This is not the time to be dismayed, this is punk rock time. This is what Joe Strummer trained you for.\" -Henry Rollins \n\nThird album from the LA band, first with Henry Rollins as lead singer. Their record label had a distribution deal with MCA Records who refused to distribute the album after the label's president, Al Bergamo, objected to its lyrical content. \n\nThe band personally visited the pressing plant and applied a sticker over the MCA logo with Bergamo’s quote, \"As a parent ... 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Guitarist/vocalist Bob Mould was studying at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, and working at a record store, which is where he met drummer/vocalist Grant Hart and bassist Greg Norton. The three musicians had diverse tastes, but all shared a love for hardcore punk rock. 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Check it out: https://youtu.be/z2NUJAItMHg", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3609042, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3609042/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-25T16:38:36-08:00", "show": 65753, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65753/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3609040, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3609040/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-25T16:35:47-08:00", "show": 65753, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65753/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710302.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e3f7a3db-a97e-4e03-94e7-944d56f1d010/mbid-e3f7a3db-a97e-4e03-94e7-944d56f1d010-19621569681_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710302.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e3f7a3db-a97e-4e03-94e7-944d56f1d010/mbid-e3f7a3db-a97e-4e03-94e7-944d56f1d010-19621569681_thumb250.jpg", "song": "America", "track_id": "c671e775-9442-4200-8637-7d038c14177b", "recording_id": "ac99082c-c4dd-46d4-8cd8-00155e88e26e", "artist": "Prince & The Revolution", "artist_ids": [ "4c8ead39-b9df-4c56-a27c-51bc049cfd48", "070d193a-845c-479f-980e-bef15710653e" ], "album": "Around the World in a Day", "release_id": "e3f7a3db-a97e-4e03-94e7-944d56f1d010", "release_group_id": "10b61b06-5cd5-39ef-976e-aba8bc4fb51d", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. Records", "Rhino" ], "label_ids": [ "c595c289-47ce-4fba-b999-b87503e8cb71", "c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4" ], "release_date": "1985-04-16", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "In Matt Thorne’s book \"Prince: The Man and His Music,\" Wendy Melvoin of The Revolution shared how this song started out as a five hour jam session. \"Prince came in and did that 'America' solo and started singing and turned it into the song we know. To this day, we can put that song on and feel that band’s energy and feel what we were like at our best together – a fucking freight train.\" https://tinyurl.com/2h38y2bd", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3609037, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3609037/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-25T16:29:56-08:00", "show": 65753, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65753/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710607.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-ac777701-3e93-4892-be73-e44365b65b1e/mbid-ac777701-3e93-4892-be73-e44365b65b1e-3722247799_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia903205.us.archive.org/22/items/mbid-ac777701-3e93-4892-be73-e44365b65b1e/mbid-ac777701-3e93-4892-be73-e44365b65b1e-3722247799_thumb250.jpg", "song": "When Doves Cry", "track_id": "e8722a6e-c8dd-33e8-8c1c-8d090f232f44", "recording_id": "180bced7-a6a3-472e-bcf2-51ae29b7959e", "artist": "Prince and The Revolution", "artist_ids": [ "4c8ead39-b9df-4c56-a27c-51bc049cfd48", "070d193a-845c-479f-980e-bef15710653e" ], "album": "Purple Rain", "release_id": "ac777701-3e93-4892-be73-e44365b65b1e", "release_group_id": "b93a7c47-a6d4-33f2-9034-53fdd991f4ba", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. 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(Lyrically, however, Prince biographer Per Nilsen has said that the song was inspired by Susan Moonsie, a member of Vanity 6, and Prince’s relationship with her.)\n\nWhatever its origins, one thing’s for certain: it was the last tune to be written and composed for the Purple Rain soundtrack.\n\nFor a song that was ostensibly handed over to Magnoli the very next day after he initially asked Prince to write something, “When Doves Cry” made more waves than a tsunami: in addition to hitting #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, it also topped the magazine’s R&B Singles and Dance/Disco Singles charts. https://tinyurl.com/y9tcpf22", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3609035, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3609035/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-25T16:25:44-08:00", "show": 65753, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65753/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Baltimore", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Prince", "artist_ids": [ "070d193a-845c-479f-980e-bef15710653e" ], "album": null, "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": null, "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Prince released the protest song \"Baltimore\" in April 2015 to honor Freddie Gray, who died in police custody, and to address the resulting city riots. Recorded at Paisley Park, the track featured Eryn Allen Kane and was followed by a May 2015 \"Rally 4 Peace\" concert at Royal Farms Arena. \n\nDescribed as a \"Sly\" protest song (in the style of Sly and the Family Stone), the track features a mixture of hopeful licks, gospel-choir vocals, and a rock'n'roll bassline.\n\nOn May 10, 2015, Prince played a 2.5-hour, surprise show at Baltimore’s Royal Farms Arena, which served as a, show that was less about a benefit concert for Baltimore and more about healing and celebration. The concert featured guests like Miguel and Doug E. 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The Chicks wrote the song in response to the backlash they experienced in 2003 after criticizing President George W. 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I wore sunglasses and shit and I fell on my knees at the end of it. I already had the lesbian haircut that he has, so it wasn’t much of a stretch… So Daniel Lanois [who co-produced Joshua Tree, as well as Wrecking Ball] was on my mind a lot.\"\n\nOn the creation of this track, Carlile reveals, \"I was reading a conversation on the First Amendment instead of a guitar solo. I love Andrew Watt so much. Every time we talk on the phone, he’s like, 'I fucking love 'Church & State,' because I love when you read the Declaration of Independence. 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Prince recruited Johnson (real name Garry George Johnson), who was self-taught on drums and guitar, in 1981 for The Time, an act born out of the city’s Flyte Tyme. They’d known each other since their high school years in Minneapolis.\n\n\"The drums are physical and violent for me while the guitar is spiritual and emotional,\" Johnson said in a 2018 interview with Australian Musician. He also quipped to the publication, \"When you live here in the cold, you stay in [in] the winter time and you learn how to play.\"\n\nAs a member of The Time — and later, Prince’s The Family — Johnson helped establish the funk-rock, new wave and synth-pop hybrid that became known as the Minneapolis Sound. He appeared as a fictionalized version of himself in 1984’s Academy Award-winning Purple Rain and as himself in 1990’s Graffiti Bridge. Johnson co-founded the non-profit Minneapolis Sound Museum in 2021, with the goal of preserving the history, culture and legacy of the Minneapolis Sound. In 2022, he was awarded a Soul Train Lifetime Achievement Award with The Time. https://tinyurl.com/3rac4mdv", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3609027, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3609027/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-25T15:59:01-08:00", "show": 65753, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65753/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Fight The Power", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "The Isley Brothers", "artist_ids": [], "album": null, "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": null, "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The song was sparked in a 1975 recording session in which guitarist Ernie Isley, inspired by the news, wrote two songs: \"Fight the Power\" and an anti-poverty ballad titled \"Harvest for the World.\" The group ended up recording both songs on the same day and eventually picked \"Fight the Power\" as the song to release first. \"Harvest\" would be featured on the album of the same name and would be released as the first single off that album.\n\n\"Fight the Power\" was written almost fully by Ernie Isley with additional instrumental background composition by the band's keyboardist Chris Jasper. After playing the track on his guitar to his older brother Ronnie, he recorded a multi-track lead vocal, arranged by Jasper and Ernie. Ernie later said he was taken aback that Ron had uttered \"bullshit\". When asked why he used the word, Ron simply replied, \"because it needed to be said\" and \"it's what people want to hear.\"\n\nThe song reflected a negative opinion of authority figures, a feeling shared by all the band members; this can explain Ron Isley's intensified vocalizing. 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Low's Mimi Parker was only 55 when she passed in 2022, but had done so much in her life as a mother, as a musician, and as a human. She was married to Alan Sparhawk, her bandmate.\n\nThe duo met in grade school in Minnesota and went on to make 13 albums together from 1994 to 2021. Listen to Kevin Cole, Janice Headley, and Rachel Stevens talk about Parker's legacy: https://tinyurl.com/4vwxwa66", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
