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Sit back and get lost, and found, in Echo45 Sound System.\"\n\nhttps://www.kexp.org/read/2025/11/17/new-music-reviews-1117/\n\nhttps://nightmaresonwax.bandcamp.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3605061, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3605061/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-16T10:44:21-08:00", "show": 65665, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65665/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "White Rabbit", "track_id": "18359496-403e-372f-8713-0508d13b915b", "recording_id": "5f231710-2468-4a9e-90a0-9e8cd38b60b0", "artist": "Jefferson Airplane", "artist_ids": [ "39c2a93d-9afa-4a22-9bba-c087ab056e1c" ], "album": "Surrealistic Pillow", "release_id": "c9795844-0c1b-48a9-8322-fa36874af6cb", "release_group_id": "e6440cd2-5e8e-367d-bc49-cc042b5ef524", "labels": [ "RCA Victor" ], "label_ids": [ "b3f4e6a5-ece0-43be-a530-68ad0d49fee8" ], "release_date": "1967-02-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Set to a bolero tempo,\" this 1967 Jefferson Airplane song \"used imagery from Alice in Wonderland to discuss the impact of psychedelic drugs.\" \n\nYou can read more about the San Francisco psych band here: https://tinyurl.com/39r5scn7", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3605060, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3605060/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-16T10:40:12-08:00", "show": 65665, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65665/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Over The Marionette", "track_id": "505d5688-5635-49c0-b421-6e1957e817e0", "recording_id": "bfd5c3cb-6782-48a0-882c-7e3030a41116", "artist": "Jen Ayers", "artist_ids": [ "072aa74c-dc50-483d-88b4-dd13cae6de7d" ], "album": "SHe Said", "release_id": "3258d7a1-ea65-4811-b42a-24b1c3841fad", "release_group_id": "03a18388-a3b2-4c98-a1c8-feb9bbaf1465", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2022-09-09", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "You can listen back to the Live on KEXP session with SHe Said via our two-week streaming archive! 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The album will be out in full on February 27th on Dead Oceans. \n\nhttps://mitski.bandcamp.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3605056, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3605056/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-16T10:19:16-08:00", "show": 65665, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65665/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601401.us.archive.org/3/items/mbid-92c11765-c494-3822-b3ef-8c72076005e0/mbid-92c11765-c494-3822-b3ef-8c72076005e0-22286516807_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801401.us.archive.org/3/items/mbid-92c11765-c494-3822-b3ef-8c72076005e0/mbid-92c11765-c494-3822-b3ef-8c72076005e0-22286516807_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Cowgirl in the Sand", "track_id": "42bf4185-6da7-37d9-adce-ae05d14870d2", "recording_id": "c3908cd5-7333-42a8-b9a6-868f5b4c8fb5", "artist": "Neil Young with Crazy Horse", "artist_ids": [ "75167b8b-44e4-407b-9d35-effe87b223cf", "71f754c0-f2d1-4a54-8d70-cc0ee409ca00" ], "album": "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere", "release_id": "92c11765-c494-3822-b3ef-8c72076005e0", "release_group_id": "f61603ab-ef6b-386b-a5e0-aaefc00543f1", "labels": [ "Reprise Records" ], "label_ids": [ "af6d6f49-2b4d-40fe-86d4-241906772b59" ], "release_date": "2009-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Accompanied by his backing band, Crazy Horse, Young released Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere as his sophomore album in 1969. \n\nHere's Neil performing \"Cowgirl in the Sand\" at the 2000 Farm Aid concert in Bristow, Virginia: https://youtu.be/cUpL2qamAZE", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3605055, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3605055/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-16T10:16:31-08:00", "show": 65665, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65665/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3605054, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3605054/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-16T10:13:08-08:00", "show": 65665, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65665/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Secret Love (Concealed in a Drawing of a Boy)", "track_id": "88285595-fbca-4f11-a4ae-8909d149d963", "recording_id": "fb9acbf5-1ae3-4e70-a9fe-8453f412763d", "artist": "Dry Cleaning", "artist_ids": [ "8a74e5ea-6f68-49e1-951c-80d2291f7c3f" ], "album": "Secret Love", "release_id": "f6fcbfaa-3417-4524-8703-96981ae0b7c4", "release_group_id": "2180190f-2ef6-4b9e-8f90-ef8cc3179ecd", "labels": [ "4AD" ], "label_ids": [ "a539bb1e-f2e1-4b45-9db8-8053841e7503" ], "release_date": "2026-01-09", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Dry Cleaning has west coast shows coming up this spring:\n\n-Seattle on May 18th at the Showbox \n\n-SF on May 20th at August Hall\n\nReleased earlier this month, \"The third studio album from South London’s Dry Cleaning finds the post-punk quartet in prime form. Produced by Cate Le Bon, Secret Love features clever, deadpan lyricism, striking guitar lines, and meticulous drum work with flourishes of saxophone and piano. With an ideal balance of repetition and unexpected twists and turns, this delightfully nuanced collection is equal parts social commentary and playful art rock, offering listeners a quintessential Dry Cleaning album.\" \n\nhttps://kexp.org/read/2026/1/12/new-music-reviews-112/\n\nhttps://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3605053, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3605053/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-16T10:07:31-08:00", "show": 65665, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65665/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth", "track_id": "4c0094ea-9741-3686-9583-fc363b2fc996", "recording_id": "ffc9d3fd-8153-4ccf-b6e9-06d9f5df72b2", "artist": "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah", "artist_ids": [ "4b2d6a23-034d-4a29-9bb9-d2462796da4e" ], "album": "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah", "release_id": "89cc126a-c774-44ed-b9c0-45fce4787764", "release_group_id": "f31f11ef-71f6-3d32-8871-19be2dcbec22", "labels": [ "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah" ], "label_ids": [ "57461002-cd8e-4bce-b675-ab6fa8392fbb" ], "release_date": "2005-10-11", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is the debut self-titled album, which was self-released in 2005 then re-released the next year on Wichita Recordings. \n\nClap Your Hands Say Yeah have played Live on KEXP a couple of times! Here's video from their 2015 session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxyRnXsi8DM", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3605052, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3605052/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-16T10:03:20-08:00", "show": 65665, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65665/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Insistor", "track_id": "d8c9278c-5f44-3a79-a98d-ca08c363f9d9", "recording_id": "f9d599f3-2215-4bb6-a8dc-d8f286a05f8c", "artist": "Tapes 'n Tapes", "artist_ids": [ "a83ec79e-bcbf-4872-92e5-8c7ca1bb8ff2" ], "album": "The Loon", "release_id": "510feb55-d124-4e57-a8d0-433b07bf86be", "release_group_id": "2741ae0b-016e-3f56-af20-e936cfa19324", "labels": [ "Ibid Records" ], "label_ids": [ "1829d88d-0e96-4b73-9bc5-c4c2073104b7" ], "release_date": "2005-10-28", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Kneeling before Pavement, Wire, Beach Boys, and Pixies at rock's canonical altar, this scrappy Minneapolis four-piece proudly wear their influences on-sleeve, shunning hipster malaise and manic experimentation for hook after addictively anthemic hook.\"\n\nRead more from this review of the band's debut album, The Loon: https://tinyurl.com/4bdnrucj\n\nWatch Tapes 'n Tapes perform Live on KEXP from SXSW in 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLZ5aGaemYw\n\nhttps://tapesntapes.bandcamp.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3605051, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3605051/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-16T09:59:12-08:00", "show": 65664, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65664/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Ice Cold Ice", "track_id": "462b4464-4cc7-37be-89a7-7cc3eab9fcb5", "recording_id": "82acfe02-2b21-4f1f-9215-2eeeea6cd7cf", "artist": "Hüsker Dü", "artist_ids": [ "5c4c90a4-539f-4101-83cf-301bc6a94e06" ], "album": "Warehouse: Songs and Stories", "release_id": "3e99d83b-1937-43af-be59-88e4253d5d67", "release_group_id": "c3375e84-7473-3623-8545-889f32cc6f2c", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. 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