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GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=2577040&ordering=airdate
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They are best known for their deliberately eccentric cover version of Barrett Strong's \"Money\" featuring Deborah Evans-Stickland on lead vocals, which reached the UK and US record charts in 1979. The group disbanded in 1984. Formed and led by record producer David Cunningham, the group was a loose collective of avant-garde and free improvising musicians, such as David Toop and Steve Beresford as instrumentalists, with Deborah Evans-Stickland, Patti Palladin and Vivien Goldman as main vocalists. https://bit.ly/2NzDkIS", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 350487, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/350487/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-05T14:55:20-07:00", "show": 5836, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5836/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": null, "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 350488, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/350488/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-05T14:57:13-07:00", "show": 5836, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5836/?format=api", "image_uri": "http://coverartarchive.org/release/445c3276-3087-440e-99e5-c451ead333cd/22747461570-250.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Old Engine Oil", "track_id": "aec303cb-9f6e-41bf-866c-2acba7037d98", "recording_id": null, "artist": "The Budos Band", "artist_ids": [ "b6fa9b9b-41cf-45a6-adc0-0a4c9a8c0d3c" ], "album": "V", "release_id": "445c3276-3087-440e-99e5-c451ead333cd", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Daptone Records" ], "label_ids": [ "6507ff0e-035a-4a24-9bbe-e07b1e2224d8" ], "release_date": "2019-04-12", "rotation_status": "R/N", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "BB's Jared Tankel on this track: \"'Old Engine Oil' is, to me, it's kind of a clear favorite and winner from the album. We put it first, so that says something and we're leading off our sets with it now. I think it just kind of sets the mood right for us. It's got the guitar-driven thrust to it. But it's a little bit different than some of 'Burnt Offerings' guitar licks. It's a little dirtier almost. But the horns are just super anthemic and strong, which I think is like reminiscent of [The Budos Band II] or even The Budos Band I.\" https://bit.ly/2ZOZYyW", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 350489, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/350489/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-05T15:00:17-07:00", "show": 5836, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5836/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "History Repeats", "track_id": "d2a73f6c-4de0-44d2-b38d-dfbcd80d9806", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Brittany Howard", "artist_ids": [ "03eda2c4-a2b3-4a4e-9527-6791b0ed9d2d" ], "album": "Jaime", "release_id": "e392e9bb-4b8c-4d94-ad1d-1673f82ce46a", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "ATO Records" ], "label_ids": [ "b63922e9-da3c-4e41-9eda-ae1b11d33a1a" ], "release_date": "2019-09-20", "rotation_status": "Medium", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Alabama Shakes frontwoman Brittany Howard will issue her debut solo album, Jaime, via ATO Records on September 20. Howard unveiled the LP’s lead single, “History Repeats” and confirmed a fall tour of North America in support of the record.\n\nBrittany gave Jaime the same name of her sister, who passed away when both were teenagers. “The title is in memoriam, and she definitely did shape me as a human being,” said Brittany Howard. “But, the record is not about her. It’s about me. I’m pretty candid about myself and who I am and what I believe. Which is why I needed to do it on my own.” https://bit.ly/2L4Ogfw", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 350490, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/350490/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-05T15:03:11-07:00", "show": 5836, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5836/?format=api", "image_uri": "http://coverartarchive.org/release/929e0437-c744-4f9a-b956-1f9e06deb906/23284761574-250.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Jungle Love", "track_id": "480d14e3-0fa5-4353-ad4a-b5b9dba119d3", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Prince", "artist_ids": [ "070d193a-845c-479f-980e-bef15710653e" ], "album": "Originals", "release_id": "929e0437-c744-4f9a-b956-1f9e06deb906", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2019-06-07", "rotation_status": "Medium", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Jungle Love\" was initially written by Jesse Johnson, with later contributions by Morris Day. Prince, under the pseudonym Jamie Starr, wrote the lyrics and came up with the melody. It was co-produced by Morris Day and Prince using the name The Starr Company.\n\nJesse Johnson demoed the song, likely in 1982 on a Tascam 8-track recorder in his Cedar Square West Apartment, playing guitar, bass guitar and keyboard (Oberheim OB-SX), over a Roland 808 Drum Machine beat. He presented it to Prince who then took it to flesh it out with Johnson and Morris Day. Jesse Johnson was initially included in the credits when submitted for copyright in May 1984, but after he left the band, his name was removed from the credits upon release. https://bit.ly/2NAShKI", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 350491, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/350491/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-05T15:06:00-07:00", "show": 5836, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5836/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "A Little Noise", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "CHERRIE LAUREL", "artist_ids": [], "album": "A Furnace, A Fire", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Self-Released" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2019-12-16", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "You may know Brittney Rand as half of the Vancouver duo Mu, along with Francesca Belcourt. We haven’t heard much from Mu lately, but the act made a splash a couple of years ago with its gauzy electro-dream sound... “songs of cotton-candy-cloud ethereality, with heaven-sent vocal harmonies and pillowy synths.\" The music Rand is making now as Cherrie Laurel, as heard on her new six-song EP A Furnace, a Fire, isn’t exactly worlds away from that aesthetic. It is, if anything, a more refined version of Mu’s ethereal synth music. It’s more immediate-sounding, darker, and more brooding. https://bit.ly/2L0uW32", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 350492, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/350492/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-05T15:09:36-07:00", "show": 5836, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5836/?format=api", "image_uri": "http://coverartarchive.org/release/1f71263f-1270-41d2-be14-787710869a9f/14006622591-250.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Same Old Blues", "track_id": "a7f81520-c86b-4db7-84c5-62314206c59f", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Phantogram", "artist_ids": [ "dfe78af2-779e-4137-826a-3073a16e3278" ], "album": "Three", "release_id": "1f71263f-1270-41d2-be14-787710869a9f", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Republic Records" ], "label_ids": [ "e0ecd909-0477-485f-80dc-3c27ea4837ca" ], "release_date": "2016-10-07", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Josh Carter on the origins of this song: \"We were digging around through some samples, and [producer] Ricky Reed had this old gospel record, so we chopped up the sample and wrote around it. I was going through my notebooks, and I had this one line, 'And this is nothing new. It’s just the same old blues.' Some kind of depressing drivel, and we turned it into a song.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 350493, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/350493/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-05T15:13:02-07:00", "show": 5836, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5836/?format=api", "image_uri": "http://coverartarchive.org/release/ef780572-2aac-4767-b13a-c0f466aa2fc0/22829647227-250.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Soulmate", "track_id": "250d0123-460d-4b85-baf6-fdc01126bde4", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Lizzo", "artist_ids": [ "8fb5370b-9568-4b61-9da5-2aa12c9928db" ], "album": "Cuz I Love You", "release_id": "ef780572-2aac-4767-b13a-c0f466aa2fc0", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2019-04-19", "rotation_status": "R/N", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "“I wrote ‘Soulmate’ when I was in the studio and I was so depressed. I needed to write a song about who I wanted be so a year later when I’m rehearsing for Coachella I could say those words knowing, ‘That was the old me.’... These songs are for my big Black girls. Everyone can enjoy them, but I want to help us. This music is medicine and I’m trying to get it to my sisters. It’s so exciting to me to finally be at a level where I have exposure to my Black sisters, my big sisters, my Black trans sisters. It’s not about being poppin’. It’s not about being famous or fashion. It’s about being better and making sure that this world can hear us and respect us.” https://bit.ly/2W7bjvw", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 350494, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/350494/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-05T15:16:04-07:00", "show": 5836, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5836/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": null, "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 350495, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/350495/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-05T15:19:00-07:00", "show": 5836, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5836/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Identity Crisis", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Jarina De Marco", "artist_ids": [ "f655f617-e185-4de9-b1c6-83a682b3baa4" ], "album": "Identity Crisis", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Mad Decent" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2019-06-28", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "De Marco's childhood and family inform her genre-defying sound and politics. She was born in the Dominican Republic and spent her early years traveling in remote parts of the Amazonian rainforest and Dominican countryside, cataloguing indigenous sounds and rhythms with her parents, both renowned musicologists and musicians. As part of the resistance against the brutal dictatorship of Joaquín Balaguer, her parents performed a protest song in front of a large public gathering and had to immediately flee the country and were forced into exile where they relocated to Montreal until it was safe to return home.\n\nAs an outspoken advocate of women's rights and human equality, Jarina's music is a unique blend of global consciousness and global rhythms. She simultaneously supports the message of resistance, while creating a colorful sound entirely her own. https://bit.ly/2Nzr5MA", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 350496, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/350496/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-05T15:22:35-07:00", "show": 5836, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5836/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Soy yo", "track_id": "a85677ad-b8a5-4856-a94e-dc9b0ac361c9", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Bomba Estéreo", "artist_ids": [ "aea8576d-7ad5-4430-bf2e-63725d80f05c" ], "album": "Amanecer", "release_id": "70cbc020-456e-41c9-815b-f4c83c011470", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Sony Music | Latin" ], "label_ids": [ "99962abe-c219-4031-9c6c-c61fc3885944" ], "release_date": "2015-06-02", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Bomba Estéreo was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 2005 as a pilot project led by the musician and audio-visual artist Simon Mejia with singer Li Saumet. Particularly noteworthy is the band’s embrace of champeta, a polyrhythmic style of dance music native to the descendants of African slaves on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. While the light-skinned Spanish-descended elites of Bogotá and Medellín have historically looked down on Afro-Colombian music, Bomba Estéreo has helped spark a renaissance of interest in the genre.\n\nLest the band be accused of hipster fetishization, it incorporates the genre’s inheritors, too. Guitarist Julián Salazar now has a side project called Mitú, with Franklin Tejedor, a drummer from San Basilio de Palenque, a small town known as the cradle of Colombia’s Afro-Caribbean culture. The village was the first maroon (runaway slave) community in the Americas to be recognized by a colonial power. https://bit.ly/2YGjixK", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 350497, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/350497/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-05T15:25:14-07:00", "show": 5836, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5836/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Nothing Else", "track_id": "7416d7d9-7066-4aca-b276-4594ad24e558", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Chong the Nomad featuring Flint Eastwood", "artist_ids": [ "ae797d56-315e-4760-9a8e-65556ac648dd" ], "album": "Nothing Else", "release_id": "1a4a27a8-4014-4c20-acea-00d4ef91e693", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "[no label]" ], "label_ids": [ "157afde4-4bf5-4039-8ad2-5a15acc85176" ], "release_date": "2019-05-31", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"I grew up loving the animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender, and the music from that series actually inspired me to write music. There was a very minor character, who was this sort of musician, and his name was Chong. He was nomadic; a hippy. I used Chong the Nomad as a form name for a while, and then I just rolled with it. I kinda like how gender-neutral it is.\" https://bit.ly/2JfM6aI", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 350498, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/350498/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-05T15:28:00-07:00", "show": 5836, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5836/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Lifestyle", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Dizzy Fae", "artist_ids": [ "97c170b8-a779-49ed-9da0-75b90e1a4bdc" ], "album": "No GMO Mixtape", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Dizzy Fae" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2019-06-28", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"If I can be anything, it’s that person that someone can look at and be like, ‘I feel you’. How I feel about being queer and brown, is probably how a lot of the world is feeling. The world is feeling that. There’s so many people out there that are just like me and biracial, and queer. What I can do is provide that understanding, that connection, and that’s not what I’m striving to do, but it’s definitely something I’m trying to be a part of. That’s something I’m thinking about a lot lately, and figuring out how to explain that. Articulation is easiest when I’m writing. So, I’m really trying to articulate things that mean the most and one of the most important things to me is being queer and brown.\" https://bit.ly/2XuAjcC", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 350499, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/350499/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-05T15:31:18-07:00", "show": 5836, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5836/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": null, "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 350500, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/350500/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-05T15:33:40-07:00", "show": 5836, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5836/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Flood Hands", "track_id": "582955fb-9f1d-456c-a269-858243f7cf92", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Vagabon", "artist_ids": [ "4b50ec9e-ea83-4824-8dae-2e520d45e6f9" ], "album": "All the Women in Me", "release_id": "c6441df3-f4d8-44f4-b91c-b50475ba3be2", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Nonesuch" ], "label_ids": [ "c69cac59-f512-4edc-ab2c-d04c22dbce20" ], "release_date": "2019-09-27", "rotation_status": "Medium", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Playing the Moore on December 11th, opening for Angel Olsen. <br/><br/>Of this song, Vagabon shares, \"'Flood Hands' is a track I originally produced and arranged for a well-known pop-duo to have on their album. Knowing I was writing this song for musicians I admire, allowed me this relief from my writer’s block. I used this assignment as a chance to flex my production muscles and write something I wouldn't have written as a 'Vagabon' song a couple years ago. The result felt like a triumph for me in my progression as an artist and I just couldn't stand to part with the song by the time I was finished.\" https://bit.ly/2xvoDMd", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 350501, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/350501/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-05T15:37:15-07:00", "show": 5836, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5836/?format=api", "image_uri": "http://coverartarchive.org/release/513ef1c0-6e3a-4aa8-bc3f-4bbe7da09c17/2016386989-250.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Tessellate", "track_id": "4fbefb42-f306-3cfb-aa4b-616afb14f14e", "recording_id": null, "artist": "alt-J", "artist_ids": [ "fc7bbf00-fbaa-4736-986b-b3ac0266ca9b" ], "album": "An Awesome Wave", "release_id": "513ef1c0-6e3a-4aa8-bc3f-4bbe7da09c17", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Infectious Records" ], "label_ids": [ "08a5852e-6847-4a14-9de7-595169ba6771" ], "release_date": "2012-05-28", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The music video to accompany \"Tessellate\" was first released on YouTube on July 9, 2012; it was directed by Ben Newbury and is an artistic reworking of the famous painting The School of Athens by Raphael, using 21st century characters in a room similar to the painting's background (Panthéon, in Paris). To reinforce the connection, one of the characters at the very beginning of the clip is wearing a printed T-shirt of the painting. https://bit.ly/2JvD1d1 | www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg6BwvDcANg", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 350502, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/350502/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-07-05T15:40:00-07:00", "show": 5836, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5836/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "2Wicky (album version)", "track_id": "6127bcd3-6113-3afb-be3e-7ef37852a070", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Hooverphonic", "artist_ids": [ "62dc94cc-f611-4345-87cb-b914796a4a45" ], "album": "2Wicky", "release_id": "e2e82907-a038-3894-b4c6-602cea15d316", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Columbia" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1996-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The original members of the group were vocalist Esther Lybeert, keyboardist Frank Duchêne, bassist Alex Callier, and guitarist Raymond Geerts. Lybeert recorded several demos with the group; however, she backed out of the band on the day they were to sign their contract with Sony Music. The band then brought in Liesje Sadonius to record the album. Sadonius left Hooverphonic on amicable terms shortly after the release of A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular. Kyoko Baertsoen, singer for fellow Belgian trip hop band Lunascape, filled in for Sadonius for three months of a European tour in 1997 before Geike Arnaert was made the permanent singer later that year.\n\nThe band achieved international recognition through the inclusion of the Stereophonic track \"2Wicky\" on the soundtrack to Bernardo Bertolucci's 1996 film Stealing Beauty. \"2Wicky\" also appeared on the soundtracks of I Know What You Did Last Summer and Heights. 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