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GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=2720&ordering=-airdate
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Dan the Automator and Prince Paul talk about their 1999 debut in this interview, entitled \"How A Joke Created One Of Hip-Hop’s Coolest Collabs\": - https://tinyurl.com/3979ax79", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604337, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604337/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T16:47:10-08:00", "show": 65650, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65650/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801409.us.archive.org/23/items/mbid-0f0f1e17-9e51-4398-8404-2d4c96f9d0e0/mbid-0f0f1e17-9e51-4398-8404-2d4c96f9d0e0-8684119835_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801409.us.archive.org/23/items/mbid-0f0f1e17-9e51-4398-8404-2d4c96f9d0e0/mbid-0f0f1e17-9e51-4398-8404-2d4c96f9d0e0-8684119835_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Nice Weather for Ducks", "track_id": "4f173108-6c6b-3284-9323-93af8ad93a93", "recording_id": "5d141936-25a1-4e90-9217-4405777649eb", "artist": "Lemon Jelly", "artist_ids": [ "4cbbf0d6-6c78-4e3d-ab25-91b13603cf7c" ], "album": "Lost Horizons", "release_id": "0f0f1e17-9e51-4398-8404-2d4c96f9d0e0", "release_group_id": "9bc9a542-ef68-38ee-a0a5-6189a422ccb7", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2002-10-08", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For Rain!\n\n\"Hello! I'm working late tonight installing an organ in Kansas City. It's my birthday and I'd love to hear your favorite \"rain\" themed song! Thank you for everything you do!\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604336, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604336/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T16:42:49-08:00", "show": 65650, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65650/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia600203.us.archive.org/16/items/mbid-3d08ec09-d852-43ce-ab7d-2a14d44d6ad9/mbid-3d08ec09-d852-43ce-ab7d-2a14d44d6ad9-4528115695_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia600203.us.archive.org/16/items/mbid-3d08ec09-d852-43ce-ab7d-2a14d44d6ad9/mbid-3d08ec09-d852-43ce-ab7d-2a14d44d6ad9-4528115695_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Lucidity", "track_id": "ec766c6b-c352-3328-aa43-091cf02ebf9e", "recording_id": "4ca701d7-a55a-4b24-933a-303e8d4e01d5", "artist": "Tame Impala", "artist_ids": [ "63aa26c3-d59b-4da4-84ac-716b54f1ef4d" ], "album": "Innerspeaker", "release_id": "3d08ec09-d852-43ce-ab7d-2a14d44d6ad9", "release_group_id": "0cfdeff7-4aa7-4df4-918d-88c9421cc512", "labels": [ "Modular Recordings" ], "label_ids": [ "1a69fd71-e415-4439-b830-49ab0752d9f7" ], "release_date": "2010-05-25", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For Jamie, dedicated to Meatball!\n\n\"I would love to hear some Tame Impala, DJ's choice, and dedicate it to my Meatball. We always listen to your show and donate together 😸 Thank you all for all that you all do, truly.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604335, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604335/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T16:40:29-08:00", "show": 65650, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65650/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801201.us.archive.org/10/items/mbid-b5885b2d-afae-47b1-945e-6e1869590974/mbid-b5885b2d-afae-47b1-945e-6e1869590974-2703435976_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601201.us.archive.org/10/items/mbid-b5885b2d-afae-47b1-945e-6e1869590974/mbid-b5885b2d-afae-47b1-945e-6e1869590974-2703435976_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Paperback Writer", "track_id": "65afad3f-ea36-35d8-b6da-2082795b4d48", "recording_id": "f28b465d-7adb-479d-a363-0c49368e59d3", "artist": "The Beatles", "artist_ids": [ "b10bbbfc-cf9e-42e0-be17-e2c3e1d2600d" ], "album": "Past Masters", "release_id": "b5885b2d-afae-47b1-945e-6e1869590974", "release_group_id": "37657513-7a52-42bd-b235-09347c437cb2", "labels": [ "Apple Records" ], "label_ids": [ "cf7fc5cf-e011-4ef4-b511-cd0188537910" ], "release_date": "2009-09-09", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For longtime listener Hobie! \n\n\"Hey y'all! KEXP was there to support my brainwaves while I pursued my dream of writing a novel. TWICE! Now I'm plinking away on a screenplay. Halp! Anyhow, thanks. If you can play something writing related, I'd love it!\"\n---\n\n\nThe release of ‘Paperback Writer’ came 27 weeks after its predecessor, ‘Day Tripper’/‘We Can Work It Out’. It saw The Beatles entering a phase where they were less motivated by commercial demands and more focused on musical development.\n\n‘Paperback Writer’ was an attempt by McCartney to write a song based on a single chord – possibly influenced by Indian music, but most likely a result of their marijuana use; other songs from this period, notably ‘The Word’, ‘If I Needed Someone’, and ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’, were similarly modelled.: https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/paperback-writer/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604334, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604334/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T16:37:57-08:00", "show": 65650, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65650/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "California", "track_id": "168617bf-4366-4b12-a97c-d0f6a974a1b9", "recording_id": "1b8e5470-79f2-4d23-8305-6bbacf457516", "artist": "The Olympians", "artist_ids": [ "566835dc-d09f-45b7-8212-bcc9ba988e11" ], "album": "In Search of a Revival", "release_id": "76bca1fc-e273-4373-b399-4610e0ffc9a3", "release_group_id": "f647135c-99c2-4289-bf80-3e8a3d86a5db", "labels": [ "Daptone Records" ], "label_ids": [ "6507ff0e-035a-4a24-9bbe-e07b1e2224d8" ], "release_date": "2025-11-05", "rotation_status": "Medium", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": null, "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604333, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604333/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T16:37:20-08:00", "show": 65650, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65650/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3604332, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604332/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T16:33:36-08:00", "show": 65650, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65650/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Chaise Longue", "track_id": "1f5dca43-6c7e-47c5-825f-d35a3e1937dc", "recording_id": "4cecbd69-fe33-4586-a88c-7a62aeab56c3", "artist": "Wet Leg", "artist_ids": [ "90744b3e-363a-458e-8da1-e3e392a489c4" ], "album": "Wet Leg", "release_id": "949c1b3a-db54-4302-90b3-ec8d0f70a45b", "release_group_id": "d53be2e5-fe7c-4681-85f3-960493aa02b5", "labels": [ "Domino" ], "label_ids": [ "bfe26801-a86f-49b9-8502-05ae80b02594" ], "release_date": "2021-04-08", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For Heidi!\n\n\"Hey Evie and fam at 90.3! I've been a listener for going on 32 years and I'll just say that there have been SO MANY times you guys have saved me from a spiral I didn't really need to go down. Please play Chaise Longue by Wet Leg if you have time? ... Public radio is now more important than ever and all the wisdom and joy you all bring to communities all over the globe is CRUCIAL.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604331, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604331/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T16:30:55-08:00", "show": 65650, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65650/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Here’s the Thing", "track_id": "bc2bd084-c11e-468c-af05-ff0b526a85b4", "recording_id": "905caf9d-34bc-4e56-8f88-1374087090b8", "artist": "Fontaines D.C.", "artist_ids": [ "fd87acc7-e0a0-4a45-bc2a-d2ab5c10be68" ], "album": "Romance", "release_id": "6e0aa1d9-17ce-4423-87bc-4fec3d0b5f34", "release_group_id": "92b095c1-3bbf-456f-9425-2078ad4e9504", "labels": [ "XL Recordings" ], "label_ids": [ "14221f01-8939-4ea0-b8f1-b5a21beae80a" ], "release_date": "2024-08-23", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For Izzy!\n\n\"We love your show so much and listen every night.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604330, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604330/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T16:26:35-08:00", "show": 65650, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65650/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Bend", "track_id": "712ccaa7-aff3-46cd-a562-684b468a8fa3", "recording_id": "a3c866d3-2b7d-476d-a0e1-16d037302aa0", "artist": "Middle Kids", "artist_ids": [ "2c02eece-9832-4850-9150-b0e269f65d8b" ], "album": "Faith Crisis Pt 1", "release_id": "8eee09d5-930b-4c28-a899-c7e6ce784654", "release_group_id": "3a638c34-072e-4cb8-b706-5e44ef8f0ca2", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2024-02-16", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For Izzie! \n---\nHannah Joy told us that she has to prepare herself in order to sing this highly personal song. \n--\n Watch a live performance of this powerful song in the KEXP studio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS85ElP7nNA", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604329, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604329/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T16:20:38-08:00", "show": 65650, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65650/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801406.us.archive.org/12/items/mbid-5937da39-4c6a-3f3b-9f96-bc54ebbd23ed/mbid-5937da39-4c6a-3f3b-9f96-bc54ebbd23ed-8995104049_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601406.us.archive.org/12/items/mbid-5937da39-4c6a-3f3b-9f96-bc54ebbd23ed/mbid-5937da39-4c6a-3f3b-9f96-bc54ebbd23ed-8995104049_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Sowing the Seeds of Love", "track_id": "d93675b7-00a3-398f-b30b-d8a61334e69c", "recording_id": "35fa932c-b449-46d7-9478-fd126cc7d8c9", "artist": "Tears for Fears", "artist_ids": [ "7c7f9c94-dee8-4903-892b-6cf44652e2de" ], "album": "Tears Roll Down: Greatest Hits 82–92", "release_id": "5937da39-4c6a-3f3b-9f96-bc54ebbd23ed", "release_group_id": "d65f150a-3b2b-34ca-904c-5bacaddd38a2", "labels": [ "Fontana" ], "label_ids": [ "c69058f5-0089-464b-b574-dd44b0f7f610" ], "release_date": "1992-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For Marcus from Sammamish, an amplifier! \n\n\"Because “Homeland Security” recently used a cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World, apparently completely missing the point, I wanted to shout out that KEXP sows the seeds of love (plus I know you love Tears for Fears). Love is about knowing that we share an experience, and I support KEXP as an amplifier because it is a shared experience. I share it with old friends on a text chain (shout out Jen, Jeri, Mojen and Nathan!) and I share it with every other listener when we all get excited about a song and flood the poor DJ with texts. It reminds us we are not alone. It reminds us that we can bridge the gaps and work for a world where we love each other. So let’s sow some seeds of love, yeah?\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604328, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604328/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T16:17:09-08:00", "show": 65650, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65650/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia802900.us.archive.org/16/items/mbid-e5648344-7e08-4131-8a60-138676d0cfef/mbid-e5648344-7e08-4131-8a60-138676d0cfef-3370472226_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia902900.us.archive.org/16/items/mbid-e5648344-7e08-4131-8a60-138676d0cfef/mbid-e5648344-7e08-4131-8a60-138676d0cfef-3370472226_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Popular", "track_id": "c70dfc89-d8ff-379b-9c12-d31693d0ecb9", "recording_id": "0d9a5821-d8c2-4fc0-a900-3db7790f346f", "artist": "Nada Surf", "artist_ids": [ "b9a2a9a6-7a40-48a6-bcb1-8eff5b89ad5b" ], "album": "High/Low", "release_id": "e5648344-7e08-4131-8a60-138676d0cfef", "release_group_id": "185c6b40-3361-32fa-ba46-bf7c89803058", "labels": [ "Elektra Entertainment" ], "label_ids": [ "745f3292-03fe-44b5-babe-bc7eaa46a15d" ], "release_date": "1996-06-18", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For JJ in Rochester! \n\"I became an amplifier in 2023 and almost instantaneously I noticed a positive change in me. I have listened everyday at work since that time and I deeply feel the music, big time! I started wearing your swag in public and people strike up conversations with me over it. I tell them to become an amplifier too. I'd say I was a bit of a wallflower before KEXP. But today I'm cracking jokes in the office around the water cooler, and I pick up on new music like the savant I am. Am I different because of KEXP. I'd have to give a big YES to that.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604327, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604327/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T16:13:53-08:00", "show": 65650, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65650/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3604325, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604325/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T16:09:28-08:00", "show": 65650, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65650/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Silent Running", "track_id": "58a11886-bee0-4bf8-8983-d656640c66e7", "recording_id": "27849aa7-2568-4d62-9021-fc98c2b6d244", "artist": "Gorillaz feat. Adeleye Omotayo", "artist_ids": [ "e21857d5-3256-4547-afb3-4b6ded592596", "399ae9ed-1817-41f7-bb8e-6f952f1ee935" ], "album": "Cracker Island", "release_id": "b5bf1101-7a25-42f4-a123-60779892bd96", "release_group_id": "160bc106-a0d1-456e-b704-6f91b05dfa04", "labels": [ "Parlophone" ], "label_ids": [ "df7d1c7f-ef95-425f-8eef-445b3d7bcbd9" ], "release_date": "2023-02-24", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For Matilda in Boulder Colorado!\n\n\"hi! ...i love listening to KEXP with my family and it has made my love of music stronger, my request is Silent Running by gorillaz (who are my favorite band).\"\n\n--- \n\n\"Silent Running\" features Gorillaz’ long-time band member Omotayo stepping up to lead vocals, Damon Albarn said it concerns “that sort of mesmerizing dreamlike state you get in when you’re just following some train of thought.”\n--\nGorillaz frontman 2D added: “Sometimes I get well lost and end up in the wrong place but then it turns out that’s where I was meant to be going anyway.”", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604324, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604324/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T16:05:34-08:00", "show": 65650, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65650/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Ghosts Again", "track_id": "e68f6011-fdab-4dd9-83ce-268212697cdb", "recording_id": "93b0c957-b5f8-4f15-af93-c578b93559ad", "artist": "Depeche Mode", "artist_ids": [ "8538e728-ca0b-4321-b7e5-cff6565dd4c0" ], "album": "Memento Mori", "release_id": "66d01a74-dd82-4bf9-976a-3e651a9ecf93", "release_group_id": "5db2f1f0-ae05-4de2-930d-b0d3cea31d15", "labels": [ "Sony Music", "Columbia Records" ], "label_ids": [ "9e6b4d7f-4958-4db7-8504-d89e315836af", "ad6f8706-c95e-443b-8579-8e3ecd27126c" ], "release_date": "2023-03-24", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For Cammie! \n\n\"So proud to be a KEXP amplifier, just joined the 500 club last year! I listen every day. It absolutely does make me feel like I'm not alone. I'm grateful for all of you and so happy that I have met most of you on more than one occasion. I'd love it if you could play me some Depeche Mode, my all-time favorite group. How about \"ghosts again\".\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604323, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604323/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T16:01:15-08:00", "show": 65649, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65649/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia803204.us.archive.org/2/items/mbid-3e1fae92-c35c-46f9-a1fb-a0f88e4abc8e/mbid-3e1fae92-c35c-46f9-a1fb-a0f88e4abc8e-42743832917_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia903204.us.archive.org/2/items/mbid-3e1fae92-c35c-46f9-a1fb-a0f88e4abc8e/mbid-3e1fae92-c35c-46f9-a1fb-a0f88e4abc8e-42743832917_thumb250.jpg", "song": "POLLYANNA", "track_id": "39341204-3d0d-4798-8c09-dc125ee3cf4b", "recording_id": "bee4f5d7-3453-4b53-9d32-ba5ff3aa34c5", "artist": "Just Mustard", "artist_ids": [ "7bab7a05-8b0f-4778-b0b8-02dd6deb463a" ], "album": "We Were Just Here", "release_id": "3e1fae92-c35c-46f9-a1fb-a0f88e4abc8e", "release_group_id": "b4b9c376-96b2-4e78-b87e-a13f1a2bbb7f", "labels": [ "Partisan Records" ], "label_ids": [ "d4ec5bb3-1d64-40fe-9629-ee1e452e251e" ], "release_date": "2025-10-17", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For Davis in SF, a longtime Amplifier and Gold Club member! \n\n\"One of the reasons it's important to me to support KEXP is because you're continually introducing me to great new artists. One of the great ones KEXP introduced me to in 2025 was Just Mustard, I'd love to hear them today!\"\n\n---\nJust Mustard are a 5 piece band from Dundalk, Ireland.\nhttps://justmustard.bandcamp.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604322, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604322/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T15:53:31-08:00", "show": 65649, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65649/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Playing in the Band (live at Manhattan Center, New York, NY, April 6, 1971)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "f298e785-34a8-4a7a-b9ca-5827065ea709", "artist": "Grateful Dead", "artist_ids": [ "6faa7ca7-0d99-4a5e-bfa6-1fd5037520c6" ], "album": "Live Albums Collection", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "dff307ac-b50c-48d0-abac-14b61ffe4df4", "labels": [ "Rhino" ], "label_ids": [ "c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4" ], "release_date": "2013-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Peter in Kirkland said, \" In honor of Bob Weir, please play his most important contribution to the Dead repertoire, \"\"Playing in the Band\"\". This song and many other Dead compositions were the soundtrack to my high school years. The honor KEXP bestowed on Bob this week is just another reason KEXP is the soundtrack to my current years. Been a Amplifier for as long as I can remember and will be so to the day I die. Long live rock and KEXP. MUSIC matters. Peter from Kirkland. PS. My son who is a public interest attorney and makes no money is a contributor as well. He understands.\"\n--\nR.I.P., Bob Weir. See the Dead playing this one in Oakland in 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlnQPlq8iVw", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604320, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604320/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T15:50:21-08:00", "show": 65649, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65649/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia803207.us.archive.org/4/items/mbid-593f09a7-95de-3b3e-9e09-169e91ec630f/mbid-593f09a7-95de-3b3e-9e09-169e91ec630f-14989052153_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia903207.us.archive.org/4/items/mbid-593f09a7-95de-3b3e-9e09-169e91ec630f/mbid-593f09a7-95de-3b3e-9e09-169e91ec630f-14989052153_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Three Little Birds", "track_id": "443d832c-8d4b-3b61-a563-30f510db5bd2", "recording_id": "33b9b9fd-15a1-4e1f-a10a-3d15df5e58f0", "artist": "Bob Marley & The Wailers", "artist_ids": [ "c296e10c-110a-4103-9e77-47bfebb7fb2e" ], "album": "Exodus", "release_id": "593f09a7-95de-3b3e-9e09-169e91ec630f", "release_group_id": "c5650313-60f3-34d3-92e4-300545133792", "labels": [ "Tuff Gong", "Island" ], "label_ids": [ "be14aa98-403a-4337-8a1e-d104b90d4f3c", "dfd92cd3-4888-46d2-b968-328b1feb2642" ], "release_date": "2001-11-19", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Hello KEXP,\nMy name is James Perez. I’ve been listening to KEXP for over 25 years. Today I need you guys!! I’m reaching out requesting a track, if possibly can be played. Bob Marley - Three Little Birds. I’ve been singing this song to my son since his birth. It helps us relax and hope that things will be alright. He is currently hospitalized and this would mean the world to us if we can hear this today through KEXP. If you can give my son a shout out, we would be so thrilled. My son’s name is James Gael. It would mean a lot during this hard time to hear such a beautiful track of hope. Thanks for existing.\n---\nWe hope that \"every little thing gonna be all right\" for James. \n--\nHere's the official animated music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNBCVM4KbUM", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604321, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604321/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T15:46:36-08:00", "show": 65649, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65649/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3604319, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604319/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T15:43:14-08:00", "show": 65649, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65649/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Mistério do planeta", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "5c5ce264-f1aa-4b46-90af-0292a3a2351f", "artist": "Novos Baianos", "artist_ids": [ "7b543eba-995a-4c30-a37e-f8cac424f167" ], "album": "Acabou chorare", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "65790705-6d7b-3596-a427-fe5b8ab6481d", "labels": [ "Som Livre" ], "label_ids": [ "4c7506c5-5fe0-4cf8-94bf-8d1de8530883" ], "release_date": "1972-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "A listener request:\n\nI'd like to request Mistério De Planeta by Novos Baianos. I heard it this last year for the first time when I saw them live. It was such a wonderful song that immediately caught my attention. A beautiful voice and melody that transcends any sort of language barrier. It doesn't hurt that all the other instruments are in top form.\n--\n Novos Baianos were a Brazilian rock and MPB group founded in Salvador, Bahia in 1969. The group was active between 1969 and 1979, enjoying success throughout the 1970s. The group had reunions in 1997, 2015 and 2020. Together, the group recorded eight full-length studio albums, as well as two live albums.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604318, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604318/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T15:39:36-08:00", "show": 65649, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65649/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/20caffc7-6330-412d-91bd-34940564d3e8/9985362852-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/20caffc7-6330-412d-91bd-34940564d3e8/9985362852-250.jpg", "song": "Força estranha", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "72a18507-93c0-4c28-8065-89824ba152de", "artist": "Gal Costa", "artist_ids": [ "fc63a914-272d-4b95-9221-61adcce6f793" ], "album": "Gal tropical", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "a0d3a1ff-18aa-3ed0-80a5-be03222abb34", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1979-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Proud Amplifier Rose in Ballard wrote us: \"I wasn't going to send in a request since I figured y'all would be bombarded, but as the DJs have read people's stories about why they listen to and power KEXP, one of the themes that stood out was music discovery. KEXP proudly exhibits a level of curiosity about the world and the people in it that isn't often seen in today's media. You all foster that by playing your own interests, listener requests, and starting programs like 90.teen. We support you all by listening, spreading word of mouth, and donating if feasible. \n\nSo, my request is about music discovery. If it pleases the DJ, \"\"Força Estranha\"\" as sung by Gal Costa from her 1979 album Gal Tropical. It's about observing the world you're in and seeing the beauty all around you, which speaks right to your mission. Plus, Gal's voice is beyond belief.\"\n--\n--\nShe was born Maria da Graça Penna Burgos Costa in 1945, in Salvador, Bahia. Enjoy this history of one of the founding artists of the Tropicália movement: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/11/gal-costa-was-a-flamboyant-revolutionary-in-brazilian-music", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
