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It's 10 tracks built around live instrumentation, with a sense of urgency that's already audible on the lead single \"Blackberry Marmalade\" — a sonic detour into alt-rock that pairs grinding guitars with Staples's signature deadpan precision. The accompanying video, filmed first-person-shooter style, leans into themes of state violence and mass shootings.\n\nhttps://www.complex.com/music/a/tracewilliamcowen/vince-staples-cry-baby-album\nhttps://www.vincestaples.co/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656454, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656454/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T15:45:45-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710802.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-08d7c8d3-c1d9-42fe-9df0-a0a34f055b02/mbid-08d7c8d3-c1d9-42fe-9df0-a0a34f055b02-3396950394_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia802908.us.archive.org/13/items/mbid-08d7c8d3-c1d9-42fe-9df0-a0a34f055b02/mbid-08d7c8d3-c1d9-42fe-9df0-a0a34f055b02-3396950394_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Attitude", "track_id": "23dc2f87-0174-3ef7-b84d-be8a2c3be61c", "recording_id": "a7e476c8-bb6f-4930-afe1-5ad5d9189fed", "artist": "Bad Brains", "artist_ids": [ "e919b253-da5b-4aae-a444-6a368376a2d6" ], "album": "Bad Brains", "release_id": "08d7c8d3-c1d9-42fe-9df0-a0a34f055b02", "release_group_id": "458f4bdf-ffbe-3643-977a-73e80d3d7b08", "labels": [ "ROIR" ], "label_ids": [ "7ee4764c-62f7-4dc8-abc4-6334dffa979c" ], "release_date": "1996-03-19", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "for David B! (We hope Sharlese feels better too)\n\n\"Attitude\" is the song that gave punk an acronym: PMA — Positive Mental Attitude. Bad Brains frontman H.R. (Paul Hudson) borrowed the phrase from the 1937 self-help book \"Think and Grow Rich\" by Napoleon Hill, and it became the band's foundational philosophy. In a moment of nihilistic gloom dominating early hardcore, the DC band — Black, Rastafarian, faster than everyone — were singing \"We got that PMA.\" The song appears on their 1982 cassette debut on ROIR, the legendary \"Yellow Tape.\"\n\nhttps://longreads.com/2015/07/31/bad-brains-mixed-punk-with-a-positive-mental-attitude/\nhttps://badbrainsrecords.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656451, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656451/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T15:43:06-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710304.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-2dc4d07f-6179-467f-8cda-6551db874749/mbid-2dc4d07f-6179-467f-8cda-6551db874749-44370484117_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710304.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-2dc4d07f-6179-467f-8cda-6551db874749/mbid-2dc4d07f-6179-467f-8cda-6551db874749-44370484117_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Öken", "track_id": "31f4cd58-aa1f-4286-8f6a-aa61ac87a987", "recording_id": "1d8505a4-4448-4221-886f-ff48f037d11b", "artist": "Makthaverskan", "artist_ids": [ "735f0aca-dd56-4247-8d11-1d7260c25436" ], "album": "Glass and Bones", "release_id": "2dc4d07f-6179-467f-8cda-6551db874749", "release_group_id": "d1cecc19-441e-4de2-b177-458fd03f7bcd", "labels": [ "Welfare Sounds & Records" ], "label_ids": [ "6ed81223-2ec0-472c-bba4-127f664962f4" ], "release_date": "2026-04-03", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Makthaverskan has been built around Maja Milner's voice from the beginning — she was 16 when the Gothenburg band formed in 2008, and 18 years and five albums later, she's still the engine. \"Glass and Bones,\" out April 3 on Welfare Sounds & Records, finds the band leaning into a sound that holds together post-punk, dream pop, shoegaze, and gothic rock without picking a side. \"Öken,\" Swedish for \"desert,\" closes the record in a quiet detonation of drum and bass.\n\nhttps://daily.bandcamp.com/album-of-the-day/makthaverskan-glass-and-bones-review\nhttps://makthaverskan.bandcamp.com/album/glass-and-bones", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656450, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656450/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T15:38:12-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710701.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-39a4aaaa-a0fe-49b8-8e28-ded07fa94597/mbid-39a4aaaa-a0fe-49b8-8e28-ded07fa94597-40882298478_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800804.us.archive.org/16/items/mbid-39a4aaaa-a0fe-49b8-8e28-ded07fa94597/mbid-39a4aaaa-a0fe-49b8-8e28-ded07fa94597-40882298478_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Drain", "track_id": "7c7c33c4-ca15-4f9e-8b3b-b358ac5b2bdf", "recording_id": "155265b9-ef15-4b09-8d63-ff3998aaca4f", "artist": "SPELLLING", "artist_ids": [ "25521b37-fcf4-4204-8dca-e28bcda1e004" ], "album": "Portrait of My Heart", "release_id": "39a4aaaa-a0fe-49b8-8e28-ded07fa94597", "release_group_id": "778df416-4baa-49dc-82d6-ede642f5ddab", "labels": [ "Sacred Bones Records" ], "label_ids": [ "dba6e089-932a-4442-9ebe-fbbceb9476ef" ], "release_date": "2025-03-28", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Happy birthday Tia Cabral! \n\nCheck out a session with SPELLLING live on KEXP recorded October 29, 2022;\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4MTninRHEQ", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656449, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656449/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T15:32:31-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710702.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-59752819-1e3f-4ff5-bad2-7b8fc92b4b18/mbid-59752819-1e3f-4ff5-bad2-7b8fc92b4b18-10335245464_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710702.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-59752819-1e3f-4ff5-bad2-7b8fc92b4b18/mbid-59752819-1e3f-4ff5-bad2-7b8fc92b4b18-10335245464_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Seasons", "track_id": "c7754dd5-b285-35d3-b8c8-e7a414f1700c", "recording_id": "b62dd32d-d6f8-49eb-9fe4-ca90591dcaa0", "artist": "Chris Cornell", "artist_ids": [ "cbf9738d-8f81-4a92-bc64-ede09341652d" ], "album": "Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack", "release_id": "59752819-1e3f-4ff5-bad2-7b8fc92b4b18", "release_group_id": "9c80717d-43e0-3219-b8c8-019f5d83cf60", "labels": [ "Epic Soundtrax" ], "label_ids": [ "f65eb039-2e15-4139-83d9-d31dbbf18afa" ], "release_date": "1992-06-30", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "for Cammie! RIP Chris Cornell.\n\nMay 18, 2017 was the day we lost Chris Cornell, and today marks nine years to the date. \"Seasons\" is a particularly fitting one to sit with. It's Cornell's first-ever solo recording, written for Cameron Crowe's 1992 Seattle film \"Singles\" after Crowe asked him to play the character Cliff Poncier. Cornell couldn't make the time to act, so he secretly wrote five songs as Poncier and handed Crowe the cassette. A brooding acoustic ballad in 7/4 time, full of lines that hit even harder now: \"I'm left behind / As seasons roll on by.\"\n\nhttps://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/poncier-chris-cornell-soundgarden/\nhttps://www.chriscornell.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656447, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656447/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T15:29:58-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn711102.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-346f82ce-7fd7-49dd-a3e9-5f940d72156f/mbid-346f82ce-7fd7-49dd-a3e9-5f940d72156f-20588536632_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn711102.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-346f82ce-7fd7-49dd-a3e9-5f940d72156f/mbid-346f82ce-7fd7-49dd-a3e9-5f940d72156f-20588536632_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Letter to Memphis", "track_id": "be1a31eb-7149-30af-a7b2-3cffc0624b8b", "recording_id": "dfc992b8-05f1-413d-a887-42e78a87364d", "artist": "Pixies", "artist_ids": [ "b6b2bb8d-54a9-491f-9607-7b546023b433" ], "album": "Trompe le Monde", "release_id": "346f82ce-7fd7-49dd-a3e9-5f940d72156f", "release_group_id": "ac9b0a0c-0da6-387f-8c09-65783187346a", "labels": [ "4AD", "Elektra" ], "label_ids": [ "a539bb1e-f2e1-4b45-9db8-8053841e7503", "873f9f75-af68-4872-98e2-431058e4c9a9" ], "release_date": "1991-10-08", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Letter to Memphis\" is the most romantic song on \"Trompe le Monde\" — and it's not about Memphis, Tennessee. Black Francis has said he was inspired by Chuck Berry's \"Memphis, Tennessee,\" but he meant the other Memphis: the ancient Egyptian city. The \"letter\" in the song is a message to a lover's past life thousands of years ago, based on an inside joke he had with his then-girlfriend that she had been Cleopatra. Released September 1991, this is the Pixies' fourth and final original-era album.\n\nhttps://music.fandom.com/wiki/Letter_To_Memphis:Pixies\nhttps://www.pixiesmusic.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656448, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656448/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T15:28:40-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3656446, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656446/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T15:24:06-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/f5744c21-6ec5-4960-aaea-2960cc904897/6752044868-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/f5744c21-6ec5-4960-aaea-2960cc904897/6752044868-250.jpg", "song": "The Unwinding Cable Car", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "da8dee0c-2536-47b6-9921-b1a0abac8930", "artist": "Anberlin", "artist_ids": [ "c648509e-9916-4c56-ab63-652a03da16dd" ], "album": "Dancing Between the Fibers of Time", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "c7a482d2-3e62-4220-91c1-b3eb49a605b6", "labels": [ "Tooth & Nail Records" ], "label_ids": [ "7bed0e70-98c2-445e-a065-51280cbebd75" ], "release_date": "2012-03-26", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "From listener Arthur (from Leon Guanajuato Mexico, the shoes capital of the country) to his brother listening in the Gathering Space!\nAnberlin is rolling back through Seattle on November 21, joining Switchfoot's Forever Now Tour as special guests. The Florida alt-rock band's 20th-anniversary tour for \"Never Take Friendship Personal\" already came through earlier this spring; the November date is the return visit. \"The Unwinding Cable Car\" first appeared on that 2005 album and got pulled into the 2012 Tooth & Nail–era compilation \"Dancing Between the Fibers of Time.\"\n\nhttps://www.melodicmag.com/news/anberlin-celebrates-never-take-friendship-personal-with-20th-anniversary-tour/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656445, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656445/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T15:21:20-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Let This River Flow", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "c46bdfa8-20da-427d-a2b1-b14e92541c04", "artist": "Googie & Tom Coppola", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Shine the Light of Love", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "547f2b82-1ba5-407f-888d-33216bad87ae", "labels": [ "Columbia" ], "label_ids": [ "011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e" ], "release_date": "2014-05-02", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "After Air dissolved in the early '70s, Tom and Googie Coppola got married, had a kid, became born-again Christians, and made one more obscure record together: \"Shine the Light of Love,\" released by Columbia in 1980 and then almost immediately lost to lack of promotion. \"Let This River Flow\" is one of its standouts — sweet LA soul, Googie's Minnie Riperton-ish vocal floating over the kind of sophisticated arrangements only Tom could write. The Favorite Recordings reissue brought it back to circulation.\n\nhttps://www.favoriterec.com/2016/04/googie-tom-coppola-lp-reissue/\nhttps://favoriterecordings.bandcamp.com/album/shine-the-light-of-love", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656444, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656444/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T15:17:42-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Realize", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "c450012a-3406-4644-a715-3c28e9d55e72", "artist": "Air", "artist_ids": [ "ae0cf167-dc78-4549-a960-0802fd6cd259" ], "album": "Air", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "9bbb5a4f-9d11-46b2-a55a-b9b624955843", "labels": [ "Embryo Records" ], "label_ids": [ "affd5c9f-2c89-4ea3-8fa3-24adfca126ac" ], "release_date": "1971-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Maybe this is your mother's Air!\n\n\"Realize\" opens one of the great cult records of the 1970s — Air's lone self-titled album, recorded by a Long Island jazz-rock quartet and released in 1971 on Embryo Records, the imprint Herbie Mann founded for his own work and other discoveries. Mann saw them in a New York club, signed them, produced the album — and, like a lot of great '70s sleepers, it disappeared into collector circles for decades. London's Be With Records put it back into circulation; it's worth every minute of that excavation.\n\nhttps://www.musicismysanctuary.com/air-air-1971", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656443, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656443/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T15:11:52-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn711403.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-5f29d405-be8f-4cfc-8542-82fa88fc3456/mbid-5f29d405-be8f-4cfc-8542-82fa88fc3456-45125012811_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn711403.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-5f29d405-be8f-4cfc-8542-82fa88fc3456/mbid-5f29d405-be8f-4cfc-8542-82fa88fc3456-45125012811_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Black Butterfly", "track_id": "efbdfa99-7aa9-4417-9bac-77d0d1421595", "recording_id": "966f38cf-34f6-4bd9-baf2-cf4c85e1ee6a", "artist": "Brooklyn Funk Essentials", "artist_ids": [ "280d9262-c2fd-4875-a971-13a28a22f18b" ], "album": "Black Butterfly", "release_id": "5f29d405-be8f-4cfc-8542-82fa88fc3456", "release_group_id": "7a0cd172-ec60-49d5-b8d0-afb2d177776c", "labels": [ "Dorado" ], "label_ids": [ "5e13f33b-f26b-4a73-83e3-8dddbbcfe0b0" ], "release_date": "2026-05-15", "rotation_status": "Medium", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Brooklyn Funk Essentials are one of those acts that quietly outlast everyone — formed in 1993 at Arthur Baker's recording studio under bassist Lati Kronlund, they were New York City club-scene staples through the mid-'90s and they've just kept going. Their 1994 debut \"Cool and Steady and Easy\" memorably covered Pharoah Sanders' \"The Creator Has a Master Plan\" and featured Tony Allen on drums. \"Black Butterfly\" is their eighth album, out three days ago on Dorado, with vocals from Alison Limerick, Ebba Åsman, and Desmond Foster.\n\nhttps://brooklynfunkessentials.bandcamp.com/album/black-butterfly \nhttp://www.brooklynfunkessentials.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656442, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656442/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T15:09:15-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710104.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-9e4fdeeb-9460-47eb-a6bc-f6edc11b1a40/mbid-9e4fdeeb-9460-47eb-a6bc-f6edc11b1a40-44330476081_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710104.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-9e4fdeeb-9460-47eb-a6bc-f6edc11b1a40/mbid-9e4fdeeb-9460-47eb-a6bc-f6edc11b1a40-44330476081_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Visual Assault", "track_id": "74edde0c-18bb-4325-9ef6-027967e8ead7", "recording_id": "4654b5f6-05bf-49d5-b13b-f7dbee48d278", "artist": "Adrian Younge", "artist_ids": [ "69bb7a74-99ee-4da0-bc3d-84586676e4ea" ], "album": "Younge", "release_id": "9e4fdeeb-9460-47eb-a6bc-f6edc11b1a40", "release_group_id": "89354dc2-953d-4406-a608-ee5d2e9c0970", "labels": [ "Linear Labs" ], "label_ids": [ "22a630af-78a3-4427-8128-d031aeb7bf93" ], "release_date": "2026-04-17", "rotation_status": "Light", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "If you're tracing the hip-hop-meets-actual-jazz-musicians lineage that runs straight back through Guru's \"Jazzmatazz,\" Adrian Younge is one of its most determined inheritors. He and A Tribe Called Quest's Ali Shaheed Muhammad co-founded Jazz Is Dead in 2017, recording new music with Roy Ayers, Lonnie Liston Smith, Gary Bartz, Tony Allen, and Brazilian icons like Marcos Valle and Azymuth — several of the same legends who played on \"Jazzmatazz\" in the first place. \"Visual Assault\" is from \"Younge,\" his April album on Linear Labs.\n\nhttps://variety.com/2025/music/features/adrian-younge-jazz-is-dead-luke-cage-something-about-april-1236365202/\nhttps://www.adrianyounge.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656441, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656441/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T15:04:45-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn720701.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-5acc9c58-8cc1-4a5f-b31d-76c1501f8ceb/mbid-5acc9c58-8cc1-4a5f-b31d-76c1501f8ceb-43492087251_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn720701.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-5acc9c58-8cc1-4a5f-b31d-76c1501f8ceb/mbid-5acc9c58-8cc1-4a5f-b31d-76c1501f8ceb-43492087251_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Balls And Pins ii", "track_id": "c1ce74b0-ec0f-483d-9292-528234b3823d", "recording_id": "19074611-42ce-46a6-9a00-562ad1bbd66b", "artist": "Khruangbin", "artist_ids": [ "aea4c9b9-9f8d-49dc-b2ca-57d6f26e8634" ], "album": "The Universe Smiles Upon You ii", "release_id": "5acc9c58-8cc1-4a5f-b31d-76c1501f8ceb", "release_group_id": "a87c2a17-d297-4980-a66f-f87fa4e203e3", "labels": [ "Dead Oceans" ], "label_ids": [ "f70f950f-2587-4f85-a5c7-b483a47bd2e9" ], "release_date": "2025-11-06", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Balls and Pins ii\" comes from a surprise project Khruangbin dropped last November: a full re-recorded reimagining of their 2015 debut \"The Universe Smiles Upon You,\" released on November 6, 2025 — exactly 10 years to the day after the original. They went back to the very same Central Texas barn, spent four days shivering together through the cold, and recut the whole thing. The tracklist is reshuffled too — \"Mr. White\" gone from the top, the Japan-only bonus \"Bin Bin\" pulled into the album proper.\n\nhttps://consequence.net/2025/11/khruangbin-the-universe-smiles-upon-you-ii-stream/\nhttps://khruangbin.bandcamp.com/album/the-universe-smiles-upon-you-ii\n\nCatch November's KEXP live in-studio session: \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PsOJ_fRckg", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656440, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656440/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T15:01:29-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn711402.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-0071d366-ae8f-472d-8ec4-bd754199550a/mbid-0071d366-ae8f-472d-8ec4-bd754199550a-44649068026_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn711402.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-0071d366-ae8f-472d-8ec4-bd754199550a/mbid-0071d366-ae8f-472d-8ec4-bd754199550a-44649068026_thumb250.jpg", "song": "What We Do", "track_id": "da47a830-5d6d-44cf-8732-e16bd1082839", "recording_id": "fba6fd2c-cd86-498f-88e1-493eb4d2be54", "artist": "Ego Ella May", "artist_ids": [ "2c235afa-c51a-4c07-827d-59f233eeda37" ], "album": "Good Intentions", "release_id": "0071d366-ae8f-472d-8ec4-bd754199550a", "release_group_id": "54a5078d-2f59-4c2d-8e02-ebe1668dcdac", "labels": [ "Believe UK" ], "label_ids": [ "5b903849-5962-48b9-8fed-13b28cc2c373" ], "release_date": "2026-03-20", "rotation_status": "R/N", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Good Intentions\" is Ego Ella May's second album — and it comes six years after her MOBO-winning debut \"Honey for Wounds.\" She's been candid about why it took so long: after the first record won her Best Jazz Act at the 2020 MOBOs and Best Vocalist at the 2021 Jazz FM Awards, she felt overwhelmed by the pressure to follow it up. \"What We Do\" is one of the album's lead singles, exploring community and liberation through that warm, looser, more expansive sound she's settled into.\n\nhttps://headlinerhub.com/ego-ella-may-overcoming-second-album-jitters-good-intentions.html\nhttps://egoellamay.bandcamp.com/album/good-intentions", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656437, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656437/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:57:50-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn720000.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-9d6a3798-965d-4436-bb6f-5ded59316f62/mbid-9d6a3798-965d-4436-bb6f-5ded59316f62-44559281955_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn720000.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-9d6a3798-965d-4436-bb6f-5ded59316f62/mbid-9d6a3798-965d-4436-bb6f-5ded59316f62-44559281955_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Best Buy", "track_id": "616844ea-ed2a-4937-a0ca-c3f02440d970", "recording_id": "4a358751-0a19-4362-925f-6d4711dce687", "artist": "Frog", "artist_ids": [ "56ca99e7-6d0c-46ac-a304-131a551185d7" ], "album": "Frog for Sale", "release_id": "9d6a3798-965d-4436-bb6f-5ded59316f62", "release_group_id": "4ca04da3-0b6e-48cd-9c1f-858fbcb755ce", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2026-04-17", "rotation_status": "Light", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Daniel Bateman and his brother Steve have now released three albums in just under two years — 2025's \"1000 Variations on the Same Song\" (Stereogum's Album of the Week), \"Count Bateman\" six months later, and now \"Frog for Sale,\" out April 17. The new one leans hard into McCartney/Buddy Holly territory: 12 tracks of literate indie wistfulness about, as Daniel puts it, \"how money sometimes gets in the way of love.\" \"Best Buy\" is the album's smoky-grooved second cut.\n\nhttps://stereogum.com/2492949/frog-announce-new-album-frog-for-sale-hear-je-ne-sais-pas/music\nhttps://heyitsfrog.bandcamp.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656438, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656438/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:57:10-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3656436, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656436/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:52:55-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia600700.us.archive.org/28/items/mbid-4ac0b11f-7dee-4874-9767-eed06e608ec2/mbid-4ac0b11f-7dee-4874-9767-eed06e608ec2-5385474828_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710706.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4ac0b11f-7dee-4874-9767-eed06e608ec2/mbid-4ac0b11f-7dee-4874-9767-eed06e608ec2-5385474828_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Our Swimmer", "track_id": "ace0c308-fb35-3fac-9e65-109bc8998b0d", "recording_id": "e968518e-63db-42d6-b8b9-11f1221263fe", "artist": "Wire", "artist_ids": [ "7f2a8098-50e3-451c-8696-c5d9f64f4762" ], "album": "Document and Eyewitness", "release_id": "4ac0b11f-7dee-4874-9767-eed06e608ec2", "release_group_id": "adccf271-0015-3f70-a621-00265b4b4ff4", "labels": [ "Mute", "The Grey Area" ], "label_ids": [ "e0b106a5-4add-4839-9e40-c192457e1bf8", "1f21034b-fea3-406c-ab59-e122e66a0e04" ], "release_date": "1991-04-02", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Wire guitarist Bruce Gilbert turns 80 today, May 18. \"Our Swimmer\" is one of the band's most rewarding little oddities: a 1979 studio recording that EMI rejected as a single, which Wire then put out on Rough Trade in July 1981 alongside their live album \"Document and Eyewitness.\" It marks the close of the band's first era — the post-punk run that stretched from 1977 through their wildly confrontational final 1980 show at the Electric Ballroom in London.\n\nhttp://pinkflag.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656435, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656435/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:49:49-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn711003.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4003007b-4c27-4920-8e50-5a8606800d58/mbid-4003007b-4c27-4920-8e50-5a8606800d58-14840530083_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn711003.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4003007b-4c27-4920-8e50-5a8606800d58/mbid-4003007b-4c27-4920-8e50-5a8606800d58-14840530083_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Freedom of Choice", "track_id": "a0fdfc96-431e-332e-bccd-f9d8e3e4f251", "recording_id": "4d32efe7-dd41-4bec-b13d-108db3e09411", "artist": "DEVO", "artist_ids": [ "d2db1078-c170-4e22-b261-14f3ad60a690" ], "album": "Just Can’t Get Enough: New Wave Hits of the ’80s, Volume 4", "release_id": "4003007b-4c27-4920-8e50-5a8606800d58", "release_group_id": "eeab55a3-f26f-3a0d-a747-058653072a2d", "labels": [ "Rhino" ], "label_ids": [ "c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4" ], "release_date": "1994-06-21", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The whole song hinges on a Carl's Jr. ad — yes, the burger chain. Gerald Casale, DEVO's bassist and the lyricist on this track, was struck by a commercial that touted \"freedom of choice\" while showing four nearly identical hamburgers. That's the whole conceit: a country mistaking mindless consumer options for actual freedom. Casale layered in an Aesop's fable too — the dog crossing a bridge with a bone, who sees another dog with a bone in the water below, attacks it, and loses what he already had.\n\nhttps://faroutmagazine.co.uk/story-behind-devo-song-freedom-of-choice/\nhttps://clubdevo.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656433, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656433/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:46:54-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710409.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-49b39079-0b92-4de7-9f18-c64bd83fb9a8/mbid-49b39079-0b92-4de7-9f18-c64bd83fb9a8-44451329349_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710409.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-49b39079-0b92-4de7-9f18-c64bd83fb9a8/mbid-49b39079-0b92-4de7-9f18-c64bd83fb9a8-44451329349_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Yassify Me", "track_id": "c65799c8-375e-4ba3-85d9-94bc9ee9e0be", "recording_id": "a8eed8f6-f7cb-4db4-ae0d-2c1fe5eeaa56", "artist": "Telehealth", "artist_ids": [ "c94f22ca-0965-4dee-aa71-8e15620a3779" ], "album": "Green World Image", "release_id": "49b39079-0b92-4de7-9f18-c64bd83fb9a8", "release_group_id": "d8f78af6-a017-4cc1-be41-539955e5446a", "labels": [ "Sub Pop Records" ], "label_ids": [ "38dc88de-7720-4100-9d5b-3cdc41b0c474" ], "release_date": "2026-05-15", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Telehealth's latest, just out this past week!\n\nhttps://telehealth.bandcamp.com/album/green-world-image", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
