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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" }, { "id": 3656432, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656432/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:40:34-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710202.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-da976a96-c18a-464b-8d7e-8382a3a498a7/mbid-da976a96-c18a-464b-8d7e-8382a3a498a7-8526429826_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801002.us.archive.org/13/items/mbid-da976a96-c18a-464b-8d7e-8382a3a498a7/mbid-da976a96-c18a-464b-8d7e-8382a3a498a7-8526429826_thumb250.jpg", "song": "The Art of Easing", "track_id": "9ce26563-33d2-3579-9fdb-c2d2fbbafe5b", "recording_id": "688348a2-f0bb-47af-a972-16262447621e", "artist": "Digable Planets", "artist_ids": [ "ff44f779-74ab-48f8-aac3-39ebe8f7c18e" ], "album": "Blowout Comb", "release_id": "23943394-4ef1-436a-bd6c-74e0e5bdd29f", "release_group_id": "ee79e536-de20-3af0-9ae8-b529503a8c3e", "labels": [ "Capitol Records" ], "label_ids": [ "abea2d3e-eabf-4480-ab24-9382dd642c73" ], "release_date": "1994-10-18", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Blowout Comb\" was conceived as a Brooklyn album from start to finish — Digable Planets had just moved from Philadelphia to Fort Greene in late 1993, all three members settling into the same neighborhood, and they wanted the record to feel like the streets they were living on. The shift from their sample-driven 1993 debut to \"Blowout Comb\"'s live-instruments-mixed-with-samples approach is right there in tracks like \"The Art of Easing,\" which floats on a Bobbi Humphrey loop with real bass and guitar laid on top.\n\nhttps://wdet.org/2020/12/24/liner-notes-exploring-the-genius-of-digable-planets-blowout-comb/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656431, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656431/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:37:38-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/02f43c06-03db-4b0a-8259-6e0bc533e8c7/2807462779-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/02f43c06-03db-4b0a-8259-6e0bc533e8c7/2807462779-250.jpg", "song": "Easin’ In", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "8159fabb-382f-41e0-b7ac-70e02a2a0d72", "artist": "Edwin Starr", "artist_ids": [ "9eace815-06f3-487c-bf3a-1a817e248056" ], "album": "Hell Up in Harlem", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "79443602-06c1-3c9f-a2ce-a64ea8e4746d", "labels": [ "Motown" ], "label_ids": [ "8e479e57-ef44-490c-b75d-cd28df89bf1b" ], "release_date": "1974-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Easin' In\" is one of those tracks you've already heard a thousand times without knowing it — Tone Loc's \"Wild Thing\" was built around its slinking groove in 1989, and a long list of hip-hop heads followed: Digable Planets, Dilated Peoples, DMX, People Under the Stairs, D.I.T.C. The original is Edwin Starr's, from the soundtrack to the 1974 blaxploitation sequel \"Hell Up In Harlem.\" Producer-writer duo Fonce Mizell and Freddie Perren — the same team behind the Jackson 5's early Motown hits — wrote and arranged it.\n\nhttps://www.whosampled.com/Edwin-Starr/Easin%27-In/\nhttps://www.allmusic.com/album/hell-up-in-harlem-original-motion-picture-soundtrack--mw0000001040", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656429, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656429/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:34:03-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/791369bc-a6fc-4270-ad7d-700ebae91275/38707533720-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/791369bc-a6fc-4270-ad7d-700ebae91275/38707533720-250.jpg", "song": "Long Hot Summer", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "0d16d991-cd68-4aa0-b5fa-ee94554825be", "artist": "The Style Council", "artist_ids": [ "34e56f20-ddda-48c9-a4bb-6bb12df57de0" ], "album": "Long Hot Summer", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "8b8bb13f-46cf-4537-ba21-8430a31d38af", "labels": [ "Polydor" ], "label_ids": [ "ce24ab18-1bd6-4293-a486-546d13d6a5e2" ], "release_date": "1983-08-16", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "By 1983, Paul Weller had walked away from The Jam at their absolute peak and formed The Style Council with keyboardist Mick Talbot. \"Long Hot Summer\" is what their swerve sounded like: instead of mod punk, you get mid-'70s \"quiet storm\" soul, Weller's impassioned vocal drifting over a languid groove, the whole thing recorded at Grande Armée Studios in Paris. It came out as a double A-side with \"Paris Match\" on August 8, 1983, and became the band's signature summer anthem.\n \nhttps://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/the-style-council-cafe-bleu-feature/\nhttps://paulweller.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656430, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656430/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:33:33-07:00", "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": 3656428, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656428/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:28:50-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710803.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-b249a0bc-6ca9-476c-94c1-67c272ad7a58/mbid-b249a0bc-6ca9-476c-94c1-67c272ad7a58-39617583622_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710803.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-b249a0bc-6ca9-476c-94c1-67c272ad7a58/mbid-b249a0bc-6ca9-476c-94c1-67c272ad7a58-39617583622_thumb250.jpg", "song": "No Time to Play", "track_id": "d2ef6250-8c7e-30b9-b043-b36a7573d354", "recording_id": "a0686a62-158d-4b34-b625-28259e66f651", "artist": "Guru", "artist_ids": [ "215c6ab2-7888-4061-bd56-9fb650328106" ], "album": "Jazzmatazz, Volume 1", "release_id": "b249a0bc-6ca9-476c-94c1-67c272ad7a58", "release_group_id": "cb4db891-330d-394d-af54-3edc37e8416e", "labels": [ "Chrysalis" ], "label_ids": [ "ed5601e5-7c54-426e-982a-1a208dd0b0ad" ], "release_date": "1993-05-18", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Guru released \"Jazzmatazz, Volume 1: An Experimental Fusion of Hip-Hop and Jazz\" 33 years ago today, May 18, 1993, on Chrysalis. \"No Time to Play\" was the album's second single, with jazz guitarist Ronny Jordan laying down those shimmering licks throughout the track and Dee C Lee (Style Council) on the chorus, plus a guest spot from Guru's Gang Starr Foundation cohort Big Shug. Guru's verse is pure determination — keep moving, stay locked in, seize the day.\n\nhttps://timeisillmatic.me/2016/11/22/guru-jazzmatazz-volume1-may-18-1993/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656427, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656427/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:25:03-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia600809.us.archive.org/11/items/mbid-c2b06b3b-9cc8-462c-9ea5-bb85d735cfd6/mbid-c2b06b3b-9cc8-462c-9ea5-bb85d735cfd6-44865551469_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721903.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-c2b06b3b-9cc8-462c-9ea5-bb85d735cfd6/mbid-c2b06b3b-9cc8-462c-9ea5-bb85d735cfd6-44865551469_thumb250.jpg", "song": "CAMERAS", "track_id": "d9e1736b-dffc-4dce-8696-c4e388179b49", "recording_id": "d2171a59-a97c-4817-9fe8-d0760f9f63b0", "artist": "Isaiah Rashad feat. 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The track sits on \"IT'S BEEN AWFUL,\" Rashad's third album and first in five years, out May 1 on Top Dawg Entertainment and Warner — a record the Chattanooga rapper made after retreating from public life following what NPR called \"a very private betrayal.\"\n \nhttps://www.medicineboxmag.com/post/isaiah-rashads-cameras-lyrics-explained-fame-memory-and-the-fear-of-being-forgotten\nhttps://www.isaiahrashad.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656426, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656426/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:22:12-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn720801.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-c88f9195-ae1e-408b-829a-ad85d1e373c7/mbid-c88f9195-ae1e-408b-829a-ad85d1e373c7-44685240210_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn720801.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-c88f9195-ae1e-408b-829a-ad85d1e373c7/mbid-c88f9195-ae1e-408b-829a-ad85d1e373c7-44685240210_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Carry On", "track_id": "524025c1-72b5-40a3-b40b-fdb18ee2e177", "recording_id": "0843e223-aec4-4cd8-91de-d83ec5929f68", "artist": "Jungle", "artist_ids": [ "6bbb3983-ce8a-4971-96e0-7cae73268fc4" ], "album": "Sunshine", "release_id": "c88f9195-ae1e-408b-829a-ad85d1e373c7", "release_group_id": "0e446f39-1c6c-4ab7-a926-7d0cd92d0529", "labels": [ "Caiola Records" ], "label_ids": [ "32dc4101-1ddf-4c46-bd82-eee0e1179eb7" ], "release_date": "2026-08-14", "rotation_status": "Medium", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Jungle is rolling into Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena on October 3, then doing two nights at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on October 6 and 7, all in support of their fifth album \"Sunshine\" (out August 14 on Caiola/AWAL). \"Carry On\" is the lead single, premiered as BBC Radio 1's Hottest Record back in March — Lydia Kitto's voice carrying the emotional core over Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland's signature production. 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I'm the love of your life. Why are you kissing somebody else?\" It's one of a series of high-drama personas across \"Superbloom,\" her sixth album.\n\nhttps://exclaim.ca/music/article/jessie-ware-superbloom-interview\n\nCatch Jessie Ware live:\n* San Francisco on October 16 & 17 at The Warfield", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
