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GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=3100&ordering=-airdate
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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. Their 2023 album \"Volcano\" earned them their first BRIT Award.\n\nhttps://climatepledgearena.com/jungle-sets-to-tour-north-america-the-u-k-europe-and-australia/\n\nCatch Jungle live:\n* Seattle on October 3 at Climate Pledge Arena\n* Berkeley on October 6 & 7 at The Greek Theatre", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656424, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656424/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:18:45-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721901.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-0c875d02-130d-4704-8c9b-a6a97cd190c6/mbid-0c875d02-130d-4704-8c9b-a6a97cd190c6-44892160270_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800604.us.archive.org/14/items/mbid-0c875d02-130d-4704-8c9b-a6a97cd190c6/mbid-0c875d02-130d-4704-8c9b-a6a97cd190c6-44892160270_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Don’t You Know Who I Am?", "track_id": "383d1e38-a4ba-4c2d-b949-308f1f0104af", "recording_id": "b5ae46fc-4a92-4b6c-8b2e-1adde5aeb392", "artist": "Jessie Ware", "artist_ids": [ "6ed40778-8d03-4a5c-ad35-93cf814627c9" ], "album": "Superbloom", "release_id": "0c875d02-130d-4704-8c9b-a6a97cd190c6", "release_group_id": "f14a7a20-c82a-4746-aa59-d6886461b459", "labels": [ "EMI" ], "label_ids": [ "c029628b-6633-439e-bcee-ed02e8a338f7" ], "release_date": "2026-04-17", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Don't You Know Who I Am?\" is sung in character — Jessie Ware adopting an alter-ego she's named Shirley Bloom, whom she describes as \"like Blanche DuBois, but like a Mediterranean, kind of late '70s caftan-wearing bejeweled, overtanned lady.\" In the song, Shirley walks into a discotheque, spots a man with someone else, and asks: \"Don't you know who I am? 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" }, { "id": 3656423, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656423/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:15:36-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721800.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-f4d87a1d-5b0b-4d1c-b3ca-d985fc56fdda/mbid-f4d87a1d-5b0b-4d1c-b3ca-d985fc56fdda-34759509677_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721800.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-f4d87a1d-5b0b-4d1c-b3ca-d985fc56fdda/mbid-f4d87a1d-5b0b-4d1c-b3ca-d985fc56fdda-34759509677_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Mad World", "track_id": "4f0d6539-c2e8-38f2-9a85-633aaaa90404", "recording_id": "5f2aabea-b214-4567-a8a9-89ed787b0001", "artist": "Tears for Fears", "artist_ids": [ "7c7f9c94-dee8-4903-892b-6cf44652e2de" ], "album": "The Hurting", "release_id": "f4d87a1d-5b0b-4d1c-b3ca-d985fc56fdda", "release_group_id": "6901aa79-3c37-32eb-8bd2-4061049b40c5", "labels": [ "Mercury Records", "Phonogram" ], "label_ids": [ "995428e7-81b6-41dd-bd38-5a7a0ece8ad6", "1a181fea-ac2f-4a39-8e76-1f9a8760573b" ], "release_date": "1983-03-07", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Mad World\" was never meant to be a single. Roland Orzabal had written it as the B-side to \"Pale Shelter,\" and it would have stayed there if Mercury A&R man David Bates hadn't pushed for it to be flipped. Released as the band's third single in September 1982, it climbed to No. 3 on the UK chart and became Tears for Fears' first international hit — a full two years before \"Shout\" and \"Everybody Wants to Rule the World\" turned them into stadium-sized stars. \n\nhttps://consequence.net/2021/10/tears-for-fears-mad-world-story-behind-song/\nhttps://tearsforfears.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656422, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656422/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:14:55-07:00", "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": 3656421, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656421/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:09:12-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710305.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-04bcec83-12f9-4821-8344-ececd622e64d/mbid-04bcec83-12f9-4821-8344-ececd622e64d-44733265844_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710305.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-04bcec83-12f9-4821-8344-ececd622e64d/mbid-04bcec83-12f9-4821-8344-ececd622e64d-44733265844_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Ne Noya (Daphni mix)", "track_id": "8b10837a-74f1-4237-adfb-8ab2419bf69b", "recording_id": "515ba5b5-5d5f-495e-8b36-b48ec72bea65", "artist": "Daphni", "artist_ids": [ "859216c4-5d01-479b-b6c3-e20cc591a86a" ], "album": "Dj-Kicks", "release_id": "04bcec83-12f9-4821-8344-ececd622e64d", "release_group_id": "931ec554-6cec-446b-8091-fd4226f3bb47", "labels": [ "!K7" ], "label_ids": [ "893364ff-1830-4694-833d-93751f14f984" ], "release_date": "2026-03-27", "rotation_status": "Light", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Daphni is Caribou — Dan Snaith's other name, the one he saves for the dancefloor. \"Ne Noya (Daphni Mix)\" is one of his most beloved edits, a chopped reworking of a 1973 Togolese single by Cos-Ber-Zam that gets unearthed every few years to remind everyone how it's done. It just resurfaced on Sofia Kourtesis's brand-new \"DJ-Kicks\" entry, out March 27 on !K7 — a mix the Berlin-based Peruvian producer built around the grief of losing her mother.\n\nhttps://sofiakourtesis.bandcamp.com/album/dj-kicks-sofia-kourtesis-2\nhttps://caribouband.bandcamp.com/\nhttps://www.caribou.fm/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656420, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656420/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:05:23-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/30e33db5-d24a-4e5d-8362-ca6cd06ec9bd/14709491805-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/30e33db5-d24a-4e5d-8362-ca6cd06ec9bd/14709491805-250.jpg", "song": "Orere-Elejigbo", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "3d53a7d9-9437-470a-895c-b140f85bd7a5", "artist": "Lijadu Sisters", "artist_ids": [ "9c5c0632-dbef-4674-a90c-af04412a1508" ], "album": "Horizon Unlimited", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "7055667b-1934-4be3-a4ad-52bcd7af13ef", "labels": [ "Knitting Factory Records" ], "label_ids": [ "93c300d9-12f9-4e3a-9809-ef1549896cce" ], "release_date": "1979-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Orere-Elejigbo\" tells, on its surface, a beautiful Yoruba folktale: a couple unable to conceive visits a native doctor, who instructs them to consult the god Ifa. Ifa promises they'll have a daughter who, when grown, will marry whomever she chooses — and she ultimately marries a king. But the Lijadu Sisters embedded a second message inside it: a coded plea to the Nigerian government to stop going to war and to stop destroying its citizens. Slow-burning Afrobeat as political critique, hidden in plain sight.\n\nhttps://jivetimerecords.com/2024/09/lijadu-sisters-horizon-unlimited-afrodisia-1979/\nhttps://thelijadusisters.bandcamp.com/album/horizon-unlimited", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656419, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656419/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T14:03:00-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Hot Pants - I’m Coming, I’m Coming, I’m Coming", "track_id": "70337021-a130-3615-a2b5-cdafbec7e809", "recording_id": "70cc9c21-c52f-4e5c-aa07-7c6d3e8506c3", "artist": "Bobby Byrd", "artist_ids": [ "ed3af6a3-1db0-48e3-bb39-2730b22cf8d9" ], "album": "Hot Pants - I’m Coming, I’m Coming, I’m Coming", "release_id": "c47b907c-8f3b-447e-ac4b-e1ec76e211db", "release_group_id": "6e9b5529-92f8-3835-9136-4cb6216590df", "labels": [ "Mojo" ], "label_ids": [ "011136ff-021d-445c-8c53-3c817d3d80fd" ], "release_date": "1971-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Few partnerships in soul history have a stranger origin than Bobby Byrd and James Brown's. The two met in Georgia in 1952, when Brown was an inmate at a youth prison serving time for burglarizing cars and Byrd was on a local baseball team that came in to play the prison squad. Byrd befriended him, his family helped arrange Brown's release into their care, and Brown joined Byrd's gospel group — the foundation of what became The Famous Flames. This 1971 single was cut during their peak, when Byrd was also Brown's right-hand co-writer.\n\nhttps://www.npr.org/2007/09/21/14592442/a-tribute-to-james-browns-collaborator-friend", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656418, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656418/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T13:59:59-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Tighten Up", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "321bdedd-6528-413d-bd13-70715c80f4be", "artist": "Archie Bell & the Drells", "artist_ids": [ "9b89f290-eb18-4bc3-977a-e20c7d90db2d" ], "album": "Tighten Up", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "046a4823-7e32-327a-8135-068aa6d324a4", "labels": [ "Atlantic" ], "label_ids": [ "50c384a2-0b44-401b-b893-8181173339c7" ], "release_date": "1968-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Archie Bell & the Drells' \"Tighten Up\" hit #1 in America 58 years ago today, May 18, 1968. And here's the unbelievable part: Bell was in the U.S. Army when it happened. He'd recorded the song in Houston back in August 1967, shipped out, and was lying in a military hospital in Germany recovering from a leg injury when \"Tighten Up\" topped the charts. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame lists it as the only American #1 by an active Vietnam-era soldier.\n\nhttps://soultracks.com/artist/archie_bell/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656417, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656417/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T13:59:00-07:00", "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": 3656416, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656416/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T13:55:05-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia600509.us.archive.org/10/items/mbid-414db7b5-268b-4173-b4c5-7bcdfce82caf/mbid-414db7b5-268b-4173-b4c5-7bcdfce82caf-44081543533_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia600509.us.archive.org/10/items/mbid-414db7b5-268b-4173-b4c5-7bcdfce82caf/mbid-414db7b5-268b-4173-b4c5-7bcdfce82caf-44081543533_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Move in Silence", "track_id": "318b5f45-5936-4374-b672-a981bf1cd66d", "recording_id": "f6f6a8e9-80ce-4110-b4d0-96ab151cc687", "artist": "Hannah Lew", "artist_ids": [ "51acd5b1-a324-4125-b71e-a8c6e21dcf84" ], "album": "Hannah Lew", "release_id": "414db7b5-268b-4173-b4c5-7bcdfce82caf", "release_group_id": "24cef81f-e0c2-4f9f-9342-b0b2c1be0ae8", "labels": [ "Night School Records" ], "label_ids": [ "c1c4c804-e3cf-4312-ad4f-e6d498a2f304" ], "release_date": "2026-04-10", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Hannah Lew was featured on Midnight in a Perfect World last month, around the April release of her self-titled solo debut on Night School. \"Move in Silence\" is track seven on a record that's her first solo work after years fronting Grass Widow and Cold Beat. Over crystalline synthesizer flourishes and a menacing bass, she intones, \"there's a war outside, just out of view,\" capturing the quiet dichotomy that runs through the whole album.\n\n https://www.kexp.org/read/2026/4/21/midnight-in-a-perfect-world-hannah-lew/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656415, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656415/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T13:49:05-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710703.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-0c70ca8c-dd03-4910-a1d3-3032f3935ebd/mbid-0c70ca8c-dd03-4910-a1d3-3032f3935ebd-4828871592_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710703.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-0c70ca8c-dd03-4910-a1d3-3032f3935ebd/mbid-0c70ca8c-dd03-4910-a1d3-3032f3935ebd-4828871592_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Toh-Sui", "track_id": "c77e39a3-938c-36ba-a398-417058f51355", "recording_id": "9483b004-e971-4794-8802-50c1e36bab89", "artist": "DJ Krush & 近藤等則", "artist_ids": [ "2e0f7014-ce5e-4ce1-a3d9-f52c249482dc", "38d16213-25ba-450d-8665-4e08548e62e3" ], "album": "Ki-Oku", "release_id": "0c70ca8c-dd03-4910-a1d3-3032f3935ebd", "release_group_id": "6deaea4a-1fff-397e-8e5a-4928a1cbe0c1", "labels": [ "Instinct Records" ], "label_ids": [ "dee0a0c0-eb07-47e8-aadc-f3b483cfad6c" ], "release_date": "1999-03-29", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For Andrew in Pacifica!\n\nAndrew's words: \n\"It's one of those rare tunes (like Eddie Harris's \"Listen Here\") that are a perfect combination of chill and energetic. Great inspiration for creative work.\"\n\nWe couldn't agree more :)", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656414, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656414/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T13:44:38-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn711104.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-25196cfe-3bb9-47ea-a70e-cf227c6cf17f/mbid-25196cfe-3bb9-47ea-a70e-cf227c6cf17f-27544805167_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn711104.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-25196cfe-3bb9-47ea-a70e-cf227c6cf17f/mbid-25196cfe-3bb9-47ea-a70e-cf227c6cf17f-27544805167_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Gooey", "track_id": "b65444b7-6a63-48e5-96cc-2292a4db1ba5", "recording_id": "52032938-7ee1-4375-9a6b-c349f0a6c1af", "artist": "Glass Animals", "artist_ids": [ "20395131-fbde-43ce-b141-b700cfdae99c" ], "album": "Zaba", "release_id": "25196cfe-3bb9-47ea-a70e-cf227c6cf17f", "release_group_id": "75f62ce7-2b19-4e54-8e53-c043eb847650", "labels": [ "Harvest Records" ], "label_ids": [ "290923fc-df46-4528-911a-8bfd9b671980" ], "release_date": "2014-06-10", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Zaba\" is short for \"The Zabajaba Jungle,\" a 1987 children's book by William Steig, the same Steig who wrote \"Shrek.\" Dave Bayley took the title and ran with it, leaning into hot, humid jungle-psych textures and recording ambient sounds from a field near his house, the chewing of rabbits, and percussion from kitchen utensils and children's toys to give the album its hypnotic character. \"Gooey\" is the platinum-certified breakout from that record.\n\nhttps://www.glassanimals.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656413, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656413/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T13:40:16-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn720706.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-02138cc8-9146-4614-9c36-4d121489bf5c/mbid-02138cc8-9146-4614-9c36-4d121489bf5c-41201232242_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn720706.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-02138cc8-9146-4614-9c36-4d121489bf5c/mbid-02138cc8-9146-4614-9c36-4d121489bf5c-41201232242_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Unbelievable", "track_id": "c07c1510-0ee6-40e2-aee4-d4d463427fd8", "recording_id": "cad0935f-809c-4def-b8d7-fb5897f10279", "artist": "DJ Koze & Ada", "artist_ids": [ "dd4458c8-6728-4a44-980c-48107fa72bb8", "86bb09f3-7ace-45dc-b26a-6833b18ecb85" ], "album": "Music Can Hear Us", "release_id": "02138cc8-9146-4614-9c36-4d121489bf5c", "release_group_id": "e45192fe-a86a-426d-88c5-55fe49b6b1a2", "labels": [ "Pampa Records" ], "label_ids": [ "41e0694b-e7ab-4b6e-8f07-c342ef4dfb56" ], "release_date": "2025-04-04", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For Skyler in Mercer Island!\n\nDJ Koze calls Ada his \"mental muse\" — high praise from the most quietly idiosyncratic producer in German electronic music. The Cologne singer and producer (real name Michaela Dippel) came up through the Areal Records scene before settling in on Koze's Pampa imprint, and on \"Unbelievable\" the two of them spend 4:30 in what Pampa called \"an infinite space where familiar logic no longer applies.\" It drifts like a feverish dream sequence somewhere between beauty and unease — a fitting snapshot of \"Music Can Hear Us,\" his first album in seven years.\n\nhttps://pamparecords.com/blog/2025/01/16/koze-ada-unbelievable\nhttps://djkoze.bandcamp.com/album/music-can-hear-us-pampalp016d \n\nKoze directed the track’s video himself, and it’s a surreal neon-noir vision full of masked faces.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX0zwHuQphA", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
