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GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=3120&ordering=-airdate
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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" }, { "id": 3656411, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656411/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T13:37:05-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721606.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-85b2d077-5739-4844-86e6-eed1527b39ac/mbid-85b2d077-5739-4844-86e6-eed1527b39ac-41909825194_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721606.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-85b2d077-5739-4844-86e6-eed1527b39ac/mbid-85b2d077-5739-4844-86e6-eed1527b39ac-41909825194_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Idiot in the Park", "track_id": "3fe0dc94-b95e-4db2-a691-02595d29df36", "recording_id": "3c466784-f21a-48f4-af59-5e545ddead92", "artist": "Nourished by Time", "artist_ids": [ "6420dd6b-8232-42db-9cb9-90bec8f40e91" ], "album": "The Passionate Ones", "release_id": "85b2d077-5739-4844-86e6-eed1527b39ac", "release_group_id": "a0f0cb15-7873-44f4-a0d5-89f4f11e61fc", "labels": [ "XL Recordings" ], "label_ids": [ "14221f01-8939-4ea0-b8f1-b5a21beae80a" ], "release_date": "2025-08-22", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Marcus Brown — Nourished by Time — is one of the few working pop artists with leftist politics openly stitched into his songwriting. As he put it in The Face: \"Name one socialist pop star — it doesn't exist. I can be a socialist rock star or something like that.\" \"The Passionate Ones\" is preoccupied with leftist ideals, workers' rights, existentialism, and heartbreak in equal measure, and \"Idiot in the Park\" is one of its sharpest pop moments — a freelance psychic and the great line, \"I need a love that leaves a scar.\"\n\nhttps://diymag.com/in-deep/nourished-by-time-the-passionate-ones-in-deep\nhttps://nourishedbytime.bandcamp.com/album/the-passionate-ones", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3656412, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656412/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T13:36:31-07:00", "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": 3656408, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3656408/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-18T13:32:05-07:00", "show": 66752, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66752/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721902.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-fa380661-5a3b-44c7-ae56-5546ca2c9ae1/mbid-fa380661-5a3b-44c7-ae56-5546ca2c9ae1-44849130506_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721902.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-fa380661-5a3b-44c7-ae56-5546ca2c9ae1/mbid-fa380661-5a3b-44c7-ae56-5546ca2c9ae1-44849130506_thumb250.jpg", "song": "No Feeling", "track_id": "801f81bd-4da4-41e7-b0bc-4b1c931b8d9a", "recording_id": "55e76b8e-3dfd-4044-838e-fd8b5579d21b", "artist": "American Football feat. 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Kevin Drew told the Globe and Mail this was the band's \"first-ever group interview,\" which tells you something about how the collective usually works. \"The Call\" is the third single from the record — propulsive, layered, sung by Andrew Whiteman.\n\nhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/music/article-broken-social-scene-remember-the-humans-band-album-indie-rock/\nCatch Broken Social Scene live:\n* San Francisco on June 21 & 22 at SF Masonic Auditorium\n* Woodinville, WA on June 25 at Chateau Ste. 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Records" ], "label_ids": [ "c595c289-47ce-4fba-b999-b87503e8cb71" ], "release_date": "1992-01-14", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Last September Saint Etienne released their final album, \"International,\" on Heavenly, and their UK farewell tour, \"The Long Goodbye,\" kicks off in September. Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley, and Pete Wiggs aren't splitting up — they're still the best of friends after 35 years of records — they just don't want to overstay. As Stanley put it in NME, \"It's a good point to stop — let's not mess it up now.\" US dates have been hinted at but not yet announced.\n\nhttps://www.nme.com/news/music/saint-etienne-interview-final-album-farewell-tour-lets-not-fuck-it-up-it-up-3916360\nhttps://heavenlyrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/saint-etienne-international http://www.saintetienne.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
