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The band's name was derived in part from the phrase \"The Disposable Heroes of Hypocrisy\", used in some Socialist literature. -- Franti and Tse worked with Consolidated producer Mark Pistel to program the beats for “Hypocrisy.” Pistel’s production for Consolidated combined pop, industrial, and hip-hop. He ditched the pop influence for the Disposable Heroes, instead going for a Bomb Squad-meets-Ministry sound.: https://www.rapreviews.com/2013/02/disposable-heroes-of-hiphoprisy-hypocrisy-is-the-greatest-luxury/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3606370, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3606370/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-19T12:01:49-08:00", "show": 65699, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65699/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/08653ec3-6793-49b9-9d70-ee0fca9b8261/10062323922-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/08653ec3-6793-49b9-9d70-ee0fca9b8261/10062323922-250.jpg", "song": "Great Blacks", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "fff54d8f-c6df-4645-a9bb-77ea5ac90671", "artist": "Georgia Anne Muldrow", "artist_ids": [ "caf1cb4b-5bd0-4b4c-aecf-53de52cd18d1" ], "album": "A Thoughtiverse Unmarred", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "157f6ff9-f882-4757-b7ec-cb22d4a2f524", "labels": [ "Mello Music Group" ], "label_ids": [ "76efd859-3479-4c4a-a2ea-11740a0ab5b7" ], "release_date": "2015-05-19", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "In 2015, West Coast underground legend Georgia Anne Muldrow honored and celebrated Black ancestors.\nhttps://georgiaannemuldrow.bandcamp.com/\n\nLearn more here: \nhttps://www.jetmag.com/entertainment/georgia-anne-muldrow-debuts-great-blacks/\n\nAnd check out a 2019 KEXP live in-studio performance: \nhttps://youtu.be/T152M2m_8i8", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3606369, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3606369/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-19T11:56:11-08:00", "show": 65699, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65699/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/daa89cce-3e72-4e6a-a4dc-0337dee8f9cf/12882995749-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/daa89cce-3e72-4e6a-a4dc-0337dee8f9cf/12882995749-250.jpg", "song": "Betray My Heart", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "1e8ffca9-4a7a-4c39-b80d-c343c1a85141", "artist": "D’Angelo and The Vanguard", "artist_ids": [ "b66771cc-45fa-4a32-b14f-5337d7223d7a", "06c744b8-328d-46a3-96ea-7b98055c702f" ], "album": "Black Messiah", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "b3d96626-4d46-4012-b6cb-e8d8b192a4f1", "labels": [ "RCA" ], "label_ids": [ "1ca5ed29-e00b-4ea5-b817-0bcca0e04946" ], "release_date": "2014-12-15", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "RIP D'Angelo\n---\nThe 2014 follow-up album - 14 years later - to 2000's 'Voodoo', 'Black Messiah' was produced and mostly written by D'Angelo, who collaborated with musicians including percussionist Questlove, bassist Pino Palladino, guitarist Isaiah Sharkey, and horn player Roy Hargrove.\n---\nhttps://www.rcarecords.com/artist/dangelo/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3606368, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3606368/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-19T11:55:08-08:00", "show": 65699, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65699/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Ashley’s Roachclip", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "2e839c26-5053-4474-852a-20c9d3ff1882", "artist": "The Soul Searchers", "artist_ids": [ "006044a1-f04e-40ae-bd9f-c084837a771b" ], "album": "Salt of the Earth", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "713d16a8-e8a5-3cd0-a29f-6d3d953b9c6d", "labels": [ "Sussex" ], "label_ids": [ "feb8b4fb-5ac8-447c-b09c-a9329d39d63b" ], "release_date": "1974-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The D.C.-based Soul Searchers were led by the soon-to-be “Godfather of Go-Go” himself, Chuck Brown. Learn about this 1974 album here.: https://realgonemusic.com/products/the-soul-searchers-salt-of-the-earth-lp\n--\nOne of the most widely-sampled drum loops ever occurs between 3:30 and 3:50 on this instrumental joint.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3606366, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3606366/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-19T11:50:41-08:00", "show": 65699, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65699/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3606365, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3606365/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-19T11:46:43-08:00", "show": 65699, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65699/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Pacifics", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "7ef87e0b-cfc2-4d0f-b712-1f4ee9270aaf", "artist": "Digable Planets", "artist_ids": [ "ff44f779-74ab-48f8-aac3-39ebe8f7c18e" ], "album": "Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space)", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "2836fcb0-2fd3-3de8-b7cc-53141d666894", "labels": [ "Pendulum Records" ], "label_ids": [ "c3ab5351-dd5f-4536-8bf5-9927a080b507" ], "release_date": "1993-03-25", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Out to Liam in Beacon, NY!\n\nThis amazing song featuring Seattle's Ishmael Butler samples Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes track \"Devika (Goddess)\" from Liston Smith's 1975 album 'Visions of a New World'.\n\nWatch the trio - Seattle's Ishmael \"Butterfly\" Butler, Mary Ann \"Ladybug Mecca\" Vieira (from Silver Spring, Maryland), and Craig \"Doodlebug\" Irving (from Philadelphia) - perform live for KEXP in 2016 from the Kex Hostel in Iceland: \nhttps://youtu.be/YTOkwV_iNEE", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3606363, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3606363/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-19T11:41:30-08:00", "show": 65699, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65699/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Free", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "71d45cc1-df8c-4ee2-9449-d86a424b6738", "artist": "SAULT", "artist_ids": [ "23b19bc5-813e-4456-bbae-ac3ca118f535" ], "album": "UNTITLED (Rise)", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "c24db83b-e929-4dbf-b270-6344a7ea4fea", "labels": [ "Forever Living Originals" ], "label_ids": [ "81e61c90-28f2-4dcb-b656-cac924dfa331" ], "release_date": "2020-09-18", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This song was written by producer Inflo (Dean Josiah Cover) and his wife Cleo Sol (Cleopatra Zvezdana Nikolic). \n--", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3606362, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3606362/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-19T11:38:08-08:00", "show": 65699, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65699/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/b95151ff-e3e8-4eff-8708-079e782d3498/15043463152-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/b95151ff-e3e8-4eff-8708-079e782d3498/15043463152-250.jpg", "song": "Young, Gifted and Black", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "60301e22-61bb-4954-9640-44a369ed722a", "artist": "Aretha Franklin", "artist_ids": [ "2f9ecbed-27be-40e6-abca-6de49d50299e" ], "album": "Young, Gifted and Black", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "f62ec525-7158-37c1-8535-6eaac62435b3", "labels": [ "Atlantic" ], "label_ids": [ "50c384a2-0b44-401b-b893-8181173339c7" ], "release_date": "1972-01-24", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"When [Aretha] sang “Young, Gifted and Black,” it brought about a pride in me. I’d never heard anyone say I was gifted. It was the first time I’d heard gifted and black in the same phrase. I felt proud. I felt valuable.\" - Leslie Mathews to the Detroit Free Press about the importance of this song to Black women following the death of Franklin in 2018: https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/aretha-franklin/2018/08/19/aretha-franklin-black-women-message/1026305002/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3606361, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3606361/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-19T11:32:27-08:00", "show": 65699, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65699/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Message From the Soul Sisters", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "5687396e-a638-476f-a15e-ba91437fd063", "artist": "Myra Barnes", "artist_ids": [ "4ec06e73-2dce-4165-8603-4d972e61e6c4" ], "album": "Message From a Soul Sister", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "9516b45f-ec58-4573-885a-3df5214ac277", "labels": [ "Famous Flame Records" ], "label_ids": [ "5f13557b-9151-49ff-92bd-7a034d99b37e" ], "release_date": "1992-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Hey what's up KEXP listeners! Reverend Dollars on the Midday Show today! Happy MLK Day to you all.\n\nVicki Anderson (born Myra Barnes; November 21, 1939 – July 3, 2023) was an American soul singer best known for her performances with the James Brown Revue. She recorded a number of singles under both her birth and stage names. She was the widow of Bobby Byrd and mother of musician Carleen Anderson.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3606359, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3606359/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-19T11:26:40-08:00", "show": 65699, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65699/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The American Promise", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "2bf8e971-7506-4f4d-84cf-90a85e4ff3c6", "artist": "RAMP", "artist_ids": [ "0faefc2b-eab0-43ea-a118-07de01e2517b" ], "album": "Come Into Knowledge", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "0c0a5c92-2b43-308a-af60-faf44960f4e6", "labels": [ "Verve" ], "label_ids": [ "99a24d71-54c1-4d3f-88cc-00fbcc4fce83" ], "release_date": "1977-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "A group that was based in Cincinnati and also an acronym for \"Roy Ayers Music Productions,\" Ramp released one album in 1977 that didn't do all that much upon its release. However, decades later, as appreciation for anything bearing the mark of jazz-funk legend Roy Ayers has increased, the album has become a revered rare groove classic. Supported by the excellent \"Daylight\" and a version of Ayers' \"Everybody Loves the Sunshine,\" two anti-gravity soul/jazz-funk pearls, the rare album has been known to fetch extremely high prices among collectors. (It was reissued on CD in Japan in early 2007.) The group — bassist Nate White, drummer John Manuel, guitarist Landy Shores, and vocalists Sibel Thrasher and Sharon Matthews — folded after the album's release.\n\nCredit/Link:\nhttp://www.wefunkradio.com/song/play/613_au/ramp/the+american+promise", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3606358, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3606358/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-19T11:25:19-08:00", "show": 65699, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65699/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Eat Your Greens", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Parlor Greens", "artist_ids": [ "9d13baba-2e96-448e-ac2b-bf38fc189827" ], "album": "Eat Your Greens", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2026-01-01", "rotation_status": "Light", "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Playing:\n- San Francisco (The Independent) March 20th\n- Seattle (Hidden Hall) April 3rd\n\nPerhaps one of the most exciting and anticipated projects in the world of heavy instrumental music is Parlor Greens, a fresh organ trio on Colemine Records! Tim Carman (GA-20) on drums, Jimmy James (True Loves, formerly Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio) on guitar, and Adam Scone (Scone Cash Players, The Sugarman 3) on organ. https://parlorgreens.bandcamp.com/\n\nhttps://www.parlorgreens.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3606357, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3606357/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-19T11:23:07-08:00", "show": 65699, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65699/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3606356, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3606356/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-19T11:11:11-08:00", "show": 65699, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65699/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Zombie", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "2348f264-c970-4673-9483-2dbbb900cf8b", "artist": "Fẹla and Afrika 70", "artist_ids": [ "6514cffa-fbe0-4965-ad88-e998ead8a82a", "dc45f2dc-ef36-4a7a-aa52-97495fca8ced" ], "album": "Zombie", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "517cbfb2-2279-4af9-8ca7-1c4c1a444925", "labels": [ "Kalakuta Sunrise" ], "label_ids": [ "cd0685df-667a-45f1-a612-c6ace8ada777" ], "release_date": "1976-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Released in the UK in 1977, Fela Kuti's 'Zombie' was a scathing attack on Nigerian soldiers using the zombie metaphor to describe the methods of the Nigerian military. The album was a smash hit with the people and infuriated the government, setting off a vicious attack against the Kalakuta Republic (a commune that Fela had established in Nigeria), during which one thousand soldiers attacked the commune. Kuti was severely beaten, and his elderly mother was thrown from a window, causing fatal injuries.\n\nhttps://felakuti.bandcamp.com", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3606355, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3606355/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-19T11:06:25-08:00", "show": 65699, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65699/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Nelson Mandela", "track_id": "c1d89d02-1d60-3e82-9955-9294d84cfffa", "recording_id": "6f09cede-e86c-4406-aa6f-ab9bae20bac4", "artist": "The Special A.K.A.", "artist_ids": [ "1672ddbe-83ca-4395-822c-1c32512bf128" ], "album": "In the Studio", "release_id": "24b9eeeb-239f-4546-a274-185a81a380b2", "release_group_id": "be59d73e-508b-3405-a13c-622b7c7926ec", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1984-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Going out to Mike in Oakland!\n\nIn this 1984 song, Jerry Dammers demands the release of Mandela, who was the leader of the African National Congress (ANC). He had been imprisoned by the South African government since 1962 on charges of sabotage and attempting to overthrow the government. Not surprisingly, this song couldn't be played freely in South Africa. 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