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I don’t normally give this much context on what inspired a song, but how the idea for this song was born was very special and I wanted to share some of how it came to be.\n\n\"We had just moved into a new place and [our son] Kienan had mentioned a string of star lights they wanted us to get to hang from our deck. Although my wife April never ordered them they somehow arrived a few weeks after Kienan passed away.\n\n\"It was of course really difficult to open the package. It took us months to get the courage to hang them, but when we finally did we noticed that sometimes when we talked about Kienan the lights would start blinking off and on. Our friends and family would try to figure it out or fix them, but we knew it was a sign that Kienan was still with us and that some bonds can’t be broken. So that become the 'Star String Radio.' I hope everyone can find some hope and healing through the song the way we did.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3597265, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597265/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T17:23:45-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "H.O.O.D (Radio Mix)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "eddfb170-cb7f-4d33-8323-3cbe381f791a", "artist": "KNEECAP", "artist_ids": [ "6ac275dd-eb37-42cf-9a60-6b147320c7be" ], "album": "H.O.O.D 2025", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "edef46bb-5790-4ef4-acc1-06878d1b281f", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2025-01-27", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Kneecap are an Irish hip hop trio from Belfast, Northern Ireland, composed of Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí, the stage names of Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh, Naoise Ó Cairealláin and J. J. Ó Dochartaigh, respectively.\n\nThe trio rap in a mixture of English and Irish, and come from a place where communicating in your native language could, at one time, result in your death. Their first single \"C.E.A.R.T.A.\" (cearta is Irish for \"rights\") was released in 2017, followed by their debut studio album 3CAG, in 2018.\n\nKneecap's second studio album, Fine Art, was released in 2024, and a biographical film about the group was released later the same year.\n\nThe group has been at the centre of public debates about free speech and the expression of political opinions within Ireland and the UK. Their themes focus on working class Belfast youth culture, Irish republicanism and Irish language rights. In concert, they have made statements supporting Palestinian nationalism.\n\nTheir name is derived from the extralegal punishment attacks meted out by Northern Ireland paramilitary groups. The name \"Kneecap\" is word play, referring to both the practice of kneecapping, a punishment of gunshots to the knees which Republican paramilitaries would inflict on what they described as \"political\" and \"normal\" criminals, including drug dealers and others, as a form of vigilante justice, and the Irish phrase \"ní cheapaim\" (which sounds like \"kneecap him\"), meaning \"I don't think so.\"\n\nMóglaí said it is intentionally ironic that a group with the name Kneecap sings \"about things that would get us kneecapped.\" https://tinyurl.com/ycka7zpm", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3597264, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597264/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T17:21:44-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Tylenol", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Jesse Welles", "artist_ids": [], "album": null, "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": null, "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Kevin Cole's Artist of the Year!!!\n\nThis Arkansas artist is donating all profits from his sales on Bandcamp to No Kid Hungry and the Arkansas Food Bank.\n\nOn his Bandcamp, Welles writes, \"Through the end of this year(2025)all profits from downloads on bandcamp will be donated to No Kid Hungry and Arkansas Food Bank. @arfoodbank is crucial for the 25% of kids that live below the poverty line in Arkansas. @nokidhungry feeds millions of kids across the usa. There’s no good reason for a kid to go hungry in this country. Thanks for listenin to my music, thanks for givin back peace y'all.\n\nWelles received four Grammy nominations for the 2026 awards (announced in late 2025) for his work in Americana and Folk, specifically for his album Middle and his iPhone-recorded Under The Powerlines, earning nods for Best Americana Performance (\"Horses\"), Best Americana Roots Song (\"Middle\"), Best Americana Album (Middle), and Best Folk Album (Under The Powerlines).", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3597263, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597263/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T17:20:20-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The List", "track_id": "14a17ef2-146e-4762-8355-dd99a9a1a83e", "recording_id": "c8f10b6a-9264-43d0-8150-7feee77d3538", "artist": "Jesse Welles", "artist_ids": [ "7c6eca15-4e98-4016-95cd-a238d840bca1" ], "album": "No Kings", "release_id": "528dfa9d-7864-49e5-8bd1-d0e5d62db1f5", "release_group_id": "9e30100f-9662-4c35-b4ab-cd0369006bca", "labels": [ "[no label]" ], "label_ids": [ "157afde4-4bf5-4039-8ad2-5a15acc85176" ], "release_date": "2025-10-17", "rotation_status": "Light", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Kevin Cole's Artist of the Year!!!\n\nJesse Welles received four Grammy nominations for the 2026 awards (announced in late 2025) for his work in Americana and Folk, specifically for his album Middle and his iPhone-recorded Under The Powerlines, earning nods for Best Americana Performance (\"Horses\"), Best Americana Roots Song (\"Middle\"), Best Americana Album (Middle), and Best Folk Album (Under The Powerlines).", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3597262, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597262/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T17:18:18-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3597259, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597259/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T17:11:36-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "People's Faces", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Kae Tempest", "artist_ids": [], "album": null, "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": null, "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Live from the Ypsigrock Festival, Sicily, Italy.\n\nOf the song, Tempest reveals, \"'People's Faces' is the final song on my recent album The Book Of Traps And Lessons. It's where all of the agonising and soul-searching of the entire record culminates in this very simple expression of deep love for people’s faces.\n\n\"We wanted the song to have the possibility of connecting with as many people as possible. So, we made a version that was shorter and was more song-like, we are calling it the 'Streatham Version' as that is where Dan [Carey] is based. I really hope that it connects with you and that you feel it.\" https://tinyurl.com/ykrwhef3", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3597258, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597258/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T17:06:41-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Fairy in a Bottle", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "77c63625-da0c-4b36-b35a-e9711882c86c", "artist": "Jacob Alon", "artist_ids": [ "86621e68-ef8f-45ac-a6d0-b1824beb2666" ], "album": "In Limerence", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "255d20ed-05cb-48b7-b547-dbe392513011", "labels": [ "Island Records" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2025-05-30", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Kevin Cole's #1 Album of the Year!\n\nJacob Alon was nominated for a 2025 Mercury Prize, which FarOut Magazine aptly describes as \"a win for industry outsiders. When we talk about the music industry being broken, a talent like Alon is exactly the type of artist we talk about being lost. Born in Fife and raised by a single mother on the border between a housing estate and a forest — it’s not the context the music industry often goes looking in. They also had to face up to the pain of being ostracised by their family for being non-binary, adding a whole new battle.\" https://tinyurl.com/ypzn7urm\n\nOf this Dan Carey-produced track, Scottish artist Jacob Alon shares, \"This song, for me, is a shedding of shame. It’s a soft hand tracing the stretch marks left behind by a once messy, awkward, painful, and frightening realisation of my queerness. It’s a memory of the unspoken ways in which my heart and body knew how to move; knew how to draw in close under a cloak of darkness to bridge canyons of hatred and fear with acts of love.\n\n\"I wrote this song the night after a party where my self-esteem had shattered into a million pieces. When, out of my face, I’d confessed to someone with my words, my precious words, how I had loved them all those years ago. I was half-expecting some big revelation or closure or acknowledgement, but it didn’t come. I would always be something they’d rather pretend didn’t happen.\n\n\"I wish I could tell little Cob how much joy and beauty was waiting for them on the other side of all that pain. I hope I can give the same love to anyone out there who’s still figuring things out. And I want to keep giving it to you – my beautiful, boundless, infinite queers. This song is for you. This song is for little Cob.\" https://tinyurl.com/475mtsrn", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3597257, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597257/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T17:00:27-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3597256, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597256/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T16:55:38-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "U Mukama Rođena", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "6c3a2ceb-75dc-4b76-8dd6-99bf71d9fae5", "artist": "Igor Savin", "artist_ids": [ "5165a1dc-6a00-40f5-a898-c81c21b357d8" ], "album": "YU Disco Expres", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "f39caca6-52e4-4af8-ac4f-ba054c4b5a37", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1979-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "70's music from Kevin's recent trip to Croatia for the Ship festival!\n\nIgor Savin, born in 1946 in Osijek, Croatia, Yugoslavia, was one of Croatia’s most respected composers and pioneers of electronic music, was a driving force in blending contemporary jazz with emerging electronic sounds. As an actor, he was known for his work in Konjanik (2003), Na istarski nacin (1985), and Aloa: Festivity of the Whores (1988).\n\nA classically-trained musician with a deep love for jazz, he left a lasting mark on the region’s music scene, working across film, TV, and avant-garde composition. He died on March 6th, 2024. https://tinyurl.com/43vn6ebj", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3597255, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597255/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T16:52:01-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Keep Pushing", "track_id": "f3b1db7e-828b-467b-8322-9aee4c6f00a3", "recording_id": "60b9fdf4-4c7f-47dc-85cf-8f9bdf8815b7", "artist": "clipping.", "artist_ids": [ "84ca8fa4-7cca-4948-a90a-cb44db29853d" ], "album": "Dead Channel Sky", "release_id": "4a18986d-1598-43a8-b15f-0340af442ffe", "release_group_id": "dc8005ec-e1ef-44fb-a1d6-ccb5083bc132", "labels": [ "Sub Pop Records" ], "label_ids": [ "38dc88de-7720-4100-9d5b-3cdc41b0c474" ], "release_date": "2025-03-14", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "#76 on KEXP Listeners' Top Voted Albums of the year!\n\nClipping (stylized as clipping.) is an experimental hip hop group from Los Angeles, California. The group consists of rapper Daveed Diggs and producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes. \n\nDiggs and Hutson met in grade school, and Hutson and Snipes were college roommates. The group began in 2009 as a remix project, with Hutson and Snipes taking a cappellas of mainstream rap artists and making power electronics and noise remixes of them to amuse themselves. Diggs joined in 2010 and began to write his own raps over their compositions.\n\nThey self-released their debut mixtape, midcity, on their website on February 5, 2013. Though their expectations were low, and despite minimal promotion, the album was well-received, and five months later, they signed to Sub Pop. \n\nTheir first album, CLPPNG, was released on June 10, 2014. https://tinyurl.com/5be2t25e", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3597252, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597252/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T16:45:56-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Drone:Nodrone (JOYCUT “Anti‐Gravitational” remix)", "track_id": "53301203-a1bc-41b1-a893-2d1eea05d7bb", "recording_id": "d6d37692-f520-4b16-8e5e-b7c9e71a73dc", "artist": "The Cure", "artist_ids": [ "69ee3720-a7cb-4402-b48d-a02c366f2bcf" ], "album": "Mixes of a Lost World", "release_id": "972a75f7-145f-4be0-9009-ad9a191faa87", "release_group_id": "0ef1d20b-847b-4034-9ec2-a9854cd1f9a8", "labels": [ "Polydor", "Lost Music Limited" ], "label_ids": [ "ce24ab18-1bd6-4293-a486-546d13d6a5e2", "53af8f7d-391b-45e6-a7e1-f0e5206d46db" ], "release_date": "2025-06-13", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "#10 on KEXP Listeners' Top Voted Albums of the year!\n\nThinking of Perry Bamonte, The Cure's longtime guitarist and keyboardist, who died at age 65 a few days ago after a short illness.\n\nBehold, JoyCut's beautiful and haunting Anti-Gravitational remix of \"Drone: No Drone,\" which comes from Mixes of a Lost World, the third remix album by The Cure. The album features 24 remixes of songs from the band's 2024 album Songs of a Lost World.\n\nThe band announced that all of its recording royalties of \"Mixes of a Lost World\" will benefit the charity War Child UK, that supports children living with the effects of war and conflict.\n\nJoyCut is an Italian electronic, dark wave, post-rock band based in Bologna. Their music includes a weaving of powerful sonic moments using a mass of electronics, orchestral breathings, cinematic saturations, tribal drumming, and industrial percussion with found objects from the urban landscape.\n\nJoyCut practices a green philosophy, and all of their production is 100% tied to a sustainable future. Frontman Pasco Pezzillo exhorts global citizens to speak out on issues of climate change, which ties into band's responsibility to be vocal and implement real, tangible solutions towards sustainability.\n\nJoyCut spoke in-depth with Kevin Cole about climate change, which you can revisit here: https://tinyurl.com/bsukp7bs \n\nIn 2023, JoyCut performed a blisteringly glorious set for us in our Live Room here at KEXP; check it out here: https://tinyurl.com/27nbr2u6", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3597251, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597251/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T16:41:43-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3597250, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597250/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T16:39:16-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Freak Mode", "track_id": "a9d724f6-2d26-4d33-ad5a-a55090adb90a", "recording_id": "e83a1384-7483-481d-9c6b-e9dc40c0be6d", "artist": "The Tubs", "artist_ids": [ "3f7e6b2a-720d-4781-b2cf-c0dd679693f0" ], "album": "Cotton Crown", "release_id": "14f241a2-ef07-4e74-bffd-df3e3ee15428", "release_group_id": "aebaa133-b873-4d65-b2b8-26cbb4aa7905", "labels": [ "Troubled Mind Records" ], "label_ids": [ "a2c2d18b-388c-40a8-b1f7-4c7dc177a21f" ], "release_date": "2025-03-07", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The Tubs' second album, Cotton Crown, sees the Celtic Jangle boyband venture into darker, more personal territory while continuing to hone their highly addictive brand of songcraft.\n\nOwen 'O' Williams delves further into his favorite themes of love-psychosis, unsympathetic mentally ill behavior, and the humiliations of being a musician in London. This time around, however, there’s a palpable sense of risk in his self assessments/confessions. https://tinyurl.com/3fbs6xsv\n\nThe Tubs played in the KEXP Live Room earlier this year; you can check out that in-studio session here: https://tinyurl.com/3rmzp2t5", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3597248, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597248/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T16:36:11-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Heartthrob", "track_id": "3a7dfe52-c7ae-4bb7-9c9a-6239240a316b", "recording_id": "19bebc62-145e-4258-a89a-926e65951ac9", "artist": "Indigo De Souza", "artist_ids": [ "a8d894ce-0e6b-4ddd-a49b-46f6330a590f" ], "album": "Precipice", "release_id": "fca312d6-4e8b-4544-860c-19e4eaff2baa", "release_group_id": "268d7fcd-59db-463c-bcea-905f2bb71fa2", "labels": [ "Loma Vista Recordings" ], "label_ids": [ "9c3ec056-57dd-4987-bb53-cbea027ef81c" ], "release_date": "2025-07-25", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "#62 on KEXP Listeners' Top Voted Albums of the year!\n\nIndigo De Souza will be performing March 6th at The Fillmore in San Francisco and March 10th at the Showbox in Seattle. \n\nOf this track, Indigo De Souza confides, \"I wrote 'Heartthrob' as a way to help process something that is often hard to talk about — the harmful ways I’ve been taken advantage of in my physical memory. Heartthrob is about harnessing anger, and turning it into something powerful and embodied.\n\n\"It’s about taking back my body and my experience. It’s a big f**k you to the abusers of the world. A sarcastic, angry cry for all bodies that have ever been touched in harmful ways.\"\n\nCatch the delightful \"bouncy house\" video for this song here: https://tinyurl.com/v2bz2265", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3597246, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597246/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T16:33:13-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Don't You Wanna Feel It?", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Rosie H. Sullivan", "artist_ids": [], "album": null, "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": null, "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Born and raised on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides but now based in Edinburgh, Sullivan crafts deeply personal and emotive indie folk, tackling personal growth and the existential transition of moving from an island to the mainland/city. Personal relationships also come into play in her remarkable songwriting, but it is her relationship with herself that sits at the core, culminating in a beautiful, resonant sound.\n\nSullivan reveals, \"All that matters to me is whether or not my material is authentic and full of feeling. Overthinking is a total enemy for me anyway when I write songs. To me, the relationship between me and my life to my songs is very much sown together. That’s very much taken from folk traditions, which is what I grew up with and what I studied.\n\n\"It’s about being connected to people and to people’s lives. So I would hope that the people who listen to my songs also can say like: 'Oh, she’s called Rosie, and she’s from here. And this is what she’s about,' kind of thing. I think that’s really important for me.\" https://tinyurl.com/mvym92y7", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3597245, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597245/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T16:27:40-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3597244, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597244/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T16:19:31-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "777-9311", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "af8e63ff-5f18-47ec-9e0d-e098b5c54a47", "artist": "The Time", "artist_ids": [ "3bfa8f23-2dbb-43e2-b1da-3cfaa6c5ff9d" ], "album": "What Time Is It?", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "5ea6f155-9afa-339b-bb78-d740a55ce152", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1982-08-25", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Jellybean Johnson, the Minneapolis musician and producer who was the drummer for the Prince-affiliated funk-rock group The Time, passed away in November at the age of 69.\n\nPrince recruited Johnson (real name Garry George Johnson), who was self-taught on drums and guitar, in 1981 for The Time, an act born out of the city’s Flyte Tyme. They’d known each other since their high school years in Minneapolis.\n\n\"The drums are physical and violent for me while the guitar is spiritual and emotional,\" Johnson said in a 2018 interview with Australian Musician. He also quipped to the publication, \"When you live here in the cold, you stay in [in] the winter time and you learn how to play.\"\n\nAs a member of The Time — and later, Prince’s The Family — Johnson helped establish the funk-rock, new wave and synth-pop hybrid that became known as the Minneapolis Sound. He appeared as a fictionalized version of himself in 1984’s Academy Award-winning Purple Rain and as himself in 1990’s Graffiti Bridge.\n\nJohnson co-founded the non-profit Minneapolis Sound Museum in 2021, with the goal of preserving the history, culture and legacy of the Minneapolis Sound. In 2022, he was awarded a Soul Train Lifetime Achievement Award with The Time. https://tinyurl.com/3rac4mdv", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3597243, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597243/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T16:16:29-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Feel Like Makin' Love", "track_id": "06613e53-7056-39fb-be7e-60c72dcbec47", "recording_id": "5fd6b5e7-3c7c-454a-9975-9b4d61eb9e0a", "artist": "Roberta Flack", "artist_ids": [ "5298bbcb-7330-49bf-a780-2d757f10a20a" ], "album": "Atlantic Rhythm and Blues 1947-1974, Volume 7: 1969-1974", "release_id": "46b9c433-fe2a-46bd-88c9-7976dcc0e545", "release_group_id": "0568211f-79d0-48ba-8911-f1c15b0ff76a", "labels": [ "Atlantic" ], "label_ids": [ "50c384a2-0b44-401b-b893-8181173339c7" ], "release_date": "1990-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Paying tribute to the wonderful Roberta Flack, who we lost on February 24th at the age of 88. She had been battling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).\n\nFlack grew up in Northern Virginia and learned to play piano and sing in church. She won a scholarship to Howard University when she was 15, with plans to become a concert pianist.\n\nFlack would go onto become one of the most important and beloved singers of the 1970s.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3597238, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597238/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T16:09:21-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800206.us.archive.org/17/items/mbid-7dbf3ed6-7927-3f35-adc2-3b46b97eca60/mbid-7dbf3ed6-7927-3f35-adc2-3b46b97eca60-4839084652_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800206.us.archive.org/17/items/mbid-7dbf3ed6-7927-3f35-adc2-3b46b97eca60/mbid-7dbf3ed6-7927-3f35-adc2-3b46b97eca60-4839084652_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Untitled (How Does It Feel)", "track_id": "267d4b6f-90b5-3dbb-8b02-609ca8be0556", "recording_id": "9cf545da-32de-43ae-8660-8579d7adb9d9", "artist": "D’Angelo", "artist_ids": [ "b66771cc-45fa-4a32-b14f-5337d7223d7a" ], "album": "Voodoo", "release_id": "7dbf3ed6-7927-3f35-adc2-3b46b97eca60", "release_group_id": "9605c075-c64c-366b-ad7f-ec98523fc162", "labels": [ "EMI" ], "label_ids": [ "c029628b-6633-439e-bcee-ed02e8a338f7" ], "release_date": "2000-01-25", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Thinking of D'Angelo, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer, who passed away in October of this year.\n\nWidely regarded as a pioneer of the neo-soul movement, Billboard named him one of the greatest R&B artists, while Rolling Stone magazine ranked him as one of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. In 2025, he was inducted into the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame. https://tinyurl.com/243esmpp", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3597236, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597236/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-28T16:06:01-08:00", "show": 65499, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65499/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Free", "track_id": "5c791e0a-bafa-4795-8df5-73c7ec7de1ec", "recording_id": "d2aec729-b623-422b-8f2e-9219418b4552", "artist": "Little Simz", "artist_ids": [ "3cdb40fe-a63e-4bb9-b40d-17cda5f50979" ], "album": "Lotus", "release_id": "b29d1d8d-1dfb-4af2-8798-f963ba0b58de", "release_group_id": "749672ae-a51d-4cf5-920c-beaeab147bb6", "labels": [ "AWAL Recordings", "AWAL Recordings Ltd" ], "label_ids": [ "19bd97af-e452-47b2-ba9a-e6d0605dd068", "1a59ec10-ab09-450c-86ec-04f1796be3fd" ], "release_date": "2025-06-06", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "#9 on Kevin Cole's Top Ten of 2025, and #18 on KEXP Listeners' Top Voted Albums of the year!\n\nLittle Simz worked with longtime collaborators Inflo (production) and Cleo Sol (background vocals) to create this new project, released in December.\n\nShe released a ten-minute short film to accompany the album, which you may check out here: https://tinyurl.com/4vu6pen4", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
