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GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=62440&ordering=-airdate
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In addition to The Damned and The Lords of the New Church, he worked with a plethora of punk and rock ‘n’ roll’s finest, including The Saints and Iggy Pop.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592731, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592731/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T16:00:28-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "New Rose", "track_id": "aeba2b35-3258-33f9-8e37-f5b66f8be5ee", "recording_id": "8007c8aa-b862-4546-9f15-9e1b73980054", "artist": "The Damned", "artist_ids": [ "77d21c13-846f-4f48-9546-873949eff6ae" ], "album": "Damned Damned Damned", "release_id": "96c27010-925a-4e75-86a4-b55ad42480c5", "release_group_id": "3ed0e51d-62a4-3957-ab42-579c6f8c148b", "labels": [ "Stiff Records" ], "label_ids": [ "df57ad64-fae7-4976-a8a0-d6d344867e09" ], "release_date": "1977-02-18", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "RIP Brian James who died on 6 March 2025, at the age of 70.\n--\nFirst formed in 1976, The Damned recently reunited for the first tour with their original lineup in 35 years. \n\nhttps://www.officialdamned.com/\n\nWatch the video for this track, with a black lipstick clad Dave Vanian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxFQ5QBiYk", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592730, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592730/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:57:30-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/3e517042-0af2-45b0-bdbb-aae20ae1bec8/15170398619-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/3e517042-0af2-45b0-bdbb-aae20ae1bec8/15170398619-250.jpg", "song": "I Want to Take You Higher", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "7d229057-bd79-4eda-81c5-6eec14b7bbc3", "artist": "Sly & the Family Stone", "artist_ids": [ "b7ec4c54-1f93-4bf2-957f-7b9921ab84ea" ], "album": "Stand!", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "86871123-60e4-30a5-aae3-36e810e0964b", "labels": [ "Epic" ], "label_ids": [ "8f638ddb-131a-4cc3-b3d4-7ebdac201b55" ], "release_date": "1969-04-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Boom-laka-laka-laka...\"\n---\nHere's video of the 1969 Woodstock performance of \"Higher\": https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1m5ws", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592728, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592728/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:52:40-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Trip to Your Heart", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "945ca6c3-8861-41dd-8c6e-47fec106d758", "artist": "Sly & the Family Stone", "artist_ids": [ "b7ec4c54-1f93-4bf2-957f-7b9921ab84ea" ], "album": "A Whole New Thing", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "81520c13-a94c-390b-af56-bc83039ad7b7", "labels": [ "Epic" ], "label_ids": [ "8f638ddb-131a-4cc3-b3d4-7ebdac201b55" ], "release_date": "1967-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Sylvester Stewart (Sly Stone) died this year at age 82. The Guardian says that he \"changed the direction of African-American popular music not once but twice.\" It says, \" Initially promoting a utopian vision of racial and sexual unity with catchy, imaginative and anthemic songs, he then morphed into a shadowy, stoned figure whose downbeat music mirrored the disenchantment of the early 1970s.\": https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jun/10/sly-stone-obituary", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592729, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592729/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:50:12-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3592727, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592727/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:47:36-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia903205.us.archive.org/35/items/mbid-77726d3d-1fd4-4d32-b1bf-5998940b687a/mbid-77726d3d-1fd4-4d32-b1bf-5998940b687a-4429634334_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia903205.us.archive.org/35/items/mbid-77726d3d-1fd4-4d32-b1bf-5998940b687a/mbid-77726d3d-1fd4-4d32-b1bf-5998940b687a-4429634334_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Park Bench People", "track_id": "0b7793ae-7f79-3d22-a3a6-48bbb0224a74", "recording_id": "677c415e-49c3-4211-aa44-53637c17f018", "artist": "Freestyle Fellowship", "artist_ids": [ "d283285b-5984-4214-ab5d-e70f9c96b63d" ], "album": "Innercity Griots", "release_id": "77726d3d-1fd4-4d32-b1bf-5998940b687a", "release_group_id": "e5eefc1e-82a1-3ba8-bf73-f3d678966665", "labels": [ "4th & Broadway" ], "label_ids": [ "c7c345d6-7c08-4008-918d-26a7f4acdbbd" ], "release_date": "1993-04-27", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Mtulazaji “P.E.A.C.E.” Davis, a founding member of the influential Los Angeles hip-hop group Freestyle Fellowship, died in October. \n--\nBorn Mtulazaji Davis, P.E.A.C.E. grew up in Dallas before relocating to Los Angeles, where he funneled his creativity into playing numerous instruments. While attending high school in the 1980s, he took to hip-hop and began rapping, eventually becoming a regular at Good Life Café, the South Central Los Angeles cafe whose open mics became a hotspot for the city’s underground rap scene. P.E.A.C.E. bonded with cafe regulars Aceyalone, Myka 9, and Self Jupiter and the four decided to form a proper group.: https://pitchfork.com/news/freestyle-fellowship-rapper-peace-has-died/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592726, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592726/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:43:44-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800108.us.archive.org/6/items/mbid-aa6f97b3-ab26-486d-9d14-82669f671f87/mbid-aa6f97b3-ab26-486d-9d14-82669f671f87-9146400169_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800108.us.archive.org/6/items/mbid-aa6f97b3-ab26-486d-9d14-82669f671f87/mbid-aa6f97b3-ab26-486d-9d14-82669f671f87-9146400169_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Till It's Done (Tutu)", "track_id": "d7be7da8-0da9-4ba6-bafb-5eeb30d0c1d9", "recording_id": "570cf915-5a7e-4722-ad9f-e0cc979a9128", "artist": "D’Angelo and The Vanguard", "artist_ids": [ "b66771cc-45fa-4a32-b14f-5337d7223d7a", "06c744b8-328d-46a3-96ea-7b98055c702f" ], "album": "Black Messiah", "release_id": "aa6f97b3-ab26-486d-9d14-82669f671f87", "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": "Lauryn Hill wrote, “I regret not having more time with you. Your undeniable beauty and talent were not of this world, and a presence not of this world needs protection in a world that covets light and the anointing of God. …You imaged a unity of strength and sensitivity in Black manhood to a generation that only saw itself as having to be one or the other.”\n\nHere's more than an hour of the great D'Angelo's performance at North Sea Jazz in 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR6cr6xKahs", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592725, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592725/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:39:55-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Smooth", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "8dee8cf5-a77b-4cfb-a64c-c9db0797d668", "artist": "D'Angelo", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Brown Sugar", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "a4591f67-48d9-36ae-bc68-2deb954d0a15", "labels": [ "Capitol Records" ], "label_ids": [ "abea2d3e-eabf-4480-ab24-9382dd642c73" ], "release_date": "1995-07-04", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "He was only 51 years old. Rest in Power, Michael Eugene Archer, who died in October from pancreatic cancer: https://variety.com/2025/music/news/dangelo-dead-neo-soul-pioneer-untitled-voodoo-1236552500/\n--\nEnjoy a live performance of \"Smooth\" in Toronto in 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgcCukSn1JM", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592722, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592722/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:33:43-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Keep Your Worries", "track_id": "8976952d-5777-3818-9c70-60dc60bf98e6", "recording_id": "88c7d15a-c94a-47e0-adfe-f4045f8ca9e7", "artist": "Guru feat. Angie Stone", "artist_ids": [ "215c6ab2-7888-4061-bd56-9fb650328106", "82f8dd22-0319-4f35-953c-358b3f883027" ], "album": "Jazzmatazz, Volume 3: Streetsoul", "release_id": "aff7c213-fb34-4c85-8b78-544abde0092b", "release_group_id": "73311f59-ddcb-323c-9187-dd584b2efca4", "labels": [ "Virgin Records America, Inc." ], "label_ids": [ "1644d8bc-b558-447f-82eb-5d6829988156" ], "release_date": "2000-10-03", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Groundbreaking singer, two time Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards winner, Grammy-nominated R&B artist Angie Stone, a member of the all-female hip-hop trio The Sequence, was killed in March in a car crash. She was 63.\n--\nShe rose to international prominence in the late 1990s and early 2000s with two albums, Black Diamond and Mahogany Soul, that spawned a pair of popular singles, No More Rain and Wish I Didn’t Miss You.: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/mar/03/angie-stone-obituary", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592723, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592723/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:29:47-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3592721, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592721/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:27:50-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "How Ya Do Dat", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "c9e30501-76af-4523-a3ae-bad9bfbd2bab", "artist": "Young Bleed feat. C‐Loc & Master P", "artist_ids": [ "54f578ca-0e32-4f28-9656-123a34044b79", "a0869a7d-f808-4512-9c07-11c7792c5849", "a5bd836d-8d8f-48a5-b0b7-dbb18b3264dd" ], "album": "My Balls and My Word", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "a3a1d6bb-2c4f-3f13-a9b8-b2b16edf9a2e", "labels": [ "No Limit Records" ], "label_ids": [ "977bebc6-0299-414a-a1e7-294771483efe" ], "release_date": "1998-01-19", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Glenn Clifton Jr., also known as Young Bleed, was an American rapper from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He tragically died from a brain aneurysm at age 51.: \n\nYoung Bleed helped establish Baton Rouge hip-hop in the late 1990s. He gained recognition through his collaboration with Master P on the 1997 soundtrack album “I’m Bout It.”", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592720, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592720/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:24:13-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/90ee2c37-fb97-4189-8c18-02376f254aa0/21860178010-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/90ee2c37-fb97-4189-8c18-02376f254aa0/21860178010-250.jpg", "song": "Walk It Out (remix)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "97cef62a-a7fc-4c73-9c4f-7d1cb557c2dd", "artist": "DJ Unk, Outkast, Jim Jones", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Walk It Out (remix)", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "fa520cee-c243-39c2-9a6c-997ae2b37dc8", "labels": [ "KOCH Records" ], "label_ids": [ "b85f0764-3335-4109-b15e-ac294fe305b9" ], "release_date": "2007-01-30", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Anthony Platt, known by the stage name DJ Unk, was an Atlanta-based rap artist who had snap hits with \"Walk It Out\" and \"2 Step\" in 2006. He died in January from a heart attack at age 43.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592719, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592719/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:20:48-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "She’s a Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "f3d663ee-a6ae-442e-9300-d056f87fed93", "artist": "Carl Carlton", "artist_ids": [ "48b66d59-647d-42a9-b7a5-55abd5fca7ae" ], "album": "She’s a Bad Mama Jama (She’s Built, She’s Stacked) / This Feeling’s Rated X‐Tra", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "ba57a465-b9ab-37b7-91c1-4b5d308524e7", "labels": [ "20th Century-Fox Records" ], "label_ids": [ "360f0149-5510-400b-a281-cb2d735f9f8e" ], "release_date": "1981-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "R & B singer Carl Carlton died last Sunday at age 72.\n\nBorn May 21, 1953, in Detroit, Carlton began his music career in the mid-1960s under the name \"Little Carl\" Carlton, inviting a comparison to Stevie Wonder, with whom he shared a similar vocal style.\nHis 1974 disco-inflected remake of \"Everlasting Love\" reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100, bringing him mainstream success and a lasting favorite.\n\nBut it was the 1981 single \"She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)\" that became Carlton's signature song, earning him a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Vocal Performance and later gold album status. The track has remained culturally resonant, accumulating millions of streams, being widely sampled, and appearing in films and television soundtracks.\n--\nWatch a live performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8K5EYXGcvM", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592724, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592724/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:18:54-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3592718, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592718/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:17:02-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The Human Fly", "track_id": "f668f5de-3099-359e-b443-f14c2fc598c8", "recording_id": "ebd98e4f-b97e-4282-8ea5-bcbae9ff7965", "artist": "Lalo Schifrin", "artist_ids": [ "adf017f5-76d6-4d31-b1b9-a0211675e7c2" ], "album": "Enter the Dragon", "release_id": "dd57b616-7cc3-4a57-8912-7703ac19636c", "release_group_id": "ba0595a5-4ec8-3c4d-8a76-33b3724d0dee", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. 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Quite simply, Lalo Schifrin is a master of feeling.\" --\nHere's a fan's tribute to Lalo Schifrin: https://dougpayne.com/ls_score.htm", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592717, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592717/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:14:44-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Theme From Enter the Dragon", "track_id": "01d18e01-3885-3251-8437-ebc7f068e1d9", "recording_id": "be579c7f-cfc3-4eff-b347-3ee56a3d1d96", "artist": "Lalo Schifrin", "artist_ids": [ "adf017f5-76d6-4d31-b1b9-a0211675e7c2" ], "album": "Enter the Dragon", "release_id": "dd57b616-7cc3-4a57-8912-7703ac19636c", "release_group_id": "ba0595a5-4ec8-3c4d-8a76-33b3724d0dee", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. 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The very talented Upchurch played with Quincy Jones, Donny Hathaway and Michael Jackson, was an in-demand session musician, and helped create Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman.\" : https://variety.com/2025/music/news/phil-upchurch-dead-guitarist-composer-1236599436/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592715, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592715/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T15:05:23-08:00", "show": 65411, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65411/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Trem de doido", "track_id": "313aefa3-6431-4138-87b5-c6c62d60a5a3", "recording_id": "98056700-1032-4e57-b666-27b2444d6bb8", "artist": "Lô Borges", "artist_ids": [ "5bddb0fa-66f7-47c8-bf00-afecab627d59" ], "album": "Clube da Esquina", "release_id": "53c31a17-289a-4544-a3f9-5c53e06f3e05", "release_group_id": "b29e94e7-0b0b-3a66-ab06-e02f8fa5054f", "labels": [ "Odeon" ], "label_ids": [ "40eff784-c102-4045-b32d-f74d1449756d" ], "release_date": "1972-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Extraordinary Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter Salomão Borges Filho, known professionally as Lô Borges, died this year at age 73. \n--\nAlong with his friend Milton Nascimento, he created one of the most celebrated albums in Brazilian music history, 1972's \"Clube da Esquina,\" featuring many of his compositions. In the same year he also released his first solo album, which gained similar recognition as a Brazilian classic. 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