Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=6260&ordering=-airdate
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Moby sampled thse vocals for his song \"Natural Blues.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548869, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548869/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T14:51:00-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "so...yeah.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxzKP7fjOlU", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3548868, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548868/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T14:46:26-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801708.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-679841df-599d-402f-9f89-0d0bb6e94368/mbid-679841df-599d-402f-9f89-0d0bb6e94368-3024595035_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801708.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-679841df-599d-402f-9f89-0d0bb6e94368/mbid-679841df-599d-402f-9f89-0d0bb6e94368-3024595035_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Bodyrock", "track_id": "cdd592f4-d781-3035-80d6-ba3640f775c8", "recording_id": "ed574fad-7f59-4e05-8c24-d1138a0d872c", "artist": "Moby", "artist_ids": [ "8970d868-0723-483b-a75b-51088913d3d4" ], "album": "Play", "release_id": "679841df-599d-402f-9f89-0d0bb6e94368", "release_group_id": "7f6a4e72-9fee-39db-8817-63425f97a0f5", "labels": [ "V2" ], "label_ids": [ "dc2f5993-7a3d-4c59-bba0-0a77bf9d7416" ], "release_date": "1999-06-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Moby said, \"'Bodyrock' was the song both of my managers tried to get me to take off the record. They thought it was really tacky. They thought it sounded like a Fatboy Slim ripoff — which I guess it kind of did. I like it because the hip-hop sample was off the first mixtape I ever got, maybe in 1981, off of the Mr. Magic Show on WBLS. The guitar is directly inspired by What we all want by Gang of Four. And I thought it was kind of funny to have an orchestral chorus on what is essentially a hip-hip song.\"\n--\nAlso sampling Spoonie Gee's \"Love Rap.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548867, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548867/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T14:41:39-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia902906.us.archive.org/13/items/mbid-7379b62c-66da-4568-b9b6-33119d4e92e2/mbid-7379b62c-66da-4568-b9b6-33119d4e92e2-2980524268_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia802906.us.archive.org/13/items/mbid-7379b62c-66da-4568-b9b6-33119d4e92e2/mbid-7379b62c-66da-4568-b9b6-33119d4e92e2-2980524268_thumb250.jpg", "song": "What We All Want", "track_id": "d09cf00d-d893-3713-b7b2-f7afc6ed2f60", "recording_id": "d5a82be2-3391-4538-9329-4255a17b1f17", "artist": "Gang of Four", "artist_ids": [ "d8661c02-f423-4d72-8044-40ff05daf7a1" ], "album": "Live at KEXP, Volume Two", "release_id": "7379b62c-66da-4568-b9b6-33119d4e92e2", "release_group_id": "1120fbef-0db6-3bc5-bcb3-1c345dd7b0c6", "labels": [ "KEXP" ], "label_ids": [ "89e0503e-96f0-41b4-835f-2c542b7fcb44" ], "release_date": "2006-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "R.I.P., Gang of Four's Dave Allen, who died earlier this year at age 69: https://pitchfork.com/news/gang-of-four-bassist-dave-allen-dies-at-69/\n--\nHere's a live performance of \"What We All Want\": https://www.reddit.com/r/postpunk/comments/1iqbq22/gang_of_four_what_we_all_want/\n--\nMoby interpolated the hook from this song for \"Bodyrock.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548866, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548866/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T14:35:41-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Love Rap", "track_id": "b852b5a1-9ff6-39bd-b0e9-4c103bb9d5a1", "recording_id": "a67e291f-c344-48e3-96b6-81c13794210c", "artist": "Spoonie Gee", "artist_ids": [ "b5da4546-42f4-4bfb-a898-4f01682a488c" ], "album": "The New Rap Language / Love Rap", "release_id": "aaa5276d-de99-4442-b423-53597fe0c364", "release_group_id": "9f58cdd9-bff6-3821-a34d-ba1db374792a", "labels": [ "Enjoy Records" ], "label_ids": [ "bc37da4f-5918-4ac3-a96d-10b39934ac17" ], "release_date": "1980-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "1980's \"Love Rap\" samples the vocals from 1979's \"The New Rap Language\" from \nSpoonie Gee and The Treacherous Three.\nMultiple elements of the song were sampled by Moby for \"Bodyrock.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548864, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548864/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T14:32:49-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801708.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-679841df-599d-402f-9f89-0d0bb6e94368/mbid-679841df-599d-402f-9f89-0d0bb6e94368-3024595035_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801708.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-679841df-599d-402f-9f89-0d0bb6e94368/mbid-679841df-599d-402f-9f89-0d0bb6e94368-3024595035_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Rushing", "track_id": "3a8f5541-9e9e-3e90-bb8c-8ebc23945cc6", "recording_id": "f50dd2ab-41b3-4314-a6c9-6bdd6cf644ae", "artist": "Moby", "artist_ids": [ "8970d868-0723-483b-a75b-51088913d3d4" ], "album": "Play", "release_id": "679841df-599d-402f-9f89-0d0bb6e94368", "release_group_id": "7f6a4e72-9fee-39db-8817-63425f97a0f5", "labels": [ "V2" ], "label_ids": [ "dc2f5993-7a3d-4c59-bba0-0a77bf9d7416" ], "release_date": "1999-06-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Rushing\" contains samples of the drums from \"Rough Neck Beats\" by Simon Harris. \n--\nMoby: \"Rushing is one of my favorite songs on the record. This is why I should never be allowed to be an A&R person. I remember when I was listening to the demos of the album, Rushing was the only song I felt confident about. And I really didn’t change it much from the demo to the finished version.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548865, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548865/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T14:31:19-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/0c4d6bd8-4f89-4096-8ee9-a8a15a28e24a/41946893728-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/0c4d6bd8-4f89-4096-8ee9-a8a15a28e24a/41946893728-250.jpg", "song": "Rough Neck Beats", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Simon Harris", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Beats, Breaks & Scratches Volume 2", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Music of Life" ], "label_ids": [ "67a9f40a-a9e0-429a-ad30-6330b028b122" ], "release_date": "1988-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Simon Harris is a British music producer, DJ, remixer and electronic musician from London, predominantly known for his 1988 hit song \"Bass (How Low Can You Go?)\". He is also the founder of the hip hop label Music of Life.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548863, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548863/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T14:29:24-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3548862, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548862/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T14:26:17-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/3d3f227e-f091-4de6-8269-77c0fb5f0079/42880634141-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/3d3f227e-f091-4de6-8269-77c0fb5f0079/42880634141-250.jpg", "song": "South Side (edit)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "11ba37a4-2faa-47d3-8b45-fa6e51c12898", "artist": "Moby featuring Gwen Stefani", "artist_ids": [ "8970d868-0723-483b-a75b-51088913d3d4", "2e41ae9c-afd2-4f20-8f1e-17281ce9b472" ], "album": "South Side", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "10323856-fb65-3fc4-807f-e14b3c1b6e1b", "labels": [ "V2" ], "label_ids": [ "dc2f5993-7a3d-4c59-bba0-0a77bf9d7416" ], "release_date": "2000-09-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Ahh, yes...here's the version with Gwen Stefani!", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548861, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548861/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T14:22:38-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601602.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029-24788694923_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801602.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029-24788694923_thumb250.jpg", "song": "South Side", "track_id": "8716480d-4ca0-481a-9023-92a09b9b2c38", "recording_id": "b8dcf90c-fb3d-444f-acfe-7423449ca01f", "artist": "Moby", "artist_ids": [ "8970d868-0723-483b-a75b-51088913d3d4" ], "album": "Play", "release_id": "ac7f9059-a31a-48f9-b357-d1a9390f19c0", "release_group_id": "7f6a4e72-9fee-39db-8817-63425f97a0f5", "labels": [ "V2" ], "label_ids": [ "dc2f5993-7a3d-4c59-bba0-0a77bf9d7416" ], "release_date": "2000-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Moby was one of many who sampled the drums from The Counts's \"What's Up Front That Counts\".\n--\nGwne Stefani is featured on the single version of this song, but not on the album \"Play.\" Moby wrote,\nGwen Stefani came into the studio while I was recording Play. And this was when the first No Doubt record was doing really well. So I couldn’t figure out why she’d want to go into the studio with me. She was a big rock star and I was a has-been. She came into the studio, she recorded the vocals and she did a great job. But my mixing skills are limited. I couldn’t get a mix with her vocals that worked. I tried and I tried. So the first album version didn’t have her vocals on it. I went back to it a year later and handed it off to a friend who was a good mixer, and he was able to actually do a mix with her vocals that worked. So, that’s why there’s two versions.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548860, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548860/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T14:17:32-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801906.us.archive.org/5/items/mbid-09f01bc1-0cc1-3691-9183-c03d1a0982c5/mbid-09f01bc1-0cc1-3691-9183-c03d1a0982c5-4422097159_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601906.us.archive.org/5/items/mbid-09f01bc1-0cc1-3691-9183-c03d1a0982c5/mbid-09f01bc1-0cc1-3691-9183-c03d1a0982c5-4422097159_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Relax With Pep", "track_id": "15d3c98c-e754-3531-b70a-7a4ccc4e4030", "recording_id": "f2ef20a0-501e-4f37-acc8-7e5c1959fe16", "artist": "Eric B. & Rakim", "artist_ids": [ "925228de-bbe5-4c7b-b76f-78e382ec9148" ], "album": "Don’t Sweat the Technique", "release_id": "09f01bc1-0cc1-3691-9183-c03d1a0982c5", "release_group_id": "9dfddf97-e254-3864-8033-1b87f75d902f", "labels": [ "MCA Records" ], "label_ids": [ "46a3941a-c810-47a1-974f-955effec4d09" ], "release_date": "1992-06-23", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This song sampled the hook from The Counts's \"What's Up Front That Counts\".\n--\nWatch Rakim's induction into the Hip-Hop Museum in D.C. in 2021: https://www.facebook.com/NationalHipHopMuseum/videos/-rakim-induction-ceremony-the-hip-hop-museum-dc-grand-induction-gala-10821/427947518856032/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548859, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548859/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T14:15:06-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801602.us.archive.org/2/items/mbid-889efbb2-9ec9-4f52-9658-0d8884bfaf0a/mbid-889efbb2-9ec9-4f52-9658-0d8884bfaf0a-1824887897_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801602.us.archive.org/2/items/mbid-889efbb2-9ec9-4f52-9658-0d8884bfaf0a/mbid-889efbb2-9ec9-4f52-9658-0d8884bfaf0a-1824887897_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Hippychick", "track_id": "54f5a0e4-ab73-3070-a165-ea736e4fd20a", "recording_id": "560e5a31-ed26-49b9-8385-e2f61031a1de", "artist": "Soho", "artist_ids": [ "2729b825-2cf2-4cde-894a-a9928ab708f0" ], "album": "Hippychick", "release_id": "889efbb2-9ec9-4f52-9658-0d8884bfaf0a", "release_group_id": "2b2a31a5-dff6-4b28-a6ea-86cef5e3fcb3", "labels": [ "ATCO Records" ], "label_ids": [ "a9de694a-2e5b-4a1d-8d7a-a7ca620e3f80" ], "release_date": "1990-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This song by Soho features a guitar riff sample of The Smiths' \"How Soon Is Now?\" and a drum sample from The Counts's \"What's Up Front That Counts\".\n--\nSoho were a collective made up of core members guitarist/songwriter Tim London and twin sisters, Jacqueline and Pauline Cuff. In 1987 the Cuff sisters resigned their jobs as psychiatric nurses to commit themselves fully to singing in the band.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548858, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548858/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T14:14:13-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/d4fabae0-49d0-459d-a120-3935536e9fea/13182852547-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/d4fabae0-49d0-459d-a120-3935536e9fea/13182852547-250.jpg", "song": "Melange", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "45a86a0f-28d9-46c2-ac6e-7ea33f623d54", "artist": "Junkie XL", "artist_ids": [ "eb3f70ce-f226-428f-8d7f-046c8dbfd98f" ], "album": "Saturday Teenage Kick", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "f736cf73-2859-3865-927a-ca43f99531c4", "labels": [ "Roadrunner Records" ], "label_ids": [ "5899271b-a77a-4081-93a9-0bd05b9b4180" ], "release_date": "1997-03-24", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Melange\" by Junkie XL sampled the drums from The Counts's \"What's Up Front That Counts\".", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548857, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548857/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T14:11:06-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801204.us.archive.org/30/items/mbid-b51ce6f1-7b00-33a9-bb2e-c976385f5faa/mbid-b51ce6f1-7b00-33a9-bb2e-c976385f5faa-12053294894_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801204.us.archive.org/30/items/mbid-b51ce6f1-7b00-33a9-bb2e-c976385f5faa/mbid-b51ce6f1-7b00-33a9-bb2e-c976385f5faa-12053294894_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Home", "track_id": "999a6fce-e08a-36d6-8480-eb1a5d8025e7", "recording_id": "624771b4-71f9-4a5f-91bc-8bc3a09f6d8f", "artist": "Pop Will Eat Itself", "artist_ids": [ "e74d6546-7d69-43aa-9580-51a80cd9ae54" ], "album": "Dos Dedos Mis Amigos", "release_id": "b51ce6f1-7b00-33a9-bb2e-c976385f5faa", "release_group_id": "143eaa18-702d-3765-a767-cd5fc5f91a75", "labels": [ "Nothing Records" ], "label_ids": [ "4b5cba06-6a79-454c-91f5-3fe220d4950d" ], "release_date": "1994-09-20", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Triple OG!!!\n \"Home\" contains samples of the bass from \"Cargo Culte\" by Serge Gainsbourg and the drums from \"What's Up Front That Counts\" by The Counts!\n--\nMidlands, England band Pop Will Eat Itself talks about their early transformations in this May, 2025 interview: https://retrofuturista.com/interview-with-pop-will-eat-itself-deploy-pause-restart/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548856, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548856/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T14:03:14-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/f75a1774-f73e-42e2-9680-927776f47354/21495680024-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/f75a1774-f73e-42e2-9680-927776f47354/21495680024-250.jpg", "song": "What's Up Front That Counts", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "f05122ce-3ed6-45b4-af15-51f2d967476a", "artist": "The Counts", "artist_ids": [ "ebc42d5d-7260-4a71-b694-e02c8fa7e6c9" ], "album": "What's Up Front That Counts", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "4adf1ba1-9b0b-37cb-a776-552b92faae23", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1971-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"South Side\" by Moby sampled The Counts' \"What's Up Front That Counts.\"\n--\nThe Counts were a jazz-funk band from Detroit and previously known as the Fabulous Counts in the late 1960s. \"The Fabulous Counts were originally a teenage instrumental group of five musicians, Mose Davis (Organ and Piano), Demetrius ‘Demo’ Gates (Alto Saxophone and vocals), Jim White (Tenor Sax), Andrew T. Gibson (Drums) and Raoul Keith Mangrum (Percussion and Flute) who were later joined by the older, more experienced Leroy Emanuel (Guitar and vocals).\" Here's a biography of this band: https://souljunctionrecords.co.uk/SJ1017.html", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548855, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548855/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T13:59:05-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801602.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029-24788694923_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801602.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029/mbid-e554a001-1f79-432e-9667-adb192d13029-24788694923_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?", "track_id": "2eab8949-1c5b-44c7-ade0-1fc75dd3599c", "recording_id": "4a234158-148e-44bb-961b-ce9302027269", "artist": "Moby", "artist_ids": [ "8970d868-0723-483b-a75b-51088913d3d4" ], "album": "Play", "release_id": "ac7f9059-a31a-48f9-b357-d1a9390f19c0", "release_group_id": "7f6a4e72-9fee-39db-8817-63425f97a0f5", "labels": [ "V2" ], "label_ids": [ "dc2f5993-7a3d-4c59-bba0-0a77bf9d7416" ], "release_date": "2000-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "In the album's liner notes, the sampled vocals are credited to The Shining Light Gospel Choir, supposedly taken from a recording originally made by them in the 1950s. The true source, however, is a 1963 recording of the gospel tune \"He'll Roll Your Burdens Away\" by The Banks Brothers & The Back Home Choir. As Moby told The New York Times, he manipulated the original vocal, \"Why does my heart feel so glad,\" to fit the context of his melancholy tune.\n--\nMoby told Vinyl Me Please in 2017 how he used samples on the album to convey the theme of loneliness, saying: \"I was trying to capture the quality of two lonely people reaching out to each other, or a lonely voice reaching out to a person who's listening. I never wanted to create a record that made somebody feel more lonely, like the voice is pulling away.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548854, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548854/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T13:54:24-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "He'll Roll Your Burdens Away", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "The Banks Brothers", "artist_ids": [], "album": "The Banks Brothers and the Greater Harvest Back Home Choir", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Savoy" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1966-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The Banks Brothers are a pioneering 1950's gospel group led by Jeff and Charles Banks, known for their work with the Mary Johnson Davis Singers and on the Savoy Records label.\n--\nMoby sampled vocals from this song for both \"Why Does My Hear Feel So Bad?\" and \"I'm Not Worried At All.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548853, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548853/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T13:49:27-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/278ce211-1b2a-4623-bcfb-7ae87d438249/21748630054-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/278ce211-1b2a-4623-bcfb-7ae87d438249/21748630054-250.jpg", "song": "Half Moon", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "66fe6958-2e97-4723-90d9-65ed353cbed8", "artist": "Rufus", "artist_ids": [ "ec6b11b5-d6a6-4c77-af55-8076a160cc94" ], "album": "Rufusized", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "de011fb8-6efb-3e30-a13e-4d77396f2acc", "labels": [ "MCA Records" ], "label_ids": [ "46a3941a-c810-47a1-974f-955effec4d09" ], "release_date": "1974-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This is Rufus (and Chaka Khan's) wonderful cover of a 1971 Janis Joplin song on her album \"Pearl.\".\n--\nMoby sampled the drums in this song for \"Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?\" and \"Natural Blues.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3548852, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548852/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T13:48:27-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3548851, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3548851/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-04T13:40:34-07:00", "show": 64473, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64473/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721905.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-335c481a-7123-44d8-9189-20d6153ad64e/mbid-335c481a-7123-44d8-9189-20d6153ad64e-19971662256_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721905.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-335c481a-7123-44d8-9189-20d6153ad64e/mbid-335c481a-7123-44d8-9189-20d6153ad64e-19971662256_thumb250.jpg", "song": "A$AP Forever REMIX", "track_id": "54f4eb83-d448-4864-a9f6-4a00d9631608", "recording_id": "32d0d987-c2c5-45a8-9c65-287563087fc9", "artist": "A$AP Rocky feat. 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