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GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=62880&ordering=-airdate
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They were joined by musicians Larry Graham, Jerry Martini, Cynthia Robinson and Greg Errico.\n--\n\"Stand!\" is one of the greatest albums ever released and features \"Sing a Simple Song\", \"I Want to Take You Higher\", \"Stand!\", \"Everyday People\", and \"You Can Make It If You Try\". This song has been sampled more than 450 times. Want to watch something great? Of course you do. 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"2025-12-18T08:28:23-08:00", "show": 65409, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65409/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Many Rivers to Cross", "track_id": "0959dd78-83e3-4365-b494-fae541937151", "recording_id": "7b57a4bd-5caf-46e8-815e-38635d5e81ca", "artist": "Jimmy Cliff", "artist_ids": [ "2caa54a7-b08c-41da-b892-3a41abe778be" ], "album": "The Harder They Come", "release_id": "5781be9d-e60e-44e7-b82f-d58f629d865d", "release_group_id": "71188e04-90b4-35ff-81c0-06316efdc749", "labels": [ "Mango Records" ], "label_ids": [ "0d16f1cf-619b-4f08-a6ce-8588a810d764" ], "release_date": "1972-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "RIP Jimmy Cliff, who starred in and co-produced the music of \"The Harder They Come\".\n\n In 2021, the album was deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Recording Registry.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592610, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592610/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T08:25:31-08:00", "show": 65409, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65409/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "I Can See Clearly Now", "track_id": "f3159375-ffa4-3ea1-bcd8-00638667dfec", "recording_id": "1fd6ebb0-8290-495b-acf4-bce98b6d6911", "artist": "Jimmy Cliff", "artist_ids": [ "2caa54a7-b08c-41da-b892-3a41abe778be" ], "album": "Anthology", "release_id": "ca771076-b097-403f-a323-376eae46d19f", "release_group_id": "a9e9dffe-ce2e-3f5a-82cb-de7926d6c494", "labels": [ "Hip‐O Records" ], "label_ids": [ "71f53f0e-6286-4684-8bb8-33c027397852" ], "release_date": "2003-07-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Jimmy Cliff died at 81 on Nov. 24 following a seizure and subsequent pneumonia.\n\nPioneer of reggae starting 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He started playing guitar when he was just 14.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592608, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592608/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T08:19:37-08:00", "show": 65409, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65409/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800804.us.archive.org/33/items/mbid-e5fc71c5-fa02-48eb-8adb-6f2e9f04bcf5/mbid-e5fc71c5-fa02-48eb-8adb-6f2e9f04bcf5-17719844175_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia600804.us.archive.org/33/items/mbid-e5fc71c5-fa02-48eb-8adb-6f2e9f04bcf5/mbid-e5fc71c5-fa02-48eb-8adb-6f2e9f04bcf5-17719844175_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Green Onions", "track_id": "d4e5d3c1-621e-4572-ac21-1041e9be7379", "recording_id": "bb070950-a038-4200-aca1-8f69f4bff14b", "artist": "Booker T. & The MG’s", "artist_ids": [ "377015fb-c02f-4b05-960b-e0df6a7ea99e" ], "album": "Twin Peaks (Music From the Limited Event Series)", "release_id": "e5fc71c5-fa02-48eb-8adb-6f2e9f04bcf5", "release_group_id": "b5b21d7c-a98c-4871-9447-dbbd55c6fcd2", "labels": [ "Rhino" ], "label_ids": [ "c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4" ], "release_date": "2017-09-08", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "KEXP featured [at least] 2 tributes to Cropper, on The Roadhouse with Kevin Sur (12/7) and on OG Thursday with Larry Mizell (12/4). Check them out on the archive: https://www.kexp.org/archive/\n\n“Green Onions” was an unplanned recording by a group of musicians who never intended to form a band. “It was pretty much an accident,” Steve Cropper confirmed in 2014. “It was just one of those things that fell together by chance.” Nevertheless, the 1962 single from the album became the first #1 R&B hit for the gritty Southern soul powerhouse known as Stax Records.\n\n'Green Onions' was featured in an extended scene of a man sweeping the floor in Part 7 of Twin Peaks: The Return.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592607, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592607/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T08:16:04-08:00", "show": 65409, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65409/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3592605, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592605/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T08:12:40-08:00", "show": 65409, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65409/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Time Is Tight", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "974367ac-67c0-4eda-90d1-696964d2db30", "artist": "Booker T. & the MG’s", "artist_ids": [ "377015fb-c02f-4b05-960b-e0df6a7ea99e" ], "album": "Time Is Tight / Johnny, I Love You", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "dd11d05a-a585-49fb-a032-626665124a8e", "labels": [ "Stax" ], "label_ids": [ "3d60c9cf-c020-49e8-a803-2189c146b880" ], "release_date": "1969-02-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "RIP Steve Cropper, guitarist of Booker T. & the M.G.s, who died on December 3rd.\n\nCropper’s distinctive guitar work was featured on many of the tracks out of Stax Records, the influential Memphis soul label he helped establish in the ‘60s & ‘70s. The label released a string of international hits by acts like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, and others.\n\nIn 1996, the British music magazine Mojo declared Cropper the second-best guitarist of all time, behind only Jimi Hendrix.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592604, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592604/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T08:08:40-08:00", "show": 65409, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65409/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800202.us.archive.org/31/items/mbid-063a35aa-bb03-4c5a-93d9-83837e5d058e/mbid-063a35aa-bb03-4c5a-93d9-83837e5d058e-890492375_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800202.us.archive.org/31/items/mbid-063a35aa-bb03-4c5a-93d9-83837e5d058e/mbid-063a35aa-bb03-4c5a-93d9-83837e5d058e-890492375_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Love Is the Law", "track_id": "006aab9f-704d-32fb-a76c-b12bce3e618c", "recording_id": "258fc734-65dd-4bd4-ad07-3a5f3960ed84", "artist": "The Suburbs", "artist_ids": [ "aad33feb-a3bc-482e-8269-4c7d853fe181" ], "album": "Love is the Law", "release_id": "063a35aa-bb03-4c5a-93d9-83837e5d058e", "release_group_id": "f7cf9c78-ed32-386e-9fa8-0d1e58d95b61", "labels": [ "Mercury Records" ], "label_ids": [ "995428e7-81b6-41dd-bd38-5a7a0ece8ad6" ], "release_date": "1983-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Beej\" Chaney--singer, songwriter, and guitarist of The Suburbs--died on January 5 at the age of 68 while swimming off the coast of Hermosa Beach, California.\n\nSinger Chan Poling posted on social media: \n\n\"Beej Chaney was a true rock star from the day I first met him when we were kids. He was a true Original who lived his art, whether climbing the lighting rig or painting his beloved rock people. He was a beloved father, and a friend to many. Our hearts go out to his girls; Jesse, Kit, Cali, and Sarah, who cared for him always. Rock on, brother. \"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592603, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592603/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T08:05:42-08:00", "show": 65409, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65409/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Dreaming", "track_id": "be498fa4-c37e-3e07-bd6a-0a8e14b12f90", "recording_id": "8fa90205-d1c4-4bdc-aa62-b29ff9fb6497", "artist": "Blondie", "artist_ids": [ "4d2956d1-a3f7-44bb-9a41-67563e1a0c94" ], "album": "Eat to the Beat", "release_id": "76e09721-bd96-4b62-8d62-0416a0706dc4", "release_group_id": "d3d9f1bb-8b4b-3bc0-b544-dd3c8b776fec", "labels": [ "Chrysalis" ], "label_ids": [ "ed5601e5-7c54-426e-982a-1a208dd0b0ad" ], "release_date": "2001-09-11", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Clem Burke, founding member and drummer of Blondie, died at the age of 70 on April 7 following a \"private battle with cancer,\" according to bandmates Debbie Harry and Chris Stein.\n--\nBeyond his work with Blondie, Burke was involved in a wide array of projects, collaborating with some of the most prominent artists in rock and beyond. \n\nWhen Blondie was disbanded in the 80s and 90s, Burke played drums for the Romantics (for whom Burke was the regular drummer between 1990 and 2004), Pete Townshend, Bob Dylan, Eurythmics, Dramarama, the Fleshtones, Iggy Pop, and Joan Jett, amongst others.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592602, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592602/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T08:02:51-08:00", "show": 65409, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65409/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3592601, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592601/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T08:00:42-08:00", "show": 65409, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65409/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "In the City", "track_id": "6cf534e7-e590-3879-b214-89c1d8dbef75", "recording_id": "1c313948-966e-4ef1-ac05-f5e5df60f9a9", "artist": "The Jam", "artist_ids": [ "23228f18-01d5-493e-94ce-cfcde82a8db2" ], "album": "In the City", "release_id": "3a55bafb-ea33-372e-98f6-dd6868063a21", "release_group_id": "5cdc81f5-29a3-3866-8e13-9f271d3615eb", "labels": [ "Polydor" ], "label_ids": [ "ce24ab18-1bd6-4293-a486-546d13d6a5e2" ], "release_date": "1997-08-04", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Paul Buckler worked alongside Paul Weller and Bruce Foxton from 1972 until the group's disbandment a decade later.\n\nUpon his death, Weller wrote: \"I'm shocked and saddened by Rick's passing. I'm thinking back to us all rehearsing in my bedroom in Stanley Road, Woking. To all the pubs and clubs we played at as kids, to eventually making a record. What a journey! We went far beyond our dreams and what we made stands the test of time. My deepest sympathy to all family and friends - P.W x.\"\n\nPaying tribute, Foxton said: \"I was shocked and devastated to hear the very sad news today. Rick was a good guy and a great drummer whose innovative drum patterns helped shape our songs. I'm glad we had the chance to work together as much as we did. My thoughts are with Leslie and his family at this very difficult time.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592600, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592600/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T07:57:59-08:00", "show": 65409, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65409/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Absolute Beginners", "track_id": "d0a98992-fcdd-3a34-b910-160086ed321e", "recording_id": "4172d9d0-f075-4596-9e17-c72ce63831a6", "artist": "The Jam", "artist_ids": [ "23228f18-01d5-493e-94ce-cfcde82a8db2" ], "album": "Compact Snap!", "release_id": "53e18121-f90c-4a61-8138-7949a7c5c502", "release_group_id": "efa4cd91-8793-3e89-94f4-27f8653314c1", "labels": [ "Polydor" ], "label_ids": [ "ce24ab18-1bd6-4293-a486-546d13d6a5e2" ], "release_date": "1997-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Rick Buckler, founding member and drummer of The Jam, died at 69 on February 17 following a \"brief illness.\" Buckler is survived by his wife Leslie and two children, Jason and Holly.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3592599, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3592599/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-18T07:54:54-08:00", "show": 65409, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65409/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Natural’s Not in It", "track_id": "70e3f184-9d36-364f-b0d3-373eb1f631cc", "recording_id": "ba51e383-16e3-4774-94bd-02de11ca8ec3", "artist": "Gang of Four", "artist_ids": [ "d8661c02-f423-4d72-8044-40ff05daf7a1" ], "album": "Entertainment!", "release_id": "cb3d472f-b445-4f87-afa5-2dc6188011d5", "release_group_id": "d0493944-992b-3534-9174-8320c1879837", "labels": [ "Rhino" ], "label_ids": [ "c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4" ], "release_date": "2005-05-17", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Formed in Leeds in Northern England in 1976 by Allen, Burnham, singer Jon King and guitarist Andy Gill, Gang of Four were one of the most important and influential bands of the wave that followed the initial punk explosion, with a strong political bent to their lyrics and a slashing sound that combined funk rhythms — powered by Allen’s propulsive, melodic bass playing — with Gill’s innovative, jagged guitar work.\" https://variety.com/2025/music/news/dave-allen-gang-of-four-dead-1236361171/\n--\nGang of Four guitarist Andy Gill passed in 2020. 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