Play Public List
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GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=71820&ordering=-airdate
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Can empathy be autobiographical? What’s the point of living if we’re not trying to understand all the horror and humor that surrounds everything? These are a few of the questions lurking under the bleachers of Wednesday’s new album Bleeds, an intoxicating collection of narrative-heavy Southern rock...\"\n\nRead more here: \nhttps://wednesdayband.bandcamp.com/album/bleeds", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3578029, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3578029/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-14T10:17:27-08:00", "show": 65106, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65106/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3578028, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3578028/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-14T10:13:02-08:00", "show": 65106, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65106/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "100 Horses", "track_id": "7c9667be-9c5b-496d-bfa8-6d4ffeb0050e", "recording_id": "211c18d7-1836-4814-9230-b746cee7bba5", "artist": "Geese", "artist_ids": [ "e0c97a4d-c392-41a9-a374-57af3e3eeab3" ], "album": "Getting Killed", "release_id": "0bf006ce-45a5-4963-89cb-cd285fd768bb", "release_group_id": "3c18308c-9072-4810-b26e-0c573e46fb07", "labels": [ "Partisan Records" ], "label_ids": [ "d4ec5bb3-1d64-40fe-9629-ee1e452e251e" ], "release_date": "2025-09-26", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"100 Horses\" comes from the new Geese album, Getting Killed. On this record, \"garage riffs are layered upon Ukrainian choir samples; hissing drum machines pulse softly behind screeching guitars; strange, lullaby-esque songs are interspersed with furious, repetitive experiments.\" \n\nhttps://geesebandnyc.bandcamp.com/album/getting-killed\n\nEnjoy Geese playing Live on KEXP from THING Festival in 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrlWRzTcwKw&t=9s \n\nhttps://geesebandnyc.bandcamp.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3578027, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3578027/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-14T10:08:24-08:00", "show": 65106, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65106/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801305.us.archive.org/1/items/mbid-2968d580-9907-48f1-900d-99db9ee6914c/mbid-2968d580-9907-48f1-900d-99db9ee6914c-2572106317_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801305.us.archive.org/1/items/mbid-2968d580-9907-48f1-900d-99db9ee6914c/mbid-2968d580-9907-48f1-900d-99db9ee6914c-2572106317_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Friction", "track_id": "cc30f02d-16e6-3abd-91fa-a4bf49d5b252", "recording_id": "7625443e-ffd4-4063-a94c-0746ae4103e7", "artist": "Television", "artist_ids": [ "490bde43-5edb-4a93-b3b3-7a0465fd8909" ], "album": "Marquee Moon", "release_id": "2968d580-9907-48f1-900d-99db9ee6914c", "release_group_id": "2b9f99d8-becf-3fc3-86a6-2bdd4cef93fe", "labels": [ "Elektra" ], "label_ids": [ "873f9f75-af68-4872-98e2-431058e4c9a9" ], "release_date": "1987-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"The most interesting thing about picking up Television's Marquee Moon... is how ahistorical it sounds. If you listen to their original Brian Eno-produced demos, you hear a scragglier, faster band that's less confident and more... punk? If nothing else, the band at least sounded closer to the sometimes-sloppy Bowery clubrats Eno must have taken them for on those early tapes. Their sound on Marquee Moon, though, is clean, raw and simple.\" \n\nRead more from this retrospective review of the 1977 classic album here: https://tinyurl.com/3w77e5kz", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3578026, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3578026/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-14T10:03:25-08:00", "show": 65105, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65105/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800209.us.archive.org/22/items/mbid-a0e0a03b-55ac-3c13-b2cd-28ada90a2cf1/mbid-a0e0a03b-55ac-3c13-b2cd-28ada90a2cf1-31950645479_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800209.us.archive.org/22/items/mbid-a0e0a03b-55ac-3c13-b2cd-28ada90a2cf1/mbid-a0e0a03b-55ac-3c13-b2cd-28ada90a2cf1-31950645479_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Slippery People", "track_id": "4dddef84-f19e-306a-9a09-8adfd2b900d4", "recording_id": "bd17f13f-1f3c-4ddd-8aef-fb37ea2b7e3d", "artist": "Talking Heads", "artist_ids": [ "a94a7155-c79d-4409-9fcf-220cb0e4dc3a" ], "album": "Once in a Lifetime", "release_id": "a0e0a03b-55ac-3c13-b2cd-28ada90a2cf1", "release_group_id": "4115ff42-4d79-3a95-a745-a07e66ff3c42", "labels": [ "Rhino" ], "label_ids": [ "c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4" ], "release_date": "2003-11-18", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "David Byrne will be in San Francisco at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium this coming week: November 16th, 17th, and 18th!\n\nhttps://whoisthesky.davidbyrne.com/tour/\n\nEnjoy video of the live version of \"Slippery People\" from the 1984 Stop Making Sense concert film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paSczHpWC3I", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3578025, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3578025/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-14T09:59:45-08:00", "show": 65105, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65105/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800201.us.archive.org/29/items/mbid-cfb6200a-860e-4031-ba80-6cf948ae651a/mbid-cfb6200a-860e-4031-ba80-6cf948ae651a-13761007457_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710709.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-cfb6200a-860e-4031-ba80-6cf948ae651a/mbid-cfb6200a-860e-4031-ba80-6cf948ae651a-13761007457_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Destination Unknown", "track_id": "afc23672-605c-3755-8fc6-44372e91871b", "recording_id": "2ffb80a7-9b3e-4a2b-a071-e8c062df7cf6", "artist": "Missing Persons", "artist_ids": [ "98eb6868-9f31-400e-90d8-9a46380c1bdd" ], "album": "Spring Session M", "release_id": "cfb6200a-860e-4031-ba80-6cf948ae651a", "release_group_id": "1df14963-6a10-3c3a-89d8-7b3a3c87780d", "labels": [ "Capitol Records" ], "label_ids": [ "abea2d3e-eabf-4480-ab24-9382dd642c73" ], "release_date": "1982-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Life is so strange\nDestination unknown\nWhen you don't know\nYour destination\nSomething could change\nIt's unknown\nAnd then you won't know\nDestination unknown...\"\n---\nMissing Persons was founded in 1980 in Los Angeles by guitarist Warren Cuccurullo, vocalist Dale Bozzio, and drummer Terry Bozzio. They later added bassist Patrick O'Hearn and keyboardist Chuck Wild. Dale's quirky voice and heavy makeup made the band a favorite on MTV in the early 1980s.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3578024, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3578024/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-14T09:55:20-08:00", "show": 65105, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65105/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3578023, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3578023/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-14T09:51:40-08:00", "show": 65105, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65105/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721608.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-74adf8c2-76a2-35d7-a3e9-a29f26b91443/mbid-74adf8c2-76a2-35d7-a3e9-a29f26b91443-24372279394_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721608.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-74adf8c2-76a2-35d7-a3e9-a29f26b91443/mbid-74adf8c2-76a2-35d7-a3e9-a29f26b91443-24372279394_thumb250.jpg", "song": "See the Lights", "track_id": "1feba134-ddad-3ac7-97c1-a5f1725e72f3", "recording_id": "dd62ad38-ea15-400a-8ab4-248d23640177", "artist": "Simple Minds", "artist_ids": [ "f41490ce-fe39-435d-86c0-ab5ce098b423" ], "album": "Real Life", "release_id": "74adf8c2-76a2-35d7-a3e9-a29f26b91443", "release_group_id": "f826acec-e157-3d57-9d0a-6525422d4fb4", "labels": [ "A&M Records" ], "label_ids": [ "35515729-1f2c-4cc9-9390-9af2764bc56c" ], "release_date": "1991-04-16", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This is Simple Minds performing the song \"See the Lights\" Live at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington on May 17th, 2025!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbQd1LLF4D0", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3578022, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3578022/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-14T09:47:48-08:00", "show": 65105, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65105/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710607.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4c5bc77c-8747-4abc-84f0-c48bfae58e2c/mbid-4c5bc77c-8747-4abc-84f0-c48bfae58e2c-27079126777_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710607.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4c5bc77c-8747-4abc-84f0-c48bfae58e2c/mbid-4c5bc77c-8747-4abc-84f0-c48bfae58e2c-27079126777_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Listen Like Thieves", "track_id": "5ad9954b-b24e-34e4-a638-35f0c0bf6efe", "recording_id": "c5d62786-7b1b-406b-8905-6d828709d213", "artist": "INXS", "artist_ids": [ "481bf5f9-2e7c-4c44-b08a-05b32bc7c00d" ], "album": "Listen Like Thieves", "release_id": "4c5bc77c-8747-4abc-84f0-c48bfae58e2c", "release_group_id": "8baeedaf-d4d1-3ec4-9639-224ee93c5568", "labels": [ "Atlantic" ], "label_ids": [ "50c384a2-0b44-401b-b893-8181173339c7" ], "release_date": "1985-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Earlier this year, INXS's Kirk Pengilly reflected on this album's 40th anniversary: https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kirk-pengilly-interview-40th-anniversary-listen-like-thieves-76578/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3578021, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3578021/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-14T09:43:32-08:00", "show": 65105, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65105/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The Rat", "track_id": "bf96736b-3a7b-396e-9791-ef6226bd4bb7", "recording_id": "73b4af05-80ff-439d-bfa4-91255d3c681a", "artist": "The Walkmen", "artist_ids": [ "b7834ebd-64ae-46c3-a930-2d3a52ee743a" ], "album": "Bows + Arrows", "release_id": "1a8e7abb-f90b-40c9-ba00-8e85ddad397e", "release_group_id": "d4ae973d-8ffd-3f04-a8ad-aa3c90ec926b", "labels": [ "Record Collection" ], "label_ids": [ "41c0078b-d8ff-447f-8595-97ac41c6230a" ], "release_date": "2004-02-03", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Didn't that SPRINTS song remind you of this one?\n---\nSinger Hamilton Leithauser told Rolling Stone magazine that this song originated when the band were \"just screwin' around.\" Then the band's drummer Matt Barrick kicked off a breakneck groove, and the others joined in. He concluded: \"We threw some chords on it, I wrote the words in five minutes, and then we all started slammin'!\"\n--\nHere's video of drummer Barick \"absolutely killing it\" during a performance of \"The Rat\": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gRVpliWi5c", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3578019, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3578019/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-14T09:40:01-08:00", "show": 65105, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65105/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721701.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-ba7cca99-7ac1-4823-8ca7-9e53f606f7db/mbid-ba7cca99-7ac1-4823-8ca7-9e53f606f7db-42322929530_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721701.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-ba7cca99-7ac1-4823-8ca7-9e53f606f7db/mbid-ba7cca99-7ac1-4823-8ca7-9e53f606f7db-42322929530_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Coming Alive", "track_id": "8d7c4a70-7df0-474c-a091-4c0e180417cc", "recording_id": "ae162b0e-b023-45a4-adca-5d30a867eec9", "artist": "SPRINTS", "artist_ids": [ "256e0b36-88cb-453a-9ce4-7b73cb6b882f" ], "album": "All That Is Over", "release_id": "ba7cca99-7ac1-4823-8ca7-9e53f606f7db", "release_group_id": "2e3e4bdd-63c3-4a4f-9f87-253f1ea28308", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2025-09-26", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "SPRINTS will play:\n--in San Francisco on Wednesday, February 11th, at The Chapel\n --in Seattle on Saturday, February 14th (Valentine's Day!), at the Crocodile\n--\n\"This writing is savagery, the brutal parts of me\nUnspooling before me, drawing blood, you draw a smile\nAnd I draw an effigy, she's staring back at me...\" Here are the excellent lyrics: https://genius.com/Sprints-coming-alive-lyrics", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3578020, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3578020/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-14T09:39:06-08:00", "show": 65105, "show_uri": 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director Mike Nichols, who asked the duo for songs for his film. Garfunkel said that at the time, the tune was \"A trifle song we were about to throw out,\" but when Nichols heard an early version (called \"Mrs. Roosevelt\" at the time), he heard something in it and asked Simon to adapt it for the film.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3578013, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3578013/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-14T09:28:14-08:00", "show": 65105, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65105/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3578012, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3578012/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-14T09:24:02-08:00", "show": 65105, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65105/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721809.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-69b75328-d791-4f2b-a38f-faaab61847d3/mbid-69b75328-d791-4f2b-a38f-faaab61847d3-26920666302_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721809.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-69b75328-d791-4f2b-a38f-faaab61847d3/mbid-69b75328-d791-4f2b-a38f-faaab61847d3-26920666302_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Homeboy", "track_id": "81d03076-a01d-3efe-96fd-e1c3af543213", "recording_id": "7482b63e-e7ee-4725-8242-af806d26cc6b", "artist": "Adorable", "artist_ids": [ "022c85ab-eeed-479c-9679-a0e4b5a6a338" ], "album": "Against Perfection", "release_id": "69b75328-d791-4f2b-a38f-faaab61847d3", "release_group_id": "9e937c9f-f9b2-3ffb-84bd-862bdb67a6b8", "labels": [ "SBK Records" ], "label_ids": [ "9a68bb68-c297-4478-92fa-d30389ec00f5" ], "release_date": "1993-05-04", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The great bass line in this song is played by Stephen \"Wil\" Williams. Aren't Pete Fijalkowski's vocals grand?\n--\nSee a live performance in Glastonbury in 1993: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e53xRHZDywk", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3578011, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3578011/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-14T09:18:12-08:00", "show": 65105, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65105/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721602.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4b3ad2ee-eae6-411f-9607-064648edad32/mbid-4b3ad2ee-eae6-411f-9607-064648edad32-33261786157_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721602.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4b3ad2ee-eae6-411f-9607-064648edad32/mbid-4b3ad2ee-eae6-411f-9607-064648edad32-33261786157_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)", "track_id": "80b63830-f121-4099-ae8e-cef7a2ab7a48", "recording_id": "4025a73e-e4d2-46eb-acfe-e4b9c4160e67", "artist": "Love and Rockets", "artist_ids": [ "8cb3aa4a-3b4c-48b8-be0a-e57010fc1430" ], "album": "Express", "release_id": "09f49962-c0f0-4457-b589-053081f0a3cd", "release_group_id": "76abb523-ddc9-367e-997b-4d88f9f93da0", "labels": [ "Beggars Group" ], "label_ids": [ "b111a130-0d4f-46a1-930e-306fa7785b10" ], "release_date": "2001-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Thanks, Jeff in Michigan, for this request!\n--\n:Starting off like some twisted off acoustic Spaghetti Western like theme and morphing into a more cosmic rock song, 'Ying and Yang' perfectly reflected the internal dynamics of Love & Rockets. 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While David J shares his Ying psychedelic acoustic mantra of 'No New Tale To Tell,' Ash is the Yang of this sonic operation, bringing his 'So Real' carnal Goth intensity to Love & Rockets.\" \n\n Here's a great introduction to both the band and this song: https://dontforgetthesongs365.wordpress.com/2013/04/20/love-rockets-yin-yang-the-flower-pot-man/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3578010, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3578010/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-14T09:12:55-08:00", "show": 65105, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65105/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801506.us.archive.org/9/items/mbid-d8e595ae-969a-4458-9333-9140e2243475/mbid-d8e595ae-969a-4458-9333-9140e2243475-16432011219_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801506.us.archive.org/9/items/mbid-d8e595ae-969a-4458-9333-9140e2243475/mbid-d8e595ae-969a-4458-9333-9140e2243475-16432011219_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Possum Kingdom", "track_id": "fecb9ea5-f511-3c9a-b862-d399a23cef95", "recording_id": "046812e3-cf27-42ad-96ea-f2b97b986569", "artist": "Toadies", "artist_ids": [ "066e598e-baa0-4e34-b511-c70bcec6f783" ], "album": "Rubberneck", "release_id": "d8e595ae-969a-4458-9333-9140e2243475", "release_group_id": "c4eeb193-a0c4-3246-81a9-e69ceaa02a85", "labels": [ "Interscope Records" ], "label_ids": [ "2182a316-c4bd-4605-936a-5e2fac52bdd2" ], "release_date": "1994-08-23", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Hi John and Owen, that Zailee Haze intro gave me a hankering to hear Possum Kingdom by Toadies. 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