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Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Farriss used the Roland 707 drum machine. The song came out just months after the debut of the Roland machine.: https://articles.roland.com/need-you-tonight-by-inxs/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3563089, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3563089/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-09T15:54:57-07:00", "show": 64788, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64788/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia903206.us.archive.org/16/items/mbid-e7def36e-04dc-3a80-83c5-4f705c6eab2f/mbid-e7def36e-04dc-3a80-83c5-4f705c6eab2f-3779708729_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia903206.us.archive.org/16/items/mbid-e7def36e-04dc-3a80-83c5-4f705c6eab2f/mbid-e7def36e-04dc-3a80-83c5-4f705c6eab2f-3779708729_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Stylo", "track_id": "83ca6fd7-8e99-33a5-a17a-68772107713b", "recording_id": "ff70f6a8-7cfc-4974-a764-8b332f7cf88f", "artist": "Gorillaz", "artist_ids": [ "e21857d5-3256-4547-afb3-4b6ded592596" ], "album": "Plastic Beach", "release_id": "e7def36e-04dc-3a80-83c5-4f705c6eab2f", "release_group_id": "5a676824-18cd-4f7f-89f0-df21623e2042", "labels": [ "Virgin" ], "label_ids": [ "49b58bdb-3d74-40c6-956a-4c4b46115c9c" ], "release_date": "2010-03-09", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "#155...\n---\nThe song features guest vocals from Bobby Womack and rapper Mos Def. Gorillaz bassist Murdoc Niccals wrote: \"Bobby Womack’s chorus, he just explodes into the track. How good is it to get Bobby Womack on the record? This was the first recording he’s made in 15, 20 years, so what an honour. Bobby said he only returned to do this Gorillaz track because his granddaughter said Gorillaz were cool. Which is true. We are.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3563087, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3563087/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-09T15:52:51-07:00", "show": 64788, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64788/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601206.us.archive.org/32/items/mbid-5f692216-1932-4cfa-ad6e-0e3c2304579f/mbid-5f692216-1932-4cfa-ad6e-0e3c2304579f-3323637378_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601206.us.archive.org/32/items/mbid-5f692216-1932-4cfa-ad6e-0e3c2304579f/mbid-5f692216-1932-4cfa-ad6e-0e3c2304579f-3323637378_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Waiting Room", "track_id": "b208ccad-91c7-4adb-9559-8ae9cf9c3ab8", "recording_id": "830579c6-f62d-4b78-95a6-5290600045d9", "artist": "Fugazi", "artist_ids": [ "233fc3f3-6de2-465c-985e-e721dbabbace" ], "album": "13 Songs", "release_id": "3f4c1aa5-a685-4aa6-aed7-6a5a28695b32", "release_group_id": "e65e574d-6129-3798-84d9-5952876ad210", "labels": [ "Dischord Records" ], "label_ids": [ "2954d038-b2af-495a-b3b7-ab8028c672c4" ], "release_date": "2003-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "#156 on the KEXP countdown...\n--\nThat wonderful bass line is from Joe Lally. -- See a bass teacher react to hearing \"Waiting Room\" for the first time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-NHXyekSiw\n--\nYou know you love this song, but here are \"30 Fugazi songs you have to pretend to like more than \"Waiting Room'\": https://thehardtimes.net/music/30-fugazi-songs-you-have-to-pretend-to-like-more-than-waiting-room/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3563088, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3563088/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-09T15:47:32-07:00", "show": 64788, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64788/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3563086, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3563086/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-09T15:43:40-07:00", "show": 64788, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64788/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia600500.us.archive.org/30/items/mbid-01a59ee9-4988-44ec-9b20-0d411b3137b9/mbid-01a59ee9-4988-44ec-9b20-0d411b3137b9-6409661453_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800500.us.archive.org/30/items/mbid-01a59ee9-4988-44ec-9b20-0d411b3137b9/mbid-01a59ee9-4988-44ec-9b20-0d411b3137b9-6409661453_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Soul Meets Body", "track_id": "b38e8f18-7735-3973-b08f-53e14f9bbbb8", "recording_id": "4e17b118-70a6-4c1f-b326-b4ce91fd3fad", "artist": "Death Cab for Cutie", "artist_ids": [ "0039c7ae-e1a7-4a7d-9b49-0cbc716821a6" ], "album": "Plans", "release_id": "01a59ee9-4988-44ec-9b20-0d411b3137b9", "release_group_id": "bc7630eb-521a-3312-a281-adfb8c5aac7d", "labels": [ "Atlantic", "Barsuk Records" ], "label_ids": [ "50c384a2-0b44-401b-b893-8181173339c7", "a4f904e0-f048-4c13-88ec-f9f31f3e6109" ], "release_date": "2006-06-12", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Plans\" is #157 on the KEXP listener-voted countdown...\n---\n\"Plans\" turned twenty this year. Here's an anniversary retrospective: https://www.stereogum.com/2320536/death-cab-for-cutie-plans-turns-20/reviews/the-anniversary/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3563085, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3563085/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-09T15:40:24-07:00", "show": 64788, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64788/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia904609.us.archive.org/33/items/mbid-c6f06bc3-44ac-4555-8991-057f6bce36d7/mbid-c6f06bc3-44ac-4555-8991-057f6bce36d7-41018729651_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia804609.us.archive.org/33/items/mbid-c6f06bc3-44ac-4555-8991-057f6bce36d7/mbid-c6f06bc3-44ac-4555-8991-057f6bce36d7-41018729651_thumb250.jpg", "song": "God Save the Queen", "track_id": "a2e163fc-c6bd-4a49-9655-4d8086b1c0e9", "recording_id": "72512497-2218-484e-b5b4-c0d6b50c539f", "artist": "Sex Pistols", "artist_ids": [ "e5db18cb-4b1f-496d-a308-548b611090d3" ], "album": "Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols", "release_id": "c6f06bc3-44ac-4555-8991-057f6bce36d7", "release_group_id": "e959a4b3-6306-3c45-9df6-e7241dae9ea3", "labels": [ "Virgin" ], "label_ids": [ "49b58bdb-3d74-40c6-956a-4c4b46115c9c" ], "release_date": "1977-10-28", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "#158...\n---\nSinger and main lyricist Johnny Rotten (John Lydon), guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook, and bassist Glen Matlock—later replaced by Sid Vicious—recorded the Sex Pistols’ only studio album at Wessex Sound in London. Released in 1977, it debuted at #1 on the U.K. charts despite being banned by major retailers and causing widespread controversy. Bristling with broadsides like “Anarchy In The U.K.,” “God Save The Queen,” “Pretty Vacant,” and “Holidays In The Sun,” the album distilled rage and disillusionment into a single, unrelenting statement. \n--\nSadly, just months after the album came out, the band unraveled, breaking up in January 1978 during their U.S. tour. But the Sex Pistols’ legacy far outlasted their time together. Never Mind The Bollocks has sold over a million copies in the U.S. alone, was inducted into the GRAMMY® Hall of Fame, and ranks high among the greatest albums of all time in lists by Rolling Stone, NME, and Time.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3563084, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3563084/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-09T15:37:51-07:00", "show": 64788, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64788/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601609.us.archive.org/32/items/mbid-22207c85-9568-30a2-bafa-cdc47e24d7bb/mbid-22207c85-9568-30a2-bafa-cdc47e24d7bb-5751931666_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601609.us.archive.org/32/items/mbid-22207c85-9568-30a2-bafa-cdc47e24d7bb/mbid-22207c85-9568-30a2-bafa-cdc47e24d7bb-5751931666_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Folsom Prison Blues", "track_id": "647f9578-b0b4-3e2f-b2ad-51936e78d6b6", "recording_id": "ff31ce16-328a-4032-83ba-bcc3aba920ce", "artist": "Johnny Cash", "artist_ids": [ "d43d12a1-2dc9-4257-a2fd-0a3bb1081b86" ], "album": "At Folsom Prison", "release_id": "22207c85-9568-30a2-bafa-cdc47e24d7bb", "release_group_id": "6b4ea595-3378-3019-be5f-058412670791", "labels": [ "Legacy" ], "label_ids": [ "45ffe1d8-92da-4750-9a4a-f42861f46e2c" ], "release_date": "2008-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "#159 on YOUR countdown of listener favorites..\n--\nCash held two performances at Folsom Prison on January 13, 1968, at 9:40 am and 12:40 pm, in case the first one wasn't satisfactory. MC Hugh Cherry introduced the event and encouraged the inmates to respond to Cash's performance. Learn more here; https://folsomcasharttrail.com/the-trail/blog/why-did-johnny-cash-play-at-folsom-prison", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3563083, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3563083/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-09T15:36:10-07:00", "show": 64788, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64788/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Welcome To The Jungle", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Guns N’ Roses", "artist_ids": [ "eeb1195b-f213-4ce1-b28c-8565211f8e43" ], "album": "Appetite For Destruction & Lies", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2008-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "#160 on our countdown...\n---\n Vinyl and cassette versions of the albums didn’t have sides A and B, rather they had sides G and R. The G or Guns side was the first six tracks, which all dealt with drugs and hard city life, while the R or Roses side were the remaining songs, which were about love, sex and relationships.\n--\n Axl Rose wrote the lyrics to “Welcome to the Jungle” while in Seattle visiting a friend. He also said he was inspired by a homeless man he encountered as a runaway while coming out of a bus into New York. The man shouted at Axl and his friend, “You know where you are? You’re in the jungle baby; you’re gonna die!”", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3563082, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3563082/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-09T15:27:19-07:00", "show": 64788, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64788/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "Donations of $15.00 a month or more will receive a KEXP baseball cap in addition to their regular thank-you gifts: https://www.kexp.org/donate/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3563081, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3563081/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-09T15:22:29-07:00", "show": 64788, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64788/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia600204.us.archive.org/30/items/mbid-679b0c94-bb1b-36d9-adbb-662627b895be/mbid-679b0c94-bb1b-36d9-adbb-662627b895be-9708531301_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800204.us.archive.org/30/items/mbid-679b0c94-bb1b-36d9-adbb-662627b895be/mbid-679b0c94-bb1b-36d9-adbb-662627b895be-9708531301_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Just Like Heaven", "track_id": "77856513-7387-34f7-93ae-79c302546ec2", "recording_id": "c0c78d3e-19fc-4227-bdbb-153814f05527", "artist": "The Cure", "artist_ids": [ "69ee3720-a7cb-4402-b48d-a02c366f2bcf" ], "album": "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me", "release_id": "679b0c94-bb1b-36d9-adbb-662627b895be", "release_group_id": "ab132c83-097a-33f0-b557-edd6b6ce1c7d", "labels": [ "Fiction Records" ], "label_ids": [ "f6182855-aa81-453a-a460-58c0fd71635d" ], "release_date": "2006-08-08", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "#161 on the KEXP countdown of listener-voted favorite albums of all time...\n---\n\"Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick\nThe one that makes me scream\", she said\n\"The one that makes me laugh\", she said\nAnd threw her arms around my neck....\"\n--\nRobert Smith was in the throes of love when he wrote this song. His girlfriend, Mary Poole, he met when he was 14; in 1988, a year after \"Just Like Heaven\" was released, they got married, and it stuck. According to Smith, when he wrote this song, he told his bandmates, \"I'll never write something this good again.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3563080, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3563080/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-09T15:18:46-07:00", "show": 64788, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64788/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800204.us.archive.org/31/items/mbid-1923c6c8-9f21-4343-9fa4-eccf6be71e1f/mbid-1923c6c8-9f21-4343-9fa4-eccf6be71e1f-24072410583_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia600204.us.archive.org/31/items/mbid-1923c6c8-9f21-4343-9fa4-eccf6be71e1f/mbid-1923c6c8-9f21-4343-9fa4-eccf6be71e1f-24072410583_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Pretty Persuasion", "track_id": "adbf97ff-7cda-4fd9-85a5-b460a27f5c46", "recording_id": "afaabc7d-ca81-42d0-a829-31092886913f", "artist": "R.E.M.", "artist_ids": [ "ea4dfa26-f633-4da6-a52a-f49ea4897b58" ], "album": "Reckoning", "release_id": "1923c6c8-9f21-4343-9fa4-eccf6be71e1f", "release_group_id": "eec55734-1387-3aa3-af3d-ff0ae8083806", "labels": [ "I.R.S. 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It paid huge dividends and helped deliver one of the strongest albums in their catalog.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3563079, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3563079/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-09T15:15:58-07:00", "show": 64788, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64788/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800201.us.archive.org/27/items/mbid-6defd963-fe91-4550-b18e-82c685603c2b/mbid-6defd963-fe91-4550-b18e-82c685603c2b-28457940408_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800201.us.archive.org/27/items/mbid-6defd963-fe91-4550-b18e-82c685603c2b/mbid-6defd963-fe91-4550-b18e-82c685603c2b-28457940408_thumb250.jpg", "song": "You’re My Best Friend", "track_id": "99f3fddf-3d26-34a0-9af1-f8570cf502b2", "recording_id": "471dc436-80be-4f06-bc8f-7e2685876cfc", "artist": "Queen", "artist_ids": [ "0383dadf-2a4e-4d10-a46a-e9e041da8eb3" ], "album": "A Night at the Opera", "release_id": "6defd963-fe91-4550-b18e-82c685603c2b", "release_group_id": "6b47c9a0-b9e1-3df9-a5e8-50a6ce0dbdbd", "labels": [ "EMI" ], "label_ids": [ "c029628b-6633-439e-bcee-ed02e8a338f7" ], "release_date": "1975-11-21", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "#163 on our countdown...\n---\nThis was Queen's fourth album in two years and, at the time of its release, was considered an album with the most expensive production cost in the world.\n--\nThe recordings lasted about three weeks and were held in August and September 1975. During the recordings, the band used no less than four different studios.\n--\n The vocal harmonies were the hardest to record, the band members testified that they would sometimes repeat the vocal parts for 10-12 hours a day.\n\n", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3563078, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3563078/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-09T15:13:04-07:00", "show": 64788, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64788/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601501.us.archive.org/13/items/mbid-ca69bae7-9191-3bca-ba91-c65bd968b4fc/mbid-ca69bae7-9191-3bca-ba91-c65bd968b4fc-16443086809_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801501.us.archive.org/13/items/mbid-ca69bae7-9191-3bca-ba91-c65bd968b4fc/mbid-ca69bae7-9191-3bca-ba91-c65bd968b4fc-16443086809_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Love Buzz", "track_id": "e874b79e-3424-3a11-9fe0-e75a643e06da", "recording_id": "1adfecb7-875f-4203-b3b1-8e2e643f94a2", "artist": "Nirvana", "artist_ids": [ "5b11f4ce-a62d-471e-81fc-a69a8278c7da" ], "album": "Bleach", "release_id": "ca69bae7-9191-3bca-ba91-c65bd968b4fc", "release_group_id": "f1afec0b-26dd-3db5-9aa1-c91229a74a24", "labels": [ "Sub Pop Records" ], "label_ids": [ "38dc88de-7720-4100-9d5b-3cdc41b0c474" ], "release_date": "2009-11-03", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Nirvana's debut album, \"Bleach,\" is #164 on KEXP's listener-selected favorite albums of all time....\n--\nAs the legend goes, Kurt Cobain stopped by KCMU (what would become KEXP) after the release of Nirvana’s first 7-inch single, Love Buzz / Big Cheese. He personally handed over a copy to the station then sat in his car with his radio tuned in and waited to hear his song ( a cover of the song from Dutch band Shocking Blue).. When he didn’t hear it, he called in and requested the song himself. (AND...we played it!!)\n--\nNow, watch Nirvana play it live in Seattle in 1991: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEh3mO9MPV0", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3563077, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3563077/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-09T15:01:02-07:00", "show": 64788, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64788/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601403.us.archive.org/31/items/mbid-10a503f6-265a-4850-93bd-78b18fc6e6b8/mbid-10a503f6-265a-4850-93bd-78b18fc6e6b8-7486369964_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801403.us.archive.org/31/items/mbid-10a503f6-265a-4850-93bd-78b18fc6e6b8/mbid-10a503f6-265a-4850-93bd-78b18fc6e6b8-7486369964_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Float On", "track_id": "6fd5f7cd-011a-3312-803b-42a666ca54ea", "recording_id": "2be922c8-1250-47f6-895e-c4da99a93fde", "artist": "Modest Mouse", "artist_ids": [ "a96ac800-bfcb-412a-8a63-0a98df600700" ], "album": "Good News for People Who Love Bad News", "release_id": "10a503f6-265a-4850-93bd-78b18fc6e6b8", "release_group_id": "65b47520-2e58-3bc2-a755-34ff35f23ad5", "labels": [ "Epic" ], "label_ids": [ "8f638ddb-131a-4cc3-b3d4-7ebdac201b55" ], "release_date": "2004-04-06", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "#165, as we continue the countdown of favorite albums...\n---\n\"Modest Mouse has been my favorite band since 10-year-old me discovered “Float On” on a mix CD that my parents got from a funeral. A family friend’s kid died—he wasn’t really a kid, but a college student. His parents made CDs with his favorite music on them, which I’ve always thought was a devastating and beautiful way to honor someone—the mix had songs from Dave Matthew’s Band, Nirvana, and Modest Mouse.\" Here's a great tribute to Modest Mouse's fourth studio album: https://www.getalternative.com/review-modest-mouse-good-news-for/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3563076, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3563076/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-09T14:55:40-07:00", "show": 64788, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64788/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801902.us.archive.org/27/items/mbid-1d2be447-71b0-470a-ad38-925ecaf83c08/mbid-1d2be447-71b0-470a-ad38-925ecaf83c08-19337399644_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601902.us.archive.org/27/items/mbid-1d2be447-71b0-470a-ad38-925ecaf83c08/mbid-1d2be447-71b0-470a-ad38-925ecaf83c08-19337399644_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Black Celebration", "track_id": "39284883-cc88-317a-9242-b4b389b47cd4", "recording_id": "81e5cda0-5ceb-4b40-bce1-e1473b5108a2", "artist": "Depeche Mode", "artist_ids": [ "8538e728-ca0b-4321-b7e5-cff6565dd4c0" ], "album": "Black Celebration", "release_id": "1d2be447-71b0-470a-ad38-925ecaf83c08", "release_group_id": "b9c6879f-3a34-3aa0-a68f-73ced2608f7a", "labels": [ "Sire Records" ], "label_ids": [ "be0fec81-5c18-4494-8bbf-0d81dec006bf" ], "release_date": "1986-03-31", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "#166....\n---\nThis was the fifth album from the Essex-bred band comprised of Dave Gahan (lead vocalist), Martin Gore (chief songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist), Alan Wilder (arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist), and Andy Fletcher (multi-instrumentalist). \nThe album represented Depeche Mode’s revolt against the glossier, less substantive pop music they had crafted to date. : https://albumism.com/features/tribute-celebrating-35-years-of-depeche-mode-black-celebration", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3563075, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3563075/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-09T14:51:57-07:00", "show": 64788, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64788/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601505.us.archive.org/25/items/mbid-24592204-1a84-482f-8259-fa02ac1b9f21/mbid-24592204-1a84-482f-8259-fa02ac1b9f21-16109910894_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801505.us.archive.org/25/items/mbid-24592204-1a84-482f-8259-fa02ac1b9f21/mbid-24592204-1a84-482f-8259-fa02ac1b9f21-16109910894_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Fill in the Blank", "track_id": "624fadab-c322-4109-9d30-470c61a4f450", "recording_id": "50e31792-35f1-409c-8001-c3941e0aa3f0", "artist": "Car Seat Headrest", "artist_ids": [ "0fabbc1d-8d94-4a61-bd1d-1099ad1e4559" ], "album": "Teens of Denial", "release_id": "24592204-1a84-482f-8259-fa02ac1b9f21", "release_group_id": "7413db7e-163c-4e48-bd8e-c41fd466b2c1", "labels": [ "Matador" ], "label_ids": [ "229bd4be-8cd7-442c-85b0-5007ea353abc" ], "release_date": "2016-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "#167 on YOUR countdown of listener favorite albums...\n---\nIn 2018, \"Fill in the Blank\" was part of Car Seat Headrest's wonderful in-studio live performance. Watch that entire session here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqT3U2UYS4k\n--\nHave you watched a live performance on KEXP that delighted you, excited you, or moved you to tears? Support these incredible events with your donation: https://www.kexp.org/donate/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
