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The session is free and open to the public, so don't miss it if you can.\n\nHe's on tour and will be at the Moore Theatre in Seattle also on September 18th as well as in Oakland at The Fox Theater on Friday, September 12th.\n\nhttps://www.mjlenderman.com/tour\n--\nMJ also joined us for Live on KEXP back in 2022 playing with the band Wednesday! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0o-hF9s0ro", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3551679, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3551679/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-11T11:20:31-07:00", "show": 64533, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64533/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Long Distance Nashville", "track_id": "e23cfc6c-6448-4880-a6d8-28430b6fc3c8", "recording_id": "d56bffb6-65bd-4f22-ab1e-80706a1e359f", "artist": "Gerald Collier", "artist_ids": [ "b0018c21-1d7b-4fd9-aa71-4d86276bf1d0" ], "album": "Breakin' Down", "release_id": "0c714f32-fc34-404e-9b8b-cb18cf57b924", "release_group_id": "4f224fcf-b1e0-4ba5-8aad-6f991bfeb387", "labels": [ "Isota Records" ], "label_ids": [ "df73d560-7c0f-436f-b787-1b23ee93c304" ], "release_date": "2003-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Upon the 1995 breakup of the Best Kissers in the World, vocalist/guitarist Gerald Collier refashioned himself as an alt country singer/songwriter. 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Subscribe to our YouTube channel so you don't miss the video when it launches: https://www.youtube.com/@kexp\n--\nDean Johnson has a bunch of upcoming tour dates, including these local stops:\n\n-San Francisco on Tuesday, November 18th at The Chapel\n-Seattle on Friday, November 21st at The Showbox \n\nhttps://www.deanjohnsongs.com/tour", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3551676, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3551676/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-11T11:10:50-07:00", "show": 64533, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64533/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3551675, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3551675/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-11T11:06:58-07:00", "show": 64533, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64533/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800206.us.archive.org/25/items/mbid-75aa0b1d-c11f-3dfc-bf60-05f5fbf55ad2/mbid-75aa0b1d-c11f-3dfc-bf60-05f5fbf55ad2-11639680608_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800206.us.archive.org/25/items/mbid-75aa0b1d-c11f-3dfc-bf60-05f5fbf55ad2/mbid-75aa0b1d-c11f-3dfc-bf60-05f5fbf55ad2-11639680608_thumb250.jpg", "song": "“Heroes”", "track_id": "dca9f5f4-2571-3591-8cd9-b3cd5e6bd512", "recording_id": "66638426-882f-417e-b7d0-5a065749ca55", "artist": "David Bowie", "artist_ids": [ "5441c29d-3602-4898-b1a1-b77fa23b8e50" ], "album": "Best of Bowie", "release_id": "75aa0b1d-c11f-3dfc-bf60-05f5fbf55ad2", "release_group_id": "cd4c2cc6-fb5f-35db-8a48-2215edf499f7", "labels": [ "Virgin", "EMI" ], "label_ids": [ "49b58bdb-3d74-40c6-956a-4c4b46115c9c", "c029628b-6633-439e-bcee-ed02e8a338f7" ], "release_date": "2002-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Did you know that secret lovers were the inspiration behind this Bowie classic??\n\nOne afternoon in July 1977, David Bowie was looking out of the window of Hansa Studio in Berlin when he noticed a couple kissing near the Berlin Wall.\n\n“I always said it was a couple of lovers by the Wall that prompted the idea for Heroes,” Bowie told Classic Rock in 2015, explaining its meaning. “Actually, it was [Bowie producer] Tony Visconti and his girlfriend. Tony was married at the time, so I couldn’t talk about it. But I can now say that the lovers were Tony and a German girl [Antonia Maass] that he’d met while we were in Berlin. I think possibly his marriage was in the last few months. And it was very touching because I could see that Tony was very much in love with this girl, and it was that relationship which sort of motivated the song.”\n\nhttps://www.loudersound.com/features/the-story-behind-the-song-heroes-by-david-bowie", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3551674, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3551674/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-11T11:01:40-07:00", "show": 64533, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64533/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia802800.us.archive.org/18/items/mbid-6a620754-9e15-497e-9c15-c243aa4324e0/mbid-6a620754-9e15-497e-9c15-c243aa4324e0-25339040407_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia802800.us.archive.org/18/items/mbid-6a620754-9e15-497e-9c15-c243aa4324e0/mbid-6a620754-9e15-497e-9c15-c243aa4324e0-25339040407_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Young Americans", "track_id": "c5e8cafc-f2f3-46b3-8db7-b2d51a7e2720", "recording_id": "b0083693-b2e3-4782-a402-4c1dde889826", "artist": "Durand Jones & The Indications", "artist_ids": [ "5da8d9b1-af89-43a3-a519-8e32ec21e7f5" ], "album": "Young Americans", "release_id": "6a620754-9e15-497e-9c15-c243aa4324e0", "release_group_id": "5dd55bb4-5f47-40af-938f-29181223ab2c", "labels": [ "Dead Oceans" ], "label_ids": [ "f70f950f-2587-4f85-a5c7-b483a47bd2e9" ], "release_date": "2020-01-28", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Durand Jones & The Indications are performing in:\n --Oakland at the Fox Theater on Tuesday, October 7th \n--Seattle at Showbox SoDo on Wednesday, October 29th.\n--\nBlake Rhein from The Indications said of Bowie's 1975 album: \"The entire 'Young Americans' album is an incredible piece of soul music history with brilliant flares of gospel, funk, and disco. 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Naming Ridley Scott among his favorite sci-fi auteurs, Harding notes that the extravagant world-building of 'Departures & Arrivals' inspired many of his production choices, including the abundance of symphonic string arrangements supplied by Steve Hackman (a composer who’s worked with such diverse artists as Doja Cat and Andrew Bird).\n\nhttps://www.anti.com/releases/departures-arrivals-adventures-captain-curt/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3551672, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3551672/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-11T10:55:24-07:00", "show": 64533, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64533/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3551671, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3551671/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-11T10:48:35-07:00", "show": 64533, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64533/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801809.us.archive.org/17/items/mbid-57109e69-326f-330a-b8b0-df9f6ac42820/mbid-57109e69-326f-330a-b8b0-df9f6ac42820-28734527560_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601809.us.archive.org/17/items/mbid-57109e69-326f-330a-b8b0-df9f6ac42820/mbid-57109e69-326f-330a-b8b0-df9f6ac42820-28734527560_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Lover, You Should've Come Over", "track_id": "16623f90-b596-3720-af31-a4716072ab35", "recording_id": "a15695cc-32d6-4e09-8515-24d1e6f9dac6", "artist": "Jeff Buckley", "artist_ids": [ "e6e879c0-3d56-4f12-b3c5-3ce459661a8e" ], "album": "Grace", "release_id": "57109e69-326f-330a-b8b0-df9f6ac42820", "release_group_id": "ea29c347-696f-3165-986d-7bad1394b178", "labels": [ "Columbia" ], "label_ids": [ "011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e" ], "release_date": "2004-08-24", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Jeff Buckley’s song “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” is inspired by his breakup with Rebecca Moore. \n\nIn interviews and liner‐note commentaries, Buckley said he wrote it while waiting by the telephone, hoping she would call—but she never did.\n\nhttps://shorturl.at/s0KrS", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
