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GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=8480
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It was originally released in German, Schilling's native language. Read more at:\nhttps://bit.ly/34LlyIu\n\nWatch the official video for the English version of \"Major Tom\":\nhttps://youtu.be/wO0A0XcWy88", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3556362, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3556362/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-22T14:36:59-07:00", "show": 64634, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64634/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia600600.us.archive.org/30/items/mbid-22e8329a-ba62-4cfe-add6-6a33af9edf9c/mbid-22e8329a-ba62-4cfe-add6-6a33af9edf9c-42253392599_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721501.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-22e8329a-ba62-4cfe-add6-6a33af9edf9c/mbid-22e8329a-ba62-4cfe-add6-6a33af9edf9c-42253392599_thumb250.jpg", "song": "In Your Head", "track_id": "f49ed148-6dad-4f42-b818-6f2e588427fc", "recording_id": "b6980c3f-d861-4e4b-8694-a2b549ee531e", "artist": "Nation of Language", "artist_ids": [ "88927646-0c28-4b1b-a69e-cb33c400d650" ], "album": "Dance Called Memory", "release_id": "22e8329a-ba62-4cfe-add6-6a33af9edf9c", "release_group_id": "d29e8491-8f3d-4f70-b494-3a196796ce75", "labels": [ "Sub Pop Records" ], "label_ids": [ "38dc88de-7720-4100-9d5b-3cdc41b0c474" ], "release_date": "2025-09-19", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Released on Friday!\n\nPlaying the Showbox in Seattle on October 9th and 10th and the Filmore in San Francisco on October 13th.\n\nhttps://nationoflanguage.bandcamp.com/album/dance-called-memory\nhttps://www.nationoflanguage.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3556361, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3556361/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-22T14:33:08-07:00", "show": 64634, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64634/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801808.us.archive.org/35/items/mbid-24bbda12-1742-44ae-8aae-78741a9ee5bc/mbid-24bbda12-1742-44ae-8aae-78741a9ee5bc-42564440619_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721308.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-24bbda12-1742-44ae-8aae-78741a9ee5bc/mbid-24bbda12-1742-44ae-8aae-78741a9ee5bc-42564440619_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Lazy", "track_id": "d97a29c7-1c77-4030-962c-f9647297dded", "recording_id": "dcdf3ea5-e138-44c5-9fdc-85a817a79374", "artist": "Automatic", "artist_ids": [ "9b627d78-b041-4b23-bb70-3534e61afc7e" ], "album": "Is It Now?", "release_id": "24bbda12-1742-44ae-8aae-78741a9ee5bc", "release_group_id": "98460e0a-a764-4f61-a378-f1ecc75f5445", "labels": [ "Stones Throw Records" ], "label_ids": [ "f1b83107-23e5-41a3-ab1b-2a36965cf77b" ], "release_date": "2025-09-26", "rotation_status": "Light", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Automatic is Izzy Glaudini (synths, vocals), Lola Dompé (drums, vocals) and Halle Saxon (bass, vocals). The band first met while immersed in LA's DIY music scene and started jamming together in 2017. They released their debut album Signal in 2019 and began touring internationally, opening for acts like Bauhaus. In 2022, they shared the stage with Tame Impala, Parquet Courts and IDLES. Their second album Excess released in 2022. Their new album, Is It Now? releases in September.\nhttps://www.stonesthrow.com/artist/automatic/\n\nhttps://automatic-band.bandcamp.com/track/is-it-now\n\nhttps://automatic.band/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3556359, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3556359/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-22T14:28:38-07:00", "show": 64634, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64634/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721801.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-d56dbdb6-b551-40eb-8d43-c7194f8ca578/mbid-d56dbdb6-b551-40eb-8d43-c7194f8ca578-6480008619_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721801.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-d56dbdb6-b551-40eb-8d43-c7194f8ca578/mbid-d56dbdb6-b551-40eb-8d43-c7194f8ca578-6480008619_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Red Right Hand (Scream 3 version)", "track_id": "26b6f753-6925-32db-a02d-75cae434ffcc", "recording_id": "404e1e0f-6bdf-440c-bcc6-39cd7b5ed224", "artist": "Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds", "artist_ids": [ "172e1f1a-504d-4488-b053-6344ba63e6d0" ], "album": "B-Sides & Rarities", "release_id": "d56dbdb6-b551-40eb-8d43-c7194f8ca578", "release_group_id": "bbb013fb-7e30-3225-9d56-39f781b9685d", "labels": [ "Mute" ], "label_ids": [ "e0b106a5-4add-4839-9e40-c192457e1bf8" ], "release_date": "2005-03-28", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": null, "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3556358, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3556358/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-22T14:25:36-07:00", "show": 64634, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64634/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3556357, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3556357/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-22T14:19:47-07:00", "show": 64634, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64634/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800907.us.archive.org/31/items/mbid-01fdc599-0bba-4c73-9305-f74b8578262d/mbid-01fdc599-0bba-4c73-9305-f74b8578262d-43019317068_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800907.us.archive.org/31/items/mbid-01fdc599-0bba-4c73-9305-f74b8578262d/mbid-01fdc599-0bba-4c73-9305-f74b8578262d-43019317068_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Immortal", "track_id": "623252f7-2a6b-486e-a207-04375ec569ed", "recording_id": "1af68f04-501e-4dbc-b8f0-0fad3306eabf", "artist": "Ho99o9 feat. 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NME magazine ranked it at number 43 on their list of the \"Best Albums and Tracks of 1994.\" https://bit.ly/3RxQ2Vh", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3556355, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3556355/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-22T14:12:50-07:00", "show": 64634, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64634/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721700.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-b49a47b9-103c-4150-8b1a-bb9b11d345c4/mbid-b49a47b9-103c-4150-8b1a-bb9b11d345c4-42078316853_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801304.us.archive.org/17/items/mbid-b49a47b9-103c-4150-8b1a-bb9b11d345c4/mbid-b49a47b9-103c-4150-8b1a-bb9b11d345c4-42078316853_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Why Are You Calling", "track_id": "9d543172-fab4-4a41-8cdc-f035de50b9fc", "recording_id": "d5696732-26c0-484b-9772-3b7e31c4caae", "artist": "Saint Etienne", "artist_ids": [ "3997d4a6-c2bd-4191-8406-eb07f0abb5d2" ], "album": "International", "release_id": "b49a47b9-103c-4150-8b1a-bb9b11d345c4", "release_group_id": "63339f75-1e58-4a23-83d9-321bdb63bb5e", "labels": [ "Heavenly Recordings" ], "label_ids": [ "696ee2f4-c486-4e7a-80f4-cfd85193677a" ], "release_date": "2025-09-05", "rotation_status": "Medium", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": null, "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3556354, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3556354/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-22T14:10:08-07:00", "show": 64634, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64634/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801400.us.archive.org/4/items/mbid-0dfeb781-591a-4ee2-9305-08881d84f236/mbid-0dfeb781-591a-4ee2-9305-08881d84f236-41381142566_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801400.us.archive.org/4/items/mbid-0dfeb781-591a-4ee2-9305-08881d84f236/mbid-0dfeb781-591a-4ee2-9305-08881d84f236-41381142566_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Dreams of an Insomniac", "track_id": "92052110-2791-45ee-9899-ae29c6d8466d", "recording_id": "a5c4e506-4722-4d87-8c64-be3ea6800bf1", "artist": "Charif Megarbane", "artist_ids": [ "bb18173b-25b4-443f-adcf-bcd74df831b5" ], "album": "Hawalat", "release_id": "0dfeb781-591a-4ee2-9305-08881d84f236", "release_group_id": "2c3a6d7a-b50b-421d-aff4-40aadaaf4b33", "labels": [ "Habibi Funk" ], "label_ids": [ "cdecb6d1-ba2d-452d-94f7-b80bf777359e" ], "release_date": "2025-04-11", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Hawalat is based on the idea of hawala, informal money transfers that you can make to certain countries impacted by a lack of currency or unstable political and economic contexts. \n\nHis use of the term on this album is not a financial one, Charif Megarbane explains, but a nod to notions of creative exchange between places, persons, generations.\n\nIt is the first time Megarbane called on other musicians in this way to inform his sound, including a collaboration with Sven Wunder on the song Helia featuring strings by the Stockholm Studio Orchestra. \n\nhttps://tinyurl.com/yb5wz9xy", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3556353, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3556353/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-22T14:05:22-07:00", "show": 64634, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64634/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801304.us.archive.org/10/items/mbid-ac08220a-ca91-3c93-b31b-b231270773af/mbid-ac08220a-ca91-3c93-b31b-b231270773af-11622727078_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601304.us.archive.org/10/items/mbid-ac08220a-ca91-3c93-b31b-b231270773af/mbid-ac08220a-ca91-3c93-b31b-b231270773af-11622727078_thumb250.jpg", "song": "The Flower Called Nowhere", "track_id": "0b28b494-3f56-3bbc-90cf-f05bef9c1098", "recording_id": "590287ff-2af9-4ddf-aff5-1a71b4480f15", "artist": "Stereolab", "artist_ids": [ "f1df0431-9250-4ec8-95d8-f19ce7cf7fb6" ], "album": "Dots and Loops", "release_id": "ac08220a-ca91-3c93-b31b-b231270773af", "release_group_id": "dcc1e5d0-c35f-3e4a-b0d2-b53b23eb906f", "labels": [ "Elektra" ], "label_ids": [ "873f9f75-af68-4872-98e2-431058e4c9a9" ], "release_date": "1997-09-23", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"The Flower Called Nowhere\" contains a sample of 1967's \"Herbert's Song\" by Krzysztof Komeda. 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