HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept
{
"next": "https://legacy-api.kexp.org/v1/play/?format=api&limit=20&offset=19780",
"previous": "https://legacy-api.kexp.org/v1/play/?format=api&limit=20&offset=19740",
"results": [
{
"playid": 3644965,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 4,
"name": "Air break"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T22:19:43Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776809983000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776809983000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": null,
"release": null,
"releaseevent": null,
"track": null,
"label": null,
"comments": [],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644963,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T22:12:03Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776809523000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776809523000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1172863151,
"name": "Prince and The Revolution",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 933702576,
"name": "Purple Rain",
"largeimageuri": "https://dn711000.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-05adfe85-dd1c-44a0-bda8-a9159e59a30f/mbid-05adfe85-dd1c-44a0-bda8-a9159e59a30f-15842800531_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://dn711000.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-05adfe85-dd1c-44a0-bda8-a9159e59a30f/mbid-05adfe85-dd1c-44a0-bda8-a9159e59a30f-15842800531_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 746889812,
"year": 1984
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1923981008,
"name": "Purple Rain"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 1587906892,
"name": "Warner Bros. Records"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 775115835,
"text": "This was the last song Prince played live; it was the closing number at his April 14, 2016 concert at the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, which was his last, as he died on April 21.\n--\n Read \"A tribute to Prince\" by KEXP DJ Kevin Cole here: https://www.kexp.org/read/2016/4/21/a-tribute-to-prince-from-dj-kevin-cole/"
}
],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644962,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T22:07:11Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776809231000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776809231000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1927030959,
"name": "Sinéad O’Connor",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1280363930,
"name": "I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got",
"largeimageuri": "https://dn721607.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-cf12eafa-22fa-436f-8031-ac8f2fb34c97/mbid-cf12eafa-22fa-436f-8031-ac8f2fb34c97-36289235531_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://dn721607.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-cf12eafa-22fa-436f-8031-ac8f2fb34c97/mbid-cf12eafa-22fa-436f-8031-ac8f2fb34c97-36289235531_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1600697509,
"year": 1990
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1119911336,
"name": "Nothing Compares 2 U"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 370450098,
"name": "Chrysalis, Ensign Records"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 572343399,
"text": "born this day in 1959 – Marco Pirroni, guitarist for Sinéad, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Adam Ant.\n\nPrince wrote \"Nothing Compares 2 U\" in a single 1984 studio session and handed it to his funk side project The Family, whose 1985 version sank without a trace. Sinéad O'Connor picked it up for her second album and turned it into something else entirely. She'd lost her mother in a 1985 car accident when she was 18, and the lyric about flowers dying in the backyard lodged in her because of that. She has said that every time she performs it, \"it's the only time I get to spend with my mother.\" Billboard named it the world's #1 single of 1990.\n\nhttps://www.musicradar.com/news/story-behind-the-song-sinead-oconnors-nothing-compares-2-u"
}
],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644961,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T22:02:56Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776808976000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776808976000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 525190754,
"name": "Kate Bush",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 749518319,
"name": "The Kick Inside",
"largeimageuri": "https://ia803204.us.archive.org/13/items/mbid-3284a453-7f3c-36f7-a46c-42ab0310e51f/mbid-3284a453-7f3c-36f7-a46c-42ab0310e51f-24008431325_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://ia903204.us.archive.org/13/items/mbid-3284a453-7f3c-36f7-a46c-42ab0310e51f/mbid-3284a453-7f3c-36f7-a46c-42ab0310e51f-24008431325_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1836484458,
"year": 1994
},
"track": {
"trackid": 2112682490,
"name": "Wuthering Heights"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 1314044089,
"name": "EMI"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 1040131587,
"text": "From Kate Bush's debut studio album. \n\nThe Kick Inside came out 17 February 1978 on EMI, Kate Bush's debut at 19. Andrew Powell produced, with a backing cast drawn largely from the Alan Parsons Project — Ian Bairnson, David Paton, Stuart Elliott, Duncan Mackay — plus David Gilmour on backing vocals on one track. EMI wanted to lead the campaign with \"James and the Cold Gun\"; Bush insisted on \"Wuthering Heights.\" They gave in, and in March 1978 she became the first woman to hit No. 1 in the UK with a self-written song. The album hit No. 3 and went platinum."
}
],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644959,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T21:58:45Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776808725000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776808725000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 841478964,
"name": "Liz Cooper",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1126351953,
"name": "New Day",
"largeimageuri": "https://dn710900.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-6a108d9a-7125-4fe4-acd5-56f53ee0f1c6/mbid-6a108d9a-7125-4fe4-acd5-56f53ee0f1c6-44407115591_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://dn710900.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-6a108d9a-7125-4fe4-acd5-56f53ee0f1c6/mbid-6a108d9a-7125-4fe4-acd5-56f53ee0f1c6-44407115591_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1994805308,
"year": 2026
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1510595103,
"name": "IDFK"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 950640758,
"name": "Sleepyhead Music"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 728987698,
"text": "Liz Cooper calls IDFK \"a love song to a friend and myself\" about \"the connection between who the main character in the song showed me I am and the person I am becoming.\" The track is piano-led and string-swept, written in the shadow of Lou Reed's Coney Island Baby, which she played on repeat while living in Brooklyn. It's the tender emotional core of New Day.\n\nhttps://floodmagazine.com/210318/liz-cooper-idfk-first-listen/"
}
],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644958,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T21:56:06Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776808566000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776808566000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1468094133,
"name": "Lauren Auder",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1357511132,
"name": "Whole World as Vigil",
"largeimageuri": "https://dn721907.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-03fb35ef-8524-4956-8ee8-17dbc6166ee1/mbid-03fb35ef-8524-4956-8ee8-17dbc6166ee1-44209654196_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://dn721907.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-03fb35ef-8524-4956-8ee8-17dbc6166ee1/mbid-03fb35ef-8524-4956-8ee8-17dbc6166ee1-44209654196_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1293773168,
"year": 2026
},
"track": {
"trackid": 2062501288,
"name": "mantra"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 238936100,
"name": "Untitled (Recs)"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 1598228427,
"text": "The refrain of “mantra” — \"You can change your life\" — is Auder's personal mantra, lifted directly from the closing line of Rainer Maria Rilke's 1908 poem Archaic Torso of Apollo, where the fragmentary statue confronts the viewer with a demand for transformation. Auder has said the lyrics on this record are written as \"theses to live by\" — ideas she needs to expel by writing down and then keep reminding herself of. It's one of the album's quiet pivots from introspection into instruction.\n\nhttps://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/lauren-auder-is-building-a-monument-to-the-present-moment"
}
],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644956,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T21:50:31Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776808231000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776808231000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1738387246,
"name": "The Fixx",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1508983762,
"name": "Reach the Beach",
"largeimageuri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/b6a7b0b6-56b2-4670-9d3f-0c21d7aeacf3/13505357511-500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/b6a7b0b6-56b2-4670-9d3f-0c21d7aeacf3/13505357511-250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 574644013,
"year": 1983
},
"track": {
"trackid": 301665722,
"name": "Saved by Zero"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 1124086012,
"name": "MCA Records"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 874316390,
"text": "for Matt in San Diego!\n\"Saved by Zero\" takes its title from the Buddhist concept of Śūnyatā — emptiness. Cy Curnin was dipping into Buddhist practice when he wrote it, and he's said the lyric is \"about looking at your own life, not so much about amassing material things but about experiences that lend you to be blissful… how great it is to get back to zero.\" He meant it as a minimalist's mantra for clearing out fear and distraction. It became The Fixx's first U.S. top 20 hit, peaking at No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in summer 1983.\n\nhttps://ultimateclassicrock.com/the-fixx-saved-by-zero/"
}
],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644955,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T21:46:45Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776808005000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776808005000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1231669403,
"name": "Let's Active",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 350906534,
"name": "Big Plans for Everybody",
"largeimageuri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/651a8ecd-5c57-49c1-931e-c85fdad6e0ad/21244270020-500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/651a8ecd-5c57-49c1-931e-c85fdad6e0ad/21244270020-250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1354136504,
"year": 1986
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1571015823,
"name": "In Little Ways"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 17557657,
"name": "I.R.S. Records"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 1375797965,
"text": "Let's Active formed in Winston-Salem in 1981 around Mitch Easter, bassist Faye Hunter, and a 17-year-old drummer named Sara Romweber who'd joined two weeks before the band's first live show — opening for R.E.M. at the 688 Club in Atlanta on November 13, 1981. They were early architects of Southern jangle-pop and disbanded in 1990. By the time of Big Plans for Everybody in 1986, Hunter and Romweber were gone, so \"In Little Ways\" is a snapshot of Easter carrying the project forward largely alone.\nRead more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_Active\nMitch Easter still runs Fidelitorium Recordings in Kernersville, NC — https://fidelitorium.com/"
}
],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644954,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T21:44:03Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776807843000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776807843000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 503368732,
"name": "The Grass Roots",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1573202954,
"name": "Golden Grass",
"largeimageuri": null,
"smallimageuri": null
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 239596304,
"year": 1968
},
"track": {
"trackid": 925922367,
"name": "Midnight Confessions"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 1865394573,
"name": "Dunhill Records"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 2144617005,
"text": "for Stephen in NYC!\n\n\"Midnight Confessions\" was written by Lou Josie, who originally recorded it as a demo with a band he managed called the Evergreen Blues Band. Producer Steve Barri heard the demo and acquired the song for The Grass Roots. For the recording session, Barri brought in arranger Jimmie Haskell to write the horn parts and hired the Wrecking Crew — the legendary Los Angeles studio musicians who also played on records by the Beach Boys, Phil Spector, and Simon & Garfunkel — to cut the backing tracks. Released on ABC/Dunhill in late June 1968, the song peaked at #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 on November 2, 1968, and was certified gold a month later. The lyrics describe a man in love with a married woman, confessing it only out loud and alone. \n\nhttps://americansongwriter.com/how-the-second-version-of-the-grass-roots-made-it-big-with-midnight-confessions/"
}
],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644953,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T21:40:51Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776807651000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776807651000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 774993494,
"name": "Kumail feat. Fly Anakin",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 300951136,
"name": "Mudbrown",
"largeimageuri": "https://ia902906.us.archive.org/35/items/mbid-1996db7f-a8ed-4d38-833d-9e80caa8746b/mbid-1996db7f-a8ed-4d38-833d-9e80caa8746b-44615221134_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://dn710204.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-1996db7f-a8ed-4d38-833d-9e80caa8746b/mbid-1996db7f-a8ed-4d38-833d-9e80caa8746b-44615221134_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 913029287,
"year": 2026
},
"track": {
"trackid": 672385531,
"name": "Tear It Off"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 1971204286,
"name": "Tru Thoughts"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 648378741,
"text": "\"Tear It Off\" is a Kumail track featuring Fly Anakin, the Richmond, Virginia rapper and co-founder of the Mutant Academy collective. Kumail has said the song is about stripping off the mask and showing up as your authentic self — \"that's when you're most powerful and most beautiful\" — with a secondary thread about people who perform allyship but act as predators. Fly Anakin is a year out from his own second solo album, (The) Forever Dream, which was executive-produced by Quelle Chris and released in April 2025; his collective Mutant Academy's debut full-length, Keep Holly Alive, made Pitchfork's best rap albums of 2024 list. \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly_Anakin. \nAlbum on Bandcamp: https://kumail.bandcamp.com/album/mudbrown-2."
}
],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644952,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T21:38:44Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776807524000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776807524000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 18532649,
"name": "SALIMATA",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1920512347,
"name": "The Happening",
"largeimageuri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/bc779438-6179-43c0-80f3-6b80a0760f22/43374795926-500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/bc779438-6179-43c0-80f3-6b80a0760f22/43374795926-250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1502636028,
"year": 2025
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1097551755,
"name": "Centerfold"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 894550657,
"name": "10k"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 1327744427,
"text": "SALIMATA is a Brooklyn-raised rapper whose mother grew up in Côte d'Ivoire. She was a poet first — writing since childhood, freestyling as a teen — and released her debut single \"I Can\" in 2019. She signed to 10k after the label's founder, MIKE, and affiliate Niontay took notice; her first album on the label, Salimata Presents – OUCH, came out in 2022. She released a follow-up, Wooden Floors, on Fada Records in 2024 (featuring Pink Siifu), and then returned to 10k for The Happening in December 2025. Outside of music, she works in fashion, painting, and sculpture — all part of what she describes as building a universe. \n \nhttps://www.wavymagazine.com/salimata-is-making-rap-that-cuts-through-the-noise."
}
],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644950,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T21:35:37Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776807337000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776807337000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 994098002,
"name": "A Tribe Called Quest feat. Busta Rhymes",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1067268839,
"name": "Midnight Marauders",
"largeimageuri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/f2ab0d46-23e4-4fd4-a6f9-0e64508acf9c/9900302771-500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/f2ab0d46-23e4-4fd4-a6f9-0e64508acf9c/9900302771-250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 978884211,
"year": 1993
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1301642662,
"name": "Oh My God"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 1869890186,
"name": "Jive"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 809017518,
"text": "\"Oh My God\" is the third single from Midnight Marauders, released in May 1994 (the album itself came out November 9, 1993). Busta Rhymes handles the hook — this was two and a half years after his star-making verse on \"Scenario\" from The Low End Theory, which Q-Tip had invited him onto when Busta was still with Leaders of the New School. The track is stacked with samples: Kool & the Gang's \"Who's Gonna Take the Weight,\" Lee Morgan's \"Absolutions,\" The Whatnauts' \"Why Can't People Be Colors Too?,\" Fred Wesley & the J.B.'s \"Damn Right I'm Somebody,\" and Davy DMX's \"One for the Treble (Fresh).\" Q-Tip produced. \n\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh_My_God_(A_Tribe_Called_Quest_song)"
}
],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644951,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 4,
"name": "Air break"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T21:33:42Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776807222000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776807222000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": null,
"release": null,
"releaseevent": null,
"track": null,
"label": null,
"comments": [],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644949,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T21:29:24Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776806964000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776806964000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 763388195,
"name": "Iggy and The Stooges",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1670679445,
"name": "Raw Power",
"largeimageuri": "https://dn710704.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-c114ee88-1ec5-4d94-af68-c0e35a7e1cea/mbid-c114ee88-1ec5-4d94-af68-c0e35a7e1cea-8067360339_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://ia800108.us.archive.org/26/items/mbid-c114ee88-1ec5-4d94-af68-c0e35a7e1cea/mbid-c114ee88-1ec5-4d94-af68-c0e35a7e1cea-8067360339_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 300106579,
"year": 1997
},
"track": {
"trackid": 287088709,
"name": "Search and Destroy"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 1431686747,
"name": "Legacy"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 1831619997,
"text": "Today is Iggy Pop's 79th birthday — James Newell Osterberg Jr., born April 21, 1947, in Muskegon, Michigan. Nine days ago he played Coachella, performing a set of Stooges classics and exiting the stage in a coffin. \"Search and Destroy\" is from 1973's Raw Power, the Stooges' third and final original-run album. Iggy took the title from a column heading in a Time magazine piece about the Vietnam War — \"search and destroy\" being the name of a US military tactic — and the lyrics are laced with napalm, nuclear bombs, and radiation. Guitarist James Williamson wrote the machine-gun riff. The Stooges broke up in 2016 after the deaths of Scott Asheton and Steve Mackay, and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. \n\nhttps://www.loudersound.com/music/tracks-singles/iggy-the-stooges-search-and-destroy.\nhttps://iggypop.com"
}
],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644948,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T21:25:59Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776806759000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776806759000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 486169111,
"name": "They Might Be Giants",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 198801429,
"name": "Apollo 18",
"largeimageuri": "https://dn710605.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-46ffd6e9-7cb5-4645-b844-53e2311dc402/mbid-46ffd6e9-7cb5-4645-b844-53e2311dc402-36191632136_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://dn710605.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-46ffd6e9-7cb5-4645-b844-53e2311dc402/mbid-46ffd6e9-7cb5-4645-b844-53e2311dc402-36191632136_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1024863232,
"year": 1992
},
"track": {
"trackid": 2063357861,
"name": "See the Constellation"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 835284987,
"name": "Elektra Entertainment"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 2045919840,
"text": "They Might Be Giants released The World Is to Dig on April 14 — one week ago. It's their 24th studio album and features the single \"Wu-Tang.\" They kicked off \"The Bigger Show Tour\" three days later on April 17 with an eight-piece band, and on this run each night's first set features a full revisit of one of six albums on rotation: Lincoln, Factory Showroom, Flood, John Henry, Mink Car — and Apollo 18. So on certain nights of the current tour, \"See the Constellation\" is getting a full live performance for the first time in years. \nhttps://www.brooklynvegan.com/listen-to-they-might-be-giants-new-album-the-world-is-to-dig/. \nhttps://tmbg.bandcamp.com/album/the-world-is-to-dig. \n\nTour dates: https://www.theymightbegiants.com/shows."
}
],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644947,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T21:22:38Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776806558000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776806558000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1004006224,
"name": "Ramones",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 427240329,
"name": "Brain Drain",
"largeimageuri": "https://dn721801.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-04a8bd35-2aec-492b-9d74-91f795c36adc/mbid-04a8bd35-2aec-492b-9d74-91f795c36adc-4507364019_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://dn721801.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-04a8bd35-2aec-492b-9d74-91f795c36adc/mbid-04a8bd35-2aec-492b-9d74-91f795c36adc-4507364019_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1661500597,
"year": 1989
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1469082485,
"name": "Pet Sematary"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 189475858,
"name": "Sire Records"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 501772810,
"text": "Released this day in 1989, \"Pet Sematary\" was commissioned for the 1989 film adaptation of Stephen King's novel. King was a longtime Ramones fan — when the band played New England, he invited them to Bangor, Maine. In Marky Ramone's 2014 memoir, Marky says King handed Dee Dee a copy of the novel at the author's house, Dee Dee retreated to the basement, and came back an hour later with the lyrics finished. Stephen King later disputed the scene — he told Rolling Stone they ate at Miller's Restaurant in Bangor and never came to the house, and called Marky's version \"total bs.\" He also told his publisher not to change a word of the memoir, invoking \"when the truth and legend are in opposition, print the legend.\" The song became the Ramones' highest-charting US hit, peaking at #4 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart — and was nominated for a Razzie for Worst Original Song the same year. \nhttps://ultimateclassicrock.com/ramones-pet-sematary/"
}
],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644946,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T21:20:39Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776806439000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776806439000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1914228353,
"name": "Misfits",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1264975713,
"name": "Static Age",
"largeimageuri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/0138d836-57b5-4ef4-8328-7feb0022e16a/42228181186-500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/0138d836-57b5-4ef4-8328-7feb0022e16a/42228181186-250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 758029851,
"year": 1996
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1781556219,
"name": "TV Casualty"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 799836924,
"name": "Astralwerks"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 1539459742,
"text": "Today is Misfits bassist Jerry Only's birthday — he was born Jerry Caiafa in Lodi, New Jersey on April 21, 1959, and he's 67 today. He's been the band's constant member since joining Glenn Danzig in 1977; even through the original band's 1983 breakup and the decades-long legal fight over the name, Jerry has been the one who kept the Misfits going. \"TV Casualty\" is from Static Age, the album the original lineup — Danzig, Only, guitarist Franché Coma, and drummer Mr. Jim — recorded in January 1978 at C.I. Studios in New York City. Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Only. More at https://www.misfits.com"
}
],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644944,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T21:18:04Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776806284000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776806284000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 1136009638,
"name": "Childish Gambino",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 84269766,
"name": "“Awaken, My Love!”",
"largeimageuri": "https://dn710700.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-34d34a27-9181-456e-b6c5-d6c0c2527ac7/mbid-34d34a27-9181-456e-b6c5-d6c0c2527ac7-15875547016_thumb500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://dn710700.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-34d34a27-9181-456e-b6c5-d6c0c2527ac7/mbid-34d34a27-9181-456e-b6c5-d6c0c2527ac7-15875547016_thumb250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1259395723,
"year": 2016
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1130657468,
"name": "Riot"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 1692382344,
"name": "Glassnote"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 1978951398,
"text": "Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) directly sampled Funkadelic's \"Good to Your Earhole.\""
}
],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644945,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 4,
"name": "Air break"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T21:17:11Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776806231000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776806231000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": null,
"release": null,
"releaseevent": null,
"track": null,
"label": null,
"comments": [],
"showid": 66514
},
{
"playid": 3644943,
"playtype": {
"playtypeid": 1,
"name": "Media play"
},
"airdate": "2026-04-21T21:12:17Z",
"epoch_airdate": 1776805937000,
"epoch_airdate_v2": "/Date(1776805937000)/",
"archive_urls": {
"32": null,
"64": null,
"128": null,
"256": null
},
"artist": {
"artistid": 2126863277,
"name": "Funkadelic",
"islocal": false
},
"release": {
"releaseid": 1467234000,
"name": "Let’s Take It to the Stage",
"largeimageuri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/1132dd9d-6043-4ba9-8a53-f2af10195d21/7324651674-500.jpg",
"smallimageuri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/1132dd9d-6043-4ba9-8a53-f2af10195d21/7324651674-250.jpg"
},
"releaseevent": {
"releaseeventid": 1072175773,
"year": 1975
},
"track": {
"trackid": 1151077052,
"name": "Good to Your Earhole"
},
"label": {
"labelid": 1788357348,
"name": "Westbound Records"
},
"comments": [
{
"commentid": 456484524,
"text": "Released this day in 1975!\n\nGeorge Clinton, Fuzzy Haskins, and Eddie Hazel wrote this one. That's Eddie Hazel, of course, on that splendid guitar.\n--\n\"‘Good To Your Earhole’ has Eddie first using his most famous era sound. This is a Music Man HD-130 reverb head into a Music Man cabinet with 12 inch speakers. Eddie used a strat almost exclusively at this point. That particular track (‘Good To your Earhole’) sounds like Eddie was using a Maestro phaser.\" Here's an article on Eddie Hazel's gear choices: https://pfunkforums.com/t/eddie-hazel-s-gear-notes/669"
}
],
"showid": 66514
}
]
}
