{"next":"https://legacy-api.kexp.org/v1/play/?format=json&limit=20&offset=79040","previous":"https://legacy-api.kexp.org/v1/play/?format=json&limit=20&offset=79000","results":[{"playid":3574229,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T15:48:54Z","epoch_airdate":1762357734000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762357734000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":107612662,"name":"Queen Latifah feat. Monie Love","islocal":false},"release":{"releaseid":1857192331,"name":"All Hail the Queen","largeimageuri":null,"smallimageuri":null},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":191725585,"year":1989},"track":{"trackid":1369598840,"name":"Ladies First"},"label":{"labelid":1831123930,"name":"Tommy Boy"},"comments":[{"commentid":133565832,"text":"When Queen Latifah signed her first record contract in 1988, she was one of only a few women who had a presence in the male-dominated hip hop scene. The following year, in 1989, she released her debut album, All Hail the Queen, featuring her standout track “Ladies First.” Her music was unapologetically centered around countering negative stereotypes about Black women, and her hit single was an intentional reminder of this fact.: https://www.revolt.tv/article/2023-10-29/332682/queen-latifah-hoped-ladies-first-would-unite-women-in-hip-hop/"}],"showid":65028},{"playid":3574228,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T15:46:14Z","epoch_airdate":1762357574000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762357574000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":228193819,"name":"Janelle Monáe","islocal":false},"release":{"releaseid":1024299628,"name":"Turntables","largeimageuri":"https://dn721602.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-3fba6774-7bed-4062-9696-71293e58a744/mbid-3fba6774-7bed-4062-9696-71293e58a744-27223337568_thumb500.jpg","smallimageuri":"https://dn721602.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-3fba6774-7bed-4062-9696-71293e58a744/mbid-3fba6774-7bed-4062-9696-71293e58a744-27223337568_thumb250.jpg"},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":222344577,"year":2020},"track":{"trackid":1720947911,"name":"Turntables"},"label":{"labelid":827935727,"name":"Bad Boy Records"},"comments":[{"commentid":353581015,"text":"Requested by a listener. I think we're all feeling this.\n\nTurntables is a protest song that was initially written to appear in the 2020 Amazon documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy, which focuses on the issue of voter suppression and the fight for democracy. Learn more about this powerful song: https://resource.download.wjec.co.uk/vtc/2021-22/wjec21-22_10-9/janelle-monae-turn-tables.pdf. https://www.jmonae.com/"}],"showid":65028},{"playid":3574227,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T15:42:23Z","epoch_airdate":1762357343000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762357343000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":2031711354,"name":"Beyoncé","islocal":false},"release":{"releaseid":1530321348,"name":"Homecoming: The Live Album","largeimageuri":null,"smallimageuri":null},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":236506849,"year":2019},"track":{"trackid":1638507850,"name":"Run the World (Girls)"},"label":{"labelid":2105751209,"name":"Columbia, Parkwood Entertainment"},"comments":[{"commentid":647004612,"text":"My persuasion can build a nation\nEndless power, with our love, we can devour\n\nDon't miss this video of Beyonce's performance of \"Run the World (Girls)\" at Coachella in 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXnHvPxn-pw"}],"showid":65028},{"playid":3574226,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T15:37:13Z","epoch_airdate":1762357033000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762357033000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":469840754,"name":"The Chemical Brothers","islocal":false},"release":{"releaseid":873107949,"name":"No Geography","largeimageuri":null,"smallimageuri":null},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":773551868,"year":2019},"track":{"trackid":869913577,"name":"MAH"},"label":{"labelid":403024738,"name":"Virgin"},"comments":[{"commentid":758981230,"text":"\"I'm mad as hell....I ain't gonna take it no more...\" And you are not alone.\n\nThis song features a vocal sample from El Coco's 1977 song, \"I'm Mad As Hell.\" That song sampled the line from the 1976 movie \"Network.\" -- Here's Peter Finch as Howard Beale in the movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLO5IZcNOXg"}],"showid":65028},{"playid":3574225,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T15:32:34Z","epoch_airdate":1762356754000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762356754000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":443057433,"name":"Fatboy Slim","islocal":false},"release":{"releaseid":1127383092,"name":"You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby","largeimageuri":null,"smallimageuri":null},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":795814506,"year":1998},"track":{"trackid":897267235,"name":"Right Here, Right Now"},"label":{"labelid":799836924,"name":"Astralwerks"},"comments":[{"commentid":1313827925,"text":"\"Right Here, Right Now\" was released on the second studio album by Fatboy Slim. The basic string melody was actually plucked from James Gang’s “Ashes, the Rain & I” (written by Dale Peters and Joe Walsh) and \"Humoresque\" by Anto Dvorak, while the lyrics \"Right here, Right now\" are sampled from Angela Bassett’s performance on the film \"Strange Days.\" https://bit.ly/3YdE5Hz https://www.fatboyslim.net/"}],"showid":65028},{"playid":3574224,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T15:29:33Z","epoch_airdate":1762356573000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762356573000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":2064189248,"name":"Jesus Jones","islocal":false},"release":{"releaseid":1432996104,"name":"Doubt","largeimageuri":null,"smallimageuri":null},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":1147999850,"year":1991},"track":{"trackid":1127948970,"name":"Right Here, Right Now"},"label":{"labelid":545090158,"name":"SBK Records"},"comments":[{"commentid":1955059230,"text":"Jesus Jones released the single \"Right Here, Right Now\" 35 years ago and it still sounds good today.\n\n\"Right Here, Right Now\" samples Jimi Hendrix's Voodoo Child (Slight Return). https://www.jesusjones.com/ https://jesusjones.bandcamp.com/"}],"showid":65028},{"playid":3574223,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T15:25:11Z","epoch_airdate":1762356311000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762356311000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":650155222,"name":"Zeds Dead","islocal":false},"release":{"releaseid":347502355,"name":"Channel Flipping","largeimageuri":null,"smallimageuri":null},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":978668240,"year":2024},"track":{"trackid":873548273,"name":"Channel Flipping"},"label":null,"comments":[{"commentid":712443939,"text":"“To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.”\n― Raymond Williams\n\nZeds Dead is a Canadian electronic music duo from Toronto consisting of Dylan Mamid, also known as DC, and Zachary Rapp-Rovan, also known as Hooks. -- Watch the video mashup for this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSQKvnWnCtY"}],"showid":65028},{"playid":3574222,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T15:21:14Z","epoch_airdate":1762356074000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762356074000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":846880881,"name":"Howard Jones","islocal":false},"release":{"releaseid":924601873,"name":"Dream Into Action","largeimageuri":"https://ia600200.us.archive.org/16/items/mbid-f733aa56-c6c2-4de8-a860-dbc67e4b2062/mbid-f733aa56-c6c2-4de8-a860-dbc67e4b2062-29352634849_thumb500.jpg","smallimageuri":"https://ia800200.us.archive.org/16/items/mbid-f733aa56-c6c2-4de8-a860-dbc67e4b2062/mbid-f733aa56-c6c2-4de8-a860-dbc67e4b2062-29352634849_thumb250.jpg"},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":2103752916,"year":1985},"track":{"trackid":1570838077,"name":"Things Can Only Get Better"},"label":{"labelid":926448958,"name":"Elektra"},"comments":[{"commentid":1252832275,"text":"\"I wanted to write a song that was really uplifting and give people a sense of hope about the future.\" --Howard Jones Read about how he wrote this song: https://www.songwritingmagazine.co.uk/songs/how-i-wrote/things-can-only-get-better-howard-jones"}],"showid":65028},{"playid":3574221,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T15:16:09Z","epoch_airdate":1762355769000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762355769000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":1626340686,"name":"Simple Minds","islocal":false},"release":{"releaseid":1033856694,"name":"Once Upon a Time","largeimageuri":null,"smallimageuri":null},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":604651862,"year":1985},"track":{"trackid":1996514229,"name":"Alive and Kicking"},"label":{"labelid":403024738,"name":"Virgin"},"comments":[{"commentid":1896410896,"text":"The band signed up for a two video shoot with director Zbigniew Rybczynski. The brief was simple: the first would be a \"band playing the song\" type affair whilst the other would indulge Zbigniew and his love of special effect wizardry. With the band winding up the recording of Once Upon A Time in New York, and Anton Corbijn photographing the band in the woods further up the road, it seemed sensible to continue the theme by shooting Alive And Kicking in upstate New York: https://www.simpleminds.org/sm/videos/ouat/aak1.htm\n\nNew York. Hmm...wondering what's new there today."}],"showid":65028},{"playid":3574220,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T15:11:33Z","epoch_airdate":1762355493000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762355493000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":670815170,"name":"Bruce Springsteen","islocal":false},"release":{"releaseid":247172639,"name":"The Rising","largeimageuri":null,"smallimageuri":null},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":498650044,"year":2002},"track":{"trackid":1419397239,"name":"The Rising"},"label":{"labelid":157175815,"name":"Columbia"},"comments":[{"commentid":734991673,"text":"Bruce performed this song at We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial.  January 18, 2009.-- https://kexp.org/50\n\nYou can see video of The Boss performing at We Are One: https://youtu.be/NqEG2-0R6CA"}],"showid":65028},{"playid":3574219,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T15:08:27Z","epoch_airdate":1762355307000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762355307000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":302944998,"name":"Nina Simone","islocal":false},"release":{"releaseid":1465668757,"name":"I Put a Spell on You","largeimageuri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/33f53194-594a-48a2-a962-9ba370316bbc/34972766920-500.jpg","smallimageuri":"https://coverartarchive.org/release/33f53194-594a-48a2-a962-9ba370316bbc/34972766920-250.jpg"},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":1879711320,"year":1965},"track":{"trackid":1475714410,"name":"Feeling Good"},"label":{"labelid":1432325551,"name":"Verve"},"comments":[{"commentid":788407306,"text":"“Feeling Good” was written to express a particular kind of euphoria: that which comes with liberation from oppression. It was written by British songwriters Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse for their stage musical, The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd.\n\n\"[It took Nina Simone] to find the song’s essence. In 1965 she and her arranger Hal Mooney brought in a big band, gave it a swing and a kick, emphasised the first and third beats like the strides of loping giant, introduced a tingling piano triplet, and unleashed Simone’s rebel spirit in a stunning vocal performance. Released during the ferment of the civil rights protests, Simone’s “Feeling Good” was a manifestation of that movement’s burning desire for freedom.\"\n\nhttps://ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/feeling-good.html"}],"showid":65028},{"playid":3574217,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T15:02:42Z","epoch_airdate":1762354962000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762354962000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":140899787,"name":"Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong","islocal":false},"release":{"releaseid":138464612,"name":"Ella and Louis Again","largeimageuri":null,"smallimageuri":null},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":1199758299,"year":1957},"track":{"trackid":351334733,"name":"Autumn in New York"},"label":{"labelid":1432325551,"name":"Verve"},"comments":[{"commentid":1296173514,"text":"The sequel to the previous year's wonderful Ella & Louis, Ella & Louis Again (1957) again showcases the magic of Ella Fitzgerald's vocals and Louis Armstrong vocals and trumpet giving their own magic versions of standard tunes backed by the Oscar Peterson Quartet.\n\nhttps://www.jazzmessengers.com/en/103818/ella-fitzgerald-louis-armstrong/ella-louis-again"}],"showid":65028},{"playid":3574216,"playtype":{"playtypeid":4,"name":"Air break"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T15:02:13Z","epoch_airdate":1762354933000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762354933000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":null,"release":null,"releaseevent":null,"track":null,"label":null,"comments":[],"showid":65028},{"playid":3574215,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T14:55:18Z","epoch_airdate":1762354518000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762354518000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":1618429148,"name":"Charles Bradley","islocal":false},"release":{"releaseid":1477081810,"name":"Changes","largeimageuri":null,"smallimageuri":null},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":923727626,"year":2016},"track":{"trackid":1662154747,"name":"Changes"},"label":{"labelid":1517441256,"name":"Daptone Records"},"comments":[{"commentid":1602616484,"text":"\"Changes\" is a Black Sabbath cover and a collaboration between Charles Bradley and The Budos Band. Thomas \"TNT\" Brenneck was Bradley's longtime producer, co-writer and friend over their decade-long partnership. Brenneck came across the song. \"I thought, 'Holy s--- man, this is like a soul song!\" says the guitarist, who recommended Bradley (his fellow Budos Band member) record it as a one-off single for Record Store Day in 2013. Though that took some convincing: \"[Bradley] had never heard of Ozzy Osbourne in his life,\" says Brenneck. \"He couldn't relate to because he had no love life at that time in his life,\" he adds of his friend, who was a homeless drifter as a teen who didn't come to prominence until his early 50s. But in 2014, Bradley lost his mother — whom he'd been estranged from for much of his life but had cared for in her final years — and he channeled that grief into \"Changes.\" Bradley played this song, along with three others, the last time he was Live on KEXP in 2016, check it out here: https://bit.ly/3C11GT7 *** Listen to the Black Sabbath song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOz_dLmpT9A"}],"showid":65027},{"playid":3574214,"playtype":{"playtypeid":4,"name":"Air break"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T14:50:21Z","epoch_airdate":1762354221000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762354221000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":null,"release":null,"releaseevent":null,"track":null,"label":null,"comments":[],"showid":65027},{"playid":3574213,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T14:45:50Z","epoch_airdate":1762353950000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762353950000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":20390579,"name":"Radiohead","islocal":false},"release":{"releaseid":1197567409,"name":"Kid A","largeimageuri":null,"smallimageuri":null},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":719150148,"year":2000},"track":{"trackid":187523104,"name":"Idioteque"},"label":{"labelid":893554776,"name":"Capitol Records"},"comments":[{"commentid":1578299316,"text":"Happy 54th Birthday to Radiohead guitarist/keyboardist Johnny Greenwood."}],"showid":65027},{"playid":3574212,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T14:41:56Z","epoch_airdate":1762353716000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762353716000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":455635733,"name":"Waves Crashing","islocal":true},"release":{"releaseid":159216107,"name":"Creep","largeimageuri":"https://ia800505.us.archive.org/1/items/mbid-63a094e8-6dcd-45ff-9da9-1cd41f0e04c2/mbid-63a094e8-6dcd-45ff-9da9-1cd41f0e04c2-43304535934_thumb500.jpg","smallimageuri":"https://ia800505.us.archive.org/1/items/mbid-63a094e8-6dcd-45ff-9da9-1cd41f0e04c2/mbid-63a094e8-6dcd-45ff-9da9-1cd41f0e04c2-43304535934_thumb250.jpg"},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":96724150,"year":2025},"track":{"trackid":355509707,"name":"Creep"},"label":null,"comments":[{"commentid":970118710,"text":"A dreamy cover of Radiohead's \"Creep\" from self-described \"Cascadia shoegaze\" group Waves Crashing, out of Olympia, WA."}],"showid":65027},{"playid":3574211,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T14:38:41Z","epoch_airdate":1762353521000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762353521000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":603630312,"name":"Obongjayar","islocal":false},"release":{"releaseid":1018215027,"name":"Give Me More","largeimageuri":null,"smallimageuri":null},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":2093769834,"year":2025},"track":{"trackid":61372593,"name":"Give Me More"},"label":{"labelid":721330154,"name":"September Recordings"},"comments":[{"commentid":158747532,"text":"Obongjayar has returned with a new single, \"Give Me More\", alongside the announcement of Paradise Now & Forever – the deluxe version of his recent album, Paradise Now. Obongjayar is a Nigerian singer-songwriter based in London, known for his genre-bending music that blends electronic, soul, hip-hop, and Afrobeats influences. Born Steven Umoh, he moved to the UK as a teenager and his music explores his dual Nigerian and British cultural identity and personal journey."}],"showid":65027},{"playid":3574210,"playtype":{"playtypeid":1,"name":"Media play"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T14:32:15Z","epoch_airdate":1762353135000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762353135000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":{"artistid":400335929,"name":"Sam Fan Thomas","islocal":false},"release":{"releaseid":603936063,"name":"The African Typic Collection","largeimageuri":null,"smallimageuri":null},"releaseevent":{"releaseeventid":359001279,"year":2002},"track":{"trackid":3005982,"name":"African Typic Collection"},"label":{"labelid":767510135,"name":"Earthworks"},"comments":[{"commentid":2098849256,"text":"Today's Walker Wormhole Wednesday selection out of 1983 Cameroon!"}],"showid":65027},{"playid":3574209,"playtype":{"playtypeid":4,"name":"Air break"},"airdate":"2025-11-05T14:28:43Z","epoch_airdate":1762352923000,"epoch_airdate_v2":"/Date(1762352923000)/","archive_urls":{"32":null,"64":null,"128":null,"256":null},"artist":null,"release":null,"releaseevent":null,"track":null,"label":null,"comments":[],"showid":65027}]}