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GET /v2/plays/3539548/?format=api
HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 3539548,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3539548/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2025-08-13T09:46:26-07:00",
    "show": 64277,
    "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64277/?format=api",
    "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/60a04a88-3956-49f5-9d0f-b2603be9f612/8270653258-500.jpg",
    "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/60a04a88-3956-49f5-9d0f-b2603be9f612/8270653258-250.jpg",
    "song": "Head Like a Hole",
    "track_id": null,
    "recording_id": "55cd2583-89a3-4273-9d3d-c049e4ef94cb",
    "artist": "Nine Inch Nails",
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    ],
    "album": "Pretty Hate Machine",
    "release_id": null,
    "release_group_id": "fcb872a2-7ef9-3ed0-bd4a-7c55c78179b6",
    "labels": [
        "TVT Records"
    ],
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    ],
    "release_date": "1989-10-20",
    "rotation_status": null,
    "is_local": false,
    "is_request": false,
    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "\"Head Like a Hole\" was almost an afterthought, spat out with uncharacteristic speed. \n“I wrote it at the last minute as a throwaway,\" Trent Reznor said in 2005. “The rest of Pretty Hate Machine was already written, and we’d revised everything else about nine times. Up until then songwriting had been a meticulous and agonizing process, but this took me 15 minutes in my bedroom.” Read how ''Head Like A Hole' turned Trent Reznor into the dark prince of 90s alt-metal\": https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-story-behind-the-song-nine-inch-nails-head-like-a-hole",
    "location": 1,
    "location_name": "Default",
    "play_type": "trackplay"
}