Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3553878/?format=api
{ "id": 3553878, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3553878/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-16T19:14:13-07:00", "show": 64581, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64581/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/0c732615-15fe-42f9-95ef-1b8d8b02b7bb/26381411561-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/0c732615-15fe-42f9-95ef-1b8d8b02b7bb/26381411561-250.jpg", "song": "Check Up Your Head", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "2d67406a-b16d-409e-a07f-a76b1b21eb1a", "artist": "Mukhtar R. Iidi", "artist_ids": [ "03f040be-e07f-437e-99fd-14f0f6e1d51e" ], "album": "Mogadisco - Dancing Mogadishu - Somalia 1972-1991", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "913aaa66-a9df-41a0-bb2b-995f822fc08e", "labels": [ "Analog Africa" ], "label_ids": [ "8b2b26bc-6310-4de1-b092-c10753b65bcc" ], "release_date": "2019-11-25", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This track comes out of East Africa, with a momentous pulse keeping the song moving, coming from a drum machine. The release of this song was in the early days of drum machines, making this instrumentation quite unconventional for the listeners at the time.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }