Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3554972/?format=api
{ "id": 3554972, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3554972/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-19T10:52:45-07:00", "show": 64602, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64602/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia600406.us.archive.org/5/items/mbid-f647050a-8d8b-437c-8a93-7a18480c2834/mbid-f647050a-8d8b-437c-8a93-7a18480c2834-17803345110_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800406.us.archive.org/5/items/mbid-f647050a-8d8b-437c-8a93-7a18480c2834/mbid-f647050a-8d8b-437c-8a93-7a18480c2834-17803345110_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Metal", "track_id": "3fd5a3c2-e0d3-379e-9399-fcf6535bf2a3", "recording_id": "cb6fd09b-81f1-4c98-89b1-a6a7d8bca824", "artist": "Gary Numan", "artist_ids": [ "6cb79cb2-9087-44d4-828b-5c6fdff2c957" ], "album": "The Pleasure Principle", "release_id": "f647050a-8d8b-437c-8a93-7a18480c2834", "release_group_id": "2ba66802-18a7-3bf4-958c-db871a6e7f34", "labels": [ "Beggars Banquet" ], "label_ids": [ "5917da67-b605-4a08-a5a0-a6874501dda4" ], "release_date": "1998-06-23", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Gary Numan said that he wrote this 1979 song about a machine that was almost, but not quite, human. It was inspired by a newspaper story about cybernetics and building partially organic computers. The lyrics are all in the first person: it is the machine itself that narrates for us over the backdrop of analog synths and mechanized sounds.\n--\n\"I could learn to be a man\nLike you...\"\nHere are the lyrics; https://genius.com/Gary-numan-metal-lyrics#about", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }