Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3557001/?format=api
{ "id": 3557001, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3557001/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-09-24T02:56:36-07:00", "show": 64646, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64646/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Dream Baby Dream", "track_id": "caf1d6e0-6da2-4078-b60b-7d6b5b72718f", "recording_id": "030bf4ee-481b-4d8d-a37d-dd19a2c02951", "artist": "Suicide", "artist_ids": [ "7a0f02e0-0ab8-4a62-9e14-c6925cfaed07" ], "album": "Zetrospective: Dancing in the Face of Adversity", "release_id": "61a0e25c-7b58-4afd-abf4-98c2f0267473", "release_group_id": "c139fe8c-7074-4941-8dce-a69a888192f9", "labels": [ "ZE Records" ], "label_ids": [ "9474b0cc-8065-457c-865d-463f2383ce00" ], "release_date": "1989-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": true, "is_live": false, "comment": "Ric Ocasek of The Cars produced this great song, written by Martin Reverby and Alan Vega (Boruch Bermowitz).\n--\nDream Baby Dream is unquantifiable. There’s a weightlessness to it, a timelessness too, which perhaps explains why it’s circled back around. Anchored by an urgent electric drum beat that lurks like a ticking bomb beneath Vega’s murky vocals, its lyrics are stark, yet impenetrable. “Dream baby dream, forever and ever,” sings Vega in a voice that has been likened to Elvis – though it’s more of a hazy drawl, with Vega swallowing his consonants as if he lacks the enthusiasm to let his lips touch. “Yeah those dreams keep you free.”\nHere's an in-depth article about this song and its reimagining by artists like Bruce Springsteen and Neneh Cherry: https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/oct/30/suicide-dream-baby-dream-bruce-springsteen-adam-curtis-american-honey", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }