Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3560783/?format=api
{ "id": 3560783, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3560783/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-03T08:09:33-07:00", "show": 64732, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64732/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601309.us.archive.org/22/items/mbid-bde8784b-ae7e-4553-9dda-1c4a19d3a56f/mbid-bde8784b-ae7e-4553-9dda-1c4a19d3a56f-16544589722_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801309.us.archive.org/22/items/mbid-bde8784b-ae7e-4553-9dda-1c4a19d3a56f/mbid-bde8784b-ae7e-4553-9dda-1c4a19d3a56f-16544589722_thumb250.jpg", "song": "The Fly", "track_id": "fa919806-1605-4a4b-af8f-5b0e6093b25a", "recording_id": "dddb2236-823d-4c13-a560-bfe0ffbb19fc", "artist": "U2", "artist_ids": [ "a3cb23fc-acd3-4ce0-8f36-1e5aa6a18432" ], "album": "Achtung Baby", "release_id": "c744d79f-f1a9-45f8-8231-be34cf6b4be5", "release_group_id": "744c7a1b-ac79-35c4-bd92-7e2c6a24c8d8", "labels": [ "Island" ], "label_ids": [ "dfd92cd3-4888-46d2-b968-328b1feb2642" ], "release_date": "1991-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For Edwin and Casey!\n--\nBased on a combination of Jerry Lee Lewis, Jim Morrison and the televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, The Fly became a character Bono used on the group's Zoo TV tour. Wearing huge sunglasses and black leather, it was a parody of an egomaniacal rock star. Behind Bono, huge monitors flashed random words like \"Sex,\" \"Panic,\" \"Death,\" etc. Bono attended some press conferences in the character of The Fly, complete with giant shades.\n--\nReferring to this song's musical departure from U2's wildly successful 1987 album, Bono called it \"The sound of four men chopping down The Joshua Tree.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }