Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3563083/?format=api
{ "id": 3563083, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3563083/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-09T15:36:10-07:00", "show": 64788, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64788/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Welcome To The Jungle", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Guns N’ Roses", "artist_ids": [ "eeb1195b-f213-4ce1-b28c-8565211f8e43" ], "album": "Appetite For Destruction & Lies", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2008-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "#160 on our countdown...\n---\n Vinyl and cassette versions of the albums didn’t have sides A and B, rather they had sides G and R. The G or Guns side was the first six tracks, which all dealt with drugs and hard city life, while the R or Roses side were the remaining songs, which were about love, sex and relationships.\n--\n Axl Rose wrote the lyrics to “Welcome to the Jungle” while in Seattle visiting a friend. He also said he was inspired by a homeless man he encountered as a runaway while coming out of a bus into New York. The man shouted at Axl and his friend, “You know where you are? You’re in the jungle baby; you’re gonna die!”", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }