Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3570878/?format=api
{ "id": 3570878, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3570878/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-28T04:36:40-07:00", "show": 64954, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64954/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/8d2645c7-8576-47ee-8827-80a887646fd8/2587317819-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/8d2645c7-8576-47ee-8827-80a887646fd8/2587317819-250.jpg", "song": "Thieves in the Night", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "11266df6-d805-4986-ba6d-592be1f7eb6e", "artist": "Black Star", "artist_ids": [ "02708fd6-0fe6-4738-a27d-0561ace8b4c6" ], "album": "Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "aaa445c1-5f73-37c0-b53a-2444b279c538", "labels": [ "Rawkus Records" ], "label_ids": [ "21a9343c-4a03-4768-8186-569dc03f850c" ], "release_date": "1998-08-25", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Thieves in the Night\" was inspired by author Toni Morrison's novel 'The Bluest Eye'. \n\n\"Not strong, only aggressive/Not free, we only licensed/Not compassionate, only polite (now who the nicest?)/Not good but well-behaved/Chasin' after death so we could call ourselves brave, still livin' like mental slaves/Hiding like thieves in the night from life/Illusions of oasis making you look twice.\"\n\nwas inspired by Morrison's words:\n\"And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we were not compassionate, we were polite; not good but well-behaved. We courted death in order to call ourselves brave, and hid like thieves from life.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }