Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3571428/?format=api
{ "id": 3571428, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571428/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T13:55:54-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia803207.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-630f108a-8162-4617-a237-387886df5fb3/mbid-630f108a-8162-4617-a237-387886df5fb3-4093324351_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia903207.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-630f108a-8162-4617-a237-387886df5fb3/mbid-630f108a-8162-4617-a237-387886df5fb3-4093324351_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Radio Song", "track_id": "4e398ad8-a0df-3993-9eb1-eaa9c19b3b99", "recording_id": "64aad9b3-f3fe-4398-bc00-292bc43f79aa", "artist": "R.E.M.", "artist_ids": [ "ea4dfa26-f633-4da6-a52a-f49ea4897b58" ], "album": "Out of Time", "release_id": "630f108a-8162-4617-a237-387886df5fb3", "release_group_id": "400a5fdd-e616-3598-a9bf-cd8275cb53d0", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. Records", "BMG Direct Marketing, Inc." ], "label_ids": [ "c595c289-47ce-4fba-b999-b87503e8cb71", "9a7d39a4-a887-40f3-a645-a9a136d1f13f" ], "release_date": "1991-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Out to Hobie!\n--\nRadio Song\" features the influential rapper KRS-One. R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck explained in 1991: \"When we wrote it out, we only had acoustic guitar, bongos, bass, organ, and a 12-string over the chorus. When we got to the studio we added drums, and I put down some funk guitars and we thought, 'Well, gee, now it's kind of a funk song.' And Michael suggested bringing in KRS, since he'd worked with him before.\n-- KRS-One was originally only supposed to sing \"hey, hey, hey\" on the song, but was inspired to write a rap that helped sum up the message.: https://genius.com/Rem-radio-song-lyrics", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }