Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3572236/?format=api
{ "id": 3572236, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572236/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T14:07:35-07:00", "show": 64984, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64984/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801908.us.archive.org/24/items/mbid-129a9696-1620-3d40-8ba1-7deb3f7ccfad/mbid-129a9696-1620-3d40-8ba1-7deb3f7ccfad-3776631884_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801908.us.archive.org/24/items/mbid-129a9696-1620-3d40-8ba1-7deb3f7ccfad/mbid-129a9696-1620-3d40-8ba1-7deb3f7ccfad-3776631884_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Human Behaviour", "track_id": "3fdea809-17d0-32c9-b6b8-2bac2dfc1fb2", "recording_id": "ffb680e8-d587-4f37-88b9-2b330fbf5014", "artist": "Björk", "artist_ids": [ "87c5dedd-371d-4a53-9f7f-80522fb7f3cb" ], "album": "Debut", "release_id": "129a9696-1620-3d40-8ba1-7deb3f7ccfad", "release_group_id": "6891a28c-5865-36e2-9e5f-c9fac1d3595f", "labels": [ "Elektra Entertainment" ], "label_ids": [ "745f3292-03fe-44b5-babe-bc7eaa46a15d" ], "release_date": "1993-07-13", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Björk reveals, \"'Human Behaviour' is an animal's point of view on humans. \"I told him (Michel Gondry the video's director), 'I want a bear and textures like handmade wood and leaves and earth, and I want it to seem like animation.' Then I backed out.\" \n----\nBjörk initially wrote the vocal melody in 1988 when she was still the lead singer of the Sugarcubes, but they couldn't come up with the music to fit it. Producer Nellee Hooper found the solution in a tinkered sample from \"Go Down Dying\" by Brazilian musician Antonio Carlos Jobim. - https://tinyurl.com/yp34mrxn \n----\n#60 on the KEXP Listener voted countdown of the best opening tracks of all time!", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }