Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3572551/?format=api
{ "id": 3572551, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572551/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-01T10:25:45-07:00", "show": 64993, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64993/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/ac29f926-d13a-4953-a19f-8e82b4692a72/15830333372-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/ac29f926-d13a-4953-a19f-8e82b4692a72/15830333372-250.jpg", "song": "Police & Thieves", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "e2cc59c5-baea-4080-a4f9-eca1a35ee54f", "artist": "Junior Murvin", "artist_ids": [ "8411d1f6-0f7a-4e9b-9745-a474780cd5b7" ], "album": "Police & Thieves", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "b9678b82-d566-3c5e-bc55-bae400cd63de", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1977-04-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Another great request going out to Tookie in Charlotte, NC!\n\nThis song was written by Jamaican falsetto singer Junior Murvin and Lee \"Scratch\" Perry. \"Its comparison of police with thieves and any other criminals \"scaring the nation\" was written for the politically manipulated war zone that was Kingston, Jamaica, at the time – where you were as frightened of the constabulary as you were of the gunmen...\": https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/04/junior-murvin-died-police-and-thieves-jamaican-reggae", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }