Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3573893/?format=api
{ "id": 3573893, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3573893/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-04T11:30:45-08:00", "show": 65021, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65021/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia802303.us.archive.org/25/items/mbid-911f1ce9-967d-4b8d-9ce1-f2f55df6d9a9/mbid-911f1ce9-967d-4b8d-9ce1-f2f55df6d9a9-16357076264_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia902303.us.archive.org/25/items/mbid-911f1ce9-967d-4b8d-9ce1-f2f55df6d9a9/mbid-911f1ce9-967d-4b8d-9ce1-f2f55df6d9a9-16357076264_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Weird Science", "track_id": "12e46479-d899-3603-b65a-ca1e9b718a7a", "recording_id": "0e84643f-42ca-405e-a7f6-6b50aadd0e98", "artist": "Oingo Boingo", "artist_ids": [ "166bc1cb-a2b7-412d-bcd5-5f439d2cf5f1" ], "album": "Best o’ Boingo", "release_id": "911f1ce9-967d-4b8d-9ce1-f2f55df6d9a9", "release_group_id": "0080e050-7cc7-3dee-9e33-36fba6f062c7", "labels": [ "MCA Records" ], "label_ids": [ "46a3941a-c810-47a1-974f-955effec4d09" ], "release_date": "1991-09-17", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Weird Science\" samples the dialogue from the movie \"Bride of Frankenstein.\"\n--\nThe song was written spontaneously by frontman Danny Elfman in the car, while driving home to Los Angeles, after a phone call from director John Hughes asking him to write a song for his movie of the same name. Elfman claimed to have \"heard the whole thing in [his] head\" by the time he ran home to his studio to record his demo. https://bit.ly/3iX1NTc", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }