Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3577965/?format=api
{ "id": 3577965, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3577965/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-14T07:06:21-08:00", "show": 65105, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65105/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Shiny Happy People", "track_id": "b396201e-dec8-3b71-9fb9-164a1f87a456", "recording_id": "c4b618c1-9507-4238-8e13-657286547b09", "artist": "R.E.M.", "artist_ids": [ "ea4dfa26-f633-4da6-a52a-f49ea4897b58" ], "album": "Out of Time", "release_id": "e62cecad-7029-3efd-8535-477cd74851fe", "release_group_id": "400a5fdd-e616-3598-a9bf-cd8275cb53d0", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. Records" ], "label_ids": [ "c595c289-47ce-4fba-b999-b87503e8cb71" ], "release_date": "1991-03-12", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Did you know that the band took the title from Chinese propaganda posters?\nThe song was released in 1991, two years after the Tiananmen Square uprising when the Chinese government clamped down on student demonstrators, killing hundreds of people in the process in an event which has left a scar on humanity ever since.\n--\nThe band intended the song as a covert political statement: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/rem-shiny-happy-people-song-meaning-tiananmen-square/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }