Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3580638/?format=api
{ "id": 3580638, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3580638/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-20T12:20:11-08:00", "show": 65161, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65161/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800808.us.archive.org/33/items/mbid-1c497282-290a-4ac3-b52e-9d160e28ac28/mbid-1c497282-290a-4ac3-b52e-9d160e28ac28-21568439164_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia600808.us.archive.org/33/items/mbid-1c497282-290a-4ac3-b52e-9d160e28ac28/mbid-1c497282-290a-4ac3-b52e-9d160e28ac28-21568439164_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Map Ref. 41°N 93°W", "track_id": "4a5c6e64-c773-3fcf-ae2d-7a52cdf2e9d1", "recording_id": "e17fbb6a-4560-43c0-9c05-12c8c1081d0d", "artist": "Wire", "artist_ids": [ "7f2a8098-50e3-451c-8696-c5d9f64f4762" ], "album": "154", "release_id": "1c497282-290a-4ac3-b52e-9d160e28ac28", "release_group_id": "30e3a3dc-f544-3bc0-b574-c680cfeb64fe", "labels": [ "Restless Retro" ], "label_ids": [ "21305aba-6112-452a-8f3d-ee0554a24046" ], "release_date": "1989-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Branching out away from the minimalist punk rock style of their earlier work, '154' is considered a progression of the sounds displayed on Wire's previous album 'Chairs Missing,' with the group experimenting with slower tempos, fuller song structures and a more prominent use of guitar effects, synthesizers and electronics.\n\nThe unusual title of the track \"Map Ref 41°N 93°W\" was based on a guess of the center of the American Midwest by bassist and singer Graham Lewis; the location of these coordinates is coincidentally close to Centerville, Iowa. \n\nhttps://tinyurl.com/3eabf3uk", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }