Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3583245/?format=api
{ "id": 3583245, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3583245/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-26T14:06:39-08:00", "show": 65216, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65216/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Metal Guru", "track_id": "af2871a7-a3c4-3eff-8dd8-9330df2736af", "recording_id": "c0aa4468-7603-4fce-97fa-205cac91ad86", "artist": "T. Rex", "artist_ids": [ "c842d29f-a297-48cd-bb71-4f77fd672b16" ], "album": "20th Century Boy: The Ultimate Collection", "release_id": "58b75a0c-17d5-4a0a-87ea-88cf85792b91", "release_group_id": "180a7076-a414-3712-8c1f-d7199f764a83", "labels": [ "Hip‐O Records" ], "label_ids": [ "71f53f0e-6286-4684-8bb8-33c027397852" ], "release_date": "2002-08-20", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "T. Rex frontman Marc Bolan wrote the song about his preoccupation with cars, adding a mystic dimension, \"'Metal Guru' is a festival of life song,\" he said. \"I believe in a god, but I have no religion, and I thought God would be all alone without a telephone.\"\n--\nDespite Bolan's fascination with motor vehicles, he never learned to drive. When he died in a car accident in 1977, his girlfriend, the singer Gloria Jones, was at the wheel.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }