Play Public Instance
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GET /v2/plays/3593129/?format=api
{ "id": 3593129, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3593129/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-19T15:44:14-08:00", "show": 65419, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65419/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "She Explains Things to Me", "track_id": "0979c38d-cb46-44f3-8348-ad3caa7e9c1c", "recording_id": "da7a1130-ec7b-4860-9c9d-e33aaa8467aa", "artist": "David Byrne", "artist_ids": [ "d4659efb-b8eb-4f03-95e9-f69ce35967a9" ], "album": "Who Is The Sky?", "release_id": "16c0929d-3375-48fc-82a3-b081eb899bf9", "release_group_id": "153dc33e-59bc-4990-9c9d-d4c3861f541e", "labels": [ "Matador" ], "label_ids": [ "229bd4be-8cd7-442c-85b0-5007ea353abc" ], "release_date": "2025-09-05", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "#36\nInspired by Rebecca Solnit’s essay collection Men Explain Things to Me, “She Explains Things to Me” follows last month’s lead single “Everybody Laughs.” Hear the new track below.\n\n“Many times I have marveled at how a friend (usually a female friend) seems to clock what is going on in a film between characters way before I do,” Byrne said in a press statement. “Sometimes I understand poetry, but sometimes I need help. Though inspired by the Solnit book Men Explain Things to Me there is a huge difference—mansplaining is usually unasked for, in this case I am the one asking.”\n\nhttps://whoisthesky.davidbyrne.com/\n\nDavid Byrne will play 3 nights at The Paramount Theatre in Seattle: November 11-13.\nHe'll play 2 nights at The Theater at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco: November 16-17.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }