Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3597548/?format=api
{ "id": 3597548, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597548/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-29T08:59:09-08:00", "show": 65506, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65506/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Why Can’t I Be You?", "track_id": "8f01fd3a-d0ad-33e2-adeb-d67c6f266859", "recording_id": "9d09031e-764e-4095-afb8-4caa0c82a2c3", "artist": "The Cure", "artist_ids": [ "69ee3720-a7cb-4402-b48d-a02c366f2bcf" ], "album": "Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me", "release_id": "679b0c94-bb1b-36d9-adbb-662627b895be", "release_group_id": "ab132c83-097a-33f0-b557-edd6b6ce1c7d", "labels": [ "Fiction Records" ], "label_ids": [ "f6182855-aa81-453a-a460-58c0fd71635d" ], "release_date": "2006-08-08", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "In a 1987 interview with Les Inrockuptibles, songwriter Robert Smith said that the title \"is not to be taken generally, on the contrary it comes from a particular situation. I was in the middle of a tense discussion and these people around the table were looking at me as if I was going to make some groundbreaking revelations, and I thought to myself, 'Good God, why can't I be elsewhere? Why isn't someone else in my place?' I would've traded with anyone. I would've preferred to be that guy leaning at the bar than myself.\"\n\nWatch the rather risque video for this little tune: \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI0a9hTh5AU&t=4s", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }