Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3597607/?format=api
{ "id": 3597607, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3597607/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-29T12:23:50-08:00", "show": 65507, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65507/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Sex & Candy", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Marcy Playground", "artist_ids": [ "64cdc08f-ba6f-41fe-94be-452dc6d5108e" ], "album": "Marcy Playground", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "6446003b-6bfe-3be5-ad98-1a8e50c7fc0e", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1997-02-25", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Sex and Candy\" by Marcy Playground is a 1997 alternative rock hit inspired by a roommate's comment about a college dorm room smelling like \"sex and candy\" after lead singer John Wozniak was with his girlfriend. Wozniak borrowed the quirky phrase, adding surreal, disco-era lyrics about a dreamy encounter, making it a massive, enduring hit that spent 15 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart, despite its abstract meaning and the band's subsequent struggle to match its success.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }