Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3598772/?format=api
{ "id": 3598772, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598772/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T10:00:19-08:00", "show": 65532, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65532/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The New Year", "track_id": "d65135d9-d917-3c04-9a3e-1a9f3f75dbdf", "recording_id": "2aefb5c8-f137-4289-b9f9-e78d23695468", "artist": "Death Cab for Cutie", "artist_ids": [ "0039c7ae-e1a7-4a7d-9b49-0cbc716821a6" ], "album": "Transatlanticism", "release_id": "e602a3ae-fe8f-4abd-8638-f055517bacb2", "release_group_id": "f48c46e8-8178-3e74-b60f-72b677ebcb96", "labels": [ "Barsuk Records" ], "label_ids": [ "a4f904e0-f048-4c13-88ec-f9f31f3e6109" ], "release_date": "2003-10-07", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Happy New Year!\n\nBen Gibbard explained that \"The New Year\" is not about him or even a specific person, but the girl in the song is an amalgamation of various women he's encountered. \n\nIn the band's 2011 Storytellers special, Gibbard said that he often gets visions of familiar character types and places them in different settings when he writes songs. \n\n\"This song is about a person who came to me one day and said she wanted to be written about. So it's not really my story as much as it is hers. The song started out as a folk song, but it had to be ramped up a bit.\"\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSgHGFuPNus", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }