Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3601341/?format=api
{ "id": 3601341, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3601341/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-07T08:31:34-08:00", "show": 65586, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65586/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "War", "track_id": "b29f3a20-b97a-3406-b4b1-a551c158fab2", "recording_id": "36412709-35b6-4e7c-8488-ed7f6fa0140b", "artist": "Edwin Starr", "artist_ids": [ "9eace815-06f3-487c-bf3a-1a817e248056" ], "album": "War & Peace", "release_id": "28887c4f-7838-4bf9-b12a-a8e120b0a265", "release_group_id": "473b15ed-280f-377a-a651-932e166a1926", "labels": [ "Gordy" ], "label_ids": [ "9b6dec85-599a-481f-9642-62fd1d3999fe" ], "release_date": "1970-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "“What is it good for? Absolutely nothing” became a funky battle cry among the thousands of Vietnam War protesters on college campuses across America. \n\nThough this song was originally recorded by the Temptations in 1969, Motown feared the counterculture soul song might be too controversial for fans of the otherwise conventionally sweet vocal group. Thus Edwin Starr’s recording became the definitive version after it was released and climbed to number one in the charts in 1970.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }