Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3601782/?format=api
{ "id": 3601782, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3601782/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-08T09:36:29-08:00", "show": 65594, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65594/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia803209.us.archive.org/32/items/mbid-a9b80892-0951-4f06-9a58-5d07f720c289/mbid-a9b80892-0951-4f06-9a58-5d07f720c289-5134851974_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia803209.us.archive.org/32/items/mbid-a9b80892-0951-4f06-9a58-5d07f720c289/mbid-a9b80892-0951-4f06-9a58-5d07f720c289-5134851974_thumb250.jpg", "song": "All the Madmen", "track_id": "774f3f16-3508-4e83-8c36-7363652f9689", "recording_id": "6f142b95-997c-4bc0-92f6-33c9c7c32a95", "artist": "David Bowie", "artist_ids": [ "5441c29d-3602-4898-b1a1-b77fa23b8e50" ], "album": "The Man Who Sold the World", "release_id": "a9b80892-0951-4f06-9a58-5d07f720c289", "release_group_id": "2536a41d-fde9-35d5-a6c6-cd4d94ffd916", "labels": [ "Rykodisc" ], "label_ids": [ "6dedcd20-3d02-4838-b583-5434eac199d9" ], "release_date": "1990-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The song ends with the chant \"Zane zane zane, ouvre le chien.\" The latter phrase literally means \"open the dog\" in French.\n\nBowie has said that the song was written for and about his half brother, Terry Burns, who had schizophrenia and was an inmate of Cane Hill Psychiatric Hospital until his suicide in 1985.\n\nThe lyrics include references to lobotomy, the tranquilizer Librium and EST, or Electroshock Therapy.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }