Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3601830/?format=api
{ "id": 3601830, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3601830/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-08T12:47:16-08:00", "show": 65595, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65595/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia903200.us.archive.org/3/items/mbid-fcbb4e5c-9701-4aec-96ae-13160d9c8631/mbid-fcbb4e5c-9701-4aec-96ae-13160d9c8631-4036440196_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia803200.us.archive.org/3/items/mbid-fcbb4e5c-9701-4aec-96ae-13160d9c8631/mbid-fcbb4e5c-9701-4aec-96ae-13160d9c8631-4036440196_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Seven Years in Tibet", "track_id": "4835d7ae-3900-3922-a196-4c828c2ae85a", "recording_id": "e22ebace-d4f8-4432-96da-a2a41eff0c14", "artist": "David Bowie", "artist_ids": [ "5441c29d-3602-4898-b1a1-b77fa23b8e50" ], "album": "Earthling", "release_id": "a9ed2927-fc39-461f-8115-cd77c15bf918", "release_group_id": "9a723e6e-2ede-371b-88bf-396cc362d77b", "labels": [ "Columbia" ], "label_ids": [ "011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e" ], "release_date": "2004-03-23", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Guitarist, songwriter and co-producer Reeves Gabrels described the process of creation for this song. When Bowie entered the vocal booth at New York’s Looking Glass Studio, Gabrels handed him a printout of an online newspaper article describing an event in which a ready-to-bake biscuit container exploded against a woman’s head outside a grocery store, in 100-degree weather. The woman thought she was a gunfire victim. The first verse includes the lines “Are you okay?/you’ve been shot in the head/and I’m holding your brains/the old woman said.” Bowie based the song on the novel of the same name, and reassigned the biscuit story to an incident in which a Tibetan Buddhist monk was shot. \n\nhttps://www.synthbeat.com/2022/08/16/all-kinds-of-strange-bowies-seven-years-in-tibet-25th-anniversary/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }