Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3601832/?format=api
{ "id": 3601832, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3601832/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-08T12:58:25-08:00", "show": 65595, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65595/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia600207.us.archive.org/28/items/mbid-85f61d36-afa0-3977-9b0e-45329574175b/mbid-85f61d36-afa0-3977-9b0e-45329574175b-23680963656_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia600207.us.archive.org/28/items/mbid-85f61d36-afa0-3977-9b0e-45329574175b/mbid-85f61d36-afa0-3977-9b0e-45329574175b-23680963656_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Suffragette City", "track_id": "9cebc563-a539-37e7-b679-a0c969d3a4e8", "recording_id": "4ce20795-0558-4302-943a-7f621f49aad6", "artist": "David Bowie", "artist_ids": [ "5441c29d-3602-4898-b1a1-b77fa23b8e50" ], "album": "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars", "release_id": "85f61d36-afa0-3977-9b0e-45329574175b", "release_group_id": "6c9ae3dd-32ad-472c-96be-69d0a3536261", "labels": [ "Rykodisc" ], "label_ids": [ "6dedcd20-3d02-4838-b583-5434eac199d9" ], "release_date": "1990-06-06", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Bowie adopted a number of slang phrases on ‘Suffragette City’. The repeated “Hey man” Americanism in the verses was joined by Bowie’s own neologisms (“She’s a total blam-blam”), some innuendo (“She had to squeeze it but she… and then she…”), and even some Nadsat, Anthony Burgess’s invented idiom from A Clockwork Orange (“say droogie don’t crash here”).\n\nThe celebrated phrase “Wham bam, thank you ma’am”, meanwhile, was taken by Bowie from the title of a piece on Charles Mingus’s 1962 album Oh Yeah.\n\nRead all about this quintessential Bowie tune here:\nhttps://www.bowiebible.com/songs/suffragette-city/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }