Play Public Instance – Django REST framework

Information about plays

list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID

GET /v2/plays/3604126/?format=api

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 3604126,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604126/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-01-14T04:08:41-08:00",
    "show": 65645,
    "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65645/?format=api",
    "image_uri": "",
    "thumbnail_uri": "",
    "song": "Fight the Power",
    "track_id": "cada5b4a-a3e8-3c92-97bf-e3072ae604fe",
    "recording_id": "4950bc51-436a-47c3-874a-7e968555cffc",
    "artist": "Public Enemy",
    "artist_ids": [
        "bf2e15d0-4b77-469e-bfb4-f8414415baca"
    ],
    "album": "Fear of a Black Planet",
    "release_id": "7b952493-a2a9-4470-92b0-642fd46d191c",
    "release_group_id": "13cf2244-c850-304d-bc46-b30e3f10e0cc",
    "labels": [
        "Def Jam Recordings",
        "Columbia"
    ],
    "label_ids": [
        "a92d1684-4edb-48aa-b913-30e9da213004",
        "011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e"
    ],
    "release_date": "1990-01-01",
    "rotation_status": "Library",
    "is_local": false,
    "is_request": false,
    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "Public Enemy’s “Fight The Power” may be the greatest second draft in the history of music. The anthem that anchored Spike Lee’s seminal Do The Right Thing, a film dedicated to racial animus on the hottest day in a Brooklyn summer, was originally supposed to be a Public Enemy-led jazz revamp of the Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Lee had composer Terrence Blanchard on deck, but Bomb Squad producer Hank Shocklee pushed back, insisting that it wouldn’t resonate with fans of songs like “Bring The Noise” and “Night Of The Living Baseheads.”\n\nInstead, Chuck D, lead MC of the revolutionary rap group from Long Island, drew upon his days as a youth listening to the Isley Brothers in the 1970s. Their protest-era song “Fight The Power” was the first time he’d heard a curse word in music. With atrocities like the 1986 murder of Michael Griffith still hanging in the arid air of the NYC pressure cooker, Chuck felt it was way past time for a song to address “all the bullshit goin’ down.”\n\nRead more about this powerful song here:\nhttps://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/public-enemy-fight-the-power-song-feature/",
    "location": 1,
    "location_name": "Default",
    "play_type": "trackplay"
}