Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3607237/?format=api
{ "id": 3607237, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3607237/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-21T13:50:43-08:00", "show": 65716, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65716/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/db74bc1c-add5-46dc-9251-0fcd3c4d8dbc/4250744326-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/db74bc1c-add5-46dc-9251-0fcd3c4d8dbc/4250744326-250.jpg", "song": "Mountains", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "3825c80e-1e59-41f2-81dc-c20a59142384", "artist": "Prince and The Revolution", "artist_ids": [ "070d193a-845c-479f-980e-bef15710653e", "4c8ead39-b9df-4c56-a27c-51bc049cfd48" ], "album": "Parade", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "8c20e5ba-1418-393e-a946-b6525fa3a94a", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. Records" ], "label_ids": [ "c595c289-47ce-4fba-b999-b87503e8cb71" ], "release_date": "1986-03-31", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Going out to Steph, in honor of her brother Tony, who would have celebrated his birthday today.\n--\n\"The song starts with two by two snare drum heavy beat with right on the rhythm hand claps. A pounding drum machine introduces the up-scaling piano melody that carries the musical refrain of the entire song. It’s that same rhythm filled out with chiming guitar, percussion and high pitched, otherworldly synthesizer. On the choruses of the song, Prince plays call and response with his new horn section. The bass line of the song is equally fluid. It moves throughout under the drum as both a thoroughly percussive element while basically playing the melody of the piano\"\nHere's an in-depth anatomy of the groove in this song: https://andresmusictalk.wordpress.com/2016/04/26/anatomy-of-the-groove-mountains-by-prince-the-revolution/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }