Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3607268/?format=api
{ "id": 3607268, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3607268/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-21T15:33:26-08:00", "show": 65716, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65716/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/d3dd2059-6422-46e1-8d9e-217eaa0aa80a/41253411975-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/d3dd2059-6422-46e1-8d9e-217eaa0aa80a/41253411975-250.jpg", "song": "Winter In America", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "de5c5e9e-d1ea-4ae2-89c5-d1167cb1f3e9", "artist": "Gil Scott‐Heron", "artist_ids": [ "b5b89643-c488-4f39-a302-25cab31084a5" ], "album": "Winter in America", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "63b98f81-cdf4-3d6f-a062-7a435fd8b81c", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1974-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "When poet/singer Gil Scott-Heron and pianist/arranger Brian Jackson entered DB Sound in Silver Spring, Maryland to record Winter in America in October of 1973, the world outside the studio doors was in turmoil. Learn about this incredible description of the state of Black America at that time: https://aprweb.org/poems/headphone-masterpieces-on-gil-scott-heron-s-winter-in-america\n--\nNPR revisited the album in 2024: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/21/1198911183/winter-in-america\n--\n\"You start to, you start to relate everything to the season of ice\nAnd so your dreams become frozen, and your ideas become frozen..\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }