Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3612007/?format=api
{ "id": 3612007, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3612007/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-01T18:49:51-08:00", "show": 65815, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65815/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/61e5a658-2fcc-3bde-b2ab-8ef5b1486e5d/31050347113-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/61e5a658-2fcc-3bde-b2ab-8ef5b1486e5d/31050347113-250.jpg", "song": "Backstrokin'", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "a2a2b75b-28b5-4660-b276-2fc376c7a591", "artist": "Fatback Band", "artist_ids": [ "a7290418-82e2-4016-abf4-3fd3e7db926f" ], "album": "Hot Box", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "c06ebb5f-abd7-3936-9e94-b0f4ce7188f9", "labels": [ "Spring Records" ], "label_ids": [ "cb567171-efd2-4429-83de-80a354014c60" ], "release_date": "1980-02-19", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The disco-funk band were prolific in the 60s and 70s and laid the foundations for modern rap. Here, founder Bill Curtis tells their story: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/06/the-fatback-band-disco-funk-founder-bill-curtis\n\n“There was rapping in the Bronx and the cats there had been doing it for a while,” he says. “Fatback certainly didn’t invent rap or anything. I was just interested in it and I guess years later we were the first to record it. At the time you could already see cats rapping everywhere in the streets and doing stuff.”", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }