Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3616142/?format=api
{ "id": 3616142, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3616142/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-11T11:26:56-08:00", "show": 65904, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65904/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "People Have the Power", "track_id": "a6440bd1-7b5c-32db-80c7-f7533c68e4df", "recording_id": "1b7cabaf-2462-48b0-b62e-22c21594522b", "artist": "Patti Smith", "artist_ids": [ "d135874d-9cae-4fef-97e3-36acbd9f5a26" ], "album": "Dream of Life", "release_id": "867e7159-8052-3091-86a4-0d0c48fd7f66", "release_group_id": "92f0659b-0d81-3491-a2ad-6028ddcbd628", "labels": [ "Arista" ], "label_ids": [ "c62e3985-6370-446a-bfb8-f1f6122e9c33" ], "release_date": "1988-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"This song was written by Patti Smith and her late husband, Fred \"Sonic\" Smith. Patti told NME how they tried to infuse the spirit of the '60s into a modern protest song: \"We had both protested the Vietnam War when we were young. We had been part of the '60s, where our cultural voice was really strong, and we were trying to write a song that would reintroduce that kind of energy. It's sad for me but quite beautiful. It was really Fred's song - even though I wrote the words, he wrote the music; the concept was his, and he wanted it to be a song that people sang all over the world to inspire them for different causes. And he didn't live to see that happen, but I have.\"\n\nhttps://www.songfacts.com/facts/patti-smith/people-have-the-power", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }