Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3616889/?format=api
{ "id": 3616889, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3616889/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-13T07:49:56-08:00", "show": 65920, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65920/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721501.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e07ecf34-7391-48e0-ab50-f9cbd94196c9/mbid-e07ecf34-7391-48e0-ab50-f9cbd94196c9-23429364906_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721501.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e07ecf34-7391-48e0-ab50-f9cbd94196c9/mbid-e07ecf34-7391-48e0-ab50-f9cbd94196c9-23429364906_thumb250.jpg", "song": "The Message", "track_id": "904c0c49-7aaf-3470-a640-fd7bb2b148fd", "recording_id": "840315e1-7c2d-4d2a-866a-b580cfc63b62", "artist": "Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five", "artist_ids": [ "1390d663-2f56-4b41-9f75-f45ba489250b" ], "album": "The Message", "release_id": "e07ecf34-7391-48e0-ab50-f9cbd94196c9", "release_group_id": "2348a270-ad78-30e1-b50f-82b2445c15f0", "labels": [ "Sugar Hill Records" ], "label_ids": [ "9d96792c-b9c6-4a88-8c35-7f442e359011" ], "release_date": "1982-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This was named the Greatest Hip-Hop song of all time in a 2012 list compiled by experts for Rolling Stone. The magazine said it was the first track, \"to tell, with hip-hop's rhythmic and vocal force, the truth about modern inner-city life in America.\" Sugarhill Gang's 1979 hit \"Rapper's Delight,\" was runner-up.\n--\nDid you know that Phil Collins got the idea for the lunatic laugh in the 1983 Genesis song \"Mama\" from this track?", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }