Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3618623/?format=api
{ "id": 3618623, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3618623/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-02-17T07:19:27-08:00", "show": 65957, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65957/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800104.us.archive.org/23/items/mbid-bc5ece87-cab2-4151-919c-85b8ecae8c47/mbid-bc5ece87-cab2-4151-919c-85b8ecae8c47-21305667191_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia800104.us.archive.org/23/items/mbid-bc5ece87-cab2-4151-919c-85b8ecae8c47/mbid-bc5ece87-cab2-4151-919c-85b8ecae8c47-21305667191_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Rebel Without a Pause", "track_id": "d036b671-40df-3764-9b28-af330e221f43", "recording_id": "0eef35b5-1a93-46a9-bf6a-e36fc64fa8be", "artist": "Public Enemy", "artist_ids": [ "bf2e15d0-4b77-469e-bfb4-f8414415baca" ], "album": "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back", "release_id": "bc5ece87-cab2-4151-919c-85b8ecae8c47", "release_group_id": "01921d99-9d15-3fce-8734-46e58327cfb7", "labels": [ "Def Jam Recordings", "Columbia" ], "label_ids": [ "a92d1684-4edb-48aa-b913-30e9da213004", "011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e" ], "release_date": "1988-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "“Yes – the rhythm, the rebel / Without a pause – I’m lowering my level / The hard rhymer – where you never been I’m in / You want styling – you know it’s time again” \n\nThe first single and one of the big tracks from It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back. Released in 1987, it was sort of a bridge from the still somewhat unpolished sounds of Yo! Bum Rush The Show to the Bomb Squad produced perfection on It Takes a Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }