Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3624724/?format=api
{ "id": 3624724, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3624724/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-03T07:55:57-08:00", "show": 66079, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66079/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Gigantic", "track_id": "b81935ba-0e82-3f4d-b880-b58e6c1c2651", "recording_id": "2f5cc9f9-723b-459e-bbd2-b0ad0a751137", "artist": "Pixies", "artist_ids": [ "b6b2bb8d-54a9-491f-9607-7b546023b433" ], "album": "Surfer Rosa", "release_id": "98dec9e6-ba4f-4956-92d9-f9dc204663ac", "release_group_id": "74e36cbc-a747-3ebf-a60e-51e656c87741", "labels": [ "4AD" ], "label_ids": [ "a539bb1e-f2e1-4b45-9db8-8053841e7503" ], "release_date": "1988-03-21", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "HELLO 🤗 A special request on the day my husband Tom was born, also the day we met 28 years ago...we'd love to hear Pixies' Gigantic. The world needs more big big love and I have such big big love for Tom 💗 thank you! \n\nRachel in New Mexico\n--\n\nThis is the only song on Surfer Rosa not entirely written by frontman Frank Black; he co-wrote it with Pixies bass player Kim Deal, who was using the stage name Mrs. John Murphy at the time. \n--\nIn a 1997 interview, Black Francis said of this song: \"A good chord progression, very Lou Reed influenced. I'd had the word 'Gigantic' in my mind just because the chord progression seemed very big to me.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }