Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3625986/?format=api
{ "id": 3625986, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3625986/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-06T11:42:20-08:00", "show": 66106, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66106/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721307.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-5d76e86c-ce34-3eca-8577-186459867469/mbid-5d76e86c-ce34-3eca-8577-186459867469-42111883341_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721307.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-5d76e86c-ce34-3eca-8577-186459867469/mbid-5d76e86c-ce34-3eca-8577-186459867469-42111883341_thumb250.jpg", "song": "The Safety Dance", "track_id": "27d099c5-e496-325f-9f3f-8f3e3a210312", "recording_id": "c589b499-94c2-47dd-9247-fdc478478231", "artist": "Men Without Hats", "artist_ids": [ "bcabb743-60ed-406b-94da-9bf82e032e58" ], "album": "Rhythm of Youth", "release_id": "5d76e86c-ce34-3eca-8577-186459867469", "release_group_id": "bc8adfb6-8247-42e9-b1d9-27f51e84726d", "labels": [ "Statik Records" ], "label_ids": [ "7821d38b-4bee-4b5e-a2ef-89e2995b5899" ], "release_date": "1983-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "When the Canadian band Men Without Hats recorded “The Safety Dance” in 1982, it was not to promote safety in any way at all. In fact “The Safety Dance” was a protest against something far more mundane: officious bouncers. Ivan Doroschuk had formed Men Without Hats as a punk band, and “The Safety Dance” was about being told off for dancing dangerously: “It originated when I was getting kicked out of clubs for pogoing — for hitting the dance floor whenever they played Blondie’s ‘Heart of Glass’ or The B52’s’ ‘Rock Lobster’, he said.: https://ig.ft.com/life-of-a-song/the-safety-dance.html", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }