Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3627440/?format=api
{ "id": 3627440, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627440/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-10T14:15:22-07:00", "show": 66145, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66145/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/a04486fc-31b7-48e1-8239-07cd30e67ef7/17796307959-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/a04486fc-31b7-48e1-8239-07cd30e67ef7/17796307959-250.jpg", "song": "Burning Down the House", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "37c0c12a-da96-4cb6-af68-b6aba7b7b473", "artist": "Talking Heads", "artist_ids": [ "a94a7155-c79d-4409-9fcf-220cb0e4dc3a" ], "album": "Speaking in Tongues", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "8a7a9db3-f87b-37d5-96a6-67485a8792e6", "labels": [ "Sire Records" ], "label_ids": [ "be0fec81-5c18-4494-8bbf-0d81dec006bf" ], "release_date": "1983-06-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Don't miss the joy with which the performers did this live version of \"Burning Down the House\"\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGbui5kf-5Y\n\n\"This song started from a jam,\" says bassist Tina Weymouth in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. \"Chris Frantz had just been to see Parliament-Funkadelic in its full glory at Madison Square Garden, and he was really hyped. During the jam, he kept yelling 'Burn down the house!' which was a P-Funk audience chant, and David Byrne dug the line, changing it to the finished version, 'Burning down the house'.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }