Information about plays

list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID

GET /v2/plays/3627796/?format=api
HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 3627796,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627796/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-03-11T16:33:10-07:00",
    "show": 66154,
    "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66154/?format=api",
    "image_uri": "https://dn710700.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-1bf66a76-d132-317d-95df-a22b5c7dc9f0/mbid-1bf66a76-d132-317d-95df-a22b5c7dc9f0-9518176776_thumb500.jpg",
    "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710700.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-1bf66a76-d132-317d-95df-a22b5c7dc9f0/mbid-1bf66a76-d132-317d-95df-a22b5c7dc9f0-9518176776_thumb250.jpg",
    "song": "Egg Man",
    "track_id": "f8bd9c6d-6900-3a0a-a70d-f692936b7ad1",
    "recording_id": "10c16cdc-3a08-4d80-9b7c-6826d4c4aaea",
    "artist": "Beastie Boys",
    "artist_ids": [
        "9beb62b2-88db-4cea-801e-162cd344ee53"
    ],
    "album": "Paul’s Boutique",
    "release_id": "1bf66a76-d132-317d-95df-a22b5c7dc9f0",
    "release_group_id": "b534aa01-d621-31ba-9278-38a500e3cdca",
    "labels": [
        "Capitol Records"
    ],
    "label_ids": [
        "abea2d3e-eabf-4480-ab24-9382dd642c73"
    ],
    "release_date": "1989-01-01",
    "rotation_status": null,
    "is_local": false,
    "is_request": false,
    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "The bass line for this song is sampled from Curtis Mayfield's \"Superfly.\" \n--\nThis video deconstructs all the samples that Beastie Boys used on \"Egg Man\": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioAcad6BEvM",
    "location": 1,
    "location_name": "Default",
    "play_type": "trackplay"
}