Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3629378/?format=api
{ "id": 3629378, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3629378/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-15T16:58:55-07:00", "show": 66190, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66190/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801707.us.archive.org/4/items/mbid-b5e62af8-78a5-4d0d-86dc-13b0f9cb4c85/mbid-b5e62af8-78a5-4d0d-86dc-13b0f9cb4c85-44494305042_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801707.us.archive.org/4/items/mbid-b5e62af8-78a5-4d0d-86dc-13b0f9cb4c85/mbid-b5e62af8-78a5-4d0d-86dc-13b0f9cb4c85-44494305042_thumb250.jpg", "song": "The Plastic Guru", "track_id": "bb74ccd3-4798-4ed4-a4e0-318578b6f625", "recording_id": "90b8b603-cb1d-41a2-b6e2-ca3b9d40eb7f", "artist": "Gorillaz feat. Johnny Marr and Anoushka Shankar", "artist_ids": [ "40ee8fa3-c6d7-4556-b4e2-9f4114565043", "e21857d5-3256-4547-afb3-4b6ded592596", "ff621094-2a76-401f-8398-b75b5fd2be24" ], "album": "The Mountain", "release_id": "b5e62af8-78a5-4d0d-86dc-13b0f9cb4c85", "release_group_id": "b82f59df-2659-4c23-a3b6-9eb2518b4327", "labels": [ "Kong" ], "label_ids": [ "dd8a3d8e-26d4-4c75-8b36-1c48516e6b7d" ], "release_date": "2026-03-20", "rotation_status": "Medium", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The song was inspired by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's trip to an ashram in Rishikesh, where they met a guru who seemed to have looked them up in advance:\n\nHewlett recalls, \"So, we ended up with this guru, but we soon realised that someone had done an internet search before we arrived… He made a beeline for Damon when we got there. He took Damon’s hand and looked deep into his eyes, and they began a staring competition which went on for way too long.\n\n\"Damon didn’t break his gaze at all and, at one point, the guru closed his eyes because he couldn't continue it anymore, and then he opened one eye to see if Damon was still staring!\n\n\"They insisted that, when they did their ceremony on the banks of the Ganges, we sat next to the guru and his wife. Damon managed to slip back out of sight, and that was when we realised it was being televised across India to a lot of people. \n\n\"All I could see was my fucking stupid face on the TV screen with all these people singing! It’s definitely on the internet somewhere. That was the only one, of all the beautiful experiences in India, that I felt a little bit jaded by.\" https://tinyurl.com/mpzmk7bv", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }