Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3629701/?format=api
{ "id": 3629701, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3629701/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-16T09:59:53-07:00", "show": 66197, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66197/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn711103.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-7b952493-a2a9-4470-92b0-642fd46d191c/mbid-7b952493-a2a9-4470-92b0-642fd46d191c-9837414845_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn711103.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-7b952493-a2a9-4470-92b0-642fd46d191c/mbid-7b952493-a2a9-4470-92b0-642fd46d191c-9837414845_thumb250.jpg", "song": "911 Is a Joke", "track_id": "3abdd377-6ed1-3988-96b6-7d5c67f152d7", "recording_id": "68d1d5f6-1649-4344-93bc-3ae95dd60e46", "artist": "Public Enemy", "artist_ids": [ "bf2e15d0-4b77-469e-bfb4-f8414415baca" ], "album": "Fear of a Black Planet", "release_id": "7b952493-a2a9-4470-92b0-642fd46d191c", "release_group_id": "13cf2244-c850-304d-bc46-b30e3f10e0cc", "labels": [ "Def Jam Recordings", "Columbia" ], "label_ids": [ "a92d1684-4edb-48aa-b913-30e9da213004", "011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e" ], "release_date": "1990-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Happy Birthday to clock enthusiast and legendary hype man Flavor Flav! Born William Jonathan Drayton Jr. on this day in 1959\n\n---\nPublic Enemy's third album was the first hip hop album to be inducted into The Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry in 2004. The Library of Congress praised Fear of a Black Planet for signaling “the coupling of a strongly political message with hip hop music.”: https://bit.ly/3Tmt5oT\n---\n\nFlavor Flav sang this intentionally out of key. Chuck D. explained: \"When you put him in key, it gets syrupy - too close to music. See, when you add noise on top of noise, you gonna tune everybody out. But with Flavor, he becomes the noise, because he is annoying!\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }