Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3630962/?format=api
{ "id": 3630962, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3630962/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-19T08:23:11-07:00", "show": 66221, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66221/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn711008.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-2657e677-49ce-480f-8868-04a0b354aec2/mbid-2657e677-49ce-480f-8868-04a0b354aec2-6335860449_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn711008.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-2657e677-49ce-480f-8868-04a0b354aec2/mbid-2657e677-49ce-480f-8868-04a0b354aec2-6335860449_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Heroin", "track_id": "83350093-3ebe-35d4-8713-64b5b1b57666", "recording_id": "022d8cbf-c503-4ae9-9050-cad982e15e21", "artist": "The Velvet Underground", "artist_ids": [ "94b0fb9d-a066-4823-b2ec-af1d324bcfcf" ], "album": "The Velvet Underground & Nico", "release_id": "2657e677-49ce-480f-8868-04a0b354aec2", "release_group_id": "5cbd9d7b-597a-3c5e-bfd1-c2b364215560", "labels": [ "Verve" ], "label_ids": [ "99a24d71-54c1-4d3f-88cc-00fbcc4fce83" ], "release_date": "1967-03-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Lou Reed wrote 'Heroin' while working for Pickwick Records:\n\"I was working for a record company as a songwriter, where they'd lock me in a room and they'd say write ten surfing songs, ya know, and I wrote \"Heroin\" and I said \"Hey I got something for ya.\" They said, \"Never gonna happen, never gonna happen.\"\n\nThe earliest demo version, recorded at Pickwick, was rediscovered in 2022 by his widow, Laurie Anderson. Check it out here:\nhttps://bit.ly/4799Xnc", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }