Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3630985/?format=api
{ "id": 3630985, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3630985/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-19T09:45:00-07:00", "show": 66221, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66221/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710608.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-026312fe-cec5-3ea8-9408-3ebc665b6985/mbid-026312fe-cec5-3ea8-9408-3ebc665b6985-26159364280_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710608.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-026312fe-cec5-3ea8-9408-3ebc665b6985/mbid-026312fe-cec5-3ea8-9408-3ebc665b6985-26159364280_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Red Hill Mining Town", "track_id": "324dc173-437d-358c-99cf-e0de67c8de95", "recording_id": "3f7ee760-5ba7-462d-b523-f0e0026df4a6", "artist": "U2", "artist_ids": [ "a3cb23fc-acd3-4ce0-8f36-1e5aa6a18432" ], "album": "The Joshua Tree", "release_id": "026312fe-cec5-3ea8-9408-3ebc665b6985", "release_group_id": "6f3e9fa6-be7a-3de8-a2b2-2072ece8a54d", "labels": [ "Island" ], "label_ids": [ "dfd92cd3-4888-46d2-b968-328b1feb2642" ], "release_date": "1987-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Found on U2's classic 1987 album 'The Joshua Tree,' and written in response to the National Union of Mineworkers' 1984 strike in Great Britain. \n\n \"I was interested in the miners' strike politically, but I wanted to write about it on a more personal level,\" Bono told NME in 1987. \"A cold statistic about a pit closure and redundancies that follow is drastic enough on one level, but it never tells the full human story.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }