Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3633762/?format=api
{ "id": 3633762, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3633762/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-26T05:37:28-07:00", "show": 66282, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66282/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710905.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-040f084f-1a39-4e24-80a0-c674f3683206/mbid-040f084f-1a39-4e24-80a0-c674f3683206-17167891895_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710905.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-040f084f-1a39-4e24-80a0-c674f3683206/mbid-040f084f-1a39-4e24-80a0-c674f3683206-17167891895_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Synthetic Substitution", "track_id": "bd585b69-feaf-3021-8275-16659cb2108f", "recording_id": "2f510c53-dd6b-4ffb-bde2-4633d1d1e702", "artist": "Melvin Bliss", "artist_ids": [ "aa527da6-d037-447f-a853-d171d70db70b" ], "album": "Reward / Synthetic Substitution", "release_id": "040f084f-1a39-4e24-80a0-c674f3683206", "release_group_id": "cb88a87c-c82e-3a43-9f93-e9bd234467ff", "labels": [ "Sunburst Records" ], "label_ids": [ "df2318de-e184-4ebb-a250-21fed3bf1456" ], "release_date": "1973-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Sampled in O.P.P. Drums we're performed by Bernard Purdie.\n\n\"There are few examples of hip-hop's capacity for preserving obscure nooks of our cultural past than the second life of Melvin Bliss, a relatively obscure 1970s singer whose \"Synthetic Substitution,\" a throwaway B-side, became one of the most frequently sampled songs of the late '80s and early '90s.\": https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2010/07/melvin-bliss-rip/60457/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }