Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3635500/?format=api
{ "id": 3635500, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3635500/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-03-30T07:38:08-07:00", "show": 66320, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66320/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710705.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-04a9e611-fe7c-365d-b554-f3f8e6fbce39/mbid-04a9e611-fe7c-365d-b554-f3f8e6fbce39-4527181529_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710705.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-04a9e611-fe7c-365d-b554-f3f8e6fbce39/mbid-04a9e611-fe7c-365d-b554-f3f8e6fbce39-4527181529_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Big Yellow Taxi", "track_id": "77315c00-27f6-3bac-a93b-f680fd6b0cec", "recording_id": "d84a716c-1377-46a3-b2dc-5a8268e9ed00", "artist": "Joni Mitchell", "artist_ids": [ "a6de8ef9-b1a1-4756-97aa-481bbb8a4069" ], "album": "Ladies of the Canyon", "release_id": "04a9e611-fe7c-365d-b554-f3f8e6fbce39", "release_group_id": "b04408f3-7a41-30f0-89c0-eba1efea3aae", "labels": [ "Reprise Records" ], "label_ids": [ "af6d6f49-2b4d-40fe-86d4-241906772b59" ], "release_date": "1990-02-28", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "By request for Katrina in Toronto!\n\nJoni Mitchell (from a 1996 interview with the Los Angeles Times): \"I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart... this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song.\"\nhttps://jonimitchell.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }