Play Public Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 3635710,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3635710/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-03-30T20:39:20-07:00",
    "show": 66324,
    "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66324/?format=api",
    "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/3c3ba018-365d-489b-9ac4-493cdbd673bc/10732397252-500.jpg",
    "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/3c3ba018-365d-489b-9ac4-493cdbd673bc/10732397252-250.jpg",
    "song": "Venezia",
    "track_id": null,
    "recording_id": "e74d4171-88cc-4173-b543-ac3b69794cc8",
    "artist": "Hombres G",
    "artist_ids": [
        "8b1628a7-130a-4faf-96d8-2418bd9043c2"
    ],
    "album": "Hombres G",
    "release_id": null,
    "release_group_id": "41f5b28e-bfe0-3590-9ed1-fc68cb65e63a",
    "labels": [
        "Grabaciones Accidentales"
    ],
    "label_ids": [
        "8552891b-5b38-43bc-a32a-fe8533afb65e"
    ],
    "release_date": "1985-03-11",
    "rotation_status": null,
    "is_local": false,
    "is_request": false,
    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "“Venezia” finds Hombres G leaning fully into the playful romanticism that helped define Spanish pop-rock in the mid-1980s. Released on their debut album Hombres G (1985), the track captures the band at their most buoyant—balancing youthful longing with an unmistakable sense of humor.\n\nDriven by bright, chiming guitars and a steady, unhurried rhythm, “Venezia” feels like a postcard from afar—dreamy, slightly ironic, and emotionally direct. The arrangement is deceptively simple, giving space for the melody to linger while the lyrics sketch out a romanticized escape to the iconic Italian city. There’s a lightness to the performance that keeps the sentiment from becoming overly sentimental; instead, it lands somewhere between earnest and tongue-in-cheek.\n\nVocally, the delivery carries that signature Hombres G charm—casual, conversational, and just a bit mischievous. It’s this tone that makes the song endure, transforming what could be a straightforward love song into something more distinctive and memorable.\n\nDecades later, “Venezia” remains a standout not because of complexity, but because of its clarity of mood. It’s a song that understands exactly what it wants to be: catchy, sincere, and quietly iconic.\n\nListen:\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Hombres+G+Venezia",
    "location": 1,
    "location_name": "Default",
    "play_type": "trackplay"
}