Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3641467/?format=api
{ "id": 3641467, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3641467/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-04-13T06:59:01-07:00", "show": 66441, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66441/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710803.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-c12262e2-7185-4942-87ee-da27ddd45ddf/mbid-c12262e2-7185-4942-87ee-da27ddd45ddf-30305762301_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710803.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-c12262e2-7185-4942-87ee-da27ddd45ddf/mbid-c12262e2-7185-4942-87ee-da27ddd45ddf-30305762301_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Come as You Are", "track_id": "de346de3-70fc-318b-887f-7ee8144f32b7", "recording_id": "b4184747-0157-41be-ae44-e3a6a0c13272", "artist": "Nirvana", "artist_ids": [ "5b11f4ce-a62d-471e-81fc-a69a8278c7da" ], "album": "Nevermind", "release_id": "c12262e2-7185-4942-87ee-da27ddd45ddf", "release_group_id": "1b022e01-4da6-387b-8658-8678046e4cef", "labels": [ "DGC Records" ], "label_ids": [ "68803e28-86fe-4a95-985f-8e493795ab31" ], "release_date": "1991-09-24", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Going out to Mo and Sage!\n\nA little-known fact about Nirvana's \"Come as You Are\" is that Kurt Cobain was initially hesitant to release it as a single because he was concerned it sounded too similar to the 1984 song \"Eighties\" by the British post-punk band Killing Joke.\n\nThe main riff in both songs is strikingly similar, and although Killing Joke didn’t initially pursue legal action, there was considerable buzz about the resemblance. Ironically, years later, Dave Grohl played drums on a Killing Joke album, effectively bridging the two bands despite the past tension.\n\nhttps://riotfest.org/2018/10/03/killing-joke-influence-nirvana/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }