Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3642789/?format=api
{ "id": 3642789, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3642789/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-04-16T11:26:48-07:00", "show": 66468, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66468/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721206.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-47194f22-00b9-47d1-a424-c7cc21b996ea/mbid-47194f22-00b9-47d1-a424-c7cc21b996ea-7644874584_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721206.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-47194f22-00b9-47d1-a424-c7cc21b996ea/mbid-47194f22-00b9-47d1-a424-c7cc21b996ea-7644874584_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Goshen '97", "track_id": "3c127ac7-9ad4-4b39-b20b-70e9479cfb66", "recording_id": "bb1b3a02-1121-4087-b759-b281139e7683", "artist": "Strand of Oaks", "artist_ids": [ "0efbd9d6-4c5b-48e5-b7ff-d61e0969893a" ], "album": "Heal", "release_id": "47194f22-00b9-47d1-a424-c7cc21b996ea", "release_group_id": "8adffcd7-f901-4dc7-83f0-db10dab11e67", "labels": [ "Dead Oceans" ], "label_ids": [ "f70f950f-2587-4f85-a5c7-b483a47bd2e9" ], "release_date": "2014-06-24", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"That's what I never realized before: This is not a bad life,\" Timothy Showalter says. To him, the song represents what it feels like to be a teenager, and what's saving you when you don't fit into narrowly defined teenager roles. Too weird to get invited to the cool-kid parties, too into music to fit in with the Magic: The Gathering crowd, alone and often sad, but with a means of solace.\n\nThe ripping guitar you hear was played by Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis.\n\n\"I wanted [to re-create] what it felt like when I heard 'Out There' as a young kid,\" Showalter says. \"I'm just as moved by Mascis' guitar playing as I am by the lyrics.\" https://tinyurl.com/3n3vx4a9\n\nhttps://www.strandofoaks.net/home", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }