Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3650049/?format=api
{ "id": 3650049, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3650049/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-03T14:55:37-07:00", "show": 66620, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66620/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn711003.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-9ace7c8c-55b4-4c5d-9aa8-e573a5dde9ad/mbid-9ace7c8c-55b4-4c5d-9aa8-e573a5dde9ad-836774729_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn711003.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-9ace7c8c-55b4-4c5d-9aa8-e573a5dde9ad/mbid-9ace7c8c-55b4-4c5d-9aa8-e573a5dde9ad-836774729_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Radio Ga Ga", "track_id": "99f8b206-5316-3681-a3c1-27634471276f", "recording_id": "6da2cc31-9b12-4b66-9e26-074150f73406", "artist": "Queen", "artist_ids": [ "0383dadf-2a4e-4d10-a46a-e9e041da8eb3" ], "album": "The Works", "release_id": "9ace7c8c-55b4-4c5d-9aa8-e573a5dde9ad", "release_group_id": "44c90c72-76b5-3c13-890e-3d37f21c10c9", "labels": [ "EMI" ], "label_ids": [ "c029628b-6633-439e-bcee-ed02e8a338f7" ], "release_date": "1984-02-27", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Radio Ga Ga\" was originally called \"Radio Ca-Ca.\" Drummer Roger Taylor wrote the song after his three-year-old son Felix — half-French through Roger's then-girlfriend Dominique Beyrand — used that French children's word for excrement to describe the radio when a crew came to interview Roger at home. Taylor locked himself in a Record Plant studio in Los Angeles with a Roland Jupiter 8 and a drum machine to build a track around what his son said. The band softened the title before release because no station would play the original. \n\nhttps://www.loudersound.com/features/queens-radio-ga-ga-how-a-song-inspired-by-a-swearing-toddler-proved-the-power-of-television\nhttps://queenonline.com", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }