Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=1080&ordering=-airdate
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Please play rainbow connection by Kermit the Frog and wish Ruth-Anne a very happy birthday.\n\nLove, Mackenzie.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3657175, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3657175/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-20T09:23:41-07:00", "show": 66766, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66766/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601806.us.archive.org/33/items/mbid-56fbc68e-6b49-4648-8424-01de78be1db5/mbid-56fbc68e-6b49-4648-8424-01de78be1db5-44983891596_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801806.us.archive.org/33/items/mbid-56fbc68e-6b49-4648-8424-01de78be1db5/mbid-56fbc68e-6b49-4648-8424-01de78be1db5-44983891596_thumb250.jpg", "song": "STORM II", "track_id": "dd26b5df-9f4b-484a-9f0a-8c6a39512b1f", "recording_id": "f91411a7-0742-4bc5-ba87-21745bbe592f", "artist": "GENER8ION & Yung Lean", "artist_ids": [ "4223b47f-3af9-4e07-a4cf-7f8c8df0c0e8", "757ed661-fbad-4e45-b1cd-a6b09f06f54a" ], "album": "STORM", "release_id": "56fbc68e-6b49-4648-8424-01de78be1db5", "release_group_id": "58a7d9ce-fcf5-449c-8260-cc6d34d94e1e", "labels": [ "Iconoclast Music" ], "label_ids": [ "17777719-fff8-4cca-832a-6e147a80813d" ], "release_date": "2026-04-24", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"STORM II\" is the second half of a double single from GENER8ION (French producer Surkin) and Swedish rapper Yung Lean. \n--\nSee the seven-and-a-half minute video for \"STORM : and \"STORM II.\" The clip takes place at a fancy British boarding school in the near future. Yung Lean plays the charismatic, chaotic bully who seems to run the school. : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6_mbnsh6VU", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3657173, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3657173/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-20T09:18:23-07:00", "show": 66766, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66766/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710104.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4ca85c38-a963-4b1b-a9a4-c6c3a8f14a69/mbid-4ca85c38-a963-4b1b-a9a4-c6c3a8f14a69-43479416870_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710104.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4ca85c38-a963-4b1b-a9a4-c6c3a8f14a69/mbid-4ca85c38-a963-4b1b-a9a4-c6c3a8f14a69-43479416870_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Cuts You Up", "track_id": "80741df5-8228-490b-a23c-4e43569b5ddd", "recording_id": "0c2090a2-0b51-4c7e-8906-c226b43fc1a9", "artist": "Peter Murphy", "artist_ids": [ "b78346af-e3ce-4b36-a0d5-032414de8a27" ], "album": "Deep", "release_id": "4ca85c38-a963-4b1b-a9a4-c6c3a8f14a69", "release_group_id": "594f0d02-bc29-3bec-baeb-68c9f359010a", "labels": [ "RCA" ], "label_ids": [ "1ca5ed29-e00b-4ea5-b817-0bcca0e04946" ], "release_date": "1989-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Second single from Peter Murphy's 1989 release Deep.\n---\nThe song is driven by a violin riff played on a synthesizer. According to Simon Rogers, who produced the track, they brought in a musician to replicate it on viola, but it didn't sound right. \n\nPeter Murphy was the vocalist for Bauhaus. In an interview, he was asked what it is that cuts you up and spits you out, to which he replied, \"The path of discovery, self-knowledge, wisdom... once you feel you have it. Then the path will spit you out or off the way and ruin your assumptions of this path. In fact, a great mighty necessity for those spiritual seekers or so-called 'holy state' desires when getting arrogant.\"\n\nhttps://petermurphy.bandcamp.com\nhttps://www.petermurphy.info/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3657174, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3657174/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-20T09:17:19-07:00", "show": 66766, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66766/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3657172, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3657172/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-20T09:13:45-07:00", "show": 66766, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66766/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721209.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-c619a467-2f82-4618-9cc3-d5a0ce917756/mbid-c619a467-2f82-4618-9cc3-d5a0ce917756-41281267244_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721209.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-c619a467-2f82-4618-9cc3-d5a0ce917756/mbid-c619a467-2f82-4618-9cc3-d5a0ce917756-41281267244_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Day of the Lords", "track_id": "6db802ce-7760-36e2-8e7c-53ffd1d8792e", "recording_id": "cf1fbc0e-9368-45a9-ad74-44c697089274", "artist": "Joy Division", "artist_ids": [ "9a58fda3-f4ed-4080-a3a5-f457aac9fcdd" ], "album": "Unknown Pleasures", "release_id": "fd068c5e-ad3c-3325-ae19-1e8677f860a4", "release_group_id": "42352def-1aab-3000-b548-895ebd869cb6", "labels": [ "London Records 90" ], "label_ids": [ "2cd8a4b0-f36a-4761-8637-893024985e2f" ], "release_date": "2007-09-17", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures' is our Album of the Week!\n\nTo properly warm up for International Goth Day, repeat the following lyrics 10 times, in the dark, wearing all black, until the nihilism returns to Capstrano:\n\nI've seen the nights, filled with bloodsport and pain\nAnd the bodies obtained, the bodies obtained\nWhere will it end...? Where will it end?\n\nhttps://www.joydivisionofficial.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3657171, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3657171/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-20T09:09:57-07:00", "show": 66766, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66766/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3657170, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3657170/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-20T09:05:39-07:00", "show": 66766, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66766/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn711302.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-c113a8c9-d6c6-359a-b712-1033a5bb6d5e/mbid-c113a8c9-d6c6-359a-b712-1033a5bb6d5e-16032267140_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn711302.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-c113a8c9-d6c6-359a-b712-1033a5bb6d5e/mbid-c113a8c9-d6c6-359a-b712-1033a5bb6d5e-16032267140_thumb250.jpg", "song": "I Am a Tree", "track_id": "522dcd21-d5b6-35f0-9da3-8e24c92d3999", "recording_id": "5c20811e-6e29-4a44-b7cd-03e6a5e8c973", "artist": "Guided by Voices", "artist_ids": [ "6c85f4c3-026c-4c16-9a7c-f546f42ed0fb" ], "album": "Mag Earwhig!", "release_id": "6e69d0af-df8f-3d6e-94a3-a61188e82ddb", "release_group_id": "bc2fb559-1938-34a5-b8b0-2e25e0e784f1", "labels": [ "Matador" ], "label_ids": [ "229bd4be-8cd7-442c-85b0-5007ea353abc" ], "release_date": "1997-05-20", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "On this day in 1997, Guided by Voices released 'Mag Earwhig!'\n\nOne of the few Guided by Voices songs penned by someone other than main songwriter Robert Pollard or “classic lineup” guitarist Tobin Sprout, “I Am a Tree” was written by guitarist Doug Gillard originally for his band Gem. Recorded in October 1993, Gem’s version was released as a 12\" single in 1996 on Scat Records, GBV’s previous record label. : https://magnetmagazine.com/2014/08/02/from-the-desk-of-doug-gillard-i-was-a-tree/\n\nhttps://guidedbyvoices.bandcamp.com/\nhttps://www.guidedbyvoices.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3657169, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3657169/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-20T09:03:29-07:00", "show": 66766, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66766/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "In the City", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "1c313948-966e-4ef1-ac05-f5e5df60f9a9", "artist": "The Jam", "artist_ids": [ "23228f18-01d5-493e-94ce-cfcde82a8db2" ], "album": "In the City", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "5cdc81f5-29a3-3866-8e13-9f271d3615eb", "labels": [ "Polydor" ], "label_ids": [ "ce24ab18-1bd6-4293-a486-546d13d6a5e2" ], "release_date": "1977-05-20", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "On this day in 1977, The Jam released their debut studio album 'In the City'. Released by Polydor Records, the album reached No. 20 on the UK Albums Chart.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3657166, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3657166/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-20T09:00:01-07:00", "show": 66766, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66766/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn711001.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-b339263b-e949-42d3-8e9f-ae1139112323/mbid-b339263b-e949-42d3-8e9f-ae1139112323-45039053864_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn711001.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-b339263b-e949-42d3-8e9f-ae1139112323/mbid-b339263b-e949-42d3-8e9f-ae1139112323-45039053864_thumb250.jpg", "song": "I’LL BE YOUR FRIEND", "track_id": "b8bd5524-8622-449f-beaa-10be906c2dbe", "recording_id": "32e598e7-0276-4c1d-8fd0-bcc18507bfd4", "artist": "Ruti", "artist_ids": [ "d90fb8ae-7c3e-448c-b39c-901cad646542" ], "album": "I’LL BE YOUR FRIEND", "release_id": "b339263b-e949-42d3-8e9f-ae1139112323", "release_group_id": "9f7b48c4-05c8-43e0-abfb-ac45191aae4d", "labels": [ "Big Family Music Limited" ], "label_ids": [ "8fc91708-b7b8-4fae-b9df-ac009028e1ba" ], "release_date": "2026-04-30", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Ruti Olajugbagbe “ROO-tee Oh-LAH-joo-bah-bay”, known professionally as Ruti, is an English singer-songwriter who won the seventh series of The Voice UK. Their coach…Sir Tom Jones, baby!\n\nhttps://www.ruti.music/\nhttps://www.bigfamily.music/artists/ruti", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3657167, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3657167/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-20T08:57:49-07:00", "show": 66766, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66766/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3657165, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3657165/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-20T08:51:31-07:00", "show": 66766, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66766/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn711007.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-16f3e0e5-d952-4ec4-815a-cdd0845dfccc/mbid-16f3e0e5-d952-4ec4-815a-cdd0845dfccc-7714921136_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn711007.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-16f3e0e5-d952-4ec4-815a-cdd0845dfccc/mbid-16f3e0e5-d952-4ec4-815a-cdd0845dfccc-7714921136_thumb250.jpg", "song": "New Moon on Monday", "track_id": "8cbb9b9e-c49f-4813-99e1-7e35a8784094", "recording_id": "2fe60926-379f-4f83-a4d7-cf54a1784e73", "artist": "Duran Duran", "artist_ids": [ "1a1cd7f3-e5df-4eca-bae2-2757c9e656b5" ], "album": "Seven and the Ragged Tiger", "release_id": "16f3e0e5-d952-4ec4-815a-cdd0845dfccc", "release_group_id": "c574bd67-dbac-352a-8783-cb5a43b369cc", "labels": [ "Capitol Records" ], "label_ids": [ "abea2d3e-eabf-4480-ab24-9382dd642c73" ], "release_date": "1983-11-21", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Today's list of John's Top 5 D-squared crushes:\n1. John\n2. Andy\n3. Simon\n4. Nick\n5. Roger\n\nDuran Duran's third studio album and their last with the band's most famous line-up until their 2004 release 'Astronaut'.\n\nVocalist Simon Le Bon shared that the album \"is an adventure story about a little commando team. 'The Seven' is for us—the five band members and the two managers—and 'the Ragged Tiger' is success. Seven people running after success. It's ambition. That's what it's about.\" https://bit.ly/3yLQmr4\n\nTravel back to 1983 to watch a live version of \"New Moon on Monday\": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBW8T1KWPBE", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3657164, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3657164/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-20T08:47:47-07:00", "show": 66766, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66766/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710607.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4c5bc77c-8747-4abc-84f0-c48bfae58e2c/mbid-4c5bc77c-8747-4abc-84f0-c48bfae58e2c-27079126777_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710607.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4c5bc77c-8747-4abc-84f0-c48bfae58e2c/mbid-4c5bc77c-8747-4abc-84f0-c48bfae58e2c-27079126777_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Listen Like Thieves", "track_id": "5ad9954b-b24e-34e4-a638-35f0c0bf6efe", "recording_id": "c5d62786-7b1b-406b-8905-6d828709d213", "artist": "INXS", "artist_ids": [ "481bf5f9-2e7c-4c44-b08a-05b32bc7c00d" ], "album": "Listen Like Thieves", "release_id": "4c5bc77c-8747-4abc-84f0-c48bfae58e2c", "release_group_id": "8baeedaf-d4d1-3ec4-9639-224ee93c5568", "labels": [ "Atlantic" ], "label_ids": [ "50c384a2-0b44-401b-b893-8181173339c7" ], "release_date": "1985-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Released in 1985, Listen Like Thieves is the fifth album by INXS. Considered a breakthrough album for the band, it featured their first top 5 single in the United States, “What You Need.”\nhttps://www.inxs.com/music/listen-like-thieves/\n--\nLast year, INXS's Kirk Pengilly reflected on this album's 40th anniversary: https://au.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kirk-pengilly-interview-40th-anniversary-listen-like-thieves-76578/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3657163, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3657163/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-20T08:46:54-07:00", "show": 66766, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66766/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3657162, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3657162/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-20T08:44:36-07:00", "show": 66766, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66766/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn711204.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-bb7a34ce-3fd6-4160-b908-1e5dd6635fdb/mbid-bb7a34ce-3fd6-4160-b908-1e5dd6635fdb-9716771346_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn711204.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-bb7a34ce-3fd6-4160-b908-1e5dd6635fdb/mbid-bb7a34ce-3fd6-4160-b908-1e5dd6635fdb-9716771346_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Our Lips Are Sealed", "track_id": "76522bbc-6bc6-4265-9f91-a0b16a887758", "recording_id": "981e20a5-0dd4-4846-9e6e-97deeabb7da6", "artist": "The Go‐Go’s", "artist_ids": [ "eec163e4-a013-4af0-9641-c5b2df41fff7" ], "album": "Beauty and the Beat", "release_id": "bb7a34ce-3fd6-4160-b908-1e5dd6635fdb", "release_group_id": "8b64edc9-1a59-3840-8b12-85a4e19cf48a", "labels": [ "I.R.S. 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Anyways, it was one of those things with the tragic letters, 'I just can't do this.' You know, 'I'm betrothed to another.' 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Billed as “a dance record for the end of the world, and a radical new grammar of honesty in pop,” The Afterparty was written in Los Angeles and recorded in Stockholm with a 17-piece string orchestra which lends a sweeping cinematic scope to Lykke Li’s magnetic pop presence. –Alex Ruder, KEXP (https://www.kexp.org/read/2026/5/11/new-music-reviews-511/)\n\nhttps://lykkeli.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3657159, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3657159/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-20T08:37:32-07:00", "show": 66766, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66766/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn711207.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-630f108a-8162-4617-a237-387886df5fb3/mbid-630f108a-8162-4617-a237-387886df5fb3-4093324351_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia803207.us.archive.org/8/items/mbid-630f108a-8162-4617-a237-387886df5fb3/mbid-630f108a-8162-4617-a237-387886df5fb3-4093324351_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Me in Honey", "track_id": "49851188-8172-3aa2-b5a4-a1d8ac8d9694", "recording_id": "09aa0113-99af-4f4e-aea6-8636de91bce9", "artist": "R.E.M.", "artist_ids": [ "ea4dfa26-f633-4da6-a52a-f49ea4897b58" ], "album": "Out of Time", "release_id": "630f108a-8162-4617-a237-387886df5fb3", "release_group_id": "400a5fdd-e616-3598-a9bf-cd8275cb53d0", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. 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In the wake of the 1998 dissolution of his much-beloved previous band Archers of Loaf, Bachmann founded Crooked Fingers in early 2000.\n\nhttps://crookedfingers.bandcamp.com", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3657157, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3657157/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-05-20T08:30:01-07:00", "show": 66766, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66766/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710705.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-2767564a-5d69-4c3c-8412-b9229bd25a23/mbid-2767564a-5d69-4c3c-8412-b9229bd25a23-10326693710_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Big Rock Candy Mountain", "track_id": "10199ce2-43b8-3255-a5ae-6fe6e3bba36e", "recording_id": "cff3590b-107b-46ef-a34c-e3a1623c2811", "artist": "Harry “Haywire Mac” McClintock", "artist_ids": [ "6585cb4b-9be2-43ce-94df-63a8a5325540" ], "album": "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", "release_id": "2767564a-5d69-4c3c-8412-b9229bd25a23", "release_group_id": "6fb9820a-99cc-318f-bae4-44992f2b7ffa", "labels": [ "Lost Highway Records" ], "label_ids": [ "5b34c929-fd09-4b57-a8bf-1e8eb0f21c12" ], "release_date": "2011-08-23", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Could you play \"Big Rock Candy mountains\"? My name Riley. I am learning how birthday requests work on KEXP. I am also an amplifier and wearing a KEXP t-shirt. I am texting from my moms phone, and it’s my 15th birthday.\n===\nJamie writes:\nUnbelievable that you played Big Rock Candy Mountain. My Dad died May 13, 2023 and this was one of the songs we played as he passed. I have been asking him all month to let me know he’s around. His name was John.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
