Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=1240&ordering=-airdate
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Her music celebrated Afro-Caribbean expression through rhythms like the bata cubana, her trademark phrase \"Azúcar\" acknowledged the history of enslaved people on Cuban sugar plantations, and she was a pioneering Afro-Latina icon who gained global recognition for her vibrant performances.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572327, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572327/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T19:36:31-07:00", "show": 64986, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64986/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/644a31c9-5061-444e-a669-0e14546fe7e0/35847830960-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/644a31c9-5061-444e-a669-0e14546fe7e0/35847830960-250.jpg", "song": "Ja Funmi", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "de503ef8-79ad-4e76-a666-cdd977dd438f", "artist": "King Sunny Adé", "artist_ids": [ "3e110caa-e9e8-4c33-98dc-ebbf0c6d2494" ], "album": "The Best of King Sunny Ade - King of Juju", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "bd19a516-59a6-4792-8ffe-8fd0c11c17b3", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2002-10-15", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Chief Sunday Adeniyi Adegeye, known professionally as King Sunny Adé, was called \"one of the world's great band leaders\" by the New York Times. Adegeya, after finding national success in his native Nigeria, he went on to be the first Nigerian to earn a Grammy nomination! Specializing in the High Life sounds of Ghana!", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572326, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572326/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T19:30:36-07:00", "show": 64986, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64986/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3572325, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572325/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T19:29:15-07:00", "show": 64986, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64986/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/cdd7b5bf-7462-49c2-b0f3-1f6bd231543c/13249454841-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/cdd7b5bf-7462-49c2-b0f3-1f6bd231543c/13249454841-250.jpg", "song": "Africa", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "400fdb58-eb34-48d6-a8a4-2f97789d3923", "artist": "Yemi Alade feat. 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Wizkid praises the neighbordhood for playing a role in who he is today. He has gone on to become an icon in African music!", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572323, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572323/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T19:22:32-07:00", "show": 64986, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64986/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Agolo", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "c0846a8b-2f66-43a8-9235-5a1c7c6f8545", "artist": "Angélique Kidjo", "artist_ids": [ "80fe34d0-6b4f-4ccd-81c3-281ab37f0451" ], "album": null, "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": null, "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Angelique Kidjo queen of Afropop. Her 30 + years of career is acclaimed with multiple awards including Grammys. She’s also an activist for women rights and the inclusion of African talents on mainstream platforms. Agolo was released in 1994. Her influence continues to this day!", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572322, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572322/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T19:19:37-07:00", "show": 64986, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64986/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/82db7336-769e-496c-b172-30b03062dac9/18946816576-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/82db7336-769e-496c-b172-30b03062dac9/18946816576-250.jpg", "song": "Ye", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "00fa1978-819c-466f-809c-5888baf4ebcb", "artist": "Burna Boy", "artist_ids": [ "78a19169-ac75-4868-b504-7e2e073118e0" ], "album": "Outside", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "6d2fb559-0341-45f8-af53-a35e71f58741", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2018-01-26", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Burna Boy, aka Damini Ogulu, started making his own music growing up in Southern Nigeria, using FruityLoops. He won best international artist at the 2019 BET awards", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572321, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572321/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T19:15:14-07:00", "show": 64986, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64986/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3572320, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572320/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T19:12:48-07:00", "show": 64986, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64986/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/cf434bee-015f-4d84-8ce2-d4d5a8574658/27990013536-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/cf434bee-015f-4d84-8ce2-d4d5a8574658/27990013536-250.jpg", "song": "Do It", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "937c602d-a081-42cb-b402-b0c48f0060e9", "artist": "Osibisa", "artist_ids": [ "b1355867-16a1-4863-ae3b-6a8be122eaaa" ], "album": "Greatest Hits", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "074148dd-b652-4612-b49e-a334e325a585", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1997-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Osibisa is a Ghanaian-Caribbean Afro rock band founded in London in the late 1960s by four expatriate West African and three London-based Caribbean musicians.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572319, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572319/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T19:09:38-07:00", "show": 64986, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64986/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/6ac5ae2f-889b-475e-b8d0-08c12132b6fd/26054545866-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/6ac5ae2f-889b-475e-b8d0-08c12132b6fd/26054545866-250.jpg", "song": "Never (Lagos Never Gonna Be the Same)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "1b7b6855-ebf5-428b-9dc0-5795f57ff6f4", "artist": "Tony Allen & Hugh Masekela", "artist_ids": [ "ea524cc6-191a-4c05-ab88-3bb5c0880ca5", "83a2e0fb-3d9b-46ff-b383-3dde54c15297" ], "album": "Rejoice", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "d4f97406-c231-446f-a8eb-0766ff11bc2f", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2020-03-20", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Pioneering Afrobeat drummer and Fela Kuti collaborator Tony Allen died in April at 79 of a heart attack.\n\nNigerian-born and a self-taught drummer, Tony was both the drummer and musical director of Fela Kuti's famous band Africa '70 throughout the 60s and 70s. Foundational to the afrobeat genre, the Africa ‘70 band brought together highlife, jazz, funk, soul, and fuji music. \nFela Kuti once said, “Without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat.”\n\nhttps://www.kexp.org/read/2020/4/30/rip-tony-allen-afrobeat-pioneer-and-former-drummer-fela-kuti/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572318, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572318/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T19:01:24-07:00", "show": 64986, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64986/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/5039783f-6372-4be1-b92a-a1e5dba4a1c4/35357572858-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/5039783f-6372-4be1-b92a-a1e5dba4a1c4/35357572858-250.jpg", "song": "Lady", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "c06c971a-7d74-43f7-a16b-2ce892e67f4d", "artist": "Fela Kuti & Afrika 70", "artist_ids": [ "6514cffa-fbe0-4965-ad88-e998ead8a82a", "dc45f2dc-ef36-4a7a-aa52-97495fca8ced" 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3572315, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572315/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T18:50:50-07:00", "show": 64985, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64985/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/3a078367-00cd-429e-9818-680d2088d6c6/40003337029-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/3a078367-00cd-429e-9818-680d2088d6c6/40003337029-250.jpg", "song": "Always Then", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "694df437-15b3-4d21-8c1d-5524b7d2355f", "artist": "The KVB", "artist_ids": [ "cec651c7-19f4-4965-9566-3a05024130be" ], "album": null, "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": null, "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "audio-visual post-punk duo \n\nhttps://thekvb.bandcamp.com/album/always-then", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572314, "uri": 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The first line-up included popular Italo producers Piero Cairo and Massimo Noe, known for their work with Joe Yellow, Den Harrow, Pink Project, and Dharma to name a few.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
