Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=1540&ordering=-airdate
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According to band member Reuben Wu, \"velocifero\" literally means \"bringer of speed\",] and it is also the name of a classic retro-styled scooter.\n---\nThere are lots of desert images (and Helen Marnie with lots of eye makeup) in the official video for \"Ghosts\": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yaEwcmrR4Q", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572133, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572133/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T07:41:58-07:00", "show": 64982, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64982/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601905.us.archive.org/22/items/mbid-798278ae-9c09-45e7-8c11-abdbf1368d36/mbid-798278ae-9c09-45e7-8c11-abdbf1368d36-23837639403_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601905.us.archive.org/22/items/mbid-798278ae-9c09-45e7-8c11-abdbf1368d36/mbid-798278ae-9c09-45e7-8c11-abdbf1368d36-23837639403_thumb250.jpg", "song": "I Know There’s Something Going On", "track_id": "04408d9f-a834-308e-8ac4-e5321d8910d6", "recording_id": "abc22d90-34c8-4223-85b4-54bb968ad581", "artist": "Frida", "artist_ids": [ "042c35d3-0756-4804-b2c2-be57a683efa2" ], "album": "Something’s Going On", "release_id": "798278ae-9c09-45e7-8c11-abdbf1368d36", "release_group_id": "34cae656-6bca-330b-9824-fd9b09d5abae", "labels": [ "Polydor" ], "label_ids": [ "ce24ab18-1bd6-4293-a486-546d13d6a5e2" ], "release_date": "1982-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Ohhh....those Phil Collins drum fills! That's Daryl Stuermer on guitar.\n\nFrida is ABBA singer Anni-Frid Lyngstad. This is her solo hit, \"I Know There's Something Going On\" which features Phil Collins on drums and production. \n----\nWatch her on Swiss TV in 1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuhXNofcOAw", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572132, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572132/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T07:38:36-07:00", "show": 64982, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64982/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn720709.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e0cb9499-9a55-4384-8d4b-bf49bf560945/mbid-e0cb9499-9a55-4384-8d4b-bf49bf560945-42948467474_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn720709.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-e0cb9499-9a55-4384-8d4b-bf49bf560945/mbid-e0cb9499-9a55-4384-8d4b-bf49bf560945-42948467474_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Dracula", "track_id": "69177a46-44bb-4a61-88d7-dfc1d84dc4e7", "recording_id": "5b1c893a-16da-4e3d-b9b7-6cc57afc360c", "artist": "Tame Impala", "artist_ids": [ "63aa26c3-d59b-4da4-84ac-716b54f1ef4d" ], "album": "Deadbeat", "release_id": "e0cb9499-9a55-4384-8d4b-bf49bf560945", "release_group_id": "3ee3e2bb-2584-4f74-ba06-cdecc370a1ba", "labels": [ "Columbia" ], "label_ids": [ "011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e" ], "release_date": "2025-10-17", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Tame Impala will be at the Oakland Arena in Oakland on Friday and Saturday, November 14th and 15th.\n--\nKevin Parker produced the track and co-wrote it with fellow Aussie songwriter Sarah Aarons. It was the first Tame Impala single to credit a co-writer since Parker collaborated with Pond co-founder Jay Watson in 2012 for \"Elephant.\"\n--\nThe video, directed by Julian Klincewicz doubles down on the nocturnal theme. Shot in the Australian outback, it depicts moonlit gatherings, portable house parties, and the kind of communal energy you'd expect if Dracula traded his cape for a bucket hat.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnP7qKxwzjg", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572131, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572131/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T07:36:26-07:00", "show": 64982, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64982/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3572130, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572130/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T07:31:02-07:00", "show": 64982, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64982/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710201.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-d443e5e2-344c-44f9-a9f5-80c58c2a4818/mbid-d443e5e2-344c-44f9-a9f5-80c58c2a4818-39180253234_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710201.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-d443e5e2-344c-44f9-a9f5-80c58c2a4818/mbid-d443e5e2-344c-44f9-a9f5-80c58c2a4818-39180253234_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Phantom", "track_id": "5d74fef9-db68-4d60-8ad1-76bc34ce9346", "recording_id": "4b607a49-6106-4290-a341-2ecc5f14ea93", "artist": "Tycho", "artist_ids": [ "cbef45a9-7acb-4325-94c9-70081ac8d1b8" ], "album": "Infinite Health", "release_id": "d443e5e2-344c-44f9-a9f5-80c58c2a4818", "release_group_id": "49e9a8ee-2c04-46cb-bb9c-e1e7e0deac83", "labels": [ "Ninja Tune" ], "label_ids": [ "dc940013-b8a8-4362-a465-291026c04b42" ], "release_date": "2024-08-30", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "2024's \"Infinite Health’ is the sixth album by Tycho, the two-time-GRAMMY-nominated project of celebrated San Francisco songwriter, musician and producer Scott Hansen.\n--\nHansen calls \"Phantom\" his favorite song on the album.\n\n \"I wanted it to feel like a blend of lights in a nightclub with some unknown entity. The phantom; a moving and shifting intelligence that serves as a conduit, maybe a deeper understanding of what's beneath the surface of this all\" he comments. \"It's also about coming to terms with mortality (the phantom being the ever present spectre of mortality).\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572129, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572129/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T07:27:39-07:00", "show": 64982, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64982/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia600307.us.archive.org/1/items/mbid-8b3d6da6-e8eb-4727-8a52-9a65b6fe8f5a/mbid-8b3d6da6-e8eb-4727-8a52-9a65b6fe8f5a-8993322693_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia600307.us.archive.org/1/items/mbid-8b3d6da6-e8eb-4727-8a52-9a65b6fe8f5a/mbid-8b3d6da6-e8eb-4727-8a52-9a65b6fe8f5a-8993322693_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Two Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer)", "track_id": "80bca5e8-85ce-44eb-897e-5209e789c97e", "recording_id": "6ad88790-b0c5-41a8-8cf0-e73bbb1724ba", "artist": "Roky Erickson and The Aliens", "artist_ids": [ "c52efcf0-1867-4b18-ad21-b37a373c14c0" ], "album": "I Think of Demons", "release_id": "8b3d6da6-e8eb-4727-8a52-9a65b6fe8f5a", "release_group_id": "2037ab5b-1baa-35b7-b10e-e3bbbb8a0ce7", "labels": [ "Edsel Records" ], "label_ids": [ "a4a01f0f-c349-4352-9075-b268f6ef0f48" ], "release_date": "1987-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "On this date in 1990, the tribute album to Roky Erickson entitled \"Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye\" was released. Erickson, the founder of the 13th Floor Elevators and a solo artist, had a career that was subject to significant periods of challenge from schizophrenia. \n--\nR.I.P., Roky Erickson, who died in 2019 at age 71: https://www.npr.org/2019/05/31/728821278/roky-erickson-of-the-13th-floor-elevators-dies-at-71", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572128, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572128/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T07:24:57-07:00", "show": 64982, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64982/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia804508.us.archive.org/0/items/mbid-2322927f-4aef-404f-851e-bc6dcb079961/mbid-2322927f-4aef-404f-851e-bc6dcb079961-30291574639_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721909.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-2322927f-4aef-404f-851e-bc6dcb079961/mbid-2322927f-4aef-404f-851e-bc6dcb079961-30291574639_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Black Widow Spider", "track_id": "e13b194b-7191-4784-880b-c31db51ccc33", "recording_id": "4b088813-b6f9-4982-b85c-4a0c5ddb8cfd", "artist": "Parquet Courts", "artist_ids": [ "e01755e3-58ab-4a5b-a9e9-a0a3bd3dff4c" ], "album": "Sympathy for Life", "release_id": "2322927f-4aef-404f-851e-bc6dcb079961", "release_group_id": "288c6409-6e97-4e9c-baa9-abcf3346a678", "labels": [ "Rough Trade" ], "label_ids": [ "2276f06e-f65a-4d61-9dee-9f95ff4b775c" ], "release_date": "2021-10-22", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "“Black Widow Spider” boasts a psychedelic garage sound, with co-frontman A Savage saying of the song in a statement, “I told [producer] Rodaidh McDonald that I wanted to find a sound that was equal parts Can, Canned Heat, and This Heat. He was really into that and probably took some glee in having such a bizarre challenge.” \n---\nDon't miss the claymation video for this song!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaQCiiKxypg", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572126, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572126/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T07:21:09-07:00", "show": 64982, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64982/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn710006.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4d2b8b78-4c1c-42ed-80b0-401614e834b5/mbid-4d2b8b78-4c1c-42ed-80b0-401614e834b5-42884624643_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn710006.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-4d2b8b78-4c1c-42ed-80b0-401614e834b5/mbid-4d2b8b78-4c1c-42ed-80b0-401614e834b5-42884624643_thumb250.jpg", "song": "The Ghouls", "track_id": "ee01ce23-0d98-4271-a183-dafcdd048850", "recording_id": "49f901ae-42c4-471a-81f6-ea7d2a3f5045", "artist": "Midlake", "artist_ids": [ "da90b5da-349e-4906-a0b4-805f5e46190d" ], "album": "A Bridge to Far", "release_id": "4d2b8b78-4c1c-42ed-80b0-401614e834b5", "release_group_id": "9deb3316-e5b6-40a5-92c9-e35ad69ba617", "labels": [ "Bella Union" ], "label_ids": [ "2e72153d-8eb0-49a3-8b18-3a054d2c7f33" ], "release_date": "2025-11-07", "rotation_status": "Light", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Denton, Texas band Midlake have announced their sixth album, \"A Bridge To Far,\" out on November 7th. “The album title and track, not a typo, explores the hope, belief and ultimate path to something or somewhere greater, despite the circumstances,” says the band’s Eric Pulido. “Escapism can be a double edged sword but the desire is to encourage it for good.”\n--\nWatch the official music video for the album's first single, \"The Ghouls\": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph_nvka7QI8", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572127, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572127/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T07:20:27-07:00", "show": 64982, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64982/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3572125, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572125/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T07:14:52-07:00", "show": 64982, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64982/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801203.us.archive.org/25/items/mbid-f405961e-0779-3b38-932d-e325dca86c99/mbid-f405961e-0779-3b38-932d-e325dca86c99-11004891931_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601203.us.archive.org/25/items/mbid-f405961e-0779-3b38-932d-e325dca86c99/mbid-f405961e-0779-3b38-932d-e325dca86c99-11004891931_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Darkness", "track_id": "578b0184-8ee9-3e20-83e9-fe188bcc3b94", "recording_id": "a13329b6-3540-4e5d-a11f-0ac3c72b11ab", "artist": "The Human League", "artist_ids": [ "7adaabfb-acfb-47bc-8c7c-59471c2f0db8" ], "album": "Dare / Love and Dancing", "release_id": "d7decc52-4f52-4f1c-8aa4-ac2d1a7d7fbe", "release_group_id": "1d11f1b9-fbe2-374b-a7e3-60288d70a690", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2002-10-21", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Here's Mr. Vinyl's video interpretation of this synth classic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwdypCo-h1g\n--\nDarkness is one of the few Human League tracks to have the lyrics written by Adrian Wright only. Philip Oakey has said: \"That's an Adrian lyric. It's as simple as being afraid of the dark. There's no extra level to it. 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It's Friday...and Halloween!! You're listening to The Morning Show with the petrifying Troy Nelson and blood-curdling producer Owen Murphy! You're welcome!\n--\nJohn Carpenter has said that his biggest influences as a composer were Ennio Morricone and Bernard Herrmann, the latter of whom is best known for his score for Psycho, which is the film that inspired Halloween. He says the rhythm of Halloween’s main title theme was inspired by an exercise his father taught him on the bongos in 1961, the beating out of 5/4 time. \n--", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572121, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572121/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T06:53:33-07:00", "show": 64981, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64981/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Stairway to Heaven (Backwards)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Led Zeppelin", "artist_ids": [], "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": "The legend that \"Stairway to Heaven\" by Led Zeppelin contains hidden or satanic messages when played backwards—particularly in the section \"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now...\"—has been widely circulated since the early 1980s. Some listeners claim to hear phrases like \"Here's to my sweet Satan,\" \"the one whose little path would make me sad,\" and \"he'll give those with him 666\" when that segment is played in reverse.\n\nHowever, there is no credible evidence that Led Zeppelin intentionally embedded backwards messages in the song. Audio experts and the band members themselves have consistently denied any deliberate backmasking. The phenomenon is mostly attributed to the power of suggestion: when told what to expect, listeners are more likely to perceive those words in the backwards audio, even though they are not actually present in a meaningful or intentional way.\n\nThis rumor remains one of rock's most famous \"backmasking\" controversies, but it is widely regarded by music historians as a case of auditory pareidolia and mass suggestion rather than purposeful engineering by the band.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572120, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572120/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T06:50:30-07:00", "show": 64981, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64981/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3572119, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572119/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T06:47:51-07:00", "show": 64981, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64981/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia802903.us.archive.org/25/items/mbid-22864b09-89e9-3e79-9185-ca2d2173ea12/mbid-22864b09-89e9-3e79-9185-ca2d2173ea12-11991247043_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia802903.us.archive.org/25/items/mbid-22864b09-89e9-3e79-9185-ca2d2173ea12/mbid-22864b09-89e9-3e79-9185-ca2d2173ea12-11991247043_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Spellbound", "track_id": "5b632f36-33b8-3595-b9c7-f702a2be9e30", "recording_id": "a435aa59-93ca-4e4d-9604-b4132f50d4b2", "artist": "Siouxsie and the Banshees", "artist_ids": [ "78ea5ea1-3c4d-4b7e-ac5d-68900319ebe2" ], "album": "Juju", "release_id": "22864b09-89e9-3e79-9185-ca2d2173ea12", "release_group_id": "844bfb05-2b51-35e2-8063-1c8e6746c781", "labels": [ "Polydor" ], "label_ids": [ "ce24ab18-1bd6-4293-a486-546d13d6a5e2" ], "release_date": "2006-05-29", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Spellbound\" is a song by Siouxsie and the Banshees, released as the first single from their fourth studio album, Juju, on May 22, 1981.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3572118, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3572118/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-31T06:44:39-07:00", "show": 64981, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64981/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Snowblind (Backwards)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Styx", "artist_ids": [], "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": "You can hear the 'forward' version on theStyx album \"Paradise Theatre\" - released on January 16, 1981, by A&M Records. 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