Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=2220&ordering=-airdate
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Donors, thank you so much for your passion, your curiosity, and your commitment to KEXP. If you’re a KEXP donor, send us your song request to dj@kexp.org or text 206-903-5397. And don’t forget to let us know why you love and support KEXP!", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604140, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604140/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T04:56:36-08:00", "show": 65645, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65645/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Rock ‘n’ Roll Is Alive! 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Minneapolis, Minnesota band Bad Bad Hats.\nhttps://badbadhats.bandcamp.com/album/psychic-reader\n--\nCheck out the video for \"Midway\":\nhttps://youtu.be/ZOUC6m82xEc", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604137, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604137/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T04:47:24-08:00", "show": 65645, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65645/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Closing Time", "track_id": "8dd511fd-013c-3509-9811-e4e7c5fafab0", "recording_id": "7563cdc1-4fc1-4c94-a846-5029b81e9f37", "artist": "Semisonic", "artist_ids": [ "3037bd18-0079-4e4b-9ce1-758689e210d8" ], "album": "Feeling Strangely Fine", "release_id": "3c692b68-febc-467f-800e-5a6a2efad06d", "release_group_id": "cf1e1037-810a-302b-bc8b-298348faf74d", "labels": [ "MCA Records" ], "label_ids": [ "46a3941a-c810-47a1-974f-955effec4d09" ], "release_date": "1998-03-24", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The connection between Semisonic and the 400 Bar is that it was the Minneapolis venue where the band (then called Pleasure) played their very first show, and where they first played their hit song \"Closing Time,\" though the song itself isn't about a literal bar closing but rather a new beginning like a baby's birth, as explained in the Song Exploder transcript and other interviews. The 400 Bar was a significant spot in the Minneapolis music scene where the band developed, making it a fond memory linked to their rise to fame. ", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604136, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604136/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T04:42:57-08:00", "show": 65645, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65645/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "We Shall Not Be Moved", "track_id": "6d08d088-c22a-3764-8f56-a43c7e210486", "recording_id": "27a56e19-69a8-4980-b56b-5c33cb2a94e3", "artist": "Mavis Staples", "artist_ids": [ "04f57a2d-2449-400e-8fff-5b1c5af9560b" ], "album": "We'll Never Turn Back", "release_id": "51a46724-ce88-3892-aac8-b7499c957eb7", "release_group_id": "21679d31-31a1-33a4-86ba-df3c34fa5a26", "labels": [ "Anti‐" ], "label_ids": [ "5b8cf470-f162-4ee3-9b9f-77ff4ee0c601" ], "release_date": "2007-04-27", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Based on scripture, \"We Shall Not Be Moved\" is an African American spiritual that was used often during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. It still has relevance today. Find Mavis Staples work here: https://mavisstaples.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604135, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604135/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T04:37:57-08:00", "show": 65645, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65645/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "We're in this Together", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Lovely Dark", "artist_ids": [ "5c770a2b-54fa-444c-9fec-34c8a98acef8" ], "album": "We're in this Together", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": null, "rotation_status": "R/N", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Mpls Lovely Dark covering NIN!", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604134, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604134/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T04:33:07-08:00", "show": 65645, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65645/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "I Can’t Breathe", "track_id": "af2a0f12-036d-4d08-a8ac-19a99bc3caa8", "recording_id": "825ebc41-847e-41d8-9aad-e0237a8d0a06", "artist": "H.E.R.", "artist_ids": [ "93998e01-ff53-4af7-ba2a-5674adcdf21e" ], "album": "I Can't Breathe", "release_id": "e4310cc9-9c20-4d17-9e36-c691b5749f96", "release_group_id": "87075ce8-d29d-44c2-9b15-eec9977a4798", "labels": [ "RCA", "MBK Entertainment" ], "label_ids": [ "1ca5ed29-e00b-4ea5-b817-0bcca0e04946", "91825ed6-26fb-49a6-91cf-1a703071e1d5" ], "release_date": "2020-06-19", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "On May 25, 2020, 46-year-old George Floyd was arrested in Minneapolis for allegedly using a counterfeit bill. A white police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on Floyd's neck for over eight minutes while handcuffing him. Shortly before dying, Floyd was heard saying, \"I can't breathe.\" \n\nH.E.R. wrote this social justice song inspired by the events, using Floyd's last words as a metaphor for what African-Americans experience under systemic racism.\n\n\"I can't breathe. You're taking my life from me. I can't breathe. Will anyone fight for me?\" https://bit.ly/3m0UkGF", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604133, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604133/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T04:31:24-08:00", "show": 65645, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65645/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3604132, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604132/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T04:28:13-08:00", "show": 65645, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65645/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Cinderella's Daydream", "track_id": "4692659e-0032-46d0-adce-723d7dc68af1", "recording_id": "322023a0-2561-41e1-a3dd-14062dce3b9a", "artist": "Zuzu's Petals", "artist_ids": [ "5abf8a0b-9582-4597-b4ac-9c1d661e6a2f" ], "album": "When No One's Looking", "release_id": "290eacc5-97a9-473d-90a0-8dd391ca2c96", "release_group_id": "171c6f10-5efa-401d-85ee-cd0f3ddc5c23", "labels": [ "Twin/Tone Records" ], "label_ids": [ "f551f46d-961e-447c-b88b-8117827cb251" ], "release_date": "1992-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Laurie Lindeen, the founder and frontwoman of the indie rock band Zuzu's Petals, died on July 1, 2024 from a brain aneurysm at the age of 62. Lindeen was a prominent figure in the Twin Cities' music and literary scenes. She was also a writer, essayist, and college and grammar school writing teacher.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604131, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604131/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T04:24:36-08:00", "show": 65645, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65645/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Compression", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "3bc2ce81-df7d-44c2-bf03-6bb521c09cd7", "artist": "Monica LaPlante", "artist_ids": [ "64b5ea4a-cd02-45fe-874c-974d8c39e98a" ], "album": "Quarantine EP", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "841505f3-de04-4bcf-9f46-4d1b96fb7ac4", "labels": [ "Hollander Records" ], "label_ids": [ "acbcd769-5f52-44a0-a9ec-daad5b9276cd" ], "release_date": "2020-08-07", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Keeping the garage in garage rock, Monica LaPlante's fuzzed riffs and frank lyricism lay bare while they grind into your psyche like a steel-toed boot into wet cement. -MPR https://monicalaplante.bandcamp.com/album/quarantine-ep", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604130, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604130/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T04:21:47-08:00", "show": 65645, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65645/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Love Me 2", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "fcacf26f-de67-4496-b7f0-36da242bc553", "artist": "Gully Boys", "artist_ids": [ "252a3f00-66df-4f85-aca6-36c40df66045" ], "album": "Love Me 2", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "c2d9c52a-bbf5-4588-b45a-1a353b53ef7f", "labels": [ "Smartpunk Records" ], "label_ids": [ "390d89f3-b81e-4bc7-aab2-28fa3b20acb9" ], "release_date": "2025-02-27", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": null, "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" 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"show": 65645, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65645/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "(We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (Electric Lady Sessions)", "track_id": "d53f6d9a-ae76-4a88-a9a1-3d14b135ab19", "recording_id": "4de30943-d1e5-4907-a67f-63cd47241712", "artist": "LCD Soundsystem", "artist_ids": [ "2aaf7396-6ab8-40f3-9776-a41c42c8e26b" ], "album": "Electric Lady Sessions", "release_id": "a9d8a99c-5e29-458b-9751-740286ad4f65", "release_group_id": "deada5ea-efcf-49df-9370-cd0d9c3d65aa", "labels": [ "Columbia" ], "label_ids": [ "011d1192-6f65-45bd-85c4-0400dd45693e" ], "release_date": "2019-02-08", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "a fiery take on the Heaven 17’s classic \n\nhttps://lcdsoundsystem.bandcamp.com", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604127, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604127/?format=api", "airdate": 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The anthem that anchored Spike Lee’s seminal Do The Right Thing, a film dedicated to racial animus on the hottest day in a Brooklyn summer, was originally supposed to be a Public Enemy-led jazz revamp of the Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Lee had composer Terrence Blanchard on deck, but Bomb Squad producer Hank Shocklee pushed back, insisting that it wouldn’t resonate with fans of songs like “Bring The Noise” and “Night Of The Living Baseheads.”\n\nInstead, Chuck D, lead MC of the revolutionary rap group from Long Island, drew upon his days as a youth listening to the Isley Brothers in the 1970s. Their protest-era song “Fight The Power” was the first time he’d heard a curse word in music. With atrocities like the 1986 murder of Michael Griffith still hanging in the arid air of the NYC pressure cooker, Chuck felt it was way past time for a song to address “all the bullshit goin’ down.”\n\nRead more about this powerful song here:\nhttps://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/public-enemy-fight-the-power-song-feature/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604125, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604125/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T04:05:42-08:00", "show": 65645, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65645/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "PEACEKEEPER", "track_id": "527b0b9f-ed44-4df2-b012-413e5bce42fa", "recording_id": "4deeeeeb-fa43-4c0a-82e7-73400d12b957", "artist": "Baker Boy", "artist_ids": [ "90fbaa1e-a466-4135-833c-ff96438b3b21" ], "album": "DJANDJAY", "release_id": "b3c40370-2d8b-4856-bd5a-5881257ae7af", "release_group_id": "89c17c5c-47be-43bf-a34b-67807016e342", "labels": [ "Universal" ], "label_ids": [ "1391bdc7-a22c-48a4-a5fb-e7b8ef6ce143" ], "release_date": "2025-10-10", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"PEACEKEEPER\" is Baker Boy's first major single of 2025, marking a bold new direction for the Yolŋu rapper, dancer, and multi-award-winning artist from Arnhem Land.\n\nhttps://bakerboy.bandcamp.com/track/hood-shit", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3604124, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3604124/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-14T04:01:47-08:00", "show": 65645, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65645/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia601509.us.archive.org/5/items/mbid-ecc87b0a-a005-44aa-bbd3-48e95ef978f3/mbid-ecc87b0a-a005-44aa-bbd3-48e95ef978f3-41399894053_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia601509.us.archive.org/5/items/mbid-ecc87b0a-a005-44aa-bbd3-48e95ef978f3/mbid-ecc87b0a-a005-44aa-bbd3-48e95ef978f3-41399894053_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Arrest The President", "track_id": "1622d65b-73c9-47f6-9a10-0bb1006da656", "recording_id": "5ce2862b-61d2-4158-9a24-eb56788c6252", "artist": "Ice Cube", "artist_ids": [ "1d11e2a1-4531-4d61-a8c7-7b5c6a608fd2" ], "album": "Arrest the President", "release_id": "ecc87b0a-a005-44aa-bbd3-48e95ef978f3", "release_group_id": "3b559438-99f9-4856-bda2-1be0dddc17ad", "labels": [ "Lench Mob Records" ], "label_ids": [ "11a36c82-e44b-4a73-9ec0-c484237fe712" ], "release_date": "2018-11-09", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": " This track is the lead single from Ice Cube's tenth studio album, Everythang's Corrupt. Although he is not mentioned by name, it is directed at US President Donald Trump, containing a refrain to \"Arrest the President; you got the evidence.\" The song's video is a montage of Trump clips. This track is noted for its overtly political stance, following Ice Cube previously having commented on his feeling that Trump has not acted on issues that affect the black community in the United States, and strongly denying on Twitter that he would ever support Trump. 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