Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=36580&ordering=-airdate
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There’s a continuity that runs through Melody’s Echo Chamber’s brand of psychedelic pop going back to 2012’s self-titled debut but now comes a perfectly executed shaking up of personnel.\n\nhttps://melodysechochamber.bandcamp.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3601522, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3601522/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-07T19:22:32-08:00", "show": 65590, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65590/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801404.us.archive.org/21/items/mbid-931210c6-c0b3-3e58-a439-7a3f52a2b887/mbid-931210c6-c0b3-3e58-a439-7a3f52a2b887-16215023515_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801404.us.archive.org/21/items/mbid-931210c6-c0b3-3e58-a439-7a3f52a2b887/mbid-931210c6-c0b3-3e58-a439-7a3f52a2b887-16215023515_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Star Sail", "track_id": "41ec7049-5ce3-3b69-94b1-7486aca39f68", "recording_id": "ef20ec9d-1202-4660-8a3e-21e0dabe6f18", "artist": "The Verve", "artist_ids": [ "d4d17620-fd97-4574-92a8-a2cb7e72ce42" ], "album": "A Storm in Heaven", "release_id": "931210c6-c0b3-3e58-a439-7a3f52a2b887", "release_group_id": "362b7ad8-f0db-30bf-a68e-0b1ec56c6190", "labels": [ "Vernon Yard Recordings" ], "label_ids": [ "46ba88df-c100-4ce9-a10b-58d7dc0af35c" ], "release_date": "1993-06-15", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "A Storm in Heaven was produced by John Leckie, who was the tape operator on Syd Barrett's album Barrett.\n--\nThe title of this album was taken from Jay Stevens' book \"Storming Heaven\", detailing the effects of LSD during the 1960's counterculture movement", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3601521, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3601521/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-07T19:18:27-08:00", "show": 65590, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65590/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Astronomy Domine", "track_id": "13c7c058-a42c-385a-a7a5-9ea31f7257b1", "recording_id": "45e08e33-8432-4b9a-bc3b-1358c2cfd1af", "artist": "Pink Floyd", "artist_ids": [ "83d91898-7763-47d7-b03b-b92132375c47" ], "album": "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", "release_id": "b244c9ec-be2c-36b7-a9ae-d656c5538a1a", "release_group_id": "6792b6d1-4e65-3c3c-9d20-d08aa1dcfc60", "labels": [ "Capitol Records" ], "label_ids": [ "abea2d3e-eabf-4480-ab24-9382dd642c73" ], "release_date": "1994-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": true, "is_live": false, "comment": "request from Erik to celebrate Syd Barret who was born 80 years ago yesterday!\n\n\"The title of Pink Floyd's debut album is taken from a chapter in Syd Barrett's favorite children's book, The Wind in the Willows, and the lyrical imagery of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is indeed full of colorful, childlike, distinctly British whimsy, albeit filtered through the perceptive lens of LSD.\" https://bit.ly/4592qko From Pink Floyd's first album, 'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn', released in 1967.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3601520, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3601520/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-07T19:15:24-08:00", "show": 65590, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65590/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3601519, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3601519/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-07T19:10:26-08:00", "show": 65590, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65590/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Defiance", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Immersion", "artist_ids": [], "album": "WTF??", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "swim ~" ], "label_ids": [ "4c3feb09-7d9d-4726-ab29-bb73c44a90a7" ], "release_date": "2025-09-26", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": null, "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3601518, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3601518/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-07T19:06:15-08:00", "show": 65590, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65590/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Shadow Stealer", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "GIFT", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Illuminator (Deluxe)", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Captured Tracks" ], "label_ids": [ "59d8469d-97cd-48a6-804f-0c942252182e" ], "release_date": "2025-11-21", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "GIFT - Shadow Stealer (Official Video) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKUQDUQKCA8", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3601517, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3601517/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-07T19:03:05-08:00", "show": 65590, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65590/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Final Weapon", "track_id": "9358d4b6-6341-41c5-9ab9-a642620e47d8", "recording_id": "5eb1f98a-8b4b-4a8b-b8ff-89a0c8a8beb1", "artist": "Dummy", "artist_ids": [ "20485631-5c2a-4cec-918a-1c7df650c072" ], "album": "Mandatory Enjoyment", "release_id": "c4e4dc85-3bb3-4f6a-9dad-0182b45a7d0a", "release_group_id": "62cb1b7a-cd77-4956-bf9c-3b4716b8b470", "labels": [ "Trouble in Mind" ], "label_ids": [ "8c5c6efd-f29d-4bf0-9b42-d5df674c4c97" ], "release_date": "2021-10-22", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"The song “Final Weapon” weaves a lot of disparities together. It’s got a frantic beat but a laid back, dreamy vocal delivery. It’s a fairly poppy and upbeat track, but the lyrical themes are rather serious: nuclear weapons testing and military experimentation. The video relates more to the overall feeling of the song – on an initial surface level everything is bright, colorful fun, but pretty soon things frantically devolve in front of your eyes, and more disturbing images start to appear.\" --Emma Maatman from Dummy\n--\nSee a live performance of \"Final Weapon\" in the KEXP studio in December, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncLCx4XU9Lg", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3601516, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3601516/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-07T19:01:10-08:00", "show": 65589, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65589/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/a55bad81-7f83-4d30-ab9b-1adcaed6d67b/12748401692-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/a55bad81-7f83-4d30-ab9b-1adcaed6d67b/12748401692-250.jpg", "song": "Cosmic Tango", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "b088ea23-948b-4de2-ae10-e854f89a812c", "artist": "Ash Ra Tempel", "artist_ids": [ "7e62de5d-1cc6-4779-a588-8923cf9fe09d" ], "album": "Starring Rosi", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "d5169ace-c0a6-3a8f-8096-b690285b9b4e", "labels": [ "Die Kosmischen Kuriere" ], "label_ids": [ "83912a07-8a1c-4b15-a43f-41d19137182b" ], "release_date": "1973-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Ash Ra Tempel's \"Starring Rosi\", originally released in 1973, was reissued (again) last year for its 50th Anniversary via label MG.ART.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3601515, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3601515/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-07T18:56:27-08:00", "show": 65589, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65589/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801207.us.archive.org/29/items/mbid-252647db-6974-309e-9ca1-738f6f07851b/mbid-252647db-6974-309e-9ca1-738f6f07851b-39872254431_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801207.us.archive.org/29/items/mbid-252647db-6974-309e-9ca1-738f6f07851b/mbid-252647db-6974-309e-9ca1-738f6f07851b-39872254431_thumb250.jpg", "song": "World Leader Pretend", "track_id": "1b390811-37a7-35a6-99dc-3701372b3a09", "recording_id": "1a2764f2-3081-485f-b3d5-d1e64ca823b4", "artist": "R.E.M.", "artist_ids": [ "ea4dfa26-f633-4da6-a52a-f49ea4897b58" ], "album": "Green", "release_id": "252647db-6974-309e-9ca1-738f6f07851b", "release_group_id": "16a9cef3-b470-3ae1-bf10-cc04232d3e21", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. 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We all have a story to tell, and it’s up to each of us to tell it—no one else can. 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