Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=42340&ordering=-airdate
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The album was produced by group member Reggie Calloway.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594177, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594177/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T19:10:35-08:00", "show": 65441, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65441/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/5dd3a8e7-4673-4eaf-a55f-5d2e0fd1a628/4233869308-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/5dd3a8e7-4673-4eaf-a55f-5d2e0fd1a628/4233869308-250.jpg", "song": "Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "de6d6dc7-ce69-4ef4-b68a-c4f16d9b9af7", "artist": "Parliament", "artist_ids": [ "d1947987-9614-49ae-bd36-8000e6b6f7d0" ], "album": "Motor Booty Affair", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "386db929-dd7a-36f1-97aa-673848c97f09", "labels": [ "Casablanca Records" ], "label_ids": [ "98f93684-2a6f-4d40-ac6a-41fd0cc8ecc8" ], "release_date": "1978-11-11", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Aqua Boogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaquadoloop)\" by funk band Parliament was released from their 1978 album, Motor Booty Affair. The song describes being compelled to learn to swim despite the persistent fear of water and drowning, comparing it to the reluctance to dance.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594176, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594176/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T19:07:08-08:00", "show": 65441, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65441/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/812e5ab6-9e89-4d98-8c03-976986fa57d8/25179367342-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/812e5ab6-9e89-4d98-8c03-976986fa57d8/25179367342-250.jpg", "song": "Teddy's Jam", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "8885e54a-0df2-4cca-8dff-895a8d73de60", "artist": "Guy", "artist_ids": [ "fa209319-6d7b-4a20-b445-62186ec41e0d" ], "album": "Guy", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "740bfea6-512f-37eb-b1ad-c318017f93f8", "labels": [ "Uptown Records" ], "label_ids": [ "98ff3848-3a73-4baf-abd6-2ca5b4f79f0b" ], "release_date": "1988-06-13", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Teddy's Jam\" is an instrumental by R&B group Guy, recorded for their debut studio album Guy (1988). The song was released as the album's third single in 1988.\n\nMembers of Guy were Teddy Riley, Aaron Hall, and Damion Hall.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594175, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594175/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T19:04:28-08:00", "show": 65441, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65441/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3594174, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594174/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T19:00:00-08:00", "show": 65441, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65441/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/697c33bd-ddab-4b87-920c-d3e8af7128af/3416724091-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/697c33bd-ddab-4b87-920c-d3e8af7128af/3416724091-250.jpg", "song": "Christmas in the City", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "3c40f27c-3115-42d6-bb1e-3e514a24b589", "artist": "Mary J. Blige featuring Angie Martinez", "artist_ids": [ "db76c5ca-d555-4f09-b1db-baa1b713d875", "8985348a-1024-4c99-b284-19d3b983e1f4" ], "album": "A Very Special Christmas 3", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "1f3eaa62-b1f0-3ec8-9281-97ab138ab89e", "labels": [ "A&M Records" ], "label_ids": [ "35515729-1f2c-4cc9-9390-9af2764bc56c" ], "release_date": "1997-10-07", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "A Very Special Christmas 3 is the third in the A Very Special Christmas series of Christmas-themed compilation albums produced to benefit the Special Olympics.\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0qY3yUIghw", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594173, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594173/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T18:55:57-08:00", "show": 65441, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65441/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/7c3ee15f-e8b2-40f3-930c-f248a70470c5/11151207280-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/7c3ee15f-e8b2-40f3-930c-f248a70470c5/11151207280-250.jpg", "song": "Let It Snow", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "8190c823-01f2-436d-8006-4797371892e6", "artist": "Boyz II Men feat. 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Written by McKnight and Boyz II Men member Wanya Morris, it is a prequel to the song entitled \"Let It Snow '98\" by McKnight and themselves, from McKnight's first Christmas album, Bethlehem, which was released five years later.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594172, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594172/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T18:51:13-08:00", "show": 65441, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65441/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "I Want to Come Home for Christmas", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "5212ff9b-d225-4efb-b927-2a5e67f05eee", "artist": "Marvin Gaye", "artist_ids": [ "afdb7919-059d-43c1-b668-ba1d265e7e42" ], "album": "You’re the Man", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "82a4f23b-df64-4f3f-be50-ea3c8f6b5fcd", "labels": [ "Motown" ], "label_ids": [ "8e479e57-ef44-490c-b75d-cd28df89bf1b" ], "release_date": "2019-03-29", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "In 1972, Marvin Gaye began recording a follow-up to his megahit album, 'What's Going On'. He eventually laid down over a dozen new tracks, but personal and professional conflicts derailed the project. Most of the songs were never released except as bonus material on later anthologies. In 2019, they were released on one album 'You're the Man'. https://n.pr/3rq7Rsx", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594171, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594171/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T18:48:26-08:00", "show": 65441, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65441/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "cd8e1b65-55c2-4688-b937-b677d098cc78", "artist": "James Brown", "artist_ids": [ "20ff3303-4fe2-4a47-a1b6-291e26aa3438" ], "album": "A Soulful Christmas", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "844f0ab7-fa28-3057-8721-7a2d4b88a465", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1968-11-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "By request from Eric and Jen in Woodinville!\n\nJames Brown released \"Santa Claus Go Straight to the Ghetto\" in 1968 on the album A Soulful Christmas, Brown's 22nd studio album and second Christmas album.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594168, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594168/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T18:45:01-08:00", "show": 65441, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65441/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3594167, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594167/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T18:41:54-08:00", "show": 65441, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65441/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/58aadb63-320f-33c2-ac4a-036074210312/5620210945-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/58aadb63-320f-33c2-ac4a-036074210312/5620210945-250.jpg", "song": "Reasons", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "fe4394a2-2a94-40e5-9379-a914a711532f", "artist": "Minnie Riperton", "artist_ids": [ "e842abf7-8a63-4602-8879-75958c2884a1" ], "album": "Perfect Angel", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "204bf48e-12bc-317b-ab84-042f963aeaff", "labels": [ "Capitol Records" ], "label_ids": [ "abea2d3e-eabf-4480-ab24-9382dd642c73" ], "release_date": "1974-06-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Going out to Patrick in Queen Anne!\n\nMinnie Riperton's 1974 sophomore release, co-produced by Stevie Wonder and Riperton's husband, Richard Rudolph.\n\nA look at 10 of Riperton's best songs of her career:\n\nhttps://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/jun/29/minnie-riperton-10-of-the-best", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594166, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594166/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T18:41:33-08:00", "show": 65441, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65441/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3594165, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594165/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T18:36:20-08:00", "show": 65441, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65441/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/28187ff5-12c1-45cf-bfdb-2f4ff91cf24b/3656617004-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/28187ff5-12c1-45cf-bfdb-2f4ff91cf24b/3656617004-250.jpg", "song": "If I’m in Luck I Might Get Picked Up", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "d1fa500a-7212-41b9-9883-1ea75da341ab", "artist": "Betty Davis", "artist_ids": [ "bb17dc42-ecaf-42ca-aa35-b23207573060" ], "album": "Betty Davis", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "a453c5f2-3a8f-3c6c-bde6-ea83aac43c99", "labels": [ "Just Sunshine Records" ], "label_ids": [ "f8819a89-5462-459b-b57e-75d88cd81181" ], "release_date": "1973-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "R.I.P., raw funk pioneer Betty Davis, who died in 2022 at age 77.: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/feb/11/betty-davis-obituary \n--\nIn 2018, The New Yorker published an essay on \"The Artful, Erotic, and Still Misunderstood Funk of Betty Davis\": https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-artful-erotic-and-still-misunderstood-funk-of-betty-davis", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3594164, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3594164/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-21T18:30:38-08:00", "show": 65441, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65441/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/eecb042f-85a2-4f1a-ab8c-5c9a947c2d66/15106304103-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/eecb042f-85a2-4f1a-ab8c-5c9a947c2d66/15106304103-250.jpg", "song": "It’s Love", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "66337d31-a2d0-4225-aa61-012cbdd3f264", "artist": "Jill Scott", 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