Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=49280&ordering=-airdate
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Watch that entire performance, which included \"Cherry Pie\": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFzTCW1bht8", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3598887, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598887/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T16:26:03-08:00", "show": 65534, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65534/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "New Year", "track_id": "7621683b-7ab9-3c92-a112-1b7f3d3bda5c", "recording_id": "d34fb30a-3451-44f3-8d7e-e32242f6be8c", "artist": "Beach House", "artist_ids": [ "d5cc67b8-1cc4-453b-96e8-44487acdebea" ], "album": "Bloom", "release_id": "24c99b7d-b243-450d-8477-46dfd4a8bfa3", "release_group_id": "f1390eec-a192-4d96-9943-bbc42a819588", "labels": [ "Sub Pop Records" ], "label_ids": [ "38dc88de-7720-4100-9d5b-3cdc41b0c474" ], "release_date": "2012-05-15", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Can you call it? See it coming...\nJust enough to tell a story...\n'Bout a portrait of a young girl...\nWaiting for the new year...\"\n\nHere are the lyrics to \"New Year\": https://genius.com/Beach-house-new-year-lyrics\n--\nWatch them perform it live in Brussels in 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIVWdwhE2cw", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3598886, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598886/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T16:24:36-08:00", "show": 65534, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65534/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3598885, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598885/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T16:15:46-08:00", "show": 65534, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65534/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Music Is My Way of Life (Joey Negro Funk in the Music mix)", "track_id": "ac03fff4-109f-49fd-a092-987799ee98e9", "recording_id": "aeda8172-586c-4d69-a926-9c7acfe88572", "artist": "Patti LaBelle", "artist_ids": [ "f319ec6a-9290-449b-baef-4244809c487a" ], "album": "Remixed With Love By Joey Negro (Vol. Two)", "release_id": "8e8d1e6c-157c-4fb1-a998-d0cf992cc1c2", "release_group_id": "5203e1df-eb30-4788-9df5-084ada78e9cf", "labels": [ "Z Records" ], "label_ids": [ "c250bdb3-2215-48d6-a24d-b12fe7dd7897" ], "release_date": "2016-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Is that Christopher Cross and Michael MacDonald I hear in this remix?", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3598884, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598884/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T16:12:44-08:00", "show": 65534, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65534/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Satisfaction Skank (Fatboy Slim remix)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "357c5b3a-6748-487f-9eeb-8b8e33d4a88e", "artist": "Fatboy Slim", "artist_ids": [ "34c63966-445c-4613-afe1-4f0e1e53ae9a" ], "album": "The Untold Remixes of Fatboy Slim", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "d36e153f-dbf5-3127-8211-c7f68c615e27", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": null, "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Mashup with the Rolling Stones!", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3598883, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598883/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T16:05:49-08:00", "show": 65534, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65534/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801801.us.archive.org/4/items/mbid-6f829bf7-163b-49e5-84ba-fb44c2ad88e8/mbid-6f829bf7-163b-49e5-84ba-fb44c2ad88e8-9560869252_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801801.us.archive.org/4/items/mbid-6f829bf7-163b-49e5-84ba-fb44c2ad88e8/mbid-6f829bf7-163b-49e5-84ba-fb44c2ad88e8-9560869252_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Right Here, Right Now", "track_id": "391adfee-afc4-30ea-875b-50598c0e11ad", "recording_id": "a171fdda-8146-43be-aea9-95370448f1be", "artist": "Fatboy Slim", "artist_ids": [ "34c63966-445c-4613-afe1-4f0e1e53ae9a" ], "album": "You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby", "release_id": "6f829bf7-163b-49e5-84ba-fb44c2ad88e8", "release_group_id": "435fe38e-404c-3887-8300-cc94420a121c", "labels": [ "Astralwerks" ], "label_ids": [ "60f3af98-d6ca-4995-a9b5-b93924e2405f" ], "release_date": "1998-10-20", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Right Here, Right Now\" was released on the second studio album by Fatboy Slim. The basic string melody was actually plucked from James Gang’s “Ashes, the Rain & I” (written by Dale Peters and Joe Walsh) and \"Humoresque\" by Anto Dvorak, while the lyrics \"Right here, Right now\" are sampled from Angela Bassett’s performance on the film \"Strange Days.\" https://bit.ly/3YdE5Hz https://www.fatboyslim.net/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3598882, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598882/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T16:01:12-08:00", "show": 65534, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65534/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "2080", "track_id": "c441ae35-d632-3d87-954f-c9fc9dda0e90", "recording_id": "f3dc1a8c-5927-45a2-9536-aa78f27c3692", "artist": "Yeasayer", "artist_ids": [ "3feba7fa-3837-424a-b4f1-0077d217f569" ], "album": "All Hour Cymbals", "release_id": "fc9ad65a-61e1-42c6-9bac-20f5433c3689", "release_group_id": "df4fac03-3cf5-337c-adcb-c32aed6a0898", "labels": [ "We Are Free" ], "label_ids": [ "d62a11bf-c852-47fb-84b7-265d805d825f" ], "release_date": "2007-10-23", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "As this song says.....It's a new year!\n--\nGo back, back, back to 2008 to watch a live performance of this song for KEXP listeners from The Gibson Showroom in NYC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy2vbtmdRJQ", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3598881, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598881/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T15:57:02-08:00", "show": 65533, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65533/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia902804.us.archive.org/6/items/mbid-e4b614df-b855-49eb-b4e4-28f1c361ffe8/mbid-e4b614df-b855-49eb-b4e4-28f1c361ffe8-24875572097_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia802804.us.archive.org/6/items/mbid-e4b614df-b855-49eb-b4e4-28f1c361ffe8/mbid-e4b614df-b855-49eb-b4e4-28f1c361ffe8-24875572097_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Do You Realize??", "track_id": "a91345cb-39f7-3ebe-8d28-13c5e0966f33", "recording_id": "238a3a15-b98f-4149-9e15-c954d43e20cb", "artist": "The Flaming Lips", "artist_ids": [ "1f43d76f-8edf-44f6-aaf1-b65f05ad9402" ], "album": "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots", "release_id": "e4b614df-b855-49eb-b4e4-28f1c361ffe8", "release_group_id": "54b1ad4e-7e86-308d-b053-a0843f6abbdb", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. Records" ], "label_ids": [ "c595c289-47ce-4fba-b999-b87503e8cb71" ], "release_date": "2002-07-16", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Wayne Coyne: \"From the beginning, we would meet people who told us about playing Do You Realize?? when their mother was dying in the hospital or their brother had been in a car accident. We didn’t know what to say. In time, we were able to have some distance and let down our guard. We wrote the song, but what we made is not what it’s become. We’re so grateful, lucky and blown away to have one of those songs that people play at heavy, heavy times, the heaviest you can endure. But at lighter occasions too, when babies are born or at a cousin’s wedding. We always thought that ruined music but we were wrong. It doesn’t. It’s the greatest thing music can do.\"\n--\nHere's a live performance from the Sydney Opera House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkXxPXqBW5Y", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3598880, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598880/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T15:54:12-08:00", "show": 65533, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65533/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Move On Up", "track_id": "c2435816-30c6-3ad3-b29b-75f6865f4a49", "recording_id": "87498f93-86e6-483f-8262-da5878ed22d8", "artist": "Curtis Mayfield", "artist_ids": [ "4dca4bb2-23ba-4103-97e6-5810311db33a" ], "album": "Curtis", "release_id": "34bf0064-0b15-4759-9964-d177c58fc7d8", "release_group_id": "0c24e81f-b710-3e24-a4fa-12950e153585", "labels": [ "Curtom Records" ], "label_ids": [ "0de50eca-0acc-492c-8840-7eae9f04e739" ], "release_date": "1970-09-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"Move on Up\" was a tribute of sorts to Mayfield's Chicago neighbors, The Staple Singers. \"Curtis lived around the corner from us,\" Mavis Staples told Mojo magazine. \"He was like my baby brother. He'd drop by and we'd eat together and he'd talk politics with Pops. One day he came to Pops and said 'I want to write songs like The Staple Singers do, and Pops said 'Curtis man, you're a writer, a poet! Write some of those songs!' The first one Curtis wrote was 'Move On Up' and he came round and played it to us and Pops said, 'That's my boy!'\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3598879, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598879/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T15:49:13-08:00", "show": 65533, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65533/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Let's Groove", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "b415b61a-3b4c-4b8a-8107-a8310f3c67a9", "artist": "Earth, Wind & Fire", "artist_ids": [ "535afeda-2538-435d-9dd1-5e10be586774" ], "album": "Raise!", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "0a28e7a2-836e-35c9-9a0b-26833dc5eefc", "labels": [ "CBS" ], "label_ids": [ "b8d33bec-92cc-40d9-bd92-4eb089b401a9" ], "release_date": "1981-11-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Maurice White and Wayne Vaughn wrote \"Let's Groove.\" that's The Phenix Horns contributing to the song.: https://grokipedia.com/page/The_Phenix_Horns", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3598878, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598878/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T15:46:10-08:00", "show": 65533, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65533/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3598877, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598877/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T15:43:27-08:00", "show": 65533, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65533/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "You Can’t Hurry Love", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "4010de72-311f-4868-b955-2940f3da433c", "artist": "Phil Collins", "artist_ids": [ "401c3991-b76b-499d-8082-9f2df958ef78" ], "album": "The Singles", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "9f99f4c0-4016-422b-8a57-6ab4daf858e4", "labels": [ "Rhino" ], "label_ids": [ "c4f2cf49-b57c-4cc1-8061-f54400704ac4" ], "release_date": "2016-10-14", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Phil Collins covering The Supremes! This 1966 song was written by the extraordinary songwriting team of Holland-Dozier-Holland.: https://www.detroithistorical.org/learn/online-research/encyclopedia-of-detroit/holland-dozier-holland", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3598876, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598876/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T15:39:33-08:00", "show": 65533, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65533/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "99 Luftballons", "track_id": "960aa76b-1dc2-4107-a8d1-c41249946690", "recording_id": "f4655387-c676-4b07-9a27-f560ba254170", "artist": "Nena", "artist_ids": [ "c954d136-c7fd-4fd9-8bb0-fb0491fc6a02" ], "album": "99 Luftballons", "release_id": "30fd0c55-a75d-4881-ade9-ae5a51f1ba86", "release_group_id": "5f046368-b7c8-3f4b-9c85-ef2cc5b11af7", "labels": [ "CBS" ], "label_ids": [ "b8d33bec-92cc-40d9-bd92-4eb089b401a9" ], "release_date": "1983-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The band Nen was named for the nickname of its frontwoman, whose full name was Gabriele Kerner. \n--\nMost people's greatest fear during this highly explosive time in history (the early 80's) was that someone might accidentally press the red button and trigger nuclear annihilation. This is exactly what Nena describes in \"99 Luftballons\" — known in English as \"99 Red Balloons.\" The song imagines a situation where (99 red) balloons show up on both countries' radars as unidentified objects and both sides scramble planes and go on full alert to counteract a perceived nuclear attack.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3598875, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598875/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T15:37:03-08:00", "show": 65533, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65533/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "As It Was", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "53969964-673a-4407-9396-3087be9245f6", "artist": "Harry Styles", "artist_ids": [ "7eb1ce54-a355-41f9-8d68-e018b096d427" ], "album": "Harry’s House", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "d712ba0e-25fa-4c03-aecd-ec0c100deba5", "labels": [ "Erskine Records Limited" ], "label_ids": [ "2b0502a0-76c0-41ff-9ef1-3ab71eb4a184" ], "release_date": "2022-04-20", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "A fur-clad Harry performed \"As It Was\" at Coachella: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jte7I4BO0WQ", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3598874, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598874/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T15:34:09-08:00", "show": 65533, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65533/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "My Fun", "track_id": "7683c6aa-24c1-4ad6-acbf-1669419686ea", "recording_id": "fab5660b-44fd-46a6-81e7-b6cc8b40c8ba", "artist": "Suki Waterhouse", "artist_ids": [ "8389ff77-a7a4-4ba4-bf1b-17ded47d41a1" ], "album": "Memoir of a Sparklemuffin", "release_id": "5f0e3703-9f59-4291-8fc6-a80e8232c891", "release_group_id": "05de6349-e348-4d32-a46e-9f23f6cb3b15", "labels": [ "Sub Pop Records" ], "label_ids": [ "38dc88de-7720-4100-9d5b-3cdc41b0c474" ], "release_date": "2024-09-13", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Suki Waterhouse talked with KEXP's Emily Fox about how starring in the Amazon Prime series Daisy Jones and the Six inspired her to make her new record, Memoir of a Sparklemuffin, and how she finished the record in the final weeks of her pregnancy and played Coachella a few weeks after birth.: https://www.kexp.org/podcasts/a-deeper-listen/2024/9/17/suki-waterhouse-model-actress-whatever/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3598873, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3598873/?format=api", "airdate": "2026-01-01T15:31:13-08:00", "show": 65533, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65533/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Here Comes the Sun", "track_id": "849c0a19-afe2-3d8b-852c-20e0172f584c", "recording_id": "440f60e8-0b25-4ec4-abb1-c6beec624ab0", "artist": "The Beatles", "artist_ids": [ "b10bbbfc-cf9e-42e0-be17-e2c3e1d2600d" ], "album": "Abbey Road", "release_id": "fb70321f-78df-30ff-92de-21a4bc9ca16c", "release_group_id": "9162580e-5df4-32de-80cc-f45a8d8a9b1d", "labels": [ "Parlophone" ], "label_ids": [ "df7d1c7f-ef95-425f-8eef-445b3d7bcbd9" ], "release_date": "1987-10-20", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "‘Here Comes The Sun’, George Harrison’s second song on Abbey Road, was written on an acoustic guitar in the garden of Eric Clapton’s house in Ewhurst, Surrey. 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