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Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=66740&ordering=-airdate
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They released \"nostalgia\" as a single in October, and have teased that a new EP, called Cloud Study, will be coming in the near future. \nhttps://tinyurl.com/49kdy5e9\n\nhttps://foundspacemusic.bandcamp.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3585792, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3585792/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-02T09:37:21-08:00", "show": 65269, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65269/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Stay", "track_id": "b56f522a-8562-4722-9e16-a4b391640d56", "recording_id": "513c5965-0964-4b57-8a9b-f768048a4953", "artist": "Sea Lemon", "artist_ids": [ "4799fba1-5a7f-4f0e-b341-90da2838fb5a" ], "album": "Diving For A Prize", "release_id": "659f7dd3-53ca-4529-876c-d0e5c698a0d6", "release_group_id": "6cd59453-033c-4b4c-95ba-95eabc9a9c5f", "labels": [ "Luminelle Recordings" ], "label_ids": [ "8d3806fb-d36e-452f-a440-a95a29fb877b" ], "release_date": "2025-06-13", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Seattle's Sea Lemon talked about her debut album, \"Diving For A Prize\" on the KEXP podcast, \"A Deeper Listen\". on it she notes that this song, 'Stay', draws inspiration from the real-life antics of an elderly security guard at a thrift store. \nListen here: \nhttps://www.kexp.org/podcasts/a-deeper-listen/2025/7/8/sea-lemons-shoegaze-captivates-ben-gibbard-seattle-and-beyond/\n\n https://sealemonmusic.bandcamp.com/album/diving-for-a-prize\n\nYou can hear a live version of \"Stay\" from Sea Lemon's in-studio performance on KEXP here: https://youtu.be/hnJfUiidtcc?si=oGqrrWhtwK5kl_2z", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3585791, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3585791/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-02T09:34:35-08:00", "show": 65269, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65269/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia600605.us.archive.org/34/items/mbid-4ce0f179-37ce-4fb6-affc-ae8e4c557388/mbid-4ce0f179-37ce-4fb6-affc-ae8e4c557388-40994937858_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia600605.us.archive.org/34/items/mbid-4ce0f179-37ce-4fb6-affc-ae8e4c557388/mbid-4ce0f179-37ce-4fb6-affc-ae8e4c557388-40994937858_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Here We Go Crazy", "track_id": "3fe09485-afa0-440a-9dd8-65c68b10065b", "recording_id": "24674318-4b2c-4fc6-b46b-d825dcec2196", "artist": "Bob Mould", "artist_ids": [ "d7f5305a-15fc-4af4-a61b-f6f45510cc8f" ], "album": "Here We Go Crazy", "release_id": "4ce0f179-37ce-4fb6-affc-ae8e4c557388", "release_group_id": "d2fffae5-4e22-4466-bcb8-0e5fd0363a31", "labels": [ "BMG", "Granary Music" ], "label_ids": [ "82ef9b02-7b42-49fe-a6bc-0d8ba816d72f", "8222cd7c-ea45-4728-b71c-a1db708b27f7" ], "release_date": "2025-03-07", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "You can catch Bob Mould with Blondshell @ KEXP's SMooCH 2025! Go here for information & tickets: https://www.kexp.org/events/kexp-events/smooch-2025/\n--\nNow in his fifth decade of making and performing music, Bob Mould has released 15 solo albums since his 1989 solo debut Workbook, after forming and leading Minnesota punk rock innovators Hüsker Dü starting in 1979. Along with two albums in the group Sugar, Bob has redefined guitar driven rock across 23 studio albums over the last 40-plus years. https://tinyurl.com/2fc6d68d \n\n\"On the surface, this is a group of straightforward guitar-pop songs. I’m refining my primary sound and style through simplicity, brevity, and clarity,\" Mould says of the LP. \"Under the hood, there’s a number of contrasting themes. Control and chaos, hypervigilance and helplessness, uncertainly and unconditional love.\" https://tinyurl.com/46hsmn3z", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3585790, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3585790/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-02T09:31:41-08:00", "show": 65269, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65269/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3585789, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3585789/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-02T09:29:12-08:00", "show": 65269, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65269/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Butterfly", "track_id": "0e16221b-d201-3472-9e0f-b605e62d08d9", "recording_id": "2bbb4b83-05f9-43ba-8849-1b541f3bc32b", "artist": "Screaming Trees", "artist_ids": [ "bc5e6e42-73ba-44fa-a41e-3379402f0429" ], "album": "Sweet Oblivion", "release_id": "f9c528de-287e-4c49-ad24-159648ba99e6", "release_group_id": "3ed0f3e2-aef3-39c4-86e7-b1e9dc80a52c", "labels": [ "Epic" ], "label_ids": [ "8f638ddb-131a-4cc3-b3d4-7ebdac201b55" ], "release_date": "1992-09-08", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "More local legends! Screaming Trees formed in Ellensburg, Washington, in 1984 by vocalist Mark Lanegan, guitarist Gary Lee Conner, bass player Van Conner, and drummer Mark Pickerel. Butterfly is from their sixth (and best-selling) album.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3585788, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3585788/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-02T09:23:04-08:00", "show": 65269, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65269/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Catching the Butterfly", "track_id": "be2c0df1-c19e-3d94-9362-cfe9b950ad44", "recording_id": "00e07149-fa58-48d1-90c9-c57fb223d0c9", "artist": "The Verve", "artist_ids": [ "d4d17620-fd97-4574-92a8-a2cb7e72ce42" ], "album": "Urban Hymns", "release_id": "f1ddef9e-218f-4ce8-abdb-fc5450bd2a34", "release_group_id": "3dd0c8e4-af53-3605-9c20-f27c7635fb60", "labels": [ "Virgin", "Hut Recordings" ], "label_ids": [ "49b58bdb-3d74-40c6-956a-4c4b46115c9c", "3dc55be1-e308-4b62-b0ac-7ddcf2845b91" ], "release_date": "1997-09-30", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The Verve's third studio album Urban Hymns, released in 1997, is our album of the week!\n\nRecalling the writing process for Catching the Butterfly, lead guitarist Nick McCabe said: \"“It was one of those tunes that wrote itself, really. In the early days it was quite an open-ended, skeletal, almost kraut-rock kind of thing. Eventually we added tunes to it and it stacked up like a lasagna into this thing that is like a ’60s thing now but it wasn’t like that at all initially. It was quite an abstract piece and it was one of those things that happened really quickly – it took two sessions to get it into the shape that it was. But then learning how to play it live was less easy than that.\"\n\nThe Verve reflect on the legendary tour for Urban Hymns in this article here, featuring rare live footage of 'Catching The Butterfly' live: \nhttps://www.nme.com/news/music/verve-share-unearthed-live-footage-catching-butterfly-2139279", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3585787, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3585787/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-02T09:19:37-08:00", "show": 65269, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65269/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Let Your Hands Go", "track_id": "cf5a667b-2a2c-4663-8785-64d359cba396", "recording_id": "2b631f0d-0e49-43d6-a0e6-ffab66e69724", "artist": "GUV", "artist_ids": [ "01f841ab-58b4-41b5-b186-f8a5a5507688" ], "album": "Warmer Than Gold", "release_id": "1c83f728-d90c-4dff-8611-7104ae5918e1", "release_group_id": "19243a36-c135-4a93-a23b-e6faaad42530", "labels": [ "Run for Cover Records" ], "label_ids": [ "9c5c93da-b877-4c50-9ae8-7c6aaaf32e51" ], "release_date": "2026-01-30", "rotation_status": "Light", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "New album from Guv (formerly Young Guv) titled Warmer Than Gold will be released in January 2026. Guv is a rebranded solo project from F-ed Up guitarist Ben Cook.\n\nhttps://guvofficial.bandcamp.com/album/warmer-than-gold", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3585785, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3585785/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-02T09:14:59-08:00", "show": 65269, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65269/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia803402.us.archive.org/14/items/mbid-bad83f5a-03be-4635-820d-70dff766c941/mbid-bad83f5a-03be-4635-820d-70dff766c941-15289157306_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia803402.us.archive.org/14/items/mbid-bad83f5a-03be-4635-820d-70dff766c941/mbid-bad83f5a-03be-4635-820d-70dff766c941-15289157306_thumb250.jpg", "song": "West End Girls", "track_id": "d4ebb9a9-8912-3924-81c0-e0661a69121d", "recording_id": "9dc0e882-6346-498d-b390-16408edba7ef", "artist": "Pet Shop Boys", "artist_ids": [ "be540c02-7898-4b79-9acc-c8122c7d9e83" ], "album": "Please", "release_id": "bad83f5a-03be-4635-820d-70dff766c941", "release_group_id": "4bb45b34-c884-3179-a518-2cabdc8e7210", "labels": [ "Parlophone" ], "label_ids": [ "df7d1c7f-ef95-425f-8eef-445b3d7bcbd9" ], "release_date": "1986-03-24", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Pet Shop Boys first released \"West End Girls\" as a single in 1984. They performed the song live during the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics:\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxm5dUwTa1c", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3585786, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3585786/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-02T09:12:24-08:00", "show": 65269, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65269/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3585784, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3585784/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-02T09:07:12-08:00", "show": 65269, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65269/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Save It for Later", "track_id": "1310dad7-320e-3de0-b614-c160796bfdac", "recording_id": "8bfee4f8-a218-44e4-9df6-2b7659567fb2", "artist": "The Beat", "artist_ids": [ "9727e632-c228-47f8-a7ae-398df94f00c7" ], "album": "Special Beat Service", "release_id": "118ad910-9e52-4f65-8458-a1ecb5dd866c", "release_group_id": "7d02d86d-1b55-3821-9f5f-9e5a83ebd108", "labels": [ "Go Feet", "London Records" ], "label_ids": [ "7abf6944-fd69-49e2-b904-614f5c4659b8", "60a0dd34-2333-4679-9050-38c21f7bc616" ], "release_date": "1999-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "A perfect album with a perfect album cover.\n\nhttp://englishbeat.net/\n\nGo way back to 2010 to see The English Beat play this classic in the KEXP Bumbershoot Music Lounge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=238jb-bAVX8", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3585782, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3585782/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-02T09:04:00-08:00", "show": 65269, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65269/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Queen Bitch", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "131c5027-2037-4ee4-a284-7521ea362f27", "artist": "David Bowie", "artist_ids": [ "5441c29d-3602-4898-b1a1-b77fa23b8e50" ], "album": "Hunky Dory", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "743b0b2e-a23a-3182-950e-232f8cb0dfb7", "labels": [ "RCA Victor" ], "label_ids": [ "b3f4e6a5-ece0-43be-a530-68ad0d49fee8" ], "release_date": "1971-12-17", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The pop-punk song was inspired by American rock band The Velvet Underground, but more particularly the lead singer Lou Reed. “Queen Bitch” acts as a tribute to the band from Bowie, who was a huge fan of the group and their music. The lyric “trying hard to pull sister Flo”, is a direct reference to The Velvet Underground’s track “Sister Ray” and sonically, many music critics have compared the song’s main riff to The Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Jane“.\n--\n Lou Reed performed this with Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York in January 1997.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-NX1DJUAI8", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3585781, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3585781/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-02T09:00:32-08:00", "show": 65269, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65269/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Hit My Head All Day (edit)", "track_id": "590da91e-83d0-49db-b729-fc3df42b2e2e", "recording_id": "babc115c-25b3-4f09-9f9e-ff0142a7e651", "artist": "Dry Cleaning", "artist_ids": [ "8a74e5ea-6f68-49e1-951c-80d2291f7c3f" ], "album": "Hit My Head All Day", "release_id": "6b793239-8e2a-4fad-8be7-e67483f55f43", "release_group_id": "8bbf72bd-4709-4308-a539-c847c5c95af5", "labels": [ "4AD" ], "label_ids": [ "a539bb1e-f2e1-4b45-9db8-8053841e7503" ], "release_date": "2025-09-29", "rotation_status": "Medium", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "London's Dry Cleaning will be on tour in 2026: \n\n- San Francisco on Wednesday, Feb. 18 at the Fillmore (tune in later today during Drive Time 4pm-7pm for a ticket giveaway!).\n\n\n\n- Seattle on Saturday, Feb. 21 at the Showbox\n\nThe four-piece band's new album, Secret Love, produced by Cate Le Bon, will be out on Jan. 9. https://drycleaning.bandcamp.com/album/secret-love", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3585780, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3585780/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-02T08:56:36-08:00", "show": 65269, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65269/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3585779, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3585779/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-02T08:53:48-08:00", "show": 65269, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65269/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Yoo Hoo", "track_id": "4a6ecf0d-e364-31c9-9982-32eafb62b7f2", "recording_id": "603f9dc3-c179-401c-87d9-46d89fd9b5dc", "artist": "Imperial Teen", "artist_ids": [ "7d478bd2-d228-46a8-8a7c-ef68a61fd339" ], "album": "What Is Not to Love", "release_id": "3024185b-df8a-41e5-862d-efb2a460f088", "release_group_id": "f379d196-d460-3f75-ad31-6814ace742a7", "labels": [ "Slash" ], "label_ids": [ "490afeef-44aa-4bba-b5d7-df875609957f" ], "release_date": "1999-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Imperial Teen performed \"Yoo Hoo\" live for KEXP listeners from Mellow Johnny's Bike Shop during SXSW way back in 2012: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYNuzG7Gj8Q\n--\n\"Imperial Teen got started in 1992 when Lynn Perko and Roddy Bottum decided to start a band. \nThe band was made whole when local musicians Will Schwartz and Jone Stebbins joined; the band has stayed together since then....Bottum and Schwartz are also both gay males who’ve never been shy about speaking about their sexuality. 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The London-based artist started writing songs at the age of eight and has released music steadily since 2022. 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