Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=68920&ordering=-airdate
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"is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Recorded at a radio station in Canada in 1963. John Lomax first heard this song in 1909 from an African-American woman named \"Dink\" in Texas.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3581847, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581847/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T09:12:02-08:00", "show": 65188, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65188/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3581846, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581846/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T09:09:54-08:00", "show": 65188, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65188/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/84cfd7fd-e11c-4b40-b3c9-58355ba86561/20277209887-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/84cfd7fd-e11c-4b40-b3c9-58355ba86561/20277209887-250.jpg", "song": "Cotton Fields", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "1a5dbe2a-8ace-451d-9e9c-9d3c327fff68", "artist": "Lead Belly", "artist_ids": [ "ddcfbdcf-cf8d-4776-8a69-10f39376b5a2" ], "album": "Folkways: The Original Vision", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "c124d342-aba7-30e5-9a9e-fc155827d42c", "labels": [ "Classic Blues" ], "label_ids": [ "3fcd83e6-07c0-4258-a67a-0091749561f7" ], "release_date": "1989-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Recorded in 1940. John and Alan Lomax met Lead Belly during one of their recording trips for the Library of Congress. Lead Belly was then a prison inmate, and the Lomaxes managed to secure his release. Lead Belly traveled with them, eventually settling in New York City.\n\nIn his Nobel Prize Lecture, Bob Dylan said this record changed his life.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3581845, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581845/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T09:06:51-08:00", "show": 65188, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65188/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/6519e077-f4ff-49ec-bf40-696845700e7f/10021708946-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/6519e077-f4ff-49ec-bf40-696845700e7f/10021708946-250.jpg", "song": "Cotton Fields (The Cotton Song)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "f329f1ce-48e6-4f4b-b731-6469a14f1a84", "artist": "The Beach Boys", "artist_ids": [ "ebfc1398-8d96-47e3-82c3-f782abcdb13d" ], "album": "20/20", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "27e5bbcc-1ff7-3f87-896f-e5f0dfc3464e", "labels": [ "Capitol Records" ], "label_ids": [ 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"uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581841/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T08:56:56-08:00", "show": 65187, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65187/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Percolator", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "John Swanke", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Live at Bailey's Vol. 2", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "self-released" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2025-11-11", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Lovely new live release from Washington-based guitarist John Swanke ~ https://johnswanke.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-baileys-vol-2", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3581840, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3581840/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-23T08:51:54-08:00", "show": 65187, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65187/?format=api", "image_uri": "", 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