Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=74260&ordering=-airdate
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Read about why on her Substack:\n\nhttps://substack.com/@kadhja", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3574133, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3574133/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-05T01:56:58-08:00", "show": 65026, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65026/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3574131, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3574131/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-05T01:51:42-08:00", "show": 65026, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65026/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia902807.us.archive.org/11/items/mbid-3c7df483-9595-4adb-9a5d-ac9937a69b3c/mbid-3c7df483-9595-4adb-9a5d-ac9937a69b3c-43357116935_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia902807.us.archive.org/11/items/mbid-3c7df483-9595-4adb-9a5d-ac9937a69b3c/mbid-3c7df483-9595-4adb-9a5d-ac9937a69b3c-43357116935_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Flammarion", "track_id": "0120f5ec-8256-4fcd-bf7e-e15d9f55b0f3", "recording_id": "f6a0a02b-2e60-4c49-80c3-a477ffa8eeb8", "artist": "Magic Fig", "artist_ids": [ "56de9e40-fe40-47d6-9470-8979babd237d" ], "album": "Valerian Tea", "release_id": "3c7df483-9595-4adb-9a5d-ac9937a69b3c", "release_group_id": "d36010a2-0c2a-47ed-8943-67c39e5f9226", "labels": [ "Exploding In Sound Records" ], "label_ids": [ "ab54e798-5f5e-4d17-98bf-e25d61485bb9" ], "release_date": "2025-11-21", "rotation_status": "Light", "is_local": true, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Out of San Francisco! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD4l8PymwaU", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3574130, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3574130/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-05T01:47:30-08:00", "show": 65026, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65026/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "スキャンダル・ナイト", "track_id": "539d66fb-a3cc-4f78-b0ff-a0e9876fc5eb", "recording_id": "a5aec885-dc96-48c9-9968-a19be9c64647", "artist": "Miharu Koshi", "artist_ids": [ "09c88499-fd98-4f0e-a4c2-7e763140b611" ], "album": "Pacific Breeze, Volume 3: Japanese City Pop, AOR and Boogie 1975–1987", "release_id": "08b064b2-9551-436f-bb6e-d38fba6d0e63", "release_group_id": "ddde8749-2705-4df1-bfce-9f853609d8f0", "labels": [ "Light in the Attic Records" ], "label_ids": [ "d277da0d-1d64-4256-90f5-ced940fb9b77" ], "release_date": "2023-03-17", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Miharu Koshi (コシミハル , 越美晴, Koshi Miharu, born January 3, 1960) is a Japanese musician. Her career started in the late 1970s performing Japanese new music. By the mid 1980s she was performing music with electronic instruments (genre know as technopop) with many albums produced by Haruomi Hosono. 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The house where Smyth grew up inspired the lyric. The song's video features the band as a cloth-cap wearing family squashed into a terraced house. Drummer Dan \"Woody\" Woodgate recalls, \"The knocking-on-the-door bit where somebody comes out, goes, 'Where are they?' and the others sneak in and close the door... That's The Flintstones. We stole lots of ideas from the Keystone Kops and Benny Hill.\" http://tinyurl.com/267pjxcr", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3574127, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3574127/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-05T01:38:40-08:00", "show": 65026, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65026/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3574126, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3574126/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-05T01:34:29-08:00", "show": 65026, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65026/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "The Happy Dictator", "track_id": "266d816c-27b8-4136-a726-e269b0c6fa67", "recording_id": "0ade740b-ae0b-4916-8454-3995442ba385", "artist": "Gorillaz feat. Sparks", "artist_ids": [ "e21857d5-3256-4547-afb3-4b6ded592596", "f319b57a-a494-40f6-a467-3d196d3484e6" ], "album": "The Happy Dictator", "release_id": "cd0faa58-4ca6-43ad-9302-0c8cb4637109", "release_group_id": "9dc1fb4c-2373-4427-b965-23e1b6184e11", "labels": [ "Kong" ], "label_ids": [ "dd8a3d8e-26d4-4c75-8b36-1c48516e6b7d" ], "release_date": "2025-09-11", "rotation_status": "Heavy", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The latest single from Gorillaz, featuring Sparks. Gorillaz's new album, \"The Mountain,\" will be out on March 20, 2026.\n\nIn addition to Sparks, the album features a dizzying array of artists including Anoushka Shankar, Asha Bhosle, IDLES, Johnny Marr, and Dennis Hopper.\n\nhttps://www.stereogum.com/2322623/gorillaz-announce-new-album-the-mountain-hear-the-happy-dictator-feat-sparks/music/\n\nhttps://gorillaz.com/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3574125, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3574125/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-11-05T01:30:24-08:00", "show": 65026, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65026/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Reagan", "track_id": "fce14819-4f65-41dd-8222-894afb180cb7", "recording_id": "36e1fc19-772a-4dd9-88c8-4fd011b1bab3", "artist": "Killer Mike", "artist_ids": [ "47864525-aea7-439a-800f-17c57e51cbcc" ], "album": "R.A.P. 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The beat pulses with relentless energy, combining the grit of underground hip-hop with a hard-hitting electronic edge. 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