Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=75580&ordering=-airdate
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They were joined by keyboardist Alan Forrester and former Chapterhouse guitarist Simon Rowe.\n--", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571451, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571451/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T15:13:55-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721800.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-5f8e4706-c1f7-4d56-95e3-5ed5b92add1d/mbid-5f8e4706-c1f7-4d56-95e3-5ed5b92add1d-32535541600_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721800.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-5f8e4706-c1f7-4d56-95e3-5ed5b92add1d/mbid-5f8e4706-c1f7-4d56-95e3-5ed5b92add1d-32535541600_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Radio Stereo", "track_id": "fd257a17-d001-4283-bf36-b3d03cadb207", "recording_id": "b5176420-5826-4ffe-a390-6fa543609402", "artist": "Duck Sauce", "artist_ids": [ "5269d3d2-63c6-4b8f-8200-6908ffa365d5" ], "album": "Quack", "release_id": "5f8e4706-c1f7-4d56-95e3-5ed5b92add1d", 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"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571449/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T15:09:05-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://dn721204.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-16de0f3d-dc27-4a99-a782-aa65a832fff6/mbid-16de0f3d-dc27-4a99-a782-aa65a832fff6-7393262866_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn721204.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-16de0f3d-dc27-4a99-a782-aa65a832fff6/mbid-16de0f3d-dc27-4a99-a782-aa65a832fff6-7393262866_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Radio", "track_id": "ed0b667d-2d26-393a-a342-61293c044870", "recording_id": "8fd3f79c-7ebc-4cb7-ab61-9010c544da8d", "artist": "Raphael Saadiq", "artist_ids": [ "a2eb319d-a45e-43c3-bb14-d0ffb577222c" ], "album": "Stone Rollin'", "release_id": "16de0f3d-dc27-4a99-a782-aa65a832fff6", "release_group_id": "cba83b8e-c6df-4434-bd48-fb8c79d2a18e", "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2011-05-10", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"I met this girl named Radio\nSaid her signal was low...\nStarted pullin' off her dress\nStarted lickin' on my chest, chest, chest...\": https://genius.com/Raphael-saadiq-radio-lyrics\n--", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571448, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571448/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T15:06:24-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia802806.us.archive.org/4/items/mbid-86a8dbb7-1d0a-4d0f-a69b-90f43c90d7f1/mbid-86a8dbb7-1d0a-4d0f-a69b-90f43c90d7f1-7030771244_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia902806.us.archive.org/4/items/mbid-86a8dbb7-1d0a-4d0f-a69b-90f43c90d7f1/mbid-86a8dbb7-1d0a-4d0f-a69b-90f43c90d7f1-7030771244_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Mental Radio", "track_id": "8ca50ed7-ebd2-49a2-a8de-7bd4f1a0175a", "recording_id": "7b1b57ac-e4c8-4afb-bb59-0ba552a8b364", "artist": "The Faint", "artist_ids": [ "a1419808-65d3-4d40-998c-1a0bac65eabc" ], "album": "Doom Abuse", "release_id": "86a8dbb7-1d0a-4d0f-a69b-90f43c90d7f1", "release_group_id": "128f218f-5108-4f89-970a-6503c5c2e4e6", "labels": [ "SQE" ], "label_ids": [ "57c1101a-424a-4768-8242-8a49a423bd65" ], "release_date": "2014-04-08", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Did you know that this Omaha, Nebraska band featured a young Conor Oberst at their beginning?: https://www.omahamagazine.com/entertainment/the-faint/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571447, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571447/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T15:04:54-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia800508.us.archive.org/29/items/mbid-eea33e37-ab12-4de5-b019-18104e8442ee/mbid-eea33e37-ab12-4de5-b019-18104e8442ee-28959695475_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": 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"2025-10-29T14:53:59-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia802802.us.archive.org/2/items/mbid-f14ee612-84b9-4a6e-be49-68abc2225533/mbid-f14ee612-84b9-4a6e-be49-68abc2225533-25183539858_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia802802.us.archive.org/2/items/mbid-f14ee612-84b9-4a6e-be49-68abc2225533/mbid-f14ee612-84b9-4a6e-be49-68abc2225533-25183539858_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Mexican Radio", "track_id": "60acb034-1523-3597-a359-dfdfa3e29e5a", "recording_id": "65b75f71-b771-42e8-a1db-f802bf39d5f7", "artist": "Polvo", "artist_ids": [ "a57e5515-555a-42d6-a92a-465deac3fdd1" ], "album": "Freedom of Choice", "release_id": "f14ee612-84b9-4a6e-be49-68abc2225533", "release_group_id": "13f910e4-dbbe-3363-be83-4efae98d4cf8", "labels": [ "Caroline Records" ], "label_ids": [ "a14fd98c-9b89-481a-b7b8-eea8be6b2816" ], "release_date": "1992-10-23", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "This is Polvo's cover of Wall of Voodoo's 1982 classic. Learn more about this song here: https://americansongwriter.com/the-story-behind-mexican-radio-by-wall-of-voodoo-and-how-a-nascent-mtv-helped-it-become-a-radio-hit/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571443, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571443/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T14:50:58-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801508.us.archive.org/7/items/mbid-0bf54810-6378-4c9f-a2f5-16b24e39bec6/mbid-0bf54810-6378-4c9f-a2f5-16b24e39bec6-5917161269_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801508.us.archive.org/7/items/mbid-0bf54810-6378-4c9f-a2f5-16b24e39bec6/mbid-0bf54810-6378-4c9f-a2f5-16b24e39bec6-5917161269_thumb250.jpg", "song": "Earth Station Radio", "track_id": "99a3b9fe-9f16-3c06-8151-0e4f86061bea", "recording_id": "b685e62e-ed74-43db-89f4-65189b374085", "artist": "Man or Astro‐Man?", "artist_ids": [ "28c5d97f-4321-4ef4-8ac2-d9d93b0eb16c" ], "album": "Jabberjaw, Volume 2: Pure Sweet Hell", "release_id": "0bf54810-6378-4c9f-a2f5-16b24e39bec6", "release_group_id": "e03c4f69-0fbd-34e8-ba11-667d2aac9cac", "labels": [ "Mammoth Records" ], "label_ids": [ "fff50bfe-ecdb-4d2c-882d-a86190d9dd55" ], "release_date": "1996-09-24", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Man Or Astro-man? were a bunch of madcap musicians from Auburn, Alabama, avid consumers of sci-fi TV shows and surf music.: https://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/manorast.html", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571442, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571442/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T14:47:47-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://ia801304.us.archive.org/35/items/mbid-6038087a-9780-4391-9e45-6c088d4d2e4b/mbid-6038087a-9780-4391-9e45-6c088d4d2e4b-34453873555_thumb500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://ia801304.us.archive.org/35/items/mbid-6038087a-9780-4391-9e45-6c088d4d2e4b/mbid-6038087a-9780-4391-9e45-6c088d4d2e4b-34453873555_thumb250.jpg", "song": "On the Radio", "track_id": "7bcf1802-2312-3683-b1c9-f3a7ff4b118e", "recording_id": "1520ec63-7504-424f-a4f1-12211dc9668a", "artist": "Regina Spektor", "artist_ids": [ "fbb375f9-48bb-4635-824e-4120273b3ba7" ], "album": "Begin to Hope", "release_id": "6038087a-9780-4391-9e45-6c088d4d2e4b", "release_group_id": "473691ea-841e-3427-9fa4-63f64fd048ce", "labels": [ "Sire Records" ], "label_ids": [ "be0fec81-5c18-4494-8bbf-0d81dec006bf" ], "release_date": "2006-06-13", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"On the Radio\" is the first single from Regina Spektor's fourth album, \"Begin to Hope.\" The chorus contains references to the song \"November Rain\" by Guns N' Roses\n--\n\"This is how it works..\" Watch music teacher Regina Spektor teach her class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHAhnJbGy9M\n--", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571440, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571440/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T14:44:00-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "With the Radio On", "track_id": "9ed74415-51e2-42bb-a04f-c00524edccd2", "recording_id": "187f125c-4cf8-4b01-8699-8ea37881f90c", "artist": "Tomo Nakayama", "artist_ids": [ "2cef242c-86e3-4631-9669-7d96aca66b09" ], "album": "With the Radio On", "release_id": "d2020a7d-83da-498f-9dc5-b817d42a83f4", "release_group_id": "3061e4bb-3355-42c7-9dbb-5d45ae972a4e", "labels": [ "[no label]" ], "label_ids": [ "157afde4-4bf5-4039-8ad2-5a15acc85176" ], "release_date": "2020-11-23", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Thanks, James, for those kind words and this request!\n--\nBorn in Japan and raised in Seattle, Washington, Tomo Nakayama is an artist whose melodic, complex and emotionally compelling music has been praised by NPR, New York Times, and KEXP. \n--\n Tomo Nakayama said, \"The power and the comfort of the radio, I think, is the idea that at any particular time, there are hundreds and thousands of other people in the world listening to the same song, experiencing the same sound waves. It really helps you feel more connected and less alone in the world.\" Read his interview about this song here: https://www.kexp.org/read/2020/11/23/tomo-nakayama-finds-community-through-airwaves-new-single-radio-kexp-premiere/", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571441, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571441/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T14:42:16-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3571439, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571439/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T14:33:16-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "FM Tan Sexy", "track_id": "e2965d2a-1bf0-4cf9-beac-08a6fd512832", "recording_id": "cf9f332a-9161-4193-86a5-60f233256c87", "artist": "El Guincho", "artist_ids": [ "7e57d8a2-e6eb-48dd-8e50-ff7eaa412ccb" ], "album": "Pop Negro", "release_id": "c6f26088-b7e7-4758-8e3b-d41406066345", "release_group_id": "777e065f-a621-4d82-8c6f-9f1dc929a043", "labels": [ "Young Turks" ], "label_ids": [ "87667892-a93f-43e4-a004-f8b9182788df" ], "release_date": "2010-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Pablo Díaz-Reixa, also known as El Guincho, is a Spanish artist, songwriter & producer born in the Canary Islands and based in Miami. His songwriter catalog accumulates more than four billion streams on digital platforms. Check out some of the songs the artist has produced here: https://www.whosampled.com/El-Guincho/?role=2 https://www.electricfeelent.com/producer/el-guincho", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571437, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571437/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T14:28:59-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "FM (No Static at All)", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "24c09593-a4f6-4261-87a2-cfab91aa9451", "artist": "Steely Dan", "artist_ids": [ "e01c3376-15fa-40d7-b747-5f219bdefdd7" ], "album": "FM (No Static at All)", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "7505d7ec-ff33-490d-8771-6773cbde51fe", "labels": [ "MCA Records" ], "label_ids": [ "46a3941a-c810-47a1-974f-955effec4d09" ], "release_date": "1978-05-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "There are several fine solos on this song--a great guitar solo from Walter Becker and a fine tenor saxophone break from Pete Christlieb.\n--", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571438, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571438/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T14:27:47-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3571436, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571436/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T14:20:25-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Radio Song", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "ff2a3848-16b1-4ec0-84f7-12588f6226e4", "artist": "Esperanza Spalding", "artist_ids": [ "5c12b265-5e59-44e0-b657-5cf4169f7316" ], "album": "Radio Music Society", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "8c6c15ff-cfae-4e40-9ba2-7fb4d343bc36", "labels": [ "Universal Music Group International" ], "label_ids": [ "edaafb43-0124-4732-a2e3-f7a9936c8bd4" ], "release_date": "2012-03-20", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Jazz bassist, singer, songwriter, and composer Esperanza Emily Spalding has been recognized for her talent many times including four Grammy Awards, a Boston Music Award, and a Soul Train Music Award.\n--\n\"Well somehow he feels it and the DJ here at the station\nSends sweet salvation, when he starts to play this song\nNow you can't help singin' along, even though you never heard it\nYou keep singin' it wrong...\" Enjoy this tribute to how a song played on the radio can provide salvation: https://genius.com/Esperanza-spalding-radio-song-lyrics", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571435, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571435/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T14:14:59-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Portable Radio", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "b3031f99-45ea-4e0f-b064-3915f7297434", "artist": "Daryl Hall & John Oates", "artist_ids": [ "debabff3-2559-46e5-862d-ef2a906d7010" ], "album": "X‐Static", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "0aec7992-d7de-3ef2-9871-ebea3294608a", "labels": [ "RCA" ], "label_ids": [ "1ca5ed29-e00b-4ea5-b817-0bcca0e04946" ], "release_date": "1979-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Daryl Hall and John Oates met in 1967 and formed the pop-rock band Hall & Oates in 1972. During the late 1970s and through the 1980s, Hall & Oates dominated the billboard charts. Their huge success included six number one singles and six platinum albums between 1974 and 2004, with H20 being their most successful. Thanks to their masterful mix of soul, R&B tradition, and rock tunes, they are the most successful duo in rock history.: https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/hall__daryl\n--\nWatch them performing (and read the lyrics of) \"Portable Radio\": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xodVMzI79mA\n--", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3571434, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571434/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T14:14:09-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "A great comment from listener Howard Litwak!", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3571432, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3571432/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-10-29T14:07:20-07:00", "show": 64966, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64966/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "On My Radio '91", "track_id": "d6c1555f-7bd9-4b31-800d-c98ee37c3cbc", "recording_id": "fd978466-e73c-4301-b387-d2db3b8e85bf", "artist": "The Selecter", "artist_ids": [ "1329faaf-799f-44e2-91f9-87fe52f17afd" ], "album": "This Is Dojo • Sampler 1996", "release_id": "3f8cb377-aa64-45b3-81ca-349c73be3e36", "release_group_id": "12dceec6-d724-4211-99b8-54bd7a7ef755", "labels": [ "Dojo Records" ], "label_ids": [ "dc77b425-189e-4d64-91fe-697d4a8c13b9" ], "release_date": "1996-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "For Frank in Greenlake..\n---\nSomeone wrote about this song from English ska band The Selecter: \"I fell in love with On My Radio the first time I heard it. To understand my instant infatuation, you’d have to transport yourself back to 1980 at a time when the radio was still playing the hits from Captain & Tennille, Olivia-Newton John and Air Supply. There was something subversive about “On My Radio” and its off-kilter, cuckoo-clock chorus that felt like a big wrench being thrown into the music machinery. Of course, you were only likely to encounter this song on late-night college radio stations, but the effect was the same.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" } ] }
