Play Public List
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/?format=api&offset=85660&ordering=-airdate
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Inspired by the sound of contemporary disco, the New York City-based band became a favorite among clubgoers at the peak of the disco era.\nIn 1978 they issued their debut single \"Turn Around, Boogie Down,\" and its follow-up, \"(Dance It) Freestyle Rhythm,\" was a major New York radio hit. The quartet's debut LP Midnight Energy appeared in 1979, and the single \"Rock It to the Top\" became a Top Ten hit on the club charts.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3544360, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544360/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T19:03:20-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/80f3e40e-cd1d-436c-9d4c-61b1860bd041/25957687231-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/80f3e40e-cd1d-436c-9d4c-61b1860bd041/25957687231-250.jpg", "song": "Can You Get Down", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "1a784aec-50b7-4e7d-a865-b5382dce7d18", "artist": "Universe City", "artist_ids": [ "5dba4672-3f18-422d-aeac-d8247458d7f1" ], "album": "Universe City", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "e3e86db4-9e1d-3eef-bcad-38b4e275e672", "labels": [ "Midland International Records, Inc." ], "label_ids": [ "bf4d8f4e-d6dd-427c-96d9-2e8a9b6327e1" ], "release_date": "1976-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Universe City is a disco-funk quintet from New York. They released \"Can You Get Down\" on their eponymous debut album in 1976.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3544359, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544359/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T19:01:03-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3544358, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544358/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:58:29-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Smooth Groove", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Central Heat", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Someone Special", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1979-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Funk/disco outfit Central Heat brought \"Smooth Groove\" as a b-side to \"Someone Special\" in 1979.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3544357, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544357/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:54:38-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/3869d7c6-46fa-43f2-a6ed-60024b439ed5/36663817900-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/3869d7c6-46fa-43f2-a6ed-60024b439ed5/36663817900-250.jpg", "song": "Turn This Thing Around", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "1df83e2b-f59f-4635-af29-c226c377656f", "artist": "Smoke", "artist_ids": [ "f362005d-e841-44de-873b-11ee3760b02f" ], "album": "Smoke", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "6eee1df2-77b2-490d-aaf8-9f27c02b3f96", "labels": [ "Chocolate City Records" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1976-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Funk band Smoke released \"Turn This Thing Around\" in 1976 on their self-titled album on the Chocolate City Record label.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3544356, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544356/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:49:57-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Midnight Spirit", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Beeghon'n", "artist_ids": [], "album": null, "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "BLSW" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1976-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Pressed in Canada, Beeghon'n released the electro-disco fusion \"Midnight Spirit\" and its b-side \"Pas Gain Soleil\" in 1976 on the BLSW label.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3544355, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544355/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:47:36-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3544354, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544354/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:44:56-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Love Me", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Mr. Maurice", "artist_ids": [], "album": "Can You Feel It? Vol. 2: Modern Soul, Disco & Boogie 1976-84", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2019-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Mr. Maurice originally released \"Love Me\" and b-side \"Jealous Pride\" in 1979, but you can find the track on the 2019 compilation album Can You Feel It?, Vol. 2: Modern Soul, Disco & Boogie 1976-84.\n\nhttps://tramprecords.bandcamp.com/album/can-you-feel-it-vol-2-modern-soul-disco-boogie-1976-84", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3544353, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544353/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:39:07-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "I'll Give It Up", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Sanctuary", "artist_ids": [], "album": null, "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Sanctuary Productions" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2022-09-09", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Also known as The Dougler Boys, Arkansas-based electric funk group Sanctuary self-released \"I'll Give It Up\" in 1980.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3544352, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544352/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:33:03-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Long Hangover", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Phillip Malela", "artist_ids": [ "2bb06d7b-505f-4a64-8a22-0d8e999f2c80" ], "album": "Sunny Day", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Black Disco" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1977-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "South African funk singer Phillip Malela offers his rendition of Diana Ross' \"Love Hangover\" with his own \"Long Hangover\" in 1977. Its a-side \"Sunny Day\" is Malela's own take on Donna Summer's 'Spring Affair.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3544351, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544351/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:29:18-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3544350, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544350/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:26:14-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Shake Your Ass", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Dewey Jeffries", "artist_ids": [], "album": "This Is For You", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Della" ], "label_ids": [ "e3a117b3-33d8-4d6d-9555-70c35e2f4b18" ], "release_date": "1981-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Dewey Jeffries released \"Shake Your Ass\" in 1981 on the album This Is For You.\n\nDewey Jeffries was a jazz pianist and songwriter from Cleveland, Ohio.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3544349, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544349/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:22:05-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/706e2312-2b75-4554-bdbb-b379ecfca9b8/42438762419-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/706e2312-2b75-4554-bdbb-b379ecfca9b8/42438762419-250.jpg", "song": "Here Comes Love", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "a78ec96f-2088-4b19-86af-d8877b2a2873", "artist": "Stargard", "artist_ids": [ "153ec29a-aee2-43fc-8b3b-e7c7da92738e" ], "album": "Back 2 Back", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "b790808b-6346-4d07-883a-a80d44353f5d", "labels": [ "Warner Bros. Records" ], "label_ids": [ "c595c289-47ce-4fba-b999-b87503e8cb71" ], "release_date": "1981-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Stargard released \"Here Comes Love\" in 1981 on the Warner Bros. album Back 2 Back.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3544348, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544348/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:19:38-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/e7dd8a96-72f8-4069-801b-6358880ddeb2/39727291403-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/e7dd8a96-72f8-4069-801b-6358880ddeb2/39727291403-250.jpg", "song": "With You", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "79a1917b-c5d2-49d3-98ed-8cc8920a058a", "artist": "Les Imprimés", "artist_ids": [ "36ff0552-3d04-49db-b640-a00bc3bd7213" ], "album": "With You", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "157f3971-027a-41b0-8001-23c30cdcb584", "labels": [ "Big Crown Records" ], "label_ids": [ "d730a8be-1452-4c0d-9262-cf4f25f45120" ], "release_date": "2024-08-26", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Les Imprimés released the uptempo and uplifting \"With You\" in 2024. \n\nThe stirring and ethereal sounds of Les Imprimés and Morten Martens, the man behind the band, are the latest addition to the Big Crown family. Born, raised, and working in Kristiansand, Norway, Morten keeps a low profile while making his heartfelt, highly infectious, and unique music.\n\nhttps://lesimprimes.bandcamp.com/album/with-you-b-w-only-love", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3544347, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544347/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:15:07-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/2393b2f2-8793-4d1f-ac29-46985b42f9b0/29932517434-500.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/2393b2f2-8793-4d1f-ac29-46985b42f9b0/29932517434-250.jpg", "song": "No Other Life Without You", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "01861a9e-914e-485b-ae9b-7c1d4762d1da", "artist": "Greenflow", "artist_ids": [ "2cde317b-a30a-4f70-b89e-53db42f0a86d" ], "album": "Solutions", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "bf29d8f1-e1ad-435e-b248-be0445404221", "labels": [ "QCA" ], "label_ids": [ "be82edb1-4b1d-4dff-bf0e-d89fb0f092a0" ], "release_date": "1977-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Greenflow released \"No Other Life Without You\" in 1977 under the QCA label.\n\nGreeflow was a mid-1970s band formed by Californian trombone player and singer Art Greene with his vocalist sister Eleanora. They played the R&B circuit and also took part in United Services Organizations (USO) tours to perform for US military deployed over the world. They played Japan in 1976 before recording their lone album. On that LP, the line-up is Art & Eleonara Greene plus Allan Talbert on sax and Joe Banks on trumpet. The latter two had connections with George Semper, a jazz organ player who was Wattstax musical director and the owner of Inner City and Parlour Records.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3544346, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544346/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:12:10-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" }, { "id": 3544345, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544345/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:08:51-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Really Really", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "929729d2-6e94-4877-a318-b91b9e101800", "artist": "Retta Young", "artist_ids": [ "5a253f3e-08ba-46ec-81a3-7d1ccc5bf3e6" ], "album": "Young and Restless", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": "190bb64c-a3c9-4a75-b138-4cdfe64a062b", "labels": [ "All Platinum" ], "label_ids": [ "887fc9fb-b3f2-49c9-87b1-33096b6caf1c" ], "release_date": "1976-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "Rhetta Young released \"Really Really\" in 1976 on her only solo album Young and Restless.\n\nRetta Young is a former singer best known for her 1975 disco hit \"Sending Out An S.O.S.\" which made the Billboard Hot Soul Singles, Cash Box Top 100 R&B and UK Top 30 charts. She released an album and three singles during the 1970s.\n\nRetta Young was signed to the All Platinum record label which produced hits for herself, The Moments and Sylvia. The relationship with Phonogram in the UK proved fruitful for the label and the artists. She was backed by The Moments during her Platinum Records period.\n\nYoung was married to Ray, Goodman & Brown member Al Goodman, who died in Hackensack, New Jersey on 26 July 2010.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3544344, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544344/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:05:26-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Nobody", "track_id": null, "recording_id": "017d30e5-61b9-4817-aa7c-1077fe2743ba", "artist": "Hodges, James, Smith & Crawford", "artist_ids": [ "0033530b-286f-4729-a13b-5d603727e455" ], "album": "Early Years and Unheard Pearls 1970-1973", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Kent Soul" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "2021-06-25", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "You can find \"Nobody\" by Hodges, James, Smith & Crawford on the 2021 album Early Years and Unheard Pearls 1970-1973.\n\nHodges, James, Smith & Crawford was a female soul quartet from the 70's. Caroline Crawford later left the group, making it a trio called Hodges, James And Smith.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3544343, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544343/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:03:04-07:00", "show": 64378, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64378/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Next Time I See You", "track_id": null, "recording_id": null, "artist": "Harry Ray", "artist_ids": [ "24018a4b-734b-447f-8faa-f4fa838f19a4" ], "album": "7\" 45 RPM", "release_id": null, "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Sugar Hill Records" ], "label_ids": [], "release_date": "1982-01-01", "rotation_status": null, "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "New Jersey's own Harry Ray released \"Next Time That I See You\" as a b-side to \"Sweet Baby\" for Sugar Hill Records in 1982.\n\nHarry Milton Ray was a vocalist & songwriter who came to prominence as a member of soul & R&B groups like The Valtairs, Ray, Goodman & Brown, and The Moments.", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }, { "id": 3544342, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3544342/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-08-24T18:00:28-07:00", "show": 64377, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64377/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "comment": "", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "airbreak" } ] }