{"id":582,"date":"2006-09-22T13:11:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T20:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2006-09-22T13:11:44","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T20:11:44","slug":"musicquiz-vol-3-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/musicquiz-vol-3-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Musicquiz Vol. 3: 1996"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"JC\" title=\"JC\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/blog\/images\/0906\/jc3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember how I discovered today&#8217;s Mystery Band, but when I dropped their debut cd in my player, it was like a giant overstuffed pillow had smacked me from behind. It might have been a listening station at Morninglory music in Santa Barbara, but then I might have heard it at a coffee house. I dunno. But they have a slow, smoky, speakeasy style drenched in breathy vocals and spare bluesy guitars the likes of which I haven&#8217;t heard since. They&#8217;ve released stuff since, though they&#8217;re hardly prolific, and while the newer albums have been good, they haven&#8217;t quite matched this one for sheer sexiness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/media\/mt_03.mp3\">name that tune<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As usual, check back after 10 o&#8217;clock tonight for the answer. (And no, it&#8217;s not Curve, though looking at the picture, there are obvious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.curve.co.uk\/\">similarities<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t remember how I discovered today&#8217;s Mystery Band, but when I dropped their debut cd in my player, it was like a giant overstuffed pillow had smacked me from behind. It might have been a listening station at Morninglory music in Santa Barbara, but then I might have heard it at a coffee house. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,36],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixsquare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}