{"id":24,"date":"2007-09-15T11:10:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T18:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/24"},"modified":"2007-09-15T11:10:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-15T18:10:27","slug":"music-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2007\/09\/15\/music-4\/","title":{"rendered":"music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Queens of the Stone Age album, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Era_Vulgaris_(album)\">Era Vulgaris<\/a>, is excellent. <\/p>\n<p>Like a great dessert, it is slightly perverse, simple in its presentation and complex in its elaboration. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nn7UlBlY0qA\">Turnin on the Screw<\/a>, the opening track, has a lengthy bridge that is spun cotton candy: both mindless and elaborate. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sYw0KhwXdAY\">Josh<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BOZEJxGylsU\">Homme<\/a> is one of the most versatile rock singers of our time as well as an inspired songwriter. And where other bands <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cmKrPtX7aa4\">struggle to perform live<\/a> \u2013 producing stale covers of their own material \u2013 Homme and his collaborators can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ki8Y33DIU6I\">dig deep<\/a> into a track while performing in front of tens of thousands of spectators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Queens of the Stone Age album, Era Vulgaris, is excellent. Like a great dessert, it is slightly perverse, simple in its presentation and complex in its elaboration. Turnin on the Screw, the opening track, has a lengthy bridge that is spun cotton candy: both mindless and elaborate. Josh Homme is one of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}