{"id":77,"date":"2008-10-01T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2013-10-07T19:46:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T19:46:42","slug":"these-just-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"These Just In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been received some new CDs for possible review. We only trash sickeningly famous Rolling Stone best-album-list darlings, so we can already warmly endorse these independent artists. My former ukulele teacher Alex Smith from Bloomington-Normal, IL, has released a new CD with his band <a href=\"http:\/\/constantvelocity.net\/\">Constant Velocity<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/constantvelocity.net\/muttonhead.cfm\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Muttonhead<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The enigmatic (as in: who the hell is this?) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocococa.com\/Coco_Coca_Dot_Com.html\">Coco Coca<\/a> (and why is she called &#8220;Coco Coca&#8221;?) has sent us a CD called <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Black, Black, Black<\/span>. Coco Coca appears to be a solo Seattle-Champaign artist, but we are wonderfully unburdened with any preconception of who they are that might interfere with our raw experience of the music. I do know that cacao is the agricultural commodity from which cocoa is derived, and Coca-Cola is of course a popular softdrink that once featured coca and cola as key ingredients to provide that extra-special zing, but this trivia tells me very little. Does the music sound like cola, chocolate, and cocaine? Sounds like a tour bus.<\/p>\n<p>Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parasol.com\/\">Parasol<\/a> have given us a couple of new releases: <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Homesick<\/span> by the Tractor Kings, and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Love at Thirty<\/span> by Beaujolais. Cristy should review the second one. I don&#8217;t suppose either of us are too homesick.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, and most intriguingly, Paul Kotheimer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.handmaderecords.com\/\">Hand-Made Record Label<\/a> has released a CD called &#8220;A Martian Sends a Postcard Home,&#8221; which is an astonishing variety of musical settings of poems by other people. Until the copyright issues are cleared, this is only available as a hand-made CD given to people by hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been received some new CDs for possible review. We only trash sickeningly famous Rolling Stone best-album-list darlings, so we can already warmly endorse these independent artists. My former ukulele teacher Alex Smith from Bloomington-Normal, IL, has released a new CD with his band Constant Velocity: Muttonhead. The enigmatic (as in: who the hell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,176],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constant-velocity","category-the-rock-inbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}