{"id":107,"date":"2009-02-02T17:52:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T21:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=107"},"modified":"2009-02-02T17:54:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T21:54:03","slug":"the-hold-steady-brooklyns-finest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"THE HOLD STEADY &#8211; Brooklyn&#8217;s Finest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3120\/3213384582_d8745a45a3.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/>This band is so good, I don&#8217;t even know what to say.  the Hold Steady is four records into a pretty nice rock career and Craig Finn&#8217;s lyrics and singing are a blast of fresh air for those of us who think, maybe, Bruce Springsteen has lost a bit of his edge over the past five or six records.  They were recently featured on the NPR program &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundopinions.org\/\">Sound Opinions<\/a>&#8216; and I&#8217;ve uploaded the particular show to mpomy.com, since I don&#8217;t know how long the stuff will be archived.  <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/Music\/sooppodshow165.mp3\">Here is the link<\/a>.  As an acoustic outfit, they&#8217;re compelling.  As an electric band they are quick karate chop that splinters everything about modern rock and its holier-than-thou attitude.  I urge you to make that trip to Ygor City, shake hands with Sal Paradise and all the other freaks and misfits that inhabit this world.  you will not be disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This band is so good, I don&#8217;t even know what to say. the Hold Steady is four records into a pretty nice rock career and Craig Finn&#8217;s lyrics and singing are a blast of fresh air for those of us &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=107\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[1478,77,154,153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}