{"id":15431,"date":"2012-09-09T23:45:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T03:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15431"},"modified":"2012-09-10T07:42:52","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T11:42:52","slug":"greasy-kid-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/greasy-kid-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Greasy Kid Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15358\" title=\"TTYO\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TTYO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TTYO.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TTYO-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I first came across the then-16 year old <strong>Archy Marshall<\/strong> via the video below, and it just blew me away with raw, choked-up emotion and Billy Bragg-like vocals coming out of this Dickensian Rick Astley urchin.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L9wLrAtcd6Y?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Working under the moniker <strong>Zoo Kid<\/strong>, this little snot-nosed wunderkind cranked out a batch of &#8217;80s-tinged punky, jazzy, folky, rockabilly, dubby little ditties on his Bandcamp site. As a seasoned 17 year old, he changed to <strong>King Krule<\/strong>, but he continues to stay true to his aesthetic. Which is what? A thuggish Everything But The Girl? Paul Weller fronting a garage band? Joe Strummer meets Gang Starr? Amped Aztec Camera?<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15432\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/greasy-kid-stuff\/baby-blue\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baby Blue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15433\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/greasy-kid-stuff\/ocean-bed\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ocean Bed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I want to slap this tone-deaf funky little hooligan on the back. You go, kid!<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15434\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/greasy-kid-stuff\/03-portrait-in-black-and-blue\/\" target=\"_blank\">Portrait In Black and Blue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15434\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/greasy-kid-stuff\/03-portrait-in-black-and-blue\/\"><\/a><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15435\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/greasy-kid-stuff\/01-rock-bottom\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rock Bottom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first came across the then-16 year old Archy Marshall via the video below, and it just blew me away with raw, choked-up emotion and Billy Bragg-like vocals coming out of this Dickensian Rick Astley urchin. Working under the moniker Zoo Kid, this little snot-nosed wunderkind cranked out a batch of &#8217;80s-tinged punky, jazzy, folky, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/greasy-kid-stuff\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[269,717,644,716],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}