{"id":22359,"date":"2015-03-30T09:16:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T13:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22359"},"modified":"2015-03-30T09:16:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-30T13:16:12","slug":"is-elastica-due-for-a-critical-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/is-elastica-due-for-a-critical-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Elastica Due for a Critical Upgrade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gY2s4hJ8kuA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This may seem kind of odd, but man, I&#8217;ve been listening to a bunch of what seems to me to be <strong>Elastica<\/strong>-inspired new music lately.\u00a0<strong>Speedy Oritz<\/strong>, <strong>Wolf Alice<\/strong>, and <strong>Torres.<\/strong>\u00a0 I remember getting that Elastica album thinking &#8212; are they going to blow up into then next <strong>Pretenders<\/strong>?\u00a0Connection (above) and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/0ie4x8hWYYE\">Stutter <\/a>&#8212; I loved it.\u00a0Are they a one-(well, two-)album band that needs a bit more respect?\u00a0They fizzled out quickly partly because of lawsuits, but a new bunch bands seem to working the same territory.\u00a0What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Wolf Alice:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D_MTHwAp-_Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may seem kind of odd, but man, I&#8217;ve been listening to a bunch of what seems to me to be Elastica-inspired new music lately.\u00a0Speedy Oritz, Wolf Alice, and Torres.\u00a0 I remember getting that Elastica album thinking &#8212; are they going to blow up into then next Pretenders?\u00a0Connection (above) and Stutter &#8212; I loved it.\u00a0Are <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/is-elastica-due-for-a-critical-upgrade\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22359"}],"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\/1413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}