{"id":22933,"date":"2016-01-12T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22933"},"modified":"2016-01-11T10:49:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:49:22","slug":"thinking-about-rock-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thinking-about-rock-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking About Rock in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ST_NTjtcFzA\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I sometimes get people mad at me when I tell them that the majority of people these days don&#8217;t like rock. I guess I&#8217;m not the only one that thinks this. In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/nodepression.com\/article\/who-lydia-loveless-year-we-find-out-0\" target=\"_blank\">No Depression Q&amp;A<\/a> with a movie director named Gorman Bechard, he agrees with a comment made by <strong>Lydia Loveless<\/strong> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D1aIaHL38A8\" target=\"_blank\">new documentary<\/a> he is making about her and her band.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Q.<\/strong> \u00a0In the [movie] trailer, [Loveless] says, \u201cI don\u2019t think people really like rock and roll although they claim they do.\u201d Where do you think that comes from?<br \/>\n<strong>Gorman Bechard: <\/strong>\u00a0Oh I think she\u2019s one hundred percent right. I think people are scared by rock and roll. I think people want to think they like rock and roll but wake up people, Vampire Weekend is not rock and roll.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>What do you think?<\/strong> <em>Have we passed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iFWtsT5zRKo\">point of no return<\/a><\/em><em>&#8230;or like me do you think\/hope this is a cyclical down cycle for r-o-c-k<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sometimes get people mad at me when I tell them that the majority of people these days don&#8217;t like rock. I guess I&#8217;m not the only one that thinks this. In a recent No Depression Q&amp;A with a movie director named Gorman Bechard, he agrees with a comment made by Lydia Loveless in a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thinking-about-rock-in-2016\/' 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\/22933"}],"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=22933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}