{"id":2950,"date":"2010-09-17T00:09:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T04:09:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-02-08T21:21:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T02:21:35","slug":"xylophones-they-re-not-just-for-marching-bands-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/xylophones-they-re-not-just-for-marching-bands-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Xylophones: They\u2019re Not Just for Marching Bands Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OKlMh9IYfXM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nToday, while driving to work, I was listening to &#8220;Fredag,&#8221; a new track by the classic\/psychedelic rock outfit <strong>Dungen<\/strong>.  It features guitars, pounding drums, Leon Russell-style piano chords, and&#8230;.a <strong>xylophone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The xylophone seems to be such a sweet, happy instrument that is well suited to twee-ish pop, such as <strong>The Magnetic Fields<\/strong>.  But in a quick scan of our music collection, Mr. Royale and I unearthed these other xylophone-friendly rock tracks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I Will Follow&#8221; by U2<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Gone Daddy Gone&#8221; by the Violent Femmes<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Little Wing&#8221; by Jimi Hendrix<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Under My Thumb&#8221; by the Rolling Stones<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And I&#8217;m sure there are more that you can think of. So is there a place in rock for the xylophone?<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oCuQQcISZTM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>P.S. &#8211; &#8220;Born To Run&#8221; showcases a glockenspiel&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, while driving to work, I was listening to &#8220;Fredag,&#8221; a new track by the classic\/psychedelic rock outfit Dungen. It features guitars, pounding drums, Leon Russell-style piano chords, and&#8230;.a xylophone. The xylophone seems to be such a sweet, happy instrument that is well suited to twee-ish pop, such as The Magnetic Fields. But in a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/xylophones-they-re-not-just-for-marching-bands-anymore\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[312,313],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950"}],"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\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}