{"id":5317,"date":"2011-01-14T16:49:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T20:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2011-01-15T14:38:44","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T18:38:44","slug":"trish-keenan-of-broadcast-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/trish-keenan-of-broadcast-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Trish Keenan of Broadcast Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CSYl_neDLIQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><em><strong>Townswoman ladymisskirroyale<\/strong> wrote me before heading off to a busy day at work with the following report:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ok, I know you were broken up about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/gerry-rafferty-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gerry Rafferty<\/a>, but today&#8217;s news about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/rip-trish-keenan-of-broadcast,50071\/\" target=\"_blank\">death of <strong>Trish Keenan<\/strong><\/a>, lead singer of <strong>Broadcast<\/strong>, really bums me out.\u00a0 Broadcast has been one of my favorite bands for a long time.\u00a0 They started out as Stereolab wannabees (but without the overtly political lyrics of Laeticia Sadier) and were also highly influenced by The\u00a0United States of America.\u00a0(Mr. Royale and I tried to get into The United States of America but had minimal luck; albeit, we sampled only one album. The only similarities that they had were the vocals, maybe a bit.\u00a0We sold it back.)\u00a0But Broadcast really started to go in some interesting sonic directions, and I would say that their being labeled &#8220;space rock&#8221; by others was too reductionistic.\u00a0Trish Keenen&#8217;s vocals were at times chilly (a la Karen Carpenter),\u00a0but she was singing about very personal things and from a singular perspective.\u00a0Listen to her sadness on &#8220;Illumination&#8221; on <em>The Future Crayon<\/em>.\u00a0One of my favorite tracks is &#8220;Tender Buttons,&#8221;\u00a0off of the <em>Tender Buttons<\/em> album.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townswoman ladymisskirroyale wrote me before heading off to a busy day at work with the following report: Ok, I know you were broken up about Gerry Rafferty, but today&#8217;s news about the death of Trish Keenan, lead singer of Broadcast, really bums me out.\u00a0 Broadcast has been one of my favorite bands for a long <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/trish-keenan-of-broadcast-dead\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342,16],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}