{"id":6621,"date":"2011-04-04T22:49:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T02:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6621"},"modified":"2011-04-04T22:50:41","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T02:50:41","slug":"lost-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lost-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BfUKjml9kl0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>With all our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/scott-pilgrim-vs-the-world-and-the-evolving-rock-n-roll-landscape\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent discussion\/posts about changes in music today<\/a>, it was interesting to hear about this &#8220;band.&#8221;\u00a0<strong>Dirty Beaches<\/strong> seems to epitomize nostalgia for the rock and roll of an America that no longer exists. In a recent interview with Urban Outfitters (!), <strong>Alex Hungtai<\/strong>, a Taiwanese-born Canadian, talks about his inspiration being primarily movies, rather than music, and that he &#8220;carves out&#8221; a song as if he were a casting director. Like the directors he admires, Hungtai sees himself as an exile, and his amped-up rockabilly evokes that search for a home he never had.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the best current rock and roll is made by outsiders?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all our recent discussion\/posts about changes in music today, it was interesting to hear about this &#8220;band.&#8221;\u00a0Dirty Beaches seems to epitomize nostalgia for the rock and roll of an America that no longer exists. In a recent interview with Urban Outfitters (!), Alex Hungtai, a Taiwanese-born Canadian, talks about his inspiration being primarily movies, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lost-highway\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621"}],"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=6621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}