{"id":742,"date":"2008-01-10T09:52:14","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T09:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=742"},"modified":"2014-03-07T09:47:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T14:47:48","slug":"marseille-figs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"Marseille Figs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow pointed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/01\/09\/marseille-figs-uptem.html\">Marseille Figs: uptempo pop from a &#8220;small big band&#8221; &#8212; Violent Femmes meets Tom Waits meets Squirrel Nut Zippers<\/a> and I followed up with a little venture in downloading via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000YAC2HK\/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1199975744&#038;sr=8-2\">Amazon<\/a>, but perhaps I shoulda gone with <a href=\"http:\/\/cdbaby.com\/cd\/marseillefigs\">CD Baby<\/a> for a few bux more&#8230; Anyhow, I&#8217;m enjoying them, and some of you will too (probably the same ones who respond with glee to the excesses of the Holy Modal Rounders). Others won&#8217;t (probably the same ones who can&#8217;t bear The Pogues). But take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marseillefigs.org\/\">the band&#8217;s Web site<\/a> and perhaps sample <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marseillefigs.org\/sound\/thedirtycanon\/mfigs-tdc-lowlowthing.mp3\">Low Low Thing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marseillefigs.org\/sound\/thedirtycanon\/mfigs-tdc-caesarsrevenge.mp3\">Caesar&#8217;s Revenge<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marseillefigs.org\/sound\/thedirtycanon\/mfigs-tdc-goodyear.mp3\">Good Year<\/a>, and see a useful review by Chris Daykin: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roomthirteen.com\/cgi-bin\/cd_view.cgi?CDID=6922\">Something new, for a change<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow pointed to Marseille Figs: uptempo pop from a &#8220;small big band&#8221; &#8212; Violent Femmes meets Tom Waits meets Squirrel Nut Zippers and I followed up with a little venture in downloading via Amazon, but perhaps I shoulda gone with CD Baby for a few bux more&#8230; Anyhow, I&#8217;m enjoying them, and some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2643,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/2643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}