{"id":13529,"date":"2010-01-26T19:06:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T03:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13529"},"modified":"2010-01-26T19:39:54","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T03:39:54","slug":"midnight-oil-violent-femmes-reach-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=13529","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Oil, Violent Femmes Reach The Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/thebreak.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/thebreak.jpg','popup','width=800,height=553,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/thebreak-tm.jpg\" height=\"138\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Thebreak\" \/><\/a>Like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themcrookedvultures.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">vultures<\/a><\/strong> feeding on the pop music dead it seems the super-groups just keep coming. This time it&#8217;s <strong>Midnight Oil\u2019s Rob Hirst<\/strong>, <strong>Jim Moginie<\/strong> and <strong>Martin Rotsey<\/strong> and bass player <strong>Brian Ritchie<\/strong> of <strong>Violent Femmes<\/strong> who are kicking off a psycho \u2019surf rock band\u2019 called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebreak.net.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Break<\/a><\/strong>, according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/beatcrave.com\/2010-01-26\/midnight-oil-and-violent-femmes-members-start-new-surf-rock-band\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beatcave<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The foursome releases its debut album, <strong>Church Of The Open Sky<\/strong>, on April 16th via the Bombora label. . . The band\u2019s official website already features a new song, \u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebreak.net.au\/music.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cylinders<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d which they describe as having \u201cmaximum surf and twang, sturm and drang.\u201d The song is actually the first single and will be available Feb. 9 via iTunes. . . With 15 tracks, each named after legendary surf breaks, the music is definitely exciting, a nice blend of surf-guitar rock, but with a modern twist \u2013 maybe even a hint of the Oils in there as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sounds a little like Devo&#8217;s p-twang band <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/s0.ilike.com\/play%23The%2BWipeouters:Bikini%2BBeach:413871:s37934692.10369627.17965940.0.2.21%252Cstd_83a86d2f891749a399a3426c24470274&amp;ei=26xfS465DoTUtgOw_Mi6Cw&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=music_play_track&amp;resnum=2&amp;ct=result&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CA8Q0wQoATAA&amp;usg=AFQjCNH46NARxezCgNrh-xGt-NPIVSUhxw\" target=\"_blank\">The Wipeouters<\/a><\/strong> to us, but it&#8217;s all good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/beatcrave.com\/2010-01-26\/midnight-oil-and-violent-femmes-members-start-new-surf-rock-band\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beat Cave<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like vultures feeding on the pop music dead it seems the super-groups just keep coming. This time it&#8217;s Midnight Oil\u2019s Rob Hirst, Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey and bass player Brian Ritchie of Violent Femmes who are kicking off a psycho \u2019surf rock band\u2019 called The Break, according to a story on Beatcave. The foursome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13529"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13531,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13529\/revisions\/13531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}