{"id":1689,"date":"2008-10-22T17:26:01","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T17:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2008-10-22T17:26:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T17:26:01","slug":"hear-this-now-the-winterpills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1689","title":{"rendered":"Hear This Now: The Winterpills."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the lovely <a href=\"http:\/\/lcrw.net\/wordpress\/\">Small Beer Press newsblog<\/a> comes my discovery of a new favorite group.  Ever heard of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winterpills.com\/\">Winterpills<\/a>?  No?  Then get thyself over to their official site or their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virb.com\/winterpills\">Virb.com page<\/a> and give their stuff a listen.  Close harmonies, beautifully wistful and poetic lyrics (as SBP notes, yes, &#8220;You were born immortal and you&#8217;ll die immortal&#8221; is a <i>bloody amazing line,<\/i> and <i>I wish I&#8217;d thought of it<\/i>, as is &#8220;We met first in caf\u00c3\u00a9s \/ and later in ruins&#8221; &#150; I mean, <i>day-um<\/i>) and a myriad of both acoustic guitars and slightly distorted tweets, chirps and burbles make this group easily one of my favorite new discoveries of 2008.  And yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewArtist?id=82010635\">they&#8217;re on iTunes<\/a>.  There went thirty bucks&#8230;<br \/>\nAnd now I must away, as Laura and I have tickets to tonight&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/harvard.com\/events\/press_release.php?id=2145\">Gregory Maguire \/ Maria Tatar event<\/a> at the Brattle and I am sufficiently stoked for both of us and all of you out there in Internetville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the lovely Small Beer Press newsblog comes my discovery of a new favorite group. Ever heard of the Winterpills? No? Then get thyself over to their official site or their Virb.com page and give their stuff a listen. Close harmonies, beautifully wistful and poetic lyrics (as SBP notes, yes, &#8220;You were born immortal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,26,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-rf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}