{"id":10195,"date":"2013-07-11T15:48:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T22:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=10195"},"modified":"2013-07-11T15:50:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T22:50:53","slug":"figat7th-downtown-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/07\/figat7th-downtown-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"FIGat7th Downtown Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10197\" alt=\"Print\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/45.jpg\" width=\"664\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/45.jpg 664w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/45-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This Friday the headliners include<b>\u00a0<\/b><b><a href=\"http:\/\/akronfamily.bandpage.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AKRON\/FAMILY<\/a><\/b>,\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/peakinglights.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">PEAKING LIGHTS<\/a><\/b>,\u00a0<b>along with an extremely rare Los Angeles appearance and performance by<\/b>\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dust-digital.com\/lonnie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lonnie Holley<\/a><\/b>. \u00a0Holley\u00a0has been making music for some 30 years. \u00a0&#8220;He\u00a0sings with an intense, emotional voice and unleashes lyrics without consistent meter or rhyme over gossamer keyboard lines that hang in the ether. His music is a blues nebula, splotched with riffy word jazz that shares in some rappers\u2019 collagist aesthetics as well as the runaway passion of a gospel preacher enlivened by the Spirit. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dust-digital.com\/lonnie\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Just Before Music<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is aptly titled since Holley restrains himself from too much conventional musicality\u2014melody and that sort of thing. (<a href=\"http:\/\/aquariumdrunkard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">aquariumdrunkard.com<\/a>).&#8221; \u00a0The 63-year-old\u00a0artist and musician&#8217;s upcoming second album,\u00a0<i>Keeping a Record of It<\/i>, will be released September 3 via the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dust-digital.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dust to Digital<\/a>\u00a0label. The album also features contributions from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/7862-bradford-cox\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bradford Cox<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Cole Alexander\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/27257-the-black-lips\/\" target=\"_blank\">Black Lips<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Complete calendar listing of free and ticketless concerts and playlist of featured bands:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.figat7th.com\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.figat7th.com\/events\/<\/a>\u00a0(look for the Spotify playlist under &#8220;Music&#8221;). \u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10196\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10196\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10196 \" alt=\"AKRON\/FAMILY PEAKING LIGHTS  Lonnie Holley Friday | July 12 Doors | 6:30pm Plaza\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/71.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/71.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/71-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AKRON\/FAMILY<br \/>PEAKING LIGHTS<br \/>Lonnie Holley<br \/>Friday | July 12<br \/>Doors | 6:30pm Plaza<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This Friday the headliners include\u00a0AKRON\/FAMILY,\u00a0PEAKING LIGHTS,\u00a0along with an extremely rare Los Angeles appearance and performance by\u00a0Lonnie Holley. \u00a0Holley\u00a0has been making music for some 30 years. \u00a0&#8220;He\u00a0sings with an intense, emotional voice and unleashes lyrics without consistent meter or rhyme over gossamer keyboard lines that hang in the ether. His music is a blues nebula, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1058],"tags":[6845,6848,6854,6852,6853,6851,6850,6847,6849,6846,6844],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10195"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10201,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195\/revisions\/10201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}