{"id":10922,"date":"2013-09-13T10:23:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T17:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=10922"},"modified":"2013-09-13T10:24:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T17:24:32","slug":"sarah-blacker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/09\/sarah-blacker\/","title":{"rendered":"SARAH BLACKER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10923\" alt=\"SARAH-BLACKER-M-Review-No29\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SARAH-BLACKER-M-Review-No29.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SARAH-BLACKER-M-Review-No29.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SARAH-BLACKER-M-Review-No29-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>SARAH BLACKER<\/b><\/p>\n<h1><b><i>Precious Little Things<\/i><\/b><\/h1>\n<p>sarahblacker.com<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of songwriters spin melodies as effortlessly as Sarah Blacker does, and some even have similar ways with words, though it\u2019s rare to hear phrases like \u201cdirty dancing with the revelry of the heart\u201d delivered with such a lack of pretension. What sets Blacker apart\u2014and what explains her recent win for Female Performer of the Year at the New England Music Awards\u2014is her willingness to get a little weird. Sure, her vibe is more KT Tunstall than it is Regina Spektor, but with the help of producer Sean McLaughlin (Marilyn Manson, Elliott Smith), she dips into twee ukulele reggae and folkie hip-hop, peeping the world from strange perches without going over anyone\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARAH BLACKER Precious Little Things sarahblacker.com Plenty of songwriters spin melodies as effortlessly as Sarah Blacker does, and some even have similar ways with words, though it\u2019s rare to hear phrases like \u201cdirty dancing with the revelry of the heart\u201d delivered with such a lack of pretension. What sets Blacker apart\u2014and what explains her recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,7093,7161,7162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10922"}],"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=10922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10926,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10922\/revisions\/10926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}