{"id":1351,"date":"2010-09-12T09:51:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T16:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2010-09-12T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T03:28:00","slug":"whos-next-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/09\/whos-next-chief\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"

WHO’S NEXT: <\/strong><\/p>\n

CHIEF<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

HOMETOWN:<\/strong> Los Angeles<\/p>\n

MEMBERS:<\/strong>
\nEvan Koga\u00a0 (vocals, guitar)
\nDanny Fujikawa (guitar)
\nMike Moonves (bass)
\nMichael Fujikawa\u00a0 (drums)<\/p>\n

ALBUM:<\/strong> Modern Rituals<\/em>,
\ndue out Aug. 17<\/p>\n

WEBSITE:<\/strong> chieftheband.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Frontman Evan Koga and his fellow L.A.-born\u00a0members of Chief formed the band as students at New York University. They made the move back to California last year, guitarist Danny Fujikawa leaving school to do so. \u201cI had faith in this band and Evan\u2019s songs,\u201d he says. \u201cEvan has a great grip on finding very powerful chords, ones that could even be seen as classic. He doesn\u2019t just sing over them\u2014he flows.\u201d Chief began recording its debut album\u00a0last November with producer Emery Dobyns. The result, Modern Rituals<\/em>, carries echoes of the classic 1970s work of acts like Neil Young, the Band and Crosby, Stills and Nash. \u201cIt\u2019s a traveler\u2019s record. I listen and it immediately feels natural to see myself driving down the Pacific Coast Highway,\u201d says Fujikawa. \u201cBut at the same time, maybe it would feel the same way if I were walking through New York.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WHO’S NEXT: CHIEF HOMETOWN: Los Angeles MEMBERS: Evan Koga\u00a0 (vocals, guitar) Danny Fujikawa (guitar) Mike Moonves (bass) Michael Fujikawa\u00a0 (drums) ALBUM: Modern Rituals, due out Aug. 17 WEBSITE: chieftheband.com Frontman Evan Koga and his fellow L.A.-born\u00a0members of Chief formed the band as students at New York University. They made the move back to California last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[832,828,833,827,623,830,829,831,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351"}],"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=1351"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1351\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}