{"id":1651,"date":"2011-03-04T20:17:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T03:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2011-03-04T20:17:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T03:17:26","slug":"stan-ridgway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/stan-ridgway\/","title":{"rendered":"STAN RIDGWAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/STAN-RIDGWAY-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1652\" title=\"STAN-RIDGWAY-M-Review-SeptOct2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/STAN-RIDGWAY-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/STAN-RIDGWAY-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/STAN-RIDGWAY-M-Review-SeptOct2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>STAN RIDGWAY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Neon Mirage <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stanridgway.com\" target=\"_blank\">stanridgway.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over 33 years, first with Wall of Voodoo and subsequently through a solo career full of darkly cinematic musings, retro jazz affectations and creepy film scores, Stan Ridgway hasn\u2019t exactly made accessibility his raison d\u2019\u00eatre. But <em>Neon Mirage<\/em> is his most revealing effort yet, one that bares his torn psyche following the deaths of his father, his uncle and musical colleague Amy Farris. \u201cBig Green Tree,\u201d \u201cHalfway There\u201d and a somber cover of Dylan\u2019s \u201cLenny Bruce\u201d are steeped in reflection and resilience. Echoes of Ridgway\u2019s eclecticism remain in the horn-drenched cacophony of \u201cDesert of Dreams,\u201d the whimsical \u201cWandering Star\u201d and the Morricone-esque \u201cDay Up in the Sun.\u201d <em>Neon Mirage<\/em> is never less than illuminating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAN RIDGWAY Neon Mirage stanridgway.com Over 33 years, first with Wall of Voodoo and subsequently through a solo career full of darkly cinematic musings, retro jazz affectations and creepy film scores, Stan Ridgway hasn\u2019t exactly made accessibility his raison d\u2019\u00eatre. But Neon Mirage is his most revealing effort yet, one that bares his torn psyche [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,1146,1062,1145,1147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651"}],"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=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}