{"id":2354,"date":"2011-07-25T22:48:31","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T05:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2354"},"modified":"2011-07-25T22:48:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T05:48:31","slug":"mastodon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/mastodon\/","title":{"rendered":"MASTODON"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2355\" title=\"MASTODON-M-Review-MarApr2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/MASTODON-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/MASTODON-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/MASTODON-M-Review-MarApr2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>M<\/strong><strong>ASTODON<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Live at the Aragon <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Reprise]<\/p>\n<p>Prog-metal juggernaut Mastodon\u2019s first-ever live album, a CD\/DVD set recorded in 2009 at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, offers an agreeably straightforward (if abbreviated) account of the band\u2019s bruising stage show. The quartet plows through its most recent concept album, <em>Crack the Skye<\/em>, in its entirety and throws in a few oldies and a cover of the Melvins\u2019 \u201cThe Bit.\u201d The members\u2019 performances are uniformly instrumentally dazzling, although the frequency of off-key vocals is distracting (even so, points for not cleaning up those moments in postproduction). The hidden prize here is the DVD extra <em>Crack the Skye: The Movie<\/em>, which features the elaborate video production seen playing behind the band onstage, set to the studio version of the album. It\u2019s an artful montage by director Robert \u201cRoboshobo\u201d Schober that offers a sumptuous companion to <em>Crack the Skye<\/em>\u2019s far-flung story of astral travel, wormholes and Russian mysticism. \u2013Chris Neal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MASTODON Live at the Aragon [Reprise] Prog-metal juggernaut Mastodon\u2019s first-ever live album, a CD\/DVD set recorded in 2009 at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, offers an agreeably straightforward (if abbreviated) account of the band\u2019s bruising stage show. The quartet plows through its most recent concept album, Crack the Skye, in its entirety and throws in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1864,1807,1863,277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354"}],"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=2354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2354\/revisions\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}