{"id":2586,"date":"2011-07-26T22:28:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T05:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2586"},"modified":"2011-07-26T22:28:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T05:28:35","slug":"something-fierce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/something-fierce\/","title":{"rendered":"SOMETHING FIERCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2587\" title=\"Something-Fierce-Dont-Be-So-Cruel-M-Review-May2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Something-Fierce-Dont-Be-So-Cruel-M-Review-May2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Something-Fierce-Dont-Be-So-Cruel-M-Review-May2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Something-Fierce-Dont-Be-So-Cruel-M-Review-May2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>S<\/strong><strong>OMETHING FIERCE<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Don\u2019t Be So Cruel<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>somethingfiercemusic.com<\/p>\n<p>Neither \u201cFuture Punks\u201d nor this disc\u2019s title cut is a reggae song, but with their sparse guitars and go-go basslines, both songs have the agitated bounce of \u201cPolice and Thieves,\u201d the Clash\u2019s first foray into Jamaican music. Something Fierce has clearly been studying the Clash closely, but the Houston trio is equally fond of the Jam and the Undertones\u2014groups that knew crummy economic and political circumstances are no reasons to make depressing music. Frontman Steven Garcia sings about greed, guns, globalization and the war in Afghanistan, but <em>Don\u2019t Be So Cruel <\/em>remains a top-down party record. \u201cWhat we need now ain\u2019t coming today,\u201d Garcia sings, looking to rock \u2019n\u2019 roll to point the way forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOMETHING FIERCE Don\u2019t Be So Cruel somethingfiercemusic.com Neither \u201cFuture Punks\u201d nor this disc\u2019s title cut is a reggae song, but with their sparse guitars and go-go basslines, both songs have the agitated bounce of \u201cPolice and Thieves,\u201d the Clash\u2019s first foray into Jamaican music. Something Fierce has clearly been studying the Clash closely, but the [&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":[196,2043,10159,1634,2042,2044],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586"}],"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=2586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2586\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}