{"id":2703,"date":"2011-07-27T00:30:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T07:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2011-07-27T00:30:52","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T07:30:52","slug":"the-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/the-tunnel\/","title":{"rendered":"THE TUNNEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2704\" title=\"THE-TUNNEL-M-Review-June2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/THE-TUNNEL-M-Review-June2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/THE-TUNNEL-M-Review-June2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/THE-TUNNEL-M-Review-June2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>T<\/strong><strong>HE TUNNEL<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Fathoms Deep<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>thetunnelsf.com<\/p>\n<p>A veteran of San Francisco\u2019s avant-garde theater scene, hammy Tunnel frontman Jeff Wagner sings like a theme-park pirate or B-movie baddie. \u201cI\u2019m not of your world,\u201d he warns on \u201cKing of the Impossible,\u201d claiming instead to be from a \u201cwhole other underworld.\u201d That underworld sounds suspiciously like Australia, as his sound echoes several of that continent\u2019s most influential acts. The most obvious is the Birthday Party, but Nick Cave\u2019s early Goth-punk outfit isn\u2019t the only precedent for the Tunnel\u2019s dark, theatrical rock. The trio\u2019s swampy blues riffs will remind Aussie aficionados of \u201980s greats the Scientists and Beasts of Bourbon, while Wagner\u2019s vocals recall Midnight Oil leader Peter Garrett\u2014a rocker-turned-politician who never made music this unabashedly fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE TUNNEL Fathoms Deep thetunnelsf.com A veteran of San Francisco\u2019s avant-garde theater scene, hammy Tunnel frontman Jeff Wagner sings like a theme-park pirate or B-movie baddie. \u201cI\u2019m not of your world,\u201d he warns on \u201cKing of the Impossible,\u201d claiming instead to be from a \u201cwhole other underworld.\u201d That underworld sounds suspiciously like Australia, as his [&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":[196,2147,10159,1636,2146,2148],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703"}],"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=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2705,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions\/2705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}