{"id":2886,"date":"2011-08-01T22:12:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T05:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2011-08-01T22:12:22","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T05:12:22","slug":"the-memorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/the-memorials\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MEMORIALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2887\" title=\"The-Memorials-QandA\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-Memorials-QandA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-Memorials-QandA.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/The-Memorials-QandA-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>THE MEMORIALS<\/h2>\n<p><strong>HOMETOWN:<\/strong> Berkeley, Calif.<br \/>\n<strong>members:<\/strong> Viveca Hawkins (vocals), Nick Brewer (guitar), Thomas Pridgen (drums)<br \/>\n<strong>ALBUM:<\/strong> <em>The Memorials<\/em>, due out Jan. 18<br \/>\n<strong>WEBSITE:<\/strong> thememorialsmusic.com<\/p>\n<p>After parting ways with prog-rock band the Mars Volta in late 2009, drummer Thomas Pridgen immediately set about putting a new group together. He reached out to singer Viveca Hawkins and guitarist Nick Brewer, both of whom he had met while attending the Berklee College of Music. The trio wrote and recorded the songs that would become the basis of its self-titled debut in one whirlwind week. \u201cThat recording session was ridiculous,\u201d says Brewer. \u201cI\u2019ve never worked that hard creatively in my life.\u201d The result fuses Pridgen\u2019s aggressively complex drumming with Hawkins\u2019 soulful vocals and Brewer\u2019s hard-rock riffage. \u201cLooking back on how the music and ideas flowed out of us, it was natural from the start,\u201d Pridgen says. \u201cThat\u2019s why I didn\u2019t doubt it. Music is supposed to be people\u2019s release. I feel that I picked amazing talents as bandmates, and I\u2019m stoked we were on the same page.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE MEMORIALS HOMETOWN: Berkeley, Calif. members: Viveca Hawkins (vocals), Nick Brewer (guitar), Thomas Pridgen (drums) ALBUM: The Memorials, due out Jan. 18 WEBSITE: thememorialsmusic.com After parting ways with prog-rock band the Mars Volta in late 2009, drummer Thomas Pridgen immediately set about putting a new group together. He reached out to singer Viveca Hawkins and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[1334,2224,2225,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886"}],"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=2886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2888,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2886\/revisions\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}