{"id":5725,"date":"2012-04-25T01:19:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T08:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5725"},"modified":"2012-04-25T01:19:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T08:19:41","slug":"koffin-kats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/04\/koffin-kats\/","title":{"rendered":"KOFFIN KATS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5726\" title=\"KOFFIN-KATS-M-Review-JanFeb2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/KOFFIN-KATS-M-Review-JanFeb2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/KOFFIN-KATS-M-Review-JanFeb2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/KOFFIN-KATS-M-Review-JanFeb2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>K<\/strong><strong>OFFIN KATS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Our Way &amp; the Highway<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>koffinkatsrock.com<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>With a few notable exceptions\u2014the grisly murder tale \u201cA Terrible Way\u201d and apocalyptic rager \u201cThe Devil Asked\u201d among them\u2014the Koffin Kats spend much of their sixth album singing about boozing and touring. If the songs are autobiographical, the Detroit psychobilly trio hasn\u2019t let its lifestyle become a hindrance. The production is pomade-slick, and the playing is tighter than sopping-wet Levis\u2014even when singer and upright bassist Vic Victor is seemingly bloodying his slapping hand to keep pace with the Clydesdale drumming. <em>Our Way<\/em> is for big rooms and broad audiences; were this sort of Fonzie-style thrashing more marketable, the Kats might do for \u201910s rockabilly what Green Day did for \u201990s punk.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOFFIN KATS Our Way &amp; the Highway koffinkatsrock.com With a few notable exceptions\u2014the grisly murder tale \u201cA Terrible Way\u201d and apocalyptic rager \u201cThe Devil Asked\u201d among them\u2014the Koffin Kats spend much of their sixth album singing about boozing and touring. If the songs are autobiographical, the Detroit psychobilly trio hasn\u2019t let its lifestyle become a [&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":[196,10159,3185,3434,3436,3435],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725"}],"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=5725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5727,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions\/5727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}