{"id":698,"date":"2010-08-11T13:52:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T20:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=698"},"modified":"2010-08-11T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T20:52:50","slug":"seth-augustus-to-the-pouring-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/seth-augustus-to-the-pouring-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"SETH AUGUSTUS + To the Pouring Rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/To-the-Pouring-Rain-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-699\" title=\"To-the-Pouring-Rain-M2-Review-MarApr2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/To-the-Pouring-Rain-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg\" alt=\"To the Pouring Rain\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/To-the-Pouring-Rain-M2-Review-MarApr2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/To-the-Pouring-Rain-M2-Review-MarApr2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>SETH AUGUSTUS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>To the Pouring Rain<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sethaugustus.com\" target=\"_blank\">sethaugustus.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A veritable one-man band, Seth Augustus first immersed himself in Boston\u2019s experimental music scene in the \u201980s before moving to San Francisco. The apprentice of bluesman Paul Pena has concocted an unusual musical mix influenced by both tradition and experimentation. It follows, then, that with this debut, Augustus sports a ragtag delivery that owes as much to Captain Beefheart and Robyn Hitchcock as it does to Kurt Weill. With his croaked snarl of a vocal\u2014and imposing mix of Howlin\u2019 Wolf and Tom Waits\u2014songs such as \u201cCherry Rose,\u201d \u201cSlim Sam\u201d and \u201cAir to the Thrown\u201d sound parched and off-kilter, swampy gut-bucket blues skewed by an inherent eccentricity. <em>To the Pouring Rain<\/em> isn\u2019t always an easy listen, but it makes an emphatic impression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SETH AUGUSTUS To the Pouring Rain sethaugustus.com A veritable one-man band, Seth Augustus first immersed himself in Boston\u2019s experimental music scene in the \u201980s before moving to San Francisco. The apprentice of bluesman Paul Pena has concocted an unusual musical mix influenced by both tradition and experimentation. It follows, then, that with this debut, Augustus [&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":[196,10159,271,350,352,351],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"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=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}