{"id":8377,"date":"2012-12-28T03:09:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T10:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8377"},"modified":"2012-12-28T03:09:56","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T10:09:56","slug":"slam-donahue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/12\/slam-donahue\/","title":{"rendered":"SLAM DONAHUE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8378\" title=\"SLAM-DONAHUE-M-Review-NOV-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SLAM-DONAHUE-M-Review-NOV-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SLAM-DONAHUE-M-Review-NOV-2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SLAM-DONAHUE-M-Review-NOV-2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>SLAM DONAHUE<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Hemlock Tea<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>slamdonahue.com<\/p>\n<p>Sunshine pop for Brooklyn basement dwellers: There\u2019s the tagline for this duo\u2019s debut EP. Singer and guitarist David Otto has the soulful rasp and melodic sense of Them-era Van Morrison, and with the help of producer Ayad Al Adhamy, who\u2019s pulled off similar retro-modern feats with Passion Pit, he sounds simultaneously young and used up, wide-eyed and red-eyed. \u201cI\u2019ll drop anything for fun,\u201d he sings on \u201cBug in the Sun,\u201d and he\u2019s not bluffing. \u201cI Turn On\u201d and \u201cC\u2019mon C\u2019mon\u201d could be soda jingles, while \u201cWhere Were We on the Weekend\u201d plays like a generational anthem. On closer \u201cGood Morning World,\u201d he lets optimism win out and greets the day like a kid on Christmas morning.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SLAM DONAHUE Hemlock Tea slamdonahue.com Sunshine pop for Brooklyn basement dwellers: There\u2019s the tagline for this duo\u2019s debut EP. Singer and guitarist David Otto has the soulful rasp and melodic sense of Them-era Van Morrison, and with the help of producer Ayad Al Adhamy, who\u2019s pulled off similar retro-modern feats with Passion Pit, he sounds [&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":[196,5626,10159,5475,5625,5627],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377"}],"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=8377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8379,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8377\/revisions\/8379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}