{"id":8828,"date":"2013-02-06T01:57:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T08:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8828"},"modified":"2013-02-06T01:57:46","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T08:57:46","slug":"todd-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/02\/todd-may\/","title":{"rendered":"TODD MAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8829\" title=\"TODD-MAY-M-Review-No24\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/TODD-MAY-M-Review-No24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/TODD-MAY-M-Review-No24.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/TODD-MAY-M-Review-No24-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>TODD MAY<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Rickenbacker Girls<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>myspace.com\/toddmay<\/p>\n<p>Rock nerds will read the title and think of the jangly guitars beloved by the Byrds, Tom Petty and countless power-pop bands. Those influences likely apply, but May is actually referencing Ohio\u2019s Rickenbacker Air Force Base. Growing up nearby, he chatted up pilots\u2019 daughters worldlier than he was, and here, he sings songs about girls in motion. May himself is constantly on the move, jumping from sad-troubadour alt-country to big-riff \u201990s rock, flinging lines sharp enough to evoke Ryan Adams and Paul Westerberg. On \u201cAlphabet City,\u201d he makes peace with his parochialism. \u201cNo one is gonna mistake me for John Cale,\u201d he tells his non-Nico-like girl, cool with being less cool than the Velvet Underground.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TODD MAY Rickenbacker Girls myspace.com\/toddmay Rock nerds will read the title and think of the jangly guitars beloved by the Byrds, Tom Petty and countless power-pop bands. Those influences likely apply, but May is actually referencing Ohio\u2019s Rickenbacker Air Force Base. Growing up nearby, he chatted up pilots\u2019 daughters worldlier than he was, and here, [&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":[196,10159,5885,5927,5926,5925],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828"}],"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=8828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8831,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions\/8831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}