{"id":10293,"date":"2015-02-18T06:27:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=10293"},"modified":"2015-02-16T13:29:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T21:29:49","slug":"new-music-revue-the-golden-dogs-are-a-beautiful-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/02\/18\/new-music-revue-the-golden-dogs-are-a-beautiful-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: The Golden Dogs are a beautiful mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/golden_dogs_312.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10294 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/golden_dogs_312-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"golden_dogs_312\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/golden_dogs_312-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/golden_dogs_312-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/golden_dogs_312-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/golden_dogs_312-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/golden_dogs_312-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/golden_dogs_312-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/golden_dogs_312.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Golden Dogs<br \/>\n<i>3 1\/2<br \/>\n<\/i>(Independent)<br \/>\n3.5\/5<\/p>\n<p>For <i>3 1\/2<\/i>, their fourth studio release, Toronto-based The Golden Dogs\u2019 original dynamic duo of Dave Azzolini and Jessica Grassia, along with new blood Alejandro Cairncross and Stefanie McCarrol, give a fresh take on some familiar sounds.<\/p>\n<p>The dynamic, multi-genre album opens to a straight, funky bass line with its first track \u201cDecided,\u201d and hits its stride with \u201cPretending,\u201d which stands out as a pseudo-homage to Elton John\u2019s charisma in \u201cBennie and the Jets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each track is unique as the group weaves its way through bygone eras, boldly experimenting with well-defined styles.<\/p>\n<p>The result is a well-balanced, beautiful mess of upbeat energy that begs to be seen live.<\/p>\n<p>But, as with all things familiar, <i>3 1\/2<\/i> bodes well for one enthusiastic, reminiscing run-through and when finished can be returned to the shelf to be forgotten for a time with the other fondly-thought-of memorabilia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Golden Dogs 3 1\/2 (Independent) 3.5\/5 For 3 1\/2, their fourth studio release, Toronto-based The Golden Dogs\u2019 original dynamic duo of Dave Azzolini and Jessica Grassia, along with new blood Alejandro Cairncross and Stefanie McCarrol, give a fresh take on some familiar sounds. The dynamic, multi-genre album opens to a straight, funky bass line [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-february-18-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10295,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10293\/revisions\/10295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}