{"id":18657,"date":"2019-11-20T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=18657"},"modified":"2019-11-18T10:13:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T18:13:45","slug":"new-music-revue-headstones-rock-out-on-ninth-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/11\/20\/new-music-revue-headstones-rock-out-on-ninth-album\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Headstones rock out on ninth album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Headstones.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Headstones-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Headstones-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Headstones.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Headstones-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Headstones<br \/>\n<i>Peopleskills<br \/>\n<\/i>(MapleMusic)<br \/>\n3.5\/5<\/p>\n<p>With a career that spans nearly 30 years and is littered with Junos and hits, Canadian rock legends Headstones are back with their ninth album. <i>Peopleskills <\/i>continues with the same stripped-down sound present on the Toronto-based band\u2019s previous effort, <i>Little Army<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>At times on the punk side of rock, at other times on the rock side of punk, <i>Peopleskills <\/i>delivers 11 solid, driving tracks of what\u2019s now called classic rock. Opening with the lead single \u201cLeave it All Behind,\u201d the tone is set early and they don\u2019t look back.<\/p>\n<p>With its punishing guitar and a one-two punk beat consistent throughout, most of the album is good, but not great. That changes with the acoustic power ballad \u201cMotorcade,\u201d and the following cut, \u201cCaught in a Loop,\u201d both of which stand a cut above the rest.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Showing no sign of slowing down, Headstones\u2019 latest is their best album since their 2000 LP, <i>Nickels for Your Nightmares<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headstones Peopleskills (MapleMusic) 3.5\/5 With a career that spans nearly 30 years and is littered with Junos and hits, Canadian rock legends Headstones are back with their ninth album. Peopleskills continues with the same stripped-down sound present on the Toronto-based band\u2019s previous effort, Little Army. At times on the punk side of rock, at other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18658,"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":[4,244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-november-20-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657","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=18657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18659,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657\/revisions\/18659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}