{"id":18692,"date":"2019-11-19T09:32:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T17:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=18692"},"modified":"2019-11-19T09:35:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T17:35:41","slug":"18692","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/11\/19\/18692\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Graduation Speech grows on second EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/435a55cf-c582-4cd6-9545-3ae0581377e1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-18693\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/435a55cf-c582-4cd6-9545-3ae0581377e1-300x268.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/435a55cf-c582-4cd6-9545-3ae0581377e1-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/435a55cf-c582-4cd6-9545-3ae0581377e1.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Graduation Speech<br \/>\n<i>Maintenance Required<br \/>\n<\/i>(Black Numbers)<br \/>\n4\/5<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting lost in the music\u201d is the perfect way to explain what happens when spinning Graduation Speech\u2019s new five-song EP,\u00a0<i>Maintenance Required<\/i>. The EP is a great way to get the day started, to pass time waiting for the bus, or to get re-energized during a work break.<\/p>\n<p><i>Maintenance Required<\/i>\u00a0is the second solo EP by Kevin Day, also known as Graduation Speech. The New Jersey musician, who also plays in pop-punkers Aspiga, released his first solo EP, <i>Quiet &amp; Calm<\/i>, in 2017\u2014with its acoustic sounds and mellow lyrics it worked so well in pulling the listener into the music. <i>Maintenance Required<\/i>\u2019s songs are very close in sound to <i>Quiet &amp; Calm<\/i>\u2019s, however, the addition of electric guitar and percussion grabbed my attention and got my foot tapping along with the beat of the songs immediately.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOurselves,\u201d the second song on the EP, starts out with a strong steady beat and then adds Day\u2019s rhythmic voice to create a track that perfectly sums up and showcases the sounds found on this EP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduation Speech Maintenance Required (Black Numbers) 4\/5 \u201cGetting lost in the music\u201d is the perfect way to explain what happens when spinning Graduation Speech\u2019s new five-song EP,\u00a0Maintenance Required. The EP is a great way to get the day started, to pass time waiting for the bus, or to get re-energized during a work break. Maintenance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18693,"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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692","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=18692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18696,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692\/revisions\/18696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}