{"id":3014,"date":"2012-04-04T08:41:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T15:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=3014"},"modified":"2012-04-08T21:25:53","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T04:25:53","slug":"rococode-fuse-melody-with-spontaneity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2012\/04\/04\/rococode-fuse-melody-with-spontaneity\/","title":{"rendered":"Rococode fuse melody with spontaneity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people claim, sometimes in an incorrect and hyperbolic manner, that music is their life. But when it comes to Laura Smith, vocalist and keyboardist of the Vancouver-based pop-rock sensation Rococode, music really always has been her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI played piano since I was really little,\u201d she says. \u201cIt got to the point where my parents actually had to tell me to stop practising. I think it has always been a thing for me, and I don\u2019t know what I would be doing if I wasn\u2019t doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of her hard work has paid off, as Rococode just released their first full-length album, <em>Guns, Sex &amp; Glory.<\/em> More than anything else, Rococode is a group of friends. At the beginning, Smith was working on a self-titled solo project, and she enlisted the help of Andrew Braun.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt started with Andrew and myself going to school together,\u201d explains Smith. \u201cI\u2019d been working on a solo project at the time and he was helping me. At first he was just playing guitar with me, and then he was writing all the songs with me. Then one day we thought, \u2018We\u2019re pretty much doing it equally, we might as well start a band.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3041\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3041\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rococode_rj2012_02292.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3041\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rococode_rj2012_02292-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rococode_rj2012_02292-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rococode_rj2012_02292-180x119.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/rococode_rj2012_02292.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rococode may have struggled to find a band name, but they found a darn good one (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Once the band got up and running there was still one more step: coming up with a name. And in a world that has countless bands already, this isn\u2019t an easy feat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spent eight months trying to find a band name. Every band name is taken. Basically we were like, \u2018Well, every band name is taken, and we cannot really think of one, so we\u2019ll take some words that we really like and put them together,\u2019\u201d says Smith.<\/p>\n<p>The word \u201crococo\u201d is a style of art that\u2019s very ornate and elegant, using many different materials to create a delicate effect, which is representative of the band\u2019s pop side. This fuses together with \u201ccode,\u201d which represents the underlying twists and turns that are incorporated into their music.<\/p>\n<p>Rococode aspire to travel the world and share their music and have expressed particular interest in branching into the US, Germany, and Japan. But, really, as long as they\u2019re hanging out together and continuing to produce melodic ear candy they\u2019ll be more than content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe plan to just keep going, and to grow, and to make our way into new territory,\u201d says Smith. \u201cWe\u2019re just hoping for bigger and better as things go on so that we can keep making music that is bigger and better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rococode<\/strong><br \/>\nApril 6, 8 pm<br \/>\nLucky Bar, $12<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/atomiqueproductions.com\" target=\"_blank\">atomiqueproductions.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of people claim, sometimes in an incorrect and hyperbolic manner, that music is their life. But when it comes to Laura Smith, vocalist and keyboardist of the Vancouver-based pop-rock sensation Rococode, music really always has been her life. \u201cI played piano since I was really little,\u201d she says. \u201cIt got to the point where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3041,"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":[4,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-april-4-2012"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3014"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3068,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3014\/revisions\/3068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}