{"id":9722,"date":"2014-10-15T08:16:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T15:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=9722"},"modified":"2014-10-14T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-14T21:18:21","slug":"new-music-revue-the-glorious-sons-provide-some-glorious-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/10\/15\/new-music-revue-the-glorious-sons-provide-some-glorious-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: The Glorious Sons provide some glorious rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/The-Glorious-Sons-The-Union-.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-9723\" alt=\"The-Glorious-Sons-The-Union-\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/The-Glorious-Sons-The-Union-.jpeg\" width=\"252\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/The-Glorious-Sons-The-Union-.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/The-Glorious-Sons-The-Union--150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/The-Glorious-Sons-The-Union--300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/The-Glorious-Sons-The-Union--70x70.jpeg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/The-Glorious-Sons-The-Union--110x110.jpeg 110w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/The-Glorious-Sons-The-Union--200x200.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/The-Glorious-Sons-The-Union--180x179.jpeg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Glorious Sons<br \/>\n<i>The Union<br \/>\n<\/i>(Blackbox Recordings)<br \/>\n3.5\/5<\/p>\n<p>The Glorious Sons hold true to their name on their second album, <i>The Union.<\/i> These Kingston, ON boys know how to rock and get listeners\u2019 hips moving.<\/p>\n<p>I can imagine this band playing at a music festival; if they sound as good live as they do on this album, I would bet they put on an awesome show.<\/p>\n<p>From the first few riffs of the opening song, \u201cMan Made Man,\u201d I was hooked. The album is filled with party songs and their upbeat rhythms are addicting.<\/p>\n<p>The lead singer, Brett Emmons, belts out interesting and relatable lyrics in a way that, at times, reminds me of an \u201980s Billy Idol.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few surprises on <i>The Union.<\/i> The uplifting \u201cLightning\u201d leans more towards pop-rock, instead of maintaining the grungy sounds of the previous songs. \u201cAmigos\u201d also stands out on its own, being a slow piano-accompanied ballad.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be keeping these guys on my radar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glorious Sons The Union (Blackbox Recordings) 3.5\/5 The Glorious Sons hold true to their name on their second album, The Union. These Kingston, ON boys know how to rock and get listeners\u2019 hips moving. I can imagine this band playing at a music festival; if they sound as good live as they do on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[4,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-october-15-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722","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=9722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9724,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722\/revisions\/9724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}