{"id":2468,"date":"2017-06-12T08:31:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T08:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2017-06-12T08:32:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T08:32:59","slug":"the-wrap-is-picking-strawberries-in-wexford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/the-wrap-is-picking-strawberries-in-wexford\/","title":{"rendered":"The wrap is picking strawberries in Wexford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(1) It&#8217;s coming up to that time of the year when those\u00a0best-of-2017-so-far lists will begin to appear. We live in an age of lists &#8211; like, hello &#8211; so it&#8217;s inevitable that lists marking the halfway point in a year are flourishing. One of the albums we&#8217;ve enjoyed most in 2017 has been &#8220;The Navigator&#8221; from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurrayfortheriffraff.com\/\">Hurray From the Riff Raff<\/a>. Here&#8217;s an interview with the band&#8217;s fascinating frontwoman Alynda Segarra\u00a0and, if you want to check them out, they play Whelan&#8217;s, Dublin on October 19 next.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/5D8jvJY1zGjhtcI8jBBA4X\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(2)\u00a0The last post: what&#8217;s involved in planning one of those massive funerals which dominates the news cycle? Great read on what was involved in putting together\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/espn\/feature\/story\/_\/id\/19409912\/the-planning-muhammad-ali-funeral\">Muhammad Ali&#8217;s funeral<\/a>\u00a0last year; why hearing Sabres of Paradise&#8217;s &#8220;Haunted Dancehall&#8221; on daytime BBC Radio One is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2017\/mar\/16\/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge\">sign<\/a>\u00a0that the queen of England is brown bread; check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/219828\/kill-em-and-leave-by-james-mcbride\/9780812983739\/\">James McBride&#8217;s excellent Kill &#8216;Em And Leave<\/a>\u00a0for the inside story on what happened after James Brown died.<\/p>\n<p>(3)\u00a0Were you a fan of Ben Benjamin&#8217;s excellent\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/superbad.com\">Superbad<\/a>\u00a0web art site back in the 1990s? It&#8217;s still going as are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/6\/6\/15675884\/useless-web-internet-viral\">a host of other sites<\/a>\u00a0which enjoyed some time in the viral limelight<\/p>\n<p>(4)\u00a0It was Biggie all the way at\u00a0yesterday&#8217;s Hot 97 Summer Jam as the 82,500 in attendance\u00a0marked 20 years of Notorious B.I.G (some attendees\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/entertainment\/music-news-reviews\/article155632469.html\">marked it in ways<\/a>\u00a0they didn&#8217;t probably expect). Here&#8217;s a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spin.com\/featured\/hot-97-summer-jam-feature\/\">piece<\/a>\u00a0on the long shelf life of hip-hop&#8217;s annual trend setting festival.<\/p>\n<p>(5) On the road: how\u00a0live music business transport firm Sound Moves\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-39926895\">keeps the show on the road<\/a>. In the air:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/09\/business\/what-its-like-to-fly-for-a-week-straight.html\">spending a week flying across the United States<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(6)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/noisey.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/how-do-you-even-write-an-album-review-anymore\">The art of the album review in 2017<\/a>: &#8220;in the 1700s, a now extremely dead philosopher named David Hume pioneered the concept of the standard of the &#8220;ideal critic.&#8221; Despite having never listened to Lil Yachty, SoundCloud Rap, or even a single Red Hot Chili Peppers song, Hume had a pretty solid idea of what makes a good critic: &#8220;Strong sense, united to delicate sentiment, improved by practice, perfected by comparison, and cleared of all prejudice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1) It&#8217;s coming up to that time of the year when those\u00a0best-of-2017-so-far lists will begin to appear. We live in an age of lists &#8211; like, hello &#8211; so it&#8217;s inevitable that lists marking the halfway point in a year are flourishing. One of the albums we&#8217;ve enjoyed most in 2017 has been &#8220;The Navigator&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/the-wrap-is-picking-strawberries-in-wexford\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The wrap is picking strawberries in Wexford&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}