{"id":2499,"date":"2017-07-03T08:50:30","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T08:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2017-07-03T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T08:55:11","slug":"the-wrap-wants-to-still-be-on-a-beach-in-donegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/the-wrap-wants-to-still-be-on-a-beach-in-donegal\/","title":{"rendered":"The wrap wants to still be on a beach in Donegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(1) What do you mean you&#8217;ve never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/camilleofficiel.fr\">Camille<\/a>? Long before Christine &amp; The Queens captured the high ground when it came to beautifully wonky pop, Camille\u00a0Dalmais was the go-to woman for that sort of idiosyncratic fare.\u00a0Over five\u00a0albums, Dalmais has created bright and bold pop songs where leftfield pop sensibilities and experimental notions got merry with wild abandon. Her latest release is\u00a0\u201cOui\u201d and, if you dig what you hear, there is a hugely enjoyable back catalogue to investigate and be smitten by.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/18LlCAG2iY8ht0dm7uKBy0\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(2) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MargaretMoser\">Margaret Moser<\/a> has lived one heck\u00a0of a colourful life. Find out more about this\u00a0long-time champion of keep-Austin-weird musical high jinks\u00a0in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/therecord\/2017\/06\/22\/533785361\/margaret-moser-queen-of-austin-is-dancing-in-the-light\">this lovely profile<\/a>\u00a0by Joe Nick Patoski and <a href=\"http:\/\/music.blog.mystatesman.com\/2017\/06\/30\/a-margaret-moser-primer-essential-articles-from-austins-greatest-music-champion\/\">this selection of pieces<\/a> she wrote during her tenure at the Austin Chronicle.<\/p>\n<p>(3) The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/14\/magazine\/reading-erdogans-ambitions-in-turkeys-new-mosques.html\">story<\/a> behind the current boom\u00a0for building new mosques in Erdogan&#8217;s Turkey<\/p>\n<p>(4)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.guernicamag.com\/nina-simone-in-liberia\/\">Nina Simone in Liberia in 1974<\/a>: &#8220;\u201cWithin a few weeks I felt as if I had been living in my house on the beach all my life. . . .They said I was wild. I wore nothing but a bikini and boots all day long and danced about with the weight gone from around my shoulders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(5)\u00a0Anyone for a new music app which might be actually useful? Introducing <a href=\"http:\/\/stationhead.com\">Stationhead<\/a>, the app which turns your Spofity accoung into a radio station. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/articles\/business\/7842255\/stationhead-new-app-spotify-music-industry-streaming\">Here&#8217;s the Billboard\u00a0skinny on it<\/a> &#8211; if you want to tune into something for the crack, check out byjimcarroll<\/p>\n<p>(6) Perhaps Stationhead and the like will see an end of acts traipsing from radio stattion to radio station in search of attention and bad coffee? Excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/radio-tour-is-not-for-the-weak-inside-the-first-step-to-country-music-stardom\/2017\/06\/14\/41feba42-4c60-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html\">piece<\/a> about the radio tours new country acts have to endure<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(1) What do you mean you&#8217;ve never heard of Camille? Long before Christine &amp; The Queens captured the high ground when it came to beautifully wonky pop, Camille\u00a0Dalmais was the go-to woman for that sort of idiosyncratic fare.\u00a0Over five\u00a0albums, Dalmais has created bright and bold pop songs where leftfield pop sensibilities and experimental notions got &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/banter.test\/the-wrap-wants-to-still-be-on-a-beach-in-donegal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The wrap wants to still be on a beach in Donegal&#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\/2499"}],"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=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banter.test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}