{"id":691,"date":"2013-07-22T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2013\/07\/futurebirds-take-flight.html"},"modified":"2013-07-22T14:24:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T21:24:00","slug":"futurebirds-take-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2013\/07\/futurebirds-take-flight.html","title":{"rendered":"Futurebirds Take Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ONE of our favorite newish bands, here at The Misread City&#8217;s sleekly refurbed listening room, is Futurebirds, from Athens, Ga. Some listeners compare them to My Morning Jacket and Crazy Horse &#8212; I certainly here that, too. But to me they&#8217;re a mix between the two great chapters of Athens music &#8212; the southern shamble of early R.E.M. (especially the echoey <i>Fables<\/i>-era band) and the neo-psych Elephant 6 bands like Olivia Tremor Control.<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-vs5P5vcBJyU\/Ue2w50IR8oI\/AAAAAAAACV4\/jxwg4dfDxJk\/s1600\/Futurebirds.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"213\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-vs5P5vcBJyU\/Ue2w50IR8oI\/AAAAAAAACV4\/jxwg4dfDxJk\/s320\/Futurebirds.jpg\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Photo Jason Thrasher<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Of course, a lot of groups have smart influences. But these guys have the songs as well, complete with great melodies and hooks.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s their song, Virginia Slims, from their record <i>Baba Yaga<\/i> (Fat Possum). It takes a minute to build, but ends up in power-pop heaven.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Catch Futurebirds at the Echo this Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONE of our favorite newish bands, here at The Misread City&#8217;s sleekly refurbed listening room, is Futurebirds, from Athens, Ga. Some listeners compare them to My Morning Jacket and Crazy Horse &#8212; I certainly here that, too. But to me they&#8217;re a mix between the two great chapters of Athens music &#8212; the southern shamble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40,73,74,72],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-indie","7":"category-r-e-m","8":"category-the-echo","9":"category-the-south","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}