{"id":257,"date":"2008-07-04T14:13:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doublehalo.com\/blog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2008-08-22T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T04:59:00","slug":"the-feelies-sonic-youth-battery-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"The Feelies | Sonic Youth @ Battery Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"220\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blogmedia\/2008\/07\/sonicYouth1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"210\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blogmedia\/2008\/07\/sonicYouth3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"325\" height=\"450\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blogmedia\/2008\/07\/sonicYouth2.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nDespite the incredibly long lines to get into this free show, I did catch some of <strong>The Feelies<\/strong> play their guitar no-wavish rock. Reuniting after 15 years, I was impressed how tight they were on stage and felt their songs held up in today&#8217;s musical world.<\/p>\n<p>The sold-out crowd enthusiastically welcomed New York&#8217;s <strong>Sonic Youth<\/strong> to Battery Park. Kim Gordon started the evening with &#8220;She is not Alone&#8221; and then into &#8220;Bull in the Heather&#8221;. The band played a great selection from their past catalogs and even forgot the lyrics to one of her songs. Ending with &#8220;100%&#8221; for their second encore made this 4th of July memorable. After 25 years, this band continues to impress me with the direction they take their music. Afterwards we didn&#8217;t see fireworks from a rainy roof on the Upper East Side.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.doublehalo.com\/pictures2008\/sonicYouth.html\">Pictures<\/a> from the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the incredibly long lines to get into this free show, I did catch some of The Feelies play their guitar no-wavish rock. Reuniting after 15 years, I was impressed how tight they were on stage and felt their songs held up in today&#8217;s musical world. The sold-out crowd enthusiastically welcomed New York&#8217;s Sonic Youth &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/?p=257\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Feelies | Sonic Youth @ Battery Park&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublehalo.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}