{"id":2478,"date":"2013-03-13T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T12:16:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-13T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T12:16:10","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/?p=2478","title":{"rendered":"The Popdogs stream Honest Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power-Pop 5 piece The Popdogs have announced a free stream of their track Honest Guy. Taken from the forthcoming debut album, Cool Cats For Pop Dogs (May 13th) the track showcases their signature sound; all chugging guitars and bittersweet vocal melodies. <\/p>\n<p>Vocalist James String comments; <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonest Guy was the first song written for what was to become our debut album.  The song came together very quickly, almost writing itself, Tim (McKeating \u2013 lead guitar) nailing the guitar solo first take. A rolling hook, simple but effective lyrics and a big chorus, it became the blue-print for the rest of the album and for The Popdogs\u2019 sound. It\u2019s classic Power Pop with a nod to bands like, The Undertones and Buzzcocks.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F79946624\"><\/iframe>  <\/p>\n<p>The Popdogs play The Cavern Club, Liverpool on Friday 17th May as part of The International Pop Overthrow Festival. <\/p>\n<p>For more information on The Popdogs please visit them on Facebook &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/The-Popdogs\/416874531681414\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/The-Popdogs\/416874531681414<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power-Pop 5 piece The Popdogs have announced a free stream of their track Honest Guy. Taken from the forthcoming debut album, Cool Cats For Pop Dogs (May 13th) the track showcases their signature sound; all chugging guitars and bittersweet vocal melodies. Vocalist James String comments; \u201cHonest Guy was the first song written for what was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press_releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livestagemusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}