{"id":37583,"date":"2015-09-25T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=37583"},"modified":"2015-09-25T02:12:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T07:12:47","slug":"plow-the-fields-presents-toughies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/09\/25\/plow-the-fields-presents-toughies\/","title":{"rendered":"Plow The Fields presents: Toughies"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;breaking strings, crapping pants&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; Brad Girard<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I got the chance to talk\u00a0with local indie pop darlings Toughies last Saturday about their upcoming EP release (full disclosure: I recorded, mixed and mastered the EP with them this past summer, so I&#8217;m a bit biased about how excellent it is).<\/p>\n<p>We discussed how Toughies formed from the ashes of\u00a0local luminaries Haunt Ananta, Panda Circus and <a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1471980_10153385058351694_2035539166760548785_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37601 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1471980_10153385058351694_2035539166760548785_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"1471980_10153385058351694_2035539166760548785_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1471980_10153385058351694_2035539166760548785_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1471980_10153385058351694_2035539166760548785_n-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/1471980_10153385058351694_2035539166760548785_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Windup Birds, as well as Brad and Carl&#8217;s pre-show ritual (disgusting but effective), the story behind their new song &#8220;Birthday Party&#8221; (<em>also<\/em> disgusting but effective), and Caroline&#8217;s involvement with the inaugural Girls Rock Lawrence\u00a0camp this past summer (just plain effective). We also deal with a few phone interruptions, including one from Toughies bassist <span class=\"entity _4v1s\">Joe\u00a0Gronniger<\/span>\u00a0(who forgot to invite the bass player?), and one from a very convincing Joe imposter. Check it out!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kjhk\/toughies-interview-part-1?in=kjhk\/sets\/plow-the-fields-presents-toughies&amp;color=993300&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=false&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Tracklist:<br \/>\n&#8220;Sloan&#8221; by Toughies off their new album <i>Tough Enough<br \/>\n<\/i>&#8220;What Are Hands For?&#8221; by Toughies off their new album <em>Tough Enough<\/em><br \/>\n&#8220;Mythos&#8221; by Dreamgirl off the Record Machine compilation\u00a0<em>How To Keep Dreaming vol. 1<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/kjhk\/toughies-interview-part-2?in=kjhk\/sets\/plow-the-fields-presents-toughies&amp;color=993300&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=true&amp;show_comments=false&amp;show_user=false&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tracklist:<\/span><br \/>\n&#8220;Every Car In The Rear View&#8221; by Maybe Not off their EP <em>Hey Marie<br \/>\n<\/em>&#8220;Birthday Party&#8221; by Toughies off their new album\u00a0<em>Tough Enough<br \/>\n<\/em>&#8220;Desert Rose&#8221; by Toughies off their new album\u00a0<em>Tough Enough<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;breaking strings, crapping pants&#8230;&#8221; &#8211; Brad Girard I got the chance to talk\u00a0with local indie pop darlings Toughies last Saturday about their upcoming EP release (full disclosure: I recorded, mixed and mastered the EP with them this past summer, so I&#8217;m a bit biased about how excellent it is). We discussed how Toughies formed from the ashes of\u00a0local luminaries Haunt Ananta, Panda Circus and The Windup Birds, as well as Brad and Carl&#8217;s pre-show ritual (disgusting but effective), the story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":37602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,48,4,3268,3234,3438,1],"tags":[3608,3606,1018,2992,363,721,3607,2990],"class_list":["post-37583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-on-kjhk","category-local-music","category-music","category-music-articles","category-music-interviews","category-music-podcasts","category-uncategorized","tag-dreamgirl","tag-haunt-ananta","tag-interview","tag-maybe-not","tag-panda-circus","tag-plow-the-fields-2","tag-the-wind-up-birds","tag-toughies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/11074172_10153385019381694_5384125186770847120_n.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}