{"id":1121,"date":"2014-11-21T03:30:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juefestival.com\/2015\/?p=1121"},"modified":"2014-12-31T02:48:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T02:48:20","slug":"announcement-pre-jue-2015-show-with-swans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2015.juefestival.com\/?p=1121","title":{"rendered":"ANNOUNCEMENT: Pre-JUE 2015 Show with Swans!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes people, JUE is back! 2015 will be leaner and musically meaner, like a bullterrier with cute sensibilities. We\u2019re sticking with what\u2019s close to our hearts this year \u2013 everything will have an overt focus on music. We hope our first booking sets the bar for your expectations pretty high, because for the first time ever we\u2019re touring the brutally elegant Swans.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.youku.com\/embed\/XODMxNDQ2MjMy\" width=\"510\" height=\"498\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Though this act is made up of 6 multi-instrumentalists, Michael Gira sits as the pontiff of Swans, conducting the members to harmoniously yield devastating soundscapes that counterbalance brutality with lapses of serenity.<\/p>\n<p>Founding member Gira launched a record label in 1990 called Young God Records (Akron\/Family, Devendra Banhart, David Coulter etc.), through which he has continued to channel Swans releases. The band was wound down in the late 90s and swiftly replaced with Angels of Light in 1999. The fact Swans are still going \u2013 let alone coming to China &#8211; is a rarity.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s get JUE off to a flying start!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes people, JUE is back! 2015 will be leaner and musically meaner, like a bullterrier with cute sensibilities. We\u2019re sticking with what\u2019s close to our hearts this year \u2013 everything will have an overt focus on music. We hope our first booking sets the bar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[43,41,42,40],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-february","tag-pre","tag-pre-jue","tag-swans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.juefestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.juefestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.juefestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.juefestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.juefestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/2015.juefestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1134,"href":"https:\/\/2015.juefestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions\/1134"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.juefestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2015.juefestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.juefestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2015.juefestival.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}