{"id":696,"date":"2011-10-14T14:58:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T20:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocc.org\/?p=696"},"modified":"2011-10-14T14:58:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T20:58:07","slug":"song-of-the-day-om-thebes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2011\/10\/14\/song-of-the-day-om-thebes\/","title":{"rendered":"SONG OF THE DAY: Om &#8212; &#8220;Thebes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">|<em>inundate your heavy health<\/em>|<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Om has been around since 2003, when it was formed by Al Cisneros (bass and vocals) and Chris Hakius (drums). \u00a0Their 2009 album,\u00a0<em>God is Good<\/em>, is the band&#8217;s fourth overall and its first with Emil Amos on drums after Hakius&#8217;s departure in 2008. \u00a0Amos, the man behind <a href=\"http:\/\/holysons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Holy Sons<\/a>\u00a0and the drummer in the similarly pre-exotic post-rocking act\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grailsongs.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grails<\/a>, brings a new nuance to Om&#8217;s repetitive, Tibetan take on whatever it is they are taking on&#8211;the spirit, historiography, sacred texts, death, prayer, and so forth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">They have a new album coming out in 2012, so put that in your day planner. \u00a0This one is out now, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragcity.com\/artists\/om\" target=\"_blank\">Drag City<\/a>. \u00a0Oh, and it&#8217;s produced by Steve Albini.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_cj1rLhJnDao\/TBuBLPUQHII\/AAAAAAAACts\/kPjhWNKsgtA\/s1600\/omgodisgood.jpg\" align=\"center\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Put the &#8220;OM&#8221; in your somnolent Friday afternoon with this lengthy meditation from the Al Cisneros\/Emil Amos powerhouse.  It is the opening track off their 2009 album <i>God is Good<\/i>, out now on Drag City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[57,98,109,128,129],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-music-of-the","tag-experimental-rock","tag-om","tag-psychedlic","tag-steve-albini","tag-stoner-doom-metal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7fJU-be","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}