{"id":354,"date":"2007-09-05T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T05:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxalien.com\/purplemass\/?p=354"},"modified":"2007-09-05T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T05:51:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Battles is known as a US math rock band. Following a string of EPs, the band released their debut LP on the Warp Records label in May 2007. The group&#8217;s lineup is composed of well-known musicians, including ex-Helmet (also currently in Tomahawk) drummer John Stanier, ex-Don Caballero, ex-Storm &#038; Stress guitarist Ian Williams, ex-Lynx guitarist Dave Konopka, and Tyondai Braxton (son of Avantgarde Jazz musician Anthony Braxton) who also plays guitar and keyboard and creates live voice samples.<\/p>\n<p>This is the video for their new track &#8216;Tonto&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"340\" height=\"289\" id=\"player\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/fpdownload.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0\" align=\"middle\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/cdn.last.fm\/videoplayer\/33\/VideoPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"embed=true&#038;creator=Battles&#038;title=Tonto&#038;uniqueName=Tonto&#038;albumArt=http:\/\/panther1.last.fm\/coverart\/130x130\/3270621.jpg&#038;album=Mirrored&#038;duration=458&#038;image=http:\/\/panther3.last.fm\/storable\/videocap\/30467\/0\/original.jpg&#038;FSSupport=true\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/cdn.last.fm\/videoplayer\/33\/VideoPlayer.swf\" menu=\"false\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" width=\"340\" height=\"289\" name=\"player\" align=\"middle\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"embed=true&#038;creator=Battles&#038;title=Tonto&#038;uniqueName=Tonto&#038;albumArt=http:\/\/panther1.last.fm\/coverart\/130x130\/3270621.jpg&#038;album=Mirrored&#038;duration=458&#038;image=http:\/\/panther3.last.fm\/storable\/videocap\/30467\/0\/original.jpg&#038;FSSupport=true\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battles is known as a US math rock band. Following a string of EPs, the band released their debut LP on the Warp Records label in May 2007. The group&#8217;s lineup is composed of well-known musicians, including ex-Helmet (also currently in Tomahawk) drummer John Stanier, ex-Don Caballero, ex-Storm &#038; Stress guitarist Ian Williams, ex-Lynx guitarist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purplemass.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}