{"id":1588,"date":"2013-05-02T00:20:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T05:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2013-05-02T00:20:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T05:20:18","slug":"red-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/?p=1588","title":{"rendered":"Red Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 4px 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/RedMonkey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>Do What You Feel (Feel What You Do) <\/em>7&#8243;<br \/>\nSlampt, 1997<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1997 there weren&#8217;t a ton of groups doing angular, <strong>Gang of Four<\/strong>-style postpunk, so you gotta give Red Monkey credit for not only being ahead of the curve, but for doing it really really well. Along with their classic releases on NJ&#8217;s Troubleman label, this debut 7&#8243; EP on their Slampt label has remained one of the better examples of tightly-wound, tension-filled punk with a sharp political edge. With male\/female vocals sparing back and forth ala <strong>The Ex<\/strong> and a stripped down, herky-jerk rhythm section, songs like &#8220;Not Only&#8221; and &#8220;18+&#8221; absolutely grab you by the throat and demand your attention. Ain&#8217;t that what punk&#8217;s all about?<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOWNLOAD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/RedMonkey-18+.mp3\">Red Monkey &#8211; &#8220;18+&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/media\/RedMonkey-NotOnly.mp3\">Red Monkey &#8211; &#8220;Not Only&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>LINKS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/make-the-moment\/id107682220\">Red Monkey on iTunes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do What You Feel (Feel What You Do) 7&#8243; Slampt, 1997 Back in 1997 there weren&#8217;t a ton of groups doing angular, Gang of Four-style postpunk, so you gotta give Red Monkey credit for not only being ahead of the curve, but for doing it really really well. Along with their classic releases on NJ&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[13,187,134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2.dougkubert.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}