{"id":11735,"date":"2012-08-08T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T16:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=11735"},"modified":"2012-08-08T10:00:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T18:00:42","slug":"summertime-soul-watch-monophonics-soul-psych","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-08\/summertime-soul-watch-monophonics-soul-psych\/","title":{"rendered":"Summertime Soul&#8211;Watch Monophonics&#8217; Soul-Psych"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently stumbled upon the Bay Area&#8217;s <strong>Monophonics<\/strong> performing for <strong>KDHX<\/strong> in St. Louis.\u00a0 Thanks to <strong>Daptone Records<\/strong> and many others, we&#8217;ve seen a resurgence in large soul bands such as the <strong>Dap-Kings<\/strong> and the <strong>Menahan Street Band<\/strong>.\u00a0 And now we have the improved <strong>Monophonics<\/strong>, who have been toiling and honing their chops for a good number of years in obscurity.\u00a0 Check out the band below (in full casual, including flip-flops), sitting (but killing) on their songs <em><strong>There&#8217;s a Riot Going On<\/strong><\/em> (no, not that one) and <em><strong>Say You Love Me<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 We initially thought that on the first song the lead vocals were being piped in.\u00a0 Instead, the camera pans to the band&#8217;s recently-added lead singer, <strong>Kelly Finnigan<\/strong>, who gives it a blood, sweat and tears effort (a la <strong>David Clayton-Thomas<\/strong> or <em><strong>Gregg Allman<\/strong><\/em>) and impresses throughout (unlike many other neo-soul singers such as the Stevie Wonder knock-off, <strong>Allan Stone<\/strong>).\u00a0 Check them out below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monophonics &quot;There&#039;s a Riot Going On&quot; Live at KDHX 5\/29\/12\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dYjiZ6WY-1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Monophonics &quot;Say You Love Me&quot; Live at KDHX 5\/29\/12\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jAhXxedRMTI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently stumbled upon the Bay Area&#8217;s Monophonics performing for KDHX in St. Louis.\u00a0 Thanks to Daptone Records and many others, we&#8217;ve seen a resurgence in large soul bands such as the Dap-Kings and the Menahan Street Band.\u00a0 And now we have the improved Monophonics, who have been toiling and honing their chops for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}