{"id":13870,"date":"2012-12-03T09:09:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T17:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=13870"},"modified":"2012-12-03T10:23:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T18:23:40","slug":"watch-alt-j-perform-matilda-in-an-nyc-button-shop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-12\/watch-alt-j-perform-matilda-in-an-nyc-button-shop\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Alt-J Perform &#8220;Matilda&#8221; in an NYC Button Shop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Alt-J<\/strong> lads from Leeds were introduced to us by a savvy lass (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-07\/new-music-alt-j-and-tessellate\/\">thanks again <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-07\/new-music-alt-j-and-tessellate\/\"><strong>H<\/strong><\/a>) long before they blew up big and their album <strong>An Awesome Wave<\/strong> won this year&#8217;s <strong>Mercury Prize<\/strong> (as best UK album of the year&#8211;no small feat).\u00a0 Buoyed by the Mercury Prize, the gents (<strong>Joe Newman<\/strong> on lead vocals and guitar, <strong>Thom Green<\/strong> on drums, <strong>Gwil Sainsbury<\/strong> on guitar and bass, and <strong>Gus Unger-Hamilton<\/strong> on keyboards) seem to have the world sewn up (so to speak), as you can see below as they perform <em><strong>Matilda<\/strong><\/em> in an NYC button shop (<strong>Just Buttons<\/strong>&#8211;the missing <strong>Seinfeld<\/strong> episode?).\u00a0 We&#8217;re suckers for bands who use kiddy xylophones.\u00a0 Wrap it up and put it under the Christmas Twee.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eS_x25knS0w&#038;feature=em-uploademail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alt-J lads from Leeds were introduced to us by a savvy lass (thanks again H) long before they blew up big and their album An Awesome Wave won this year&#8217;s Mercury Prize (as best UK album of the year&#8211;no small feat).\u00a0 Buoyed by the Mercury Prize, the gents (Joe Newman on lead vocals and [&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-13870","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\/13870","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=13870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}