{"id":14707,"date":"2013-01-17T12:58:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T20:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=14707"},"modified":"2013-01-17T13:00:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T21:00:46","slug":"check-out-santa-monicas-cayucas-coming-to-velvet-jones-jan-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-01\/check-out-santa-monicas-cayucas-coming-to-velvet-jones-jan-23rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out Santa Monica&#8217;s Cayucas&#8211;Coming to Velvet Jones Jan. 23rd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Monica band <strong>Cayucas<\/strong> is coming to <strong>Velvet Jones<\/strong> next Wednesday as openers (with <strong>Races<\/strong>) for <strong>El Ten Eleven<\/strong>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-10\/central-coast-beach-towns-watch-cuyucos-by-cuyucas\/\">We unearthed <strong>Cayucas<\/strong> last fall <\/a>when they signed to <strong>Secretly Canadian<\/strong> and released their breezy, addicting song <em><strong>Cayucos,<\/strong><\/em>with its playful accompanying video (seen way below).\u00a0 With Central Coast beach-centric lyrics\/optics, reverbed vocals and hazy harmonies, the song and video were sure to be hits at <strong>Chez Lefort<\/strong>.\u00a0 The band, which is the brainchild of <strong>Zach Yudin<\/strong>, followed up <em><strong>Cayucos<\/strong><\/em> with the release in December of their similarly clever, breezy and &#8217;60s-inflected song<em><strong> Swimsuit <\/strong><\/em>(just listen below to that organ and handclap ending).\u00a0 Cayucas sounds a bit like <strong>The Beach Boys<\/strong> as interpreted\/produced by <strong>Animal Collective<\/strong> (minus some of the latter&#8217;s distracting density).\u00a0 We can&#8217;t wait to hear what talented producer <strong>Richard Swift<\/strong> (of <strong>The Shins<\/strong>) does for the young band on their impending new album for<strong> Secretly Canadian<\/strong>.\u00a0 In the meantime, check out both songs and videos below, and get ye to <strong>Velvet Jones<\/strong> next Wednesday!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cayucas - &quot;Swimsuit&quot; (Official Audio)\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SnfjqADaM-g?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=\"Cayucas - &quot;Cayucos&quot; (Official Video)\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/deeq8HcWzzk?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>Santa Monica band Cayucas is coming to Velvet Jones next Wednesday as openers (with Races) for El Ten Eleven.\u00a0 We unearthed Cayucas last fall when they signed to Secretly Canadian and released their breezy, addicting song Cayucos,with its playful accompanying video (seen way below).\u00a0 With Central Coast beach-centric lyrics\/optics, reverbed vocals and hazy harmonies, the [&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-14707","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\/14707","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=14707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}