{"id":15737,"date":"2013-03-17T06:28:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T14:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=15737"},"modified":"2013-03-18T06:32:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T14:32:08","slug":"on-sunday-watch-world-party-perform-is-it-like-today-on-kexp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-03\/on-sunday-watch-world-party-perform-is-it-like-today-on-kexp\/","title":{"rendered":"On Sunday:  Watch World Party Perform &#8220;Is It Like Today?&#8221; on KEXP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, one of our most highly-anticipated shows had been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldparty.net\/\"><strong>World Party&#8217;s<\/strong> <\/a>show in Santa Barbara.\u00a0 Over the years, leader <strong>Karl Wallinger<\/strong> has put together some of our favorite songs (<em><strong>Ship of Fools<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>All Come True<\/strong><\/em>) and albums (<strong>Private Revolution<\/strong>) of any era.\u00a0 Wallinger had been a part of the fantastic Irish band <strong>The Waterboys<\/strong> back in the day, but then left Mike Scott&#8217;s band to rock on his own in more of a <strong>Stones\/Beatles<\/strong>-motif.\u00a0 Wallinger put out a series of successful albums in the 80s and thereafter took intermittent extended breaks and odd-jobs.\u00a0 We were saddened to learn that Wallinger had suffered an aneurysm in 2001 that left him unable to speak.\u00a0 After an extended recovery, <strong>World Party<\/strong> began playing live shows again in earnest in the late 2000s and released the massive anthology <strong>Arkeology<\/strong> last year to deserved critical acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, Wallinger was ill in November, and <strong>World Party<\/strong> cancelled their Santa Barbara show (not surprisingly, wanting to preserve strength for mega-market LA).\u00a0 Such is the allure of the band, that several we know caravaned down to the <strong>Troubadour<\/strong> in LA, followed by rave reviews.\u00a0 To see why, check out the stripped down <strong>World Party<\/strong> performing the intelligent, exemplary<em><strong> Is It Like Today?<\/strong><\/em> for <strong>KEXP<\/strong> in November, but just released today.\u00a0 Beauty.\u00a0 How did it come to this?\u00a0 Indeed.\u00a0 After you can check out the full performance on KEXP, which includes the additional song <em><strong>Put The Message In The Box<\/strong><\/em>. <strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tGs69iqRmGI\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rdhjXdqqjkk\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, one of our most highly-anticipated shows had been World Party&#8217;s show in Santa Barbara.\u00a0 Over the years, leader Karl Wallinger has put together some of our favorite songs (Ship of Fools, All Come True) and albums (Private Revolution) of any era.\u00a0 Wallinger had been a part of the fantastic Irish band The Waterboys [&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-15737","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\/15737","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=15737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}