{"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 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