{"id":20884,"date":"2014-04-01T14:28:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T22:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=20884"},"modified":"2014-04-01T14:49:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T22:49:41","slug":"watch-the-war-on-drugs-on-kexp-and-covering-lennons-mind-games-with-jim-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-04\/watch-the-war-on-drugs-on-kexp-and-covering-lennons-mind-games-with-jim-james\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The War On Drugs on KEXP and Covering Lennon&#8217;s &#8220;Mind Games&#8221; with Jim James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks-000074452230-7b0z7p-t500x500.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20887\" alt=\"artworks-000074452230-7b0z7p-t500x500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks-000074452230-7b0z7p-t500x500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks-000074452230-7b0z7p-t500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks-000074452230-7b0z7p-t500x500-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/artworks-000074452230-7b0z7p-t500x500-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pardon us, but we got lost in that dream that stoked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewarondrugs.net\/\"><strong>The War On Drugs<\/strong><\/a>&#8216; winning new album, <em><strong>Lost In The Dream<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-03\/watch-the-war-on-drugs-on-wfuv\/\">As mentioned ceaselessly<\/a> before, we have had <em><strong>Lost In The Dream<\/strong><\/em> on repeat for weeks on end and cannot see growing tired of it.\u00a0 The album and sound speak to that part of our musical history when <strong>Dire Straits<\/strong> was strutting their sultanic swing, <strong>Springsteen<\/strong> was riding that<em><strong> Tunnel of Love,<\/strong><\/em> <strong>Dylan<\/strong> was busy being born again, and the <strong>Rolling Stones<\/strong> were waiting on that friend.\u00a0 Those sounds and songs have now been taken by <strong>The War On Drugs<\/strong> for a longer and luminescent ride that is propelled further with enticing lyrics and the <strong>Dylan<\/strong>-esque (but not aping) vocals of leader <strong>Adam Granduciel <\/strong>(not to mention he&#8217;s got the best hoots of anyone currently in the business).\u00a0 It&#8217;s a potent mix that continues to yield new treasures on each listen.\u00a0 To get a feel for the band and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewarondrugs.net\/shows\/\"><strong>their current tour<\/strong><\/a>, check out vignettes below of the band performing songs off the new album recently in\u00a0<strong>KEXP&#8217;s <\/strong>studios.\u00a0 And last but not least, check out the band at bottom (with <strong>My Morning Jacket&#8217;s Jim James<\/strong>) performing <strong>John Lennon&#8217;s <em>Mind Games<\/em><\/strong> in Portland a few days ago.\u00a0 We can&#8217;t wait to catch them this Friday at LA&#8217;s <strong>Troubadour<\/strong>.\u00a0 We will have a full review of <em><strong>Lost In The Dream<\/strong><\/em> soon.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DE9ElyZjZDo\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qOfIN7XBl-4\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4QNaHmoVDHc\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aJdx3BOOEjU\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gnUY7gyPJn4\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pardon us, but we got lost in that dream that stoked The War On Drugs&#8216; winning new album, Lost In The Dream.\u00a0 As mentioned ceaselessly before, we have had Lost In The Dream on repeat for weeks on end and cannot see growing tired of it.\u00a0 The album and sound speak to that part of [&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-20884","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\/20884","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=20884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}