{"id":22555,"date":"2014-10-23T18:20:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T02:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=22555"},"modified":"2014-10-23T18:20:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T02:20:34","slug":"watch-tom-vek-on-kcrw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-10\/watch-tom-vek-on-kcrw\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Tom Vek on KCRW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1902793_832085890157139_5125106512402750435_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22558\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1902793_832085890157139_5125106512402750435_n.jpg\" alt=\"1902793_832085890157139_5125106512402750435_n\" width=\"599\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1902793_832085890157139_5125106512402750435_n.jpg 599w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1902793_832085890157139_5125106512402750435_n-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1902793_832085890157139_5125106512402750435_n-450x299.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Londoner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomvek.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tom Vek<\/strong><\/a> has ventured in and out of our musical consciousness for years, but we have never paid proper attention to him.\u00a0 Well, to quote <strong>Vek <\/strong>(from the song below): &#8220;<strong>Nobody&#8217;s perfect!<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0 We hereby repent after catching smatterings of his great new album <em><strong>Luck<\/strong> <\/em>and his recent performances on the multimedia circuits.\u00a0 To get a feel for his punkier side, check out he and his mates&#8217; performance below on <strong>KCRW<\/strong> of <em><strong>Sherman (Animals In The Jungle)<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 It&#8217;s somewhere between the <strong>Fall&#8217;s Mark E. Smith<\/strong> and <strong>Joy Division&#8217;s Ian Curtis<\/strong>, and we&#8217;re all in in that musical jungle.\u00a0 Superb stuff from<strong> Tom Vek<\/strong>.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve had it on repeat all day.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll take ya back and lift you up.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll have more about this deserving artist shortly.\u00a0 You can listen to the rest of the <strong>KCRW<\/strong> set <a href=\"www.kcrw.com\/music\/shows\/morning-becomes\u00ad-eclectic\/tom-vek-2014-10-23\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3EwwCIUQ_z4\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Londoner Tom Vek has ventured in and out of our musical consciousness for years, but we have never paid proper attention to him.\u00a0 Well, to quote Vek (from the song below): &#8220;Nobody&#8217;s perfect!&#8221;\u00a0 We hereby repent after catching smatterings of his great new album Luck and his recent performances on the multimedia circuits.\u00a0 To get [&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-22555","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\/22555","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=22555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22559,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22555\/revisions\/22559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}