{"id":8756,"date":"2011-12-30T09:30:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T17:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=8756"},"modified":"2011-12-31T12:17:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T20:17:51","slug":"new-stew-the-negro-problem-album-making-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-12\/new-stew-the-negro-problem-album-making-it\/","title":{"rendered":"New Stew &#038; The Negro Problem Album&#8211;&#8220;Making It&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8758\" title=\"6a00d8341c630a53ef0133f4bec83f970b-600wi\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0133f4bec83f970b-600wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0133f4bec83f970b-600wi.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0133f4bec83f970b-600wi-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0133f4bec83f970b-600wi-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stew &amp; the Negro Problem<\/strong> (meant to be ironic) have been making eclectic, melodic, and heady material since the mid-&#8217;90s, and have had their ups and downs.\u00a0 Spearheaded by the dramatic dramatist, <strong>Mark Stewart<\/strong> (together with his now-former partner <strong>Heidi Rodewald<\/strong>), they have put out critically-hailed albums (2000&#8217;s &#8220;<strong>Guest Host<\/strong>&#8220;), and written and performed award-winning musicals (&#8220;<strong>Passing Strange,<\/strong>&#8221; filmed by Spike Lee).\u00a0 They are about to release their first new album, &#8220;<strong>Making It<\/strong>,&#8221; in ten years.\u00a0 We can&#8217;t wait.\u00a0 Check out two new songs from the new album.\u00a0 First up is the tantalizingly-titled <em><strong>Love Is A Cult<\/strong><\/em>, which will immediately lure you in and have you hooked on its melodic Kool-Aid.\u00a0 Following is another hook-filled gem, <em><strong>Curse<\/strong><\/em>, with its great &#8217;60s\/&#8217;70s\/Hollywood\/LA slideshow accompaniment.\u00a0 We hear Broadway and pop music melding perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8ite5qPps34<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s5BEtWevNJ4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stew &amp; the Negro Problem (meant to be ironic) have been making eclectic, melodic, and heady material since the mid-&#8217;90s, and have had their ups and downs.\u00a0 Spearheaded by the dramatic dramatist, Mark Stewart (together with his now-former partner Heidi Rodewald), they have put out critically-hailed albums (2000&#8217;s &#8220;Guest Host&#8220;), and written and performed award-winning [&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":[10],"class_list":["post-8756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-mm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756","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=8756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}