{"id":1008,"date":"2006-09-14T19:56:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2024-04-03T19:57:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T19:57:09","slug":"not-foiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"Not foiled"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/189977-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s face it: There are just too many bands per square inch in the United States. With the proliferation of MySpace, it seems as though everyone (including your grandmother) is taking a shot at the record-industry big leagues. Blue October, however, has persevered\u2014getting signed yet again by Universal, the very record label that dropped the band a few years ago. Now, with little more than persistence and a batch of new material, it has achieved headlining status\u2014no easy feat these days\u2014and is playing to 500-plus-capacity crowds. The band is on tour supporting its latest record,\u00a0<em>Foiled<\/em>, and of course the hit single \u201cHate Me.\u201d If you can afford a ticket after supporting Coldplay\u2019s and U2\u2019s recent tours, you should make the brief sojourn this Tuesday over to Empire, at the corner of 15th and R streets. All ages are welcome. Advance tickets are just $17.50, or you can pay $20 on the day of the show.<br>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s face it: There are just too many bands per square inch in the United States. With the proliferation of MySpace, it seems as though everyone (including your grandmother) is taking a shot at the record-industry big leagues. Blue October, however, has persevered\u2014getting signed yet again by Universal, the very record label that dropped the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions\/1009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}