{"id":723,"date":"2002-11-07T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-07T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=723"},"modified":"2024-03-28T05:03:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T05:03:37","slug":"such-a-dall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"Such a Dall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/13536-01.jpeg\" alt=\"This is the official record-company publicity photograph of Cynthia Dall.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is the official record-company publicity photograph of Cynthia Dall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Sacramentan Cynthia Dall spent time in the indie-rock band Smog, which also featured ex-resident Bill Callahan. Her latest Drag City album,\u00a0<em>Sound Restores Young Men<\/em>, reveals Dall is settling nicely into singer-songwriter mode. Such songs as \u201cBe Safe With Me\u201d and the sarcastic \u201cI Play With Boys\u201d display both her patience and aptitude, and her music creates the perfect melancholy backdrop for Sacramento\u2019s overcast autumnal weather. Dall has made considerable progress since her first release in 1996,\u00a0<em>Untitled<\/em>. She\u2019ll play a handful of scattered West Coast dates in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Berkeley, in addition to Sunday\u2019s show with Drag City label mates the Scene Creamers, which feature members of the Make Up. Fans of Hope Sandoval, Lush\u2019s more depressing moments and Smog should find great reward in Dall\u2019s opening set Sunday, November 10, at 8 p.m. at the Capitol Garage (1427 L Street), with a special surprise guest. Cover\u2019s $7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sacramentan Cynthia Dall spent time in the indie-rock band Smog, which also featured ex-resident Bill Callahan. Her latest Drag City album,\u00a0Sound Restores Young Men, reveals Dall is settling nicely into singer-songwriter mode. Such songs as \u201cBe Safe With Me\u201d and the sarcastic \u201cI Play With Boys\u201d display both her patience and aptitude, and her [&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-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","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=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}