{"id":3417,"date":"2015-11-07T17:11:39","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T17:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2015-11-07T17:11:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T17:11:39","slug":"wimps-perform-at-kexp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/11\/07\/wimps-perform-at-kexp\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimps &#8211; Perform at KEXP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is a session done at the KEXP studios live by a group called &#8220;Wimps&#8221;.\u00a0 I enjoy their music.\u00a0 It&#8217;s simple but honest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s funny to reflect on what RIAA and the record companies were all telling us when Napster came out.\u00a0 They told us that music would die as the result of free Internet distribution whether it was piracy or groups just making their material available free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Actually the only threat has turned out to be to their profits which are still exorbitant. The music has proliferated like never before in my life.\u00a0 There is SO many good artists making great art.\u00a0 Not only that, but I&#8217;m finding out about groups that existed even back then but got no exposure because either the labels didn&#8217;t like their politics or they weren&#8217;t willing to sign shitty contracts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wimps - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z7b4bG409ME?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is a session done at the KEXP studios live by a group called &#8220;Wimps&#8221;.\u00a0 I enjoy their music.\u00a0 It&#8217;s simple but honest. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s funny to reflect on what RIAA and the record companies were all telling us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/11\/07\/wimps-perform-at-kexp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}