{"id":10639,"date":"2016-04-14T05:30:40","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T09:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=10639"},"modified":"2016-04-14T07:34:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T11:34:21","slug":"single-review-dirty-sidewalks-its-getting-better-bw-hey-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/14\/single-review-dirty-sidewalks-its-getting-better-bw-hey-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: Dirty Sidewalks &#8212; &#8220;It&#8217;s Getting Better&#8221; b\/w &#8220;Hey Girl&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/dirty_sidewalks-1.jpg\" alt=\"dirty_sidewalks\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-10641\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/dirty_sidewalks-1.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/dirty_sidewalks-1-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Seattle-based <b>Dirty Sidewalks<\/b> recently released a 7\u201d single worthy of a listen.<\/p>\n<p>The a-side, \u201cIt&#8217;s Getting Better,\u201d has already gotten some commercial traction in one of the few forms that actually generates income for the artist: TV and\/or film placement. Twenty-odd seconds of \u201cGetting Better\u201d played during Episode 11 of Season 6 on Showtime&#8217;s <i>Shameless<\/i>. I won&#8217;t be the first or last to point out the song&#8217;s passing similarity to <b>Modern English<\/b>&#8216;s 1980s smash \u201cI Melt With You.\u201d Regardless, it&#8217;s a catchy song that displays the group&#8217;s skill at writing and playing memorable tunes with a hook.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1RT-4_hIZdQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The flip track is \u201cHey Girl (I Wanna Be Your Man),\u201d listed on the sleeve simply as \u201cHey Girl.\u201d A video for the track recently premiered on <a href=\"http:\/\/popshifter.com\/2016-03-22\/video-premiere-dirty-sidewalks-hey-girl-wanna-man\/\">Popshifter<\/a>. Like the a-side, it showcases the band&#8217;s signature style, a chiming, stomping vibe characterized by fuzzy guitars, an insistent but not overwhelming beat, and understated, near-whispered vocals. There&#8217;s a solid pop undercurrent to Dirty Sidewalks&#8217; music; it&#8217;s a successful melding of a grunge\/shoegaze aesthetic with a catchy pop foundation and good old-fashioned guitar solo.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fz5igN5lSaY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apparently the single is available on either white or black vinyl. Mine&#8217;s black. More info on the band is at their <a href=\"https:\/\/dirtysidewalks.bandcamp.com\/\">Bandcamp page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle-based Dirty Sidewalks recently released a 7\u201d single worthy of a listen. The a-side, \u201cIt&#8217;s Getting Better,\u201d has already gotten some commercial traction in one of the few forms that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,62,65,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-rawk","category-review","category-shoegaze","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","cat-67-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10643,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10639\/revisions\/10643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}