{"id":21431,"date":"2021-08-19T05:30:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T09:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=21431"},"modified":"2021-08-19T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T13:56:33","slug":"album-review-greg-antista-and-the-lonely-streets-under-the-neon-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/19\/album-review-greg-antista-and-the-lonely-streets-under-the-neon-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Greg Antista and the Lonely Streets &#8212; Under the Neon Heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-21433\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/greg_antista_neon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/greg_antista_neon.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/greg_antista_neon-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/greg_antista_neon-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>When we last checked in with this South California rock quartet about two years ago, they had released their debut album, <i>Shake, Stomp and Stumble<\/i>. As <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/10\/hundred-worders-for-may-2019\/#antista\">I wrote at the time<\/a>, that record featured \u201cconcise, taut songs played with verve and conviction.\u201d Two years and a world pandemic later, one thing has changed: guitarist Jessica Kaczmarek is gone, her place taken by new (new to the group, that is) guitarist Frank Agnew.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond that, I\u2019m pleased to report than the virtues that made the band\u2019s debut so successful are firmly in place on <i>Under the Neon Heat<\/i>. The songs have the sort of melodic roar one finds on Smithereens and Cheap Trick records. There\u2019s a vaguely Americana sensibility \u2013 something about this outfit reminds me of The Blasters \u2013 but they deliver it without a bit of twang.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know if Greg Antista has actually spent two week in a \u2018Tijuana Jail,\u201d but his musical tale of that name is a musical trip worth taking. Antista\u2019s vocals have just the right amount of lived-in character, and he writes songs that leverage his vocal texture. This is music that earns vigorous head nodding and unabashed air guitar and -drum playing by listeners. It\u2019s fun, cocksure in a friendly way, and \u2013 again, as I said last time around \u2013 brought to you with \u201cnary an ounce of artifice or bullshit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recommended. And it\u2019s available on vinyl, as all good music should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we last checked in with this South California rock quartet about two years ago, they had released their debut album, Shake, Stomp and Stumble. As I wrote at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65,73],"tags":[3856],"class_list":["post-21431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","category-vinyl","tag-greg-antista","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","cat-73-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21431","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=21431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21434,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21431\/revisions\/21434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}