{"id":24741,"date":"2023-02-17T05:30:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T10:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=24741"},"modified":"2023-01-18T10:39:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T15:39:27","slug":"interview-roundup-the-new-mastersounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/17\/interview-roundup-the-new-mastersounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview Roundup: The New Mastersounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-24742\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/new_mastersounds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/new_mastersounds.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/new_mastersounds-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>At this point, I can\u2019t quite recall how I first learned of The New Mastersounds. It may well have been more than 15 years ago when I received a review copy of <i>Live at la Cova<\/i> or maybe Eddie Roberts\u2019 solo album <i>Roughneck<\/i>. I do know that I was immediately won over by the (then-Leeds-based) band\u2019s winning combination of soulful, exploratory musicianship and accessible melodic groove. I\u2019ve since reviewed quite a few of their releases, seen them live a few times, and interviewed them on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2010\/04\/26\/feature-the-new-mastersounds-ten-years-on-in-the-usa\/\">I first spoke to the band in person in 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/17\/the-new-mastersounds-schedule-residency-at-brooklyn-bowl\/\">In mid 2016 I interviewed Eddie Roberts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/30\/the-new-mastersounds-funky-collaborators\/\">Later in 2016 I interviewed Roberts again<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A (perhaps) <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/tag\/new-mastersounds\/\">complete listing of all my NMS writing can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this point, I can\u2019t quite recall how I first learned of The New Mastersounds. It may well have been more than 15 years ago when I received a review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","cat-41-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24743,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24741\/revisions\/24743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}