{"id":1011,"date":"2012-02-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/19\/the-brute-chorus-is-coming\/"},"modified":"2012-02-19T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T09:00:00","slug":"the-brute-chorus-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/19\/the-brute-chorus-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brute Chorus is Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very rarely I&#8217;ll receive an email from a music promoter about a solo artist or band.  Rarer still, will said email catch my interest in any way.  The last time this worked I was introduced to the wild and wonderful world of <a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2010\/09\/01\/10-questions-with-the-gypsy-nomads\/\"target=\"_blank\">The Gypsy Nomads<\/a> (now known as Frenchy and the Punk).  However when I received an email about a band called The Brute Chorus that said their music is a, &#8220;wild blend of garage rock, blues, and folk music with lyrics populated with characters from Greek mythology and Grimm&#8217;s fairytales&#8221; and it also mentioned they have been support for Ida Maria (whose album, &#8220;Fortress Round My Heart&#8221;, <a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2009\/07\/26\/i-love-the-ida-maria-cd\/\"target=\"_blank\">you may remember I LOVED<\/a>), I knew I had to see what the heck this was all about.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s talk about truth in advertising!  The Brute Chorus album &#8220;How the Caged Bird Sings&#8221; fits the bill to a tee.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Could This Be Love?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"280\" height=\"157\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i8jhMzPvqdg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Heaven&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"280\" height=\"157\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t-zL40CcBP4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I liked what I heard so much I went ahead and picked up the 2009 live album too because&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the Pilgrims&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Jmq_BLUuZI4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But the big news for The Brute Chorus and for the United States is that they&#8217;re coming here for the first time ever for several showcases during the SXSW festival in Austin, TX!  The thing is, they&#8217;re in indie band in Britain, so getting to Texas is a pretty big task.  If you like what you&#8217;ve heard, why not hop on over to iTunes or Amazon.com and download their albums?  They&#8217;re both under $10 each.  Better still, if you&#8217;re really inspired you can check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/The-Brute-Chorus-British-Invasion-American-Mini-tour-SXSW-Tour\"target=\"_blank\">fundraising page on Indie Gogo<\/a>.  There you can contribute cash toward Visa interviews, hiring a van, getting their instruments through customs, and more, and be rewarded with signed CDs and t-shirts!<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about The Brute Chorus, you can visit their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebrutechorus.co.uk\/\"target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Got a few minutes?  Why not let me introduce you to The Brute Chorus, an indie rock band from across the pond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}