{"id":19315,"date":"2014-04-17T14:09:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T13:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=19315"},"modified":"2014-04-17T14:09:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T13:09:28","slug":"the-portland-mercury-the-many-moods-of-bill-rieflin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-portland-mercury-the-many-moods-of-bill-rieflin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Portland Mercury: The Many Moods of Bill Rieflin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmercury.com\/portland\/the-many-moods-of-bill-rieflin\/Content?oid=12225404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmercury.com\/portland\/the-many-moods-of-bill-rieflin\/Content?oid=12225404\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19316 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"portmerc14a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/portmerc14a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><em>Fripp, Buck, and Others Make Slow Music<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Viewed through<\/strong> a wide-angle lens, the line that runs through Bill Rieflin&#8217;s projects seems to follow the trend of many musicians who came out of the punk era. There&#8217;s the furious, angst-driven beginning that coasts steadily downward into calmer, more middle-of-the-road fare.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of Rieflin, the 53-year-old musician made a name for himself in the late &#8217;80s when he joined forces with industrial-rock carpet bombers Ministry and Revolting Cocks, while also helping form the equally brutal collective Pigface. So his moving into the world of straightforward rock like the Minus 5 and R.E.M. (he was their drummer from 2003 until the band split up in 2011) might seem like he&#8217;s gone soft in his later years.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmercury.com\/portland\/the-many-moods-of-bill-rieflin\/Content?oid=12225404\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Portland Mercury<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fripp, Buck, and Others Make Slow Music Viewed through a wide-angle lens, the line that runs through Bill Rieflin&#8217;s projects seems to follow the trend of many musicians who came out of the punk era. There&#8217;s the furious, angst-driven beginning that coasts steadily downward into calmer, more middle-of-the-road fare. In the case of Rieflin, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,44],"tags":[942,1012,1065],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19317,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions\/19317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}