{"id":22088,"date":"2011-09-22T21:21:15","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T20:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=22088"},"modified":"2015-04-02T21:23:15","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T20:23:15","slug":"the-portland-press-herald-face-the-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/the-portland-press-herald-face-the-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The Portland Press Herald: Face The Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/life\/go\/humans-space-nirvana-the-best-of-all-worlds_2011-09-22.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/life\/go\/humans-space-nirvana-the-best-of-all-worlds_2011-09-22.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px; border: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/humans11m.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"160\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"6\" \/><\/a>More American press coverage for The Humans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Face the Music: Humans, Space, Nirvana: the best of all worlds:<\/strong> There is a lot of music on tap this week &#8211; from Brown Bird to The Humans.<\/p>\n<p>The Humans are a three-piece experimental rock band made up of Toyah Willcox, Bill Rieflin and Chris Wong. The group came to be in 2007, and dig this: The Humans consist of a voice and two bass players. That&#8217;s it, though you may hear some programmed drum beats or guest guitar during the live show.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a quick anatomy lesson: Willcox is an English singer and actress who&#8217;s released 22 studio albums, written two books, and has appeared in 40 stage plays and 10 feature films. Translation: She&#8217;s a legend. Rieflin is a multi-instrumentalist whose most recent gig was as drummer for R.E.M. He&#8217;s also worked with Robyn Hitchcock, Swans, Ministry and Nine Inch Nails, just to name a few bands. Wong is a professional guitarist, bassist, arranger, orchestrator, composer and musical director. Dare I call The Humans a supergroup? If the shoe fits<\/p>\n<p>The Humans. 9 p.m. Saturday. Empire Dine and Dance, 575 Congress St., Portland. $8, $10. Ages 21 and older. portlandempire.com<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More American press coverage for The Humans. Face the Music: Humans, Space, Nirvana: the best of all worlds: There is a lot of music on tap this week &#8211; from Brown Bird to The Humans. The Humans are a three-piece experimental rock band made up of Toyah Willcox, Bill Rieflin and Chris Wong. The group [&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":[1260,1266],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088"}],"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=22088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22090,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22088\/revisions\/22090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}