{"id":706,"date":"2016-09-22T07:35:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T06:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/?p=706"},"modified":"2016-09-22T07:35:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T06:35:45","slug":"greg-kot-on-existentialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/?p=706","title":{"rendered":"Greg Kot on &#8220;Existentialism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"trb_ar_hl_t\">The Mekons thrive in the deep end<\/h1>\n<p>Whether it&#8217;s forming a band without really knowing how to play their  instruments, flirting with country music even though there aren&#8217;t many  cowboys or honky-tonks in their native Great Britain or making a live  album with an unrehearsed choir of nonprofessional singers, the Mekons  like to throw themselves into the deep end of things and see what  happens.<\/p>\n<p>All of the above &#8220;experiments&#8221; have worked out pretty  well. The Mekons are among the longest-lived and most daring bands to  emerge from the U.K. punk era, in part because of how the octet is able  to absorb other musical languages \u2014 country, for example \u2014 and make  something uniquely their own out of them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment\/music\/kot\/ct-mekons-jon-langford-hideout-block-party-ott-0909-20160906-column.html\" target=\"_blank\">To read more:<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment\/music\/kot\/ct-mekons-jon-langford-hideout-block-party-ott-0909-20160906-column.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-707\" title=\"gregkot2016\" src=\"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gregkot2016-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"gregkot2016\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gregkot2016-300x246.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gregkot2016-1024x842.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/gregkot2016.jpg 1062w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mekons thrive in the deep end Whether it&#8217;s forming a band without really knowing how to play their instruments,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mekons.de\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}