{"id":12798,"date":"2014-03-20T09:39:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/?p=12798"},"modified":"2014-03-20T09:39:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T14:39:20","slug":"watch-matthew-squires-perform-show-to-an-adoring-crowd-of-mannequins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/2014\/03\/20\/watch-matthew-squires-perform-show-to-an-adoring-crowd-of-mannequins\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Matthew Squires Perform Show to an Adoring Crowd of Mannequins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like what Matthew Squires is doing. Squires creates nasally, off-kilter acoustic pop songs that embrace the complexity of life, tackling terror and joy head-on. His songs are catchy and cute, but more often I find myself entirely impressed by Squire&#8217;s character and persona. Although the music is sure to have its detractors, Squires&#8217; songs are undeniably honest and emotionally present. You&#8217;ll find no posturing here. This week, Squires shared a takeaway show, filmed and\u00a0recorded by John Valley, Cordelaine Kline, and Tyler Speicher. The show takes place at Still &amp; Sea and features an incredibly attentive and respectfully quiet audience. Watch below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TBD-VH4t9kA\" height=\"285\" width=\"460\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like what Matthew Squires is doing. Squires creates nasally, off-kilter acoustic pop songs that embrace the complexity of life, tackling terror and joy head-on. His songs are catchy and cute, but more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,37],"tags":[1114,2523,1935],"class_list":["post-12798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-videos","tag-acoustic-pop","tag-honesty","tag-matthew-squires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12799,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12798\/revisions\/12799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.poppressinternational.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}