{"id":179488,"date":"2025-08-27T10:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/179488\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T10:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T10:35:12","slug":"song-of-the-week-alien-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/179488\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8216;Alien Mask&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chorduroy.bandcamp.com\/track\/alien-mask-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chorduroy, \u201cAlien Mask\u201d<\/strong><\/a><strong>: <\/strong>Fuzzy, snotty and frenzied, this is psych rock just like momma used to make. Chorduroy\u2019s latest album comes complete with deliciously blown out vocals, driving basslines and searing guitar riffage. So, hang up a blacklight poster, turn on the lava lamp and get to headbanging.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Like what you hear? <\/strong>Check out<a href=\"https:\/\/wl.eventim.us\/event\/wild-wild-wets-jackie-mendoza-chorduroy\/658981?afflky=Casbah\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Chorduroy at Casbah on Saturday, Aug. 30<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you have a \u201cSong of the Week\u201d suggestion? <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/2025\/08\/27\/song-of-the-week-alien-mask\/mailto:Jakob@vosd.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shoot us an email<\/a> and a sentence or two about why you\u2019ve been bumping this song lately. Friendly reminder: all songs should be by local artists. <\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJakob McWhinney is Voice of San Diego&#8217;s education reporter. He can be reached by email at jakob@vosd.org, via phone at (619) 786-4418 or followed on Twitter&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voiceofsandiego.org\/author\/jakob-mcwhinney\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Jakob McWhinney\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chorduroy, \u201cAlien Mask\u201d: Fuzzy, snotty and frenzied, this is psych rock just like momma used to make. Chorduroy\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":179489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-179488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-sandiego","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115100288618403359","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}