{"id":33953,"date":"2016-06-05T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=33953"},"modified":"2016-05-26T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T19:28:00","slug":"local-musicians-start-new-label-muscle-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/local-musicians-start-new-label-muscle-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Musicians Start New Label Muscle Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Muscle Beach<\/strong> is Oxford\u2019s newest music label. Founded by <strong>Graham Hamaker<\/strong> with the help of <strong>Kieran Danielson<\/strong> and <strong>Adam Porter<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The goal, at the end of the day, is for them to do what they enjoy while building a label.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAdam, Kieran, and I started Muscle Beach as a way to release music under a more personal umbrella, a project we could have a good time with\u201d said Hamaker.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Going into the project, the three are wanting to ease into the process and grow naturally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cA lot of small labels eventually fall apart because it either stopped being fun or never was fun,\u201d said Hamaker. \u201cWe\u2019re going to take things nice and slow with the hope that a few eyars from now we have a respectable, sustainable project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Muscle Beach has two releases lined up as of now from co-founders Danielson and Porter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cRight now we\u2019re set to release the second Bonus album, II, on June 10,\u201d said Hamaker. \u201cWe&#8217;re also planning to release the newest Starman Jr. album, Noodles, on July 8th. We have a few other things in the pipeline, but for now we\u2019re keeping our focus small.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muscle Beach is Oxford\u2019s newest music label. Founded by Graham Hamaker with the help of Kieran Danielson and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":33954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7887],"tags":[8644,7861,8047,8645,8646,7870,8642,5,8641,4,8643,2979,3,753],"class_list":["post-33953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-music","tag-adam-porter","tag-bonus","tag-graham-hamaker","tag-i","tag-ii","tag-kieran-danielson","tag-label","tag-mississippi","tag-muscle-beach","tag-oxford","tag-starm-jr-noodles","tag-tape","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-26-muscle-beach.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}