{"id":41522,"date":"2017-09-06T12:48:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T18:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=41522"},"modified":"2017-09-06T13:09:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T19:09:23","slug":"hoops-starman-jr-and-sage-boy-play-proud-larrys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/hoops-starman-jr-and-sage-boy-play-proud-larrys\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoops, Starman Jr., and Sage Boy Play Proud Larrys\u2019 September 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Hoops<\/strong> was born in frontman <strong>Drew Auscherman<\/strong>\u2019s teenage bedroom as a solo ambient and\u00a0beat-driven project \u00e0 la <strong>Oneohtrix Point Never<\/strong>\u2019s Replica. Auscherman named the band after the hoop\u00a0houses at the nursery where he worked (not for his home state\u2019s mania for basketball). Eventually he\u00a0corralled a few of his friends to flesh out his songs, and the music inevitably shifted toward something\u00a0new: more melodic, more guitar-driven, more extroverted. Fast forward to 2014, Hoops became a\u00a0fully formed quartet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The<strong> Indiana<\/strong> band craft hyper-melodic songs, built around power-pop chords, deceptively complex\u00a0drum patterns, and rock-anthem sentiments that hide some tellingly dark thoughts. Three of the four\u00a0members write and sing, each a frontman and a sideman simultaneously. The setup isn\u2019t\u00a0democratic so much as it is simply adaptable and committed: doing what the song demands, getting\u00a0the sound just right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Muscle Beach artist<strong> Starman Jr.<\/strong> and <strong>Cleveland<\/strong>, <strong>Mississippi<\/strong> based <strong>Sage Boy<\/strong> will share <a href=\"http:\/\/www.proudlarrys.com\/event\/1509563-hoops-oxford\/\">the bill<\/a>.\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>Hoops was born in frontman Drew Auscherman\u2019s teenage bedroom as a solo ambient and\u00a0beat-driven project \u00e0 la Oneohtrix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":41523,"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":[3726,5,642,4,10137,7710,3,753],"class_list":["post-41522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-music","tag-hoops","tag-mississippi","tag-ms","tag-oxford","tag-sage-boy","tag-starman-jr","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/2016-12-28-hoops.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41522","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=41522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}