{"id":240,"date":"2009-05-08T20:13:30","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T04:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/?p=240"},"modified":"2023-01-19T17:50:15","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T01:50:15","slug":"the-staxx-brothers-we-are-the-blaxstonz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"The Staxx Brothers &#8211; We Are the Blaxstonz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/staxxblacstones.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6225\" width=\"673\" height=\"673\" title=\"watb\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/staxxblacstones.jpg 500w, https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/staxxblacstones-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/staxxblacstones-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/staxxblacstones-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Left to their own devices with Scott Colburn (Arcade Fire, Animal Collective) at his voodoo lair, an old Finnish church turned recording studio, The Staxx Brothers return with a vengeance on We are The Blaxstonz. It&#8217;s an album that borders on black comedy with heavier social undercurrents; by now as much Chappelle &amp; Carlin as Big Boi and Jagger. It&#8217;s a good time record that helps you dance through the tough ones. It&#8217;s HARD ASS SOUL. It&#8217;s ice cold. This is the way they used to make records. Step real close and you can detect that heavy scent of Howlin&#8217; Wolf runnin&#8217; wild through a Hip Hop landscape&#8230;I can still hear him laughin&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left to their own devices with Scott Colburn (Arcade Fire, Animal Collective) at his voodoo lair, an old Finnish church turned recording studio, The Staxx Brothers return with a vengeance on We are The Blaxstonz. It&#8217;s an album that borders on black comedy with heavier social undercurrents; by now as much Chappelle &amp; Carlin as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/?p=240\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Staxx Brothers &#8211; We Are the Blaxstonz&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6790,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/6790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcolburn.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}