{"id":16,"date":"2008-08-25T10:13:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T14:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/?p=16"},"modified":"2008-09-18T03:14:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T07:14:47","slug":"august-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/august-update\/","title":{"rendered":"August Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve blogged! Time sure flies&#8230; well, no news is good news in this case. I&#8217;ve been busy writing lots of new music which we will begin recording in the coming weeks. A bulk of this material falls somewhere between <a href=\"..\/excelsior.html\">Excelsior!<\/a> and <a href=\"..\/eternity.html\">Until Eternity<\/a> in concept and will probably be destined to become a Mastermind title. Some other material is more along the lines of the <a href=\"..\/berendsbros\/index.html\">Berends Brothers<\/a> classic-bluesy sound and will be something else altogether. Since writing has been my main focus as of late there have also been fewer <a href=\"..\/announce.html\">live shows<\/a>, but keep checking in, we do love to play live.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, there is still a whole other album &#8220;in the can&#8221; so to speak, but we&#8217;re not quite sure what to do with it&#8230; with the flood of female vocalist bands since the early 00&#8217;s and the fact that it kind of veered pretty far off our original course, we may sit on it for a while and release it as something else. Not quite sure! But for classic Mastermind fans the good news is there is a new sense of purpose and am pleased with what I&#8217;m coming up with.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to everyone who has made a purchase from our digital catalog on <a href=\"http:\/\/mindawn.com\/artists\/mastermind\" target=\"_NEW\">Mindawn<\/a>! This combined with some back royalties helps keep something in the coffers to cover operating expenses AND lets us know there is still an interest in the music of Mastermind.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading and hopefully no so much time between blogs next time!  ~Bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seems like it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve blogged! Time sure flies&#8230; well, no news is good news in this case. I&#8217;ve been busy writing lots of new music which we will begin recording in the coming weeks. A bulk of this material falls somewhere between Excelsior! and Until Eternity in concept and will probably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-mastermind","category-music","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mastermindband.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}