{"id":681,"date":"2017-09-27T09:31:22","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T13:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/?p=681"},"modified":"2020-03-08T15:05:06","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T19:05:06","slug":"progstock-festival-the-tea-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/progstock-festival-the-tea-club\/","title":{"rendered":"ProgStock Festival: The Tea Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/artists-schedule\/2017-artists\/saturday\/the-tea-club\/teaclub-official-image001-resized-v1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-232\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-232\" src=\"http:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/TeaClub-Official-image001-RESIZED-v1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"725\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cChallenging, modern, and frequently scintillating\u00a0\u2026an incredible future\u201d are the words\u00a0Prog Magazine\u00a0used\u00a0to describe\u00a0The Tea Club.<\/p>\n<p>Formed in the mid 2000s by brothers Patrick and Dan McGowan, The Tea Club\u00a0have\u00a0been\u00a0grappling\u00a0with the confines of rock music over the span of four critically acclaimed albums. Their signature lush harmonies, alternate guitar tunings,\u00a0and emotive lyricism serves\u00a0as a core to their wild experimentation with style and instrumentation. Their live performances are visually dramatic: backdrops accompanying a raw and explosive stage presence. Their sound is dynamic, vibrant, and eclectic, with comparisons to anywhere from early Genesis, to Oceansize or Radiohead.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2008, acclaimed Producer\/Engineer\u00a0Tim Gilles (Anthrax,\u00a0Taking Back Sunday,\u00a0Jeff Buckley, Thursday),\u00a0discovered the band and\u00a0recorded, produced, and mixed their four studio albums. In support of their most recent album Grappling, The Tea Club performed with Haken, Toby Driver (John Zorn,\u00a0Kayo Dot, Maudlin the Well), and Bent Knee, and embarked on an extensive tour with\u00a0Thank You Scientist and Moon Tooth.<\/p>\n<p>The Tea Club consists of Patrick McGowan (Guitar, Vocals), Daniel McGowan (Guitar, Vocals), Jamie Wolff (Bass), Joseph Dorsey (Keyboards), and Daniel Monda (Drums)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChallenging, modern, and frequently scintillating\u00a0\u2026an incredible future\u201d are the words\u00a0Prog Magazine\u00a0used\u00a0to describe\u00a0The Tea Club. Formed in the mid 2000s by brothers Patrick and Dan McGowan, The Tea Club\u00a0have\u00a0been\u00a0grappling\u00a0with the confines of rock music over the span of four critically acclaimed albums. Their signature lush harmonies, alternate guitar tunings,\u00a0and emotive lyricism serves\u00a0as a core to their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3,51,17],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-progstock-artists","tag-progstock","tag-progstock-festival","tag-the-tea-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.progstock.com\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}