{"id":1668,"date":"2009-02-11T18:58:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T02:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2009-02-11T18:58:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T02:58:49","slug":"trakz-artist-spotlight-the-dance-party-sasha-dont-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/2009\/02\/11\/trakz-artist-spotlight-the-dance-party-sasha-dont-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"Tra.kz Artist Spotlight: The Dance Party (&quot;Sasha Don&#039;t Sleep&quot;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2658\" href=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/11\/trakz-artist-spotlight-the-dance-party-sasha-dont-sleep\/tdpresspic-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2658\" title=\"TDPressPic\" src=\"http:\/\/evolvingmusic.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/02\/tdpresspic1.jpg\" alt=\"TDPressPic\" width=\"256\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/tra.kz\/d\" target=\"_blank\">Sasha Don&#8217;t Sleep<\/a>&#8221; is a track off of <a class=\"xLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thedanceparty\" target=\"_blank\">The Dance Party&#8217;s<\/a> new tour EP titled &#8220;Tiger&#8221; coming out this Spring. They&#8217;re one of DC&#8217;s mega cool indie bands and also becoming a staple in the New York rock scene. Their gigs may be spreading across America but when <a class=\"xLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thedanceparty\" target=\"_blank\">The Dance Party<\/a> puts on a show on at home, DC doesn&#8217;t sleep. A <a class=\"xLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thedanceparty\" target=\"_blank\">Dance Party<\/a> show is a fun &amp; exciting night of outta control rock and roll. You heard me. Check &#8217;em out but be prepared for the addiction.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"xLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thedanceparty\" target=\"_blank\">The Dance Party<\/a><\/strong> is a high-energy rock group from Washington, DC. With a sound that combines Dance-Punk, 80&#8217;s New Wave, and Powerpop, The Dance Party created a buzz throughout DC and the Mid-Atlantic with their frenetic live performance and hook-laden debut album, &#8220;Friction! Friction! Friction!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"xLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thedanceparty\" target=\"_blank\">The Dance Party<\/a> recently recorded 10 tracks with Andros Rodriguez at the helm (Justin Timberlake, Cobra Starship, !!!). With a host of shows booked and new songs yet to be released, the band is positioned for rock &amp; roll domination.<\/p>\n<p>The new material demonstrates the band&#8217;s strengths &#8211; undeniably catchy pop songs executed with an over-the-top delivery, guaranteed to cause the uncontrollable desire to throw caution to the wind and get radical on the dance floor.&#8221; &#8211; blurb taken from <a class=\"xLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thedanceparty\" target=\"_blank\">The Dance Party <\/a><a class=\"xLink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thedanceparty\" target=\"_blank\">MySpace Music Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sasha Don&#8217;t Sleep&#8221; is a track off of The Dance Party&#8217;s new tour EP titled &#8220;Tiger&#8221; coming out this Spring. They&#8217;re one of DC&#8217;s mega cool indie bands and also becoming a staple in the New York rock scene. Their gigs may be spreading across America but when The Dance Party puts on a show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5,18,25,39],"tags":[883,1425,1549,1817,1970],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mixmatchmusic.com\/evolvingmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}