{"id":5001,"date":"2020-02-06T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discoteepee.com\/?p=5001"},"modified":"2020-02-06T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T12:00:05","slug":"matt-megrue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discoteepee.com\/blog\/matt-megrue\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 7, Matt Megrue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u2019s fronted the Atlanta pop-punk band, The Unusual Suspects, evolved into an indie rocker of Charleston\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lonerssociety\/\">Loner Society<\/a>, and finally grown into a project that blends punk, emo, Americana and 80&#8217;s pop-nostalgia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During our conversation, we discuss his latest album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattmegrue.com\/shop\">The Mourner&#8217;s Manual<\/a>, the lack of rock bands within the current music scene, candy cigarettes, and his own podcast, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/matt-megrue\/war-drink\">War and Drink<\/a><\/em>. Don&#8217;t miss his album release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1159003814491153\/\">party<\/a> for The Mourner&#8217;s Manual this Saturday, February 7th, at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1159003814491153\/\">The Royal American<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Link Up: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mattmegruemusic\/\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mattmegrue\/\">Instagram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattmegrue\">Twitter <\/a>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattmegrue.com\/\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"> <em>Retraction&#8230;I mentioned that Imagine Dragons was Grammy-nominated for a Best Rock Album, they were nominated for Billboard&#8217;s Top Rock Album. <\/em> <\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_551\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5001-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/discoteepee\/www.discoteepee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/matt_megrue.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/discoteepee\/www.discoteepee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/matt_megrue.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/discoteepee\/www.discoteepee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/matt_megrue.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/discoteepee\/www.discoteepee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/matt_megrue.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/discoteepee.com\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=5001-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/discoteepee\/www.discoteepee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/matt_megrue.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"matt_megrue.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s fronted the Atlanta pop-punk band, The Unusual Suspects, evolved into an indie rocker of Charleston\u2019s Loner Society, and finally grown into a project that blends&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[67,332,571,1293,1388,1409,1583,1585,2118,2280],"class_list":["post-5001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-album-release-party","tag-charleston-blog","tag-disco-teepee","tag-matt-megrue","tag-music-blog","tag-musician-interview","tag-podcast","tag-podcaster","tag-the-royal-american","tag-war-and-drink-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoteepee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoteepee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoteepee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoteepee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoteepee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discoteepee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discoteepee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoteepee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discoteepee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}