{"id":18,"date":"2020-02-28T05:30:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/?p=18"},"modified":"2020-02-28T05:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:30:16","slug":"rat-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/2020\/02\/28\/rat-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Rat Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/files\/2020\/02\/Rat-Boys-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/files\/2020\/02\/Rat-Boys-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/files\/2020\/02\/Rat-Boys-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/files\/2020\/02\/Rat-Boys-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/files\/2020\/02\/Rat-Boys-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When you think of a band called Rat Boys, you might think of some pretty&#8230; gnarly?&#8230; individuals. Maybe not the first band you think of when your grandma asks you what you&#8217;re listening to, but what if I  Rat Boys aren&#8217;t quite what you&#8217;d expect. Their lead singer is neither a rat nor a boy, their songs aren&#8217;t overtly crude, crass or crazy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In fact, The Chicago based Indie- Rock band really surprised me with their technically proficient playing and relatively gentle vocals. It really caught me off guard, especially after last week&#8217;s show. Maybe it&#8217;s because I walked into this show completely blind and that I&#8217;ve never heard of Rat Boys prior, their songs are catchy and melodic. I think they&#8217;re worth a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8bO7bH835zA\">listen.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I suppose I should&#8217;ve known it wasn&#8217;t going to be quite as high-octane as the bar show I went to last weekend. The location alone changed the atmosphere.  The show took place at the &#8220;Der Rathskeller&#8221; at Madison Memorial Union on Langdon street. Again, because I walked into this show with little to no preview of the band before going to this show I had no idea that it was going to be a gentle Bernie Sanders rally.  The lead singer adorned a Bernie beanie which I&#8217;ve learned through research that the beanie is an integral part of the look. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you asked me what the right atmosphere to listen to Rat Boys in. The quick list would consist of: jamming out home alone, driving around with your windows down on a nice day, or anywhere you&#8217;re not afraid to sing along. Granted all those places pretty isolated, and that might be because I can&#8217;t hit the same high notes as the lead singer. Otherwise, I can&#8217;t really see an inopportune time to give them a listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already taken a listen, and checked them out I strongly suggest you do.  I&#8217;ll make it easy for you by putting their Spotify <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/1SoBNpuC0N4nvaQFENS0qf?si=N6kjmp3nQwyq1iZWZnxk8g\">here<\/a>, and dropping their Instagram here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-instagram wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B89UUvEgNUP\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you think of a band called Rat Boys, you might think of some pretty&#8230; gnarly?&#8230; individuals. Maybe not the first band you think of when your grandma asks you what you&#8217;re listening to, but what if I Rat Boys aren&#8217;t quite what you&#8217;d expect. Their lead singer is neither a rat nor a boy, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/2020\/02\/28\/rat-boys\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rat Boys&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7964,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7964"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/musicmoment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}