{"id":4276,"date":"2014-08-13T18:35:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T01:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2014-08-23T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T18:02:19","slug":"say-hello-van-ike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/2014\/08\/say-hello-van-ike\/","title":{"rendered":"Say Hello To Van Ike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-content\/media\/VanIkePromo.jpg\" alt=\"VanIke\" \/><br \/>\nVery happy to finally bring this new project of mine to light! <strong>Van Ike<\/strong> has been something I&#8217;ve been doing on the side with my longtime friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sambarsh.com\/\">Sam Barsh<\/a> (who was my first roommate in Brooklyn at age 19). Friends for ages, we&#8217;ve basically been leading parallel music careers, and only just started collaborating recently in our spare time (when Sam isn&#8217;t in the studio writing songs with <strong>Kendrick Lamar, Aloe Blacc <\/strong>&amp;<strong> Macy Gray<\/strong>). The sound of Van Ike sprung naturally from our mutual love of <strong>Hall &amp; Oates, Dwele, Pharrell,<\/strong> and <strong>Mayer Hawthorne<\/strong>. It&#8217;s a little bit throwback, a little bit now, and a lot of soul- basically doing what we feel and love. This first offering (which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okayplayer.com\/news\/van-ike-the-worst-mp3.html\">premiered yesterday at OkayPlayer.com<\/a>) is our tribute to one of this summer&#8217;s sexiest tunes- <em>&#8220;The Worst&#8221;<\/em> by <strong>Jhene Aiko<\/strong>. Consider this just an appetizer, because our debut <strong>&#8220;Notes To Self&#8221; EP<\/strong> will be dropping very soon. <strong>FREE DOWNLOAD<\/strong> below, grab it while it&#8217;s hot&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also, for people in LA &#8211; we&#8217;re doing our first live show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/337067126456889\/?ref=br_tf\">TONIGHT at Sadie<\/a> in Hollywood (I know, I know, sorry for late notice). For those of you in NYC, you can catch us <strong>Aug. 31st at the James Hotel<\/strong> in SOHO or <strong>Sept. 2nd at The Drink<\/strong> in Williamsburg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/download\/TheWorst.zip\">FREE DOWNLOAD LINK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/162782512&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Very happy to finally bring this new project of mine to light! Van Ike has been something I&#8217;ve been doing on the side with my longtime friend Sam Barsh (who was my first roommate in Brooklyn at age 19). Friends for ages, we&#8217;ve basically been leading parallel music careers, and only just started collaborating recently [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[861,1113,1114,1112],"class_list":["post-4276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mp3","tag-chuck-wild","tag-sam-barsh","tag-soul","tag-van-ike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4293,"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions\/4293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixtaperiot.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}