{"id":8165,"date":"2011-04-07T01:11:59","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T08:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=8165"},"modified":"2011-04-07T01:12:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T08:12:03","slug":"dennis-gonzalez-finally-gets-his-due-page-1-music-dallas-dallas-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2011\/04\/dennis-gonzalez-finally-gets-his-due-page-1-music-dallas-dallas-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Gonzalez Finally Gets His Due &#8211; Page 1 &#8211; Music &#8211; Dallas &#8211; Dallas Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"dennis-gonzalez-finally-gets-his-due.5033300.40.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-content\/upload\/2011\/04\/dennis-gonzalez-finally-gets-his-due.5033300.40.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Dennis gonzalez finally gets his due 5033300 40\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallasobserver.com\/2010-07-08\/music\/dennis-gonzalez-finally-gets-his-due\/\" >Dennis Gonzalez Finally Gets His Due &#8211; Page 1 &#8211; Music &#8211; Dallas &#8211; Dallas Observer<\/a>: &#8220;The world is just now getting to know Ariel Pink. The totally out-there Los Angeles freak-folker has been stuck in the underground, making some of the world&#8217;s weirdest music for over a decade. But since his critically acclaimed indie-pop album, Before Today, earned its release back in April, people have started paying more attention to his unusual pop sensibilities.<\/p>\n<p>HAL SAMPLES Meet Dennis and Aaron Gonzalez, two of the driving forces behind Ariel Pink\u2019s latest blog hit. Related Content Good Friday: True Widow Album Release, Descender, Destroyer, DEVO, Arlo Guthrie, Salt-N-Pepa, Murs, Nervebreakers, REO Speedwagon, Dashboard Confessional &amp; More! March 25, 2011 This Week In Dallas Music History: The Vas Deferens Organization is Not For Everyone December 27, 2010 Happy Days Are Near Again For DFW Market? So Insists National Retail Real-Estate Report. February 15, 2011 Truck Thefts from Texas Soda Distributors Make Dallas a Hub for Hot Dr Pepper April 6, 2011 35 Conferette Adds A Whopping 135 More Bands To Bill, Including A Whole Slew of Locals January 21, 2011 More About Ariel PinkDennis GonzalezDallas (Texas)Eric LumbleauArts, Entertainment, and Media And, now, they&#8217;re paying attention to this fun fact: In February, earlier this year, Ariel Pink was right here in the metroplex\u2014Mesquite to be exact\u2014working on his next record, Ariel Pink with Added Pizzazz.<\/p>\n<p>Because of a mutual friendship that had grown after several years of trading music on an underground share-blog called Mutant Sounds, Ariel Pink enlisted Matt Castille and Eric Lumbleau of the former Dallas psych-rock outfit Vas Deferens Organization to handle the record&#8217;s production. Ariel Pink and Vas Deferens Organization had been discussing the idea of making a pop record with a basis in jazz-rock for some time. But, to do so, Pink&#8217;s backing band, Haunted Graffiti, would need to be upgraded to a group of musicians fluent in both rock and free jazz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Gonzalez Finally Gets His Due &#8211; Page 1 &#8211; Music &#8211; Dallas &#8211; Dallas Observer: &#8220;The world is just now getting to know Ariel Pink. The totally out-there Los Angeles freak-folker has been stuck in the underground, making some of the world&#8217;s weirdest music for over a decade. But since his critically acclaimed indie-pop &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2011\/04\/dennis-gonzalez-finally-gets-his-due-page-1-music-dallas-dallas-observer\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dennis Gonzalez Finally Gets His Due &#8211; Page 1 &#8211; Music &#8211; Dallas &#8211; Dallas Observer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-27H","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8166,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8165\/revisions\/8166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}