{"id":1607,"date":"2009-12-15T03:26:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T10:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2009-12-15T03:26:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T10:26:36","slug":"the-sonics-and-the-hives-louie-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=1607","title":{"rendered":"The Sonics AND The Hives &#8211; LOUIE of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve probably given <strong>The Sonics<\/strong> the slightly-prestigious &#8220;LOUIE of the Week&#8221; more times than any other musical group, but it&#8217;s a band that I never expected to reunite.   After they did that big Cavestomp reunion in 2007, things have been on a roll for the band, and they&#8217;re getting more attention than they ever had in the course of their entire career.<\/p>\n<p>This week, I&#8217;m awarding the Sonics another LOUIE of the Week thanks to a recent performance at Debaser Medis, Stockholm, Sweden on Nov 27, 2009,  where they were joined by <strong>The Hives<\/strong>, a Swedish band that has helped propel the current generation of garage rock music into the 21st Century.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like at least two people were able to capture this moment for posterity, and share it on YouTube, so here&#8217;s what I found&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>First, the view from <strong>WHATGTG<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xw8IkXT5dIk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xw8IkXT5dIk&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Followed by another angle from <strong>miajap<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o6sHtWWhKCA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/o6sHtWWhKCA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>With a good broadband connection, and fast fingers on the keyboard, mouse or trackpad, you might be able to match them up for a quasi-live 2 camera performance!  ENJOY!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve probably given The Sonics the slightly-prestigious &#8220;LOUIE of the Week&#8221; more times than any other musical group, but it&#8217;s a band that I never expected to reunite. After they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,33,22,5,7,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garage-rock","category-louie-of-week","category-louie-universe","category-new-versions","category-pacific-northwest","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}