{"id":111476,"date":"2015-12-22T14:45:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T19:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=111476"},"modified":"2015-12-22T16:22:26","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T21:22:26","slug":"dr-mars-and-the-holy-infants-holiday-singles-for-a-good-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=111476","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Mars and the Holy Infants: Holiday Singles!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drmars.net\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Mars<\/a> is my cousin Liam&#8217;s awesome band. Their album, <i>Stars in Our Favour<\/i> is <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/stars-in-our-favour\/id792800499\" target=\"blank\">available on iTunes<\/a>. Liam is an incredible songwriter, and even more than that, a walking music encyclopedia.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this fall, Liam and a small group of musicians got together at their new recording studio in the New York area to record two fun holiday singles: &#8220;Jingle Jangle Girl&#8221; and &#8220;New Years on the Way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/9832b9_784a826ac9b74f0b9c38f4a37255f7b0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/9832b9_784a826ac9b74f0b9c38f4a37255f7b0.jpg\" alt=\"9832b9_784a826ac9b74f0b9c38f4a37255f7b0\" width=\"601\" height=\"588\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-111478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/9832b9_784a826ac9b74f0b9c38f4a37255f7b0.jpg 601w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/9832b9_784a826ac9b74f0b9c38f4a37255f7b0-100x98.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/9832b9_784a826ac9b74f0b9c38f4a37255f7b0-200x196.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/9832b9_784a826ac9b74f0b9c38f4a37255f7b0-400x391.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both songs are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drmars.net\/#!holiday-single\/rtokt\" target=\"_blank\">available for free on Soundcloud<\/a>, and there are Youtube clips up as well.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QWluegizISc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CQZ1chBH7ss\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nThe songs are so much fun, with those Liam-ish chord changes I love so much. I told him I loved one of the chord changes, and Liam informed me of the entire history of that one particular chord change. See, that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m talking about. (The chord change I&#8217;m talking about happens on the word &#8220;world&#8221; in the &#8220;joy to the world&#8221; repetition in &#8220;Jingle Jangle Girl&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>Check it out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Mars is my cousin Liam&#8217;s awesome band. Their album, Stars in Our Favour is available on iTunes. Liam is an incredible songwriter, and even more than that, a walking music encyclopedia. Earlier this fall, Liam and a small group &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=111476\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111476"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111476"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111493,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111476\/revisions\/111493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}