{"id":19089,"date":"2023-12-10T22:01:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T22:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=19089"},"modified":"2024-11-30T14:32:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T14:32:02","slug":"the-plugz-better-luck-lp","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/product\/the-plugz-better-luck-lp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Plugz &#8211; Better Luck &#8211; LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"sc-dovdUy jWbJqv\">Pioneering Latino punk band <strong>The Plugz<\/strong> formed in Los Angeles in 1977 with frontman Tito Larriva, drummer Chalo Quintana and bassist Barry McBride. After debut album <i>Electrify Me<\/i>, sophomore set <strong><i>Better Luck<\/i><\/strong> saw McBride replaced by John Curry of The Flyboys; now with better mastery of their instruments, Larriva and Chalo steered the sound into new wave stylings, aided and abetted by guest horns, harmonica, and keyboards. Yet, the band was still a critical force pushing against societal inequalities, as heard on the caustic \u201cAmerican,\u201d and El Clavo Y La Cruz\u201d reminded\u00a0\u00a0that the core of the group was 100% Latino. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sc-dovdUy jWbJqv\">A great LP!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Survival Research<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Survival Research<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span class=\"sc-dovdUy jWbJqv\">Pioneering Latino punk band <strong>The Plugz<\/strong> formed in Los Angeles in 1977 with frontman Tito Larriva, drummer Chalo Quintana and bassist Barry McBride. After debut album <i>Electrify Me<\/i>, sophomore set <strong><i>Better Luck<\/i><\/strong> saw McBride replaced by John Curry of The Flyboys; now with better mastery of their instruments, Larriva and Chalo steered the sound into new wave stylings, aided and abetted by guest horns, harmonica, and keyboards. Yet, the band was still a critical force pushing against societal inequalities, as heard on the caustic \u201cAmerican,\u201d and El Clavo Y La Cruz\u201d reminded\u00a0\u00a0that the core of the group was 100% Latino. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sc-dovdUy jWbJqv\">A great LP!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EuhWvmTco74&amp;ab_channel=GD7577\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u25ba CLICK HERE TO LISTEN<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[],"product_tag":[3010,4678],"class_list":{"0":"post-19089","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_tag-survival-research","7":"product_tag-the-plugz","8":"product_shipping_class-lp","9":"pa_artist-the-plugz","10":"pa_genre-new-wave","11":"pa_genre-punk","12":"pa_genre-rock","13":"pa_label-survival-research","15":"first","16":"outofstock","17":"shipping-taxable","18":"purchasable","19":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/19089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=19089"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=19089"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasserbassin.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=19089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}