At my physical therapy appointment this morning I heard on the radio that Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty is releasing a solo album next month (this is probably old news, but I’m a bit out of the loop these days without my American MTV and a subscription to Rolling Stone<\/i>). <\/p>\n
Well, that’s interesting,<\/i> I thought, until I heard the single a few moments later. Even though he wrote the song and I usually love his stuff, this new bit of fluff sounds like so much cookie-cutter, Justin-Timberlake-inspired pop garbage. How could this<\/a> come from the same pen as “3 A.M.” and “Push”? I’m horribly disappointed.<\/p>\n *A little play on the name of a local town — “Ursviken” means something like “the outer bay,” but you could separate it out to “Ur-sviken,” which would mean “horribly disappointed.”<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At my physical therapy appointment this morning I heard on the radio that Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty is releasing a solo album next month (this is probably old news, but I’m a bit out of the loop these days without my American MTV and a subscription to Rolling Stone). Well, that’s interesting, I thought,… Read More Ur-sviken*<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}