{"id":64,"date":"2006-03-21T21:25:37","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T02:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2006\/03\/21\/japanther\/"},"modified":"2006-07-18T15:02:09","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T20:02:09","slug":"japanther","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2006\/03\/21\/japanther\/","title":{"rendered":"~JAPANTHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/__113.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"423\" alt=\"Matt Reilly-japanther\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/__119.jpg\" width=\"276\" height=\"424\" alt=\"Ian Vanek-japanther\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MATT REILLY (top) and IAN VANEK are JAPANTHER  &#8230; outrageously talented &#038; over-the-top performers, JAPANTHER served up a knock-them-out dead performance at the afterparty for the book launch of CHARWEI TSAI&#8217;S &#8216;LOVELY DAZE&#8217;, which was held at a tiny dive, ICU Bar, on the fringe of NYC civilization,  an almost bleak stretch that still exists for a few streets, where the boundaries of the West Village and Chelsea haven&#8217;t yet hooked up in glorified gentrification.  Seeing this band in that locale was the kind of artworld moment we all live for&#8230;. its down in the photo report captions that links at the bottom, but it&#8217;s not redundant to say it again: for all of you who came to New York &#8211; to seek out firsthand live band experiences that left you in a state of shock &#038; awe &#8211; I have just one word for you &#8211; JAPANTHER, JAPANTHER, JAPANTHER  &#8211; the next time you see or hear that word &#8211; you just jump &#038;  run &#038; get there. <\/p>\n<p>more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/artlovers\/report\/2006-01-17.html\">JAPANTHER photos from ICU,<\/a> NYC, Oct 22, 2005<\/p>\n<p>Photos: MATT REILLY, top, and IAN VANEK, bottom, who are the NYC band JAPANTHER, in performance for the Charwei Tsai, &#8216;LOVELY DAZE&#8217; art quarterly afterparty, at ICU BAR, on the fringe of the West Village, NYC, Oct 22, 2005<br \/>\nPhotos: Nancy Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MATT REILLY (top) and IAN VANEK are JAPANTHER &#8230; outrageously talented &#038; over-the-top performers, JAPANTHER served up a knock-them-out dead performance at the afterparty for the book launch of CHARWEI TSAI&#8217;S &#8216;LOVELY DAZE&#8217;, which was held at a tiny dive, ICU Bar, on the fringe of NYC civilization, an almost bleak stretch that still exists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}