{"id":679,"date":"2019-11-29T17:40:32","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T17:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/?page_id=679"},"modified":"2019-11-29T17:40:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T17:40:32","slug":"the-brothers-steve-christmas-magic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/the-brothers-steve-christmas-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brothers Steve: Christmas Magic!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cover-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cover-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cover-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cover-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cover-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/cover-1.png 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Christmas Magic!<\/strong> is the weekly Digital Single for November 29th, <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"available at the Big Stir Digital Singles (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/bigstirrecords.com\/big-stir-digital-singles\" target=\"_blank\">available at the Big Stir Digital Singles<\/a><\/strong> page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Brothers Steve<\/strong>&#8230;<strong>Jeff Whelan<\/strong> (guitar &amp;vocals), <strong>Os Tyler<\/strong> (vocals), <strong>Dylan Champion<\/strong> (guitar &amp; vocals), <strong>Jeff Solomon<\/strong> (bass), and <strong>Steve Coulter<\/strong> (drums) offered one of 2019&#8217;s most pleasant surprises with their debut album, <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"available for purchase from their Website (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrotherssteve.com\" target=\"_blank\">available for purchase from their Website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;I Love The Christmastime&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> is a fun, raucous pop romp through a laundry list of everything the lads love about the season to be jolly:<em> &#8220;Aunt Julie comes around to say hello&#8230;she&#8217;s bringin&#8217; lots of pies and cakes and green jello&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> There are many <em>&#8220;WHOOOs!&#8221;<\/em> and calls of <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s Christmas Time, come on, let&#8217;s GO!&#8221;<\/em> as the bros welcome all kinds of Christmas goodies at their doorstep. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Listen Up! It&#8217;s Christmastime&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> is a ballad, reminiscent of a Ray Davies moment of reflection&#8230;<em>&#8220;Listen up, it&#8217;s Christmastime&#8230;all I want this year is you to be mine&#8230;&#8221; <\/em>It&#8217;s sweet, sincere, and cut from the same precious cloth as the classic Christmas songs of days gone by. It has a wonderful and melodic solo with <em>&#8220;OOOOOHS&#8221;<\/em> at the bridge as <strong>Os<\/strong> asserts <strong><em>&#8220;Make it MERRY!&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> There&#8217;s an open, honest, innocent expression of anticipation..<em>.&#8221;Tonight I&#8217;ll be awake again, just like the years before&#8230; now it&#8217;s you, my sweet love, that I&#8217;m waiting for&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christmas singles are a pretty easy shot for bands that want to take a &#8220;standard&#8221; and rock it up with a few new twists. It&#8217;s a much bigger challenge to create something new, heartwarming and fun, and that&#8217;s exactly what the Brothers Steve have accomplished on this single. Get it&#8230;you&#8217;ll love it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas Magic! is the weekly Digital Single for November 29th, available at the Big Stir Digital Singles page. The Brothers Steve&#8230;Jeff Whelan (guitar &amp;vocals), Os Tyler (vocals), Dylan Champion (guitar &amp; vocals), Jeff Solomon (bass), and Steve Coulter (drums) offered one of 2019&#8217;s most pleasant surprises with their debut album, available for purchase from their&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/the-brothers-steve-christmas-magic\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-679","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/679\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedeangelis.com\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}