{"id":5,"date":"2010-09-23T20:55:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T20:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2022-06-22T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T15:15:36","slug":"wp-faq","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-faq\/","title":{"rendered":"WP FAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you provide?
\n<\/strong>The world.<\/p>\n

What kind of music do you play?
\n<\/strong>Descriptions that people have used: “Hallmark-card heavy metal, support-group bubblegum” (Montreal Mirror<\/em>); “rather good jangly pop” (National Post<\/em>); “danceable disco-y sunshiny summertime bare-feet-in-rollerskates kind of music” (Wavelength<\/em>); “inspirational whistling, crooning, shrieking and spaz dancing” (Exclaim<\/em>); “Devo meets AC\/DC” (Olga Goreas, The Besnard Lakes), “Tiny Tim meets the Ramones” (my dad); “AM radio rock” (Wavelength <\/em>again), “the Crispin Glover of the Montreal music scene” (Pop Montreal<\/em> program).<\/p>\n

Why are your songs\/albums\/live sets so short?
\n<\/strong>I firmly adhere to Entertainment Principles such as: quality over quantity; all killer, no filler; leave ’em wanting more. Thus, in my view the question is rather: why are everyone else’s so long? (Update:<\/strong> the WP has recently been experimenting with “normal” song lengths. It has yet to impact our popularity at press time).<\/p>\n

What’s up with the musicians? I thought The World Provider was a one-man band.
\n<\/strong>The WP is a man, a band, a plan… an occasionally rotating crack group of players enabling a singular creative vision. Just like those famous Canadian indie-rock bands, except I don’t pretend it’s a collective. Oops, did I say that out loud?<\/p>\n

Can you put me in touch with Feist\/Peaches\/Gonzales\/etc?<\/strong><\/p>\n

No.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What do you provide? The world. What kind of music do you play? Descriptions that people have used: “Hallmark-card heavy metal, support-group bubblegum” (Montreal Mirror); “rather good jangly pop” (National Post); “danceable disco-y sunshiny summertime bare-feet-in-rollerskates kind of music” (Wavelength); “inspirational whistling, crooning, shrieking and spaz dancing” (Exclaim); “Devo meets AC\/DC” (Olga Goreas, The Besnard … Continue reading “WP FAQ”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\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-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}