{"id":3827,"date":"2011-04-01T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T05:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=3827"},"modified":"2015-03-25T11:29:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T17:29:39","slug":"asphalt-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/3827","title":{"rendered":"Factory of Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Asphalt Grass<\/h6>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3827-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wordpress-0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/03\/19123403\/Asphalt-Grass.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wordpress-0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/03\/19123403\/Asphalt-Grass.mp3\">https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wordpress-0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/03\/19123403\/Asphalt-Grass.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/3425\">Factory Of Lights<\/a><\/h6>\n<p> is Austin-based songwriter and producer Luke T. Allen. Allen grew up in Maryland playing drums in bands like post-rock Ghosts! Ghosts! and pop-friendly Cops &amp; Robbers, later fronting the Brooklyn psych-rock group Tel Quel. In 2008 he formed Austin garage-pop trio Dudes Die, his latest functional band. Factory Of Lights has been Allen&#8217;s ever-present side project, a haven for songwriting and poetry. &#8220;Asphalt Grass&#8221; exemplifies this devotion to the lyric elements of songwriting: &#8220;<em>i<\/em><em>n a feat so impressive it\u2019s almost repulsive \/\u00a0we sawed off our arms so we could be more impulsive \/\u00a0but the blood on the ground reflected the blank look in our stares \/\u00a0as we gazed at our own inventions.<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dudesdie.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">dudesdie.wordpress.com<\/a> \u2013 <em>Rebecca Bernard<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asphalt Grass Factory Of Lights is Austin-based songwriter and producer Luke T. Allen. Allen grew up in Maryland playing drums in bands like post-rock Ghosts! Ghosts! and pop-friendly Cops &amp; Robbers, later fronting the Brooklyn psych-rock group Tel Quel. In 2008 he formed Austin garage-pop trio Dudes Die, his latest functional band. Factory Of Lights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[32],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-ZJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11584,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions\/11584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}