{"id":321,"date":"2011-06-12T02:46:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T07:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/?p=321"},"modified":"2011-06-10T20:57:58","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T01:57:58","slug":"the-downtown-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/2011\/06\/12\/the-downtown-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Downtown Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i1202.photobucket.com\/albums\/bb367\/scxrl3t\/Bands\/TheDowntownFiction.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"70\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedowntownfiction.com\/\">The Downtown Fiction<\/a> are an indie pop\/rock band from Fairfax, VA, formed in the summer of 2008 by Cameron Leahy (guitar\/vocals) and Eric Jones (drums). The two posted three demos on the band\u2019s MySpace profile and quickly built a following and added David Pavluk (bass\/background vocals) to the line up. After a year of touring, The Downtown Fiction announced their signing with <a href=\"http:\/\/my.photofinishrecords.com\/\">Photo Finish<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/atlanticrecords.com\/\">Atlantic Records<\/a>. The band performed on the 2010 Bamboozle Roadshow and the 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/vanswarpedtour.com\/\">Warped Tour<\/a> and was recently featured in the \u201c100 Bands You Need To Know\u201d issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altpress.com\/\">Alternative Press Magazine<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe Downtown Fiction released a self-titled EP in March 2009, which included the hits \u201cLiving Proof\u201d and \u201cIs Anybody Out There?\u201d. Followed up by an EP titled \u201cBest I Never Had\u201d in March. In August, the music video for \u201cI Just Wanna Run\u201d was released and in December, they released a new EP \u201cThe Double E.P.\u201d, including all tracks from the two other EPs and a new demo, \u201cKeep On Moving\u201d. Songfacts reports that their first album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lets-Be-Animals-Downtown-Fiction\/dp\/B004RIACAY\/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1307757171&amp;sr=8-3\">Let\u2019s Be Animals<\/a> was released on April 26, 2011, via Photo Finish \/ Atlantic Records, \u201cThanks for Nothing\u201d was the first single.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Downtown Fiction are an indie pop\/rock band from Fairfax, VA, formed in the summer of 2008 by Cameron Leahy (guitar\/vocals) and Eric Jones (drums). The two posted three demos on the band\u2019s MySpace profile and quickly built a following and added David Pavluk (bass\/background vocals) to the line up. After a year of touring, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15979,35234],"tags":[34305,34831,34194,34231],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artist","category-the-downtown-fiction","tag-indie","tag-indie-pop","tag-pop-punk","tag-powerpop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.espol.edu.ec\/scxrl3t\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}