{"id":101241,"date":"2025-10-27T09:51:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/top-secret-robot-alliance-dance-friends-2-the-end\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:51:40","slug":"top-secret-robot-alliance-dance-friends-2-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/27\/top-secret-robot-alliance-dance-friends-2-the-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Secret Robot Alliance: &#8216;Dance Friends 2 the End&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/sundaymusicdrop\">The Sunday Music Drop is a weekly radio series hosted by the KQED weekend news team.<\/a> In each segment, we feature a song from a local musician or band with an upcoming show and hear about what inspires their music.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dion Th\u00fcnder and Lucious Sandstone are the stage monikers for the two San Francisco artists that make up the dance music duo Top Secret Robot Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Formed in 2006 as the two members were at school in Michigan, at a time when the idea of a \u201csecret robot alliance\u201d sounded more playful and less evil than it does today, the band \u201cunited for the sole purpose of creating dance songs about dancing.\u201d That mission is still alive and present in their music and performances.<\/p>\n<p>With \u201cDance Friends 2 the End,\u201d their latest single from a two-volume EP they released earlier this month, the duo want listeners to do the most rebellious thing against the unease and tension that has taken over the world: \u201cto dance on the dance floor with your dance pals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CcNo07Xp8aQ\">Robyn<\/a> do?\u201d is a guiding question for Top Secret Robot Alliance\u2019s writing sessions. \u201cThat solves a lot of the disagreements we might have based on our personal tastes\u2026 that\u2019s the one common place we can always meet,\u201d Sandstone says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/news\/2025\/10\/26\/top-secret-robot-alliance-dance-friends-2-the-end\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sunday Music Drop is a weekly radio series hosted by the KQED weekend news team. In each segment, we feature a song from a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":101242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-spotlight"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}