{"id":99186,"date":"2025-09-08T08:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/drought-an-invitation\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T08:57:24","slug":"drought-an-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/drought-an-invitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought: \u2018An Invitation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\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>Many of the lyrics on Drought\u2019s debut LP, \u201cSouvenir,\u201d are about finding home. <\/p>\n<p>Says lead vocalist Viggy Ram, \u201ca home is something you build. It\u2019s something that you carry with you wherever you go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band formed in 2022, when the members began revisiting music during the pandemic. The band includes guitarists Eric Nakano and RJ Rabe, drummer Ray Avila and vocalist Viggy Ram.<\/p>\n<p>The cover of the EP is a diorama of a house, symbolizing a home that you built for yourself and can take with you. Ram envisioned being in that house when working on the song \u201cAn Invitation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI imagine this is like, you\u2019re sitting in one room and you hear a calling from another room,\u201d says Ram. \u201cAnd it\u2019s this idea of, hey, I\u2019m gonna explore this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That same feeling of home and belonging extends to the Bay Area hardcore punk scene that Drought is a part of.<\/p>\n<p>Guitarist RJ Rabe says that when he moved to the Bay Area over a decade ago, he found it very difficult to find community. He wants others who feel similarly to continue searching for local music scenes to join, even if they aren\u2019t necessarily part of a band.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis scene doesn\u2019t just exist for the people playing music, it exists for everybody that\u2019s hungry to be a part of something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Says Ram, \u201cEveryone has something to bring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/news\/2025\/09\/07\/drought-an-invitation\/\">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":99187,"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-99186","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\/99186","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=99186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neclink.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}