{"id":27403,"date":"2019-08-17T00:06:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T04:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=27403"},"modified":"2019-08-17T00:06:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T04:06:24","slug":"nerd-music-meltdown-31-lauren-the-flute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/nerd-music-meltdown-31-lauren-the-flute\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerd Music Meltdown #31: Lauren the Flute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27404\" src=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/NMM2019.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/NMM2019.png 630w, http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/NMM2019-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While Kent was in Dallas, he got to hang out with the incredibly talented Lauren the Flute! (@laurentheflute). Lauren is the frontlady of the Texas-based video game band The Returners and she also is a part of the video game music label Materia Collective. We talk about her role in that, how The Returners came to be, and what game made her a fan of video game music. We also gush about classic JRPGs and Lauren reveals what to expect from their next album. It&#8217;s gonna be great!<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about Lauren the Flute at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmmpodcast.libsyn.com\/laurentheflute.bandcamp.com\">laurentheflute.bandcamp.com<\/a>, The Returners at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nmmpodcast.libsyn.com\/thereturnersvgm.bandcamp.com\">thereturnersvgm.bandcamp.com<\/a>, and Materia Collective\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thereturnersvgm.bandcamp.com\/\">at\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.materiacollective.com\/\">www.materiacollective.com<\/a>. The Returners will be playing at Warriors of Light in Orlando, FL on November 9th at The Abbey. Tickets will be available at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ongakuoverdrive.com\/\">www.ongakuoverdrive.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Meltdown&#8221; theme by RoboRob.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/10872289\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"90\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Kent was in Dallas, he got to hang out with the incredibly talented Lauren the Flute! (@laurentheflute).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27405,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27403\/revisions\/27405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}