{"id":793340,"date":"2019-02-22T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T17:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=798818"},"modified":"2019-02-22T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T17:30:07","slug":"watch-johnny-marr-host-karaoke-bash-in-new-armatopia-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-johnny-marr-host-karaoke-bash-in-new-armatopia-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Johnny Marr Host Karaoke Bash in New \u2018Armatopia\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/johnny-marr-video.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Former Smiths guitarist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/johnny-marr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_johnny-marr\" data-tag=\"johnny-marr\">Johnny Marr<\/a> hosts a karaoke party for the outcasts and misfits in the video for his new song \u201cArmatopia.\u201d The Kris Rimmer-directed clip seems to be set in the late Eighties or early Nineties, and it tracks a group of outsiders who all seem to live in the same massive housing block. Eventually, these individuals come together in a dingy rec center, where Marr leads a dance party as he sings his surging, synth-driven cut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In a statement, Marr said \u201cArmatopia\u201d refers to \u201cthe odd state we find the ecology and ourselves in today. Have those in control made people feel like there\u2019s only one thing left they can do? We\u2019re smoking till we burn out\u2019, so we dance and party. It\u2019s Eco-Disco for 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cArmatopia\u201d marks Marr\u2019s first new song since releasing his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/johnny-marr-how-trump-brexit-inspired-political-new-album-call-the-comet-630291\/\">latest solo album, <em>Call the Comet<\/em><\/a>, last June. Marr is set to kick off a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/johnny-marr-spring-tour-2019-796341\/\">North American tour<\/a> in support of the record April 27th in Atlanta, Georgia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/johnny-marr-new-song-music-video-armatopia-798818\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr hosts a karaoke party for the outcasts and misfits in the video for his new song \u201cArmatopia.\u201d The Kris Rimmer-directed clip seems to be set in the late Eighties or early Nineties, and it tracks a group of outsiders who all seem to live in the same massive housing block. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-793340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 12:05:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}