{"id":806228,"date":"2020-04-09T10:42:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=981055"},"modified":"2020-04-09T10:42:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T16:42:20","slug":"twenty-one-pilots-dance-toward-hope-on-level-of-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/twenty-one-pilots-dance-toward-hope-on-level-of-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty One Pilots Dance Toward Hope on \u2018Level of Concern\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/twentyonepilots.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/twenty-one-pilots\/\" id=\"auto-tag_twenty-one-pilots\" data-tag=\"twenty-one-pilots\">Twenty One Pilots<\/a> try to tap into a little bit of hope amid the coronavirus pandemic on their new song, \u201cLevel of Concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The track marks the alt-rock duo\u2019s first new music since their 2018 LP <i>Trench<\/i>; it was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tylerrjoseph\/status\/1246938221826781189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">written in recent weeks<\/a> while frontman Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun were self-isolating. \u201cLevel of Concern\u201d boasts an upbeat groove that\u2019s built around a shimmering disco-esque guitar (\u201cFirst song I ever wrote on electric guitar,\u201d Joseph noted on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tylerrjoseph\/status\/1246938537662058503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Twitter<\/a>). While the lyrics are ultimately about trying to capture some optimism, they\u2019re still earnest and honest about the chaos everywhere: \u201cI don\u2019t really care what they would say,\u201d Joseph sings, \u201cI\u2019m asking you to stay\/In my bunker underneath the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cLevel of Concern\u201d arrives with a music video, directed by Reel Bear Media. The clip finds Joseph and Dun sending a flash drive back and forth as they film themselves working on the song and video, even enlisting their partners and families to help redecorate their respective homes with flashing lights and glow-in-the-dark stars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A portion of the proceeds from \u201cLevel of Concern\u201d will be donated to Crew Nation, a relief fund specifically for touring and venue <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/coronavirus-canceled-tours-behind-the-scenes-967499\/\">crews who have been hit hard<\/a> by the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/twenty-one-pilots-new-song-level-of-concern-coronavirus-981055\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty One Pilots try to tap into a little bit of hope amid the coronavirus pandemic on their new song, \u201cLevel of Concern.\u201d The track marks the alt-rock duo\u2019s first new music since their 2018 LP Trench; it was written in recent weeks while frontman Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun were self-isolating. \u201cLevel of Concern\u201d [&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-806228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 18:12:17","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\/806228","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=806228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}