{"id":807206,"date":"2020-05-07T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=994839"},"modified":"2020-05-07T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T17:00:03","slug":"soccer-mommy-releases-8-bit-city-videos-in-lieu-of-her-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/soccer-mommy-releases-8-bit-city-videos-in-lieu-of-her-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Mommy Releases 8-Bit City Videos in Lieu of Her Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Soccer-Mommy-General-3-Brian-Ziff.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/soccer-mommy\/\">Soccer Mommy<\/a> was supposed to be on tour this summer for her album&nbsp;<em>Color Theory<\/em>, but like most other live music events, those plans have been scrapped due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/covid-19\">COVID-19<\/a> pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, fans can still enjoy part of the experience of Sophie Allison playing a show in their town: on Thursday, she released an 8-bit <a href=\"https:\/\/soccermommyband.com\/video-tour\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cmusic video tour\u201d<\/a> of several of her planned tour stops, set to the&nbsp;<em>Color Theory<\/em> track \u201cCrawling in My Skin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The five videos show Allison and her band exploring eclectic locations in Minneapolis, Austin, Seattle, Toronto and Chicago, in a style reminiscent of her previously released <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/music-video\/\" id=\"auto-tag_music-video\" data-tag=\"music-video\">music video<\/a> for \u201cCircle the Drain.\u201d While they perform, Soccer Mommy check out an abandoned subway station in Toronto, a bridge filled with bats in Austin and more.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the only video game-related event that Allison has been a part of during quarantine. Last month, Soccer Mommy held a digital concert via the online game Club Penguin Rewritten, with over 10,000 virtual guests attending \u2014 enough to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/soccer-mommy-postpones-club-penguin-gig-because-fans-overloaded-the-servers-2640255\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">make the game\u2019s servers crash<\/a> and force the event to be postponed to a different date. Allison has also participated in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/soccer-mommy-tiny-desk-concert-coronavirus-972201\/\">NPR\u2019s Tiny Desk At Home series<\/a> and released her own set of Zoom background images for fans to use.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/soccer-mommy-covid-19-tour-videos-994839\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Mommy was supposed to be on tour this summer for her album&nbsp;Color Theory, but like most other live music events, those plans have been scrapped due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Luckily, fans can still enjoy part of the experience of Sophie Allison playing a show in their town: on Thursday, she released an 8-bit [&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-807206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 19:14:52","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\/807206","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=807206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}