{"id":2441113,"date":"2019-02-27T13:30:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=800263"},"modified":"2019-02-27T13:30:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:30:18","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-dave-hause-the-ditch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-dave-hause-the-ditch\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Dave Hause, \u2018The Ditch\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-26-at-9.00.32-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Philly-raised songwriter Dave Hause blends the power-pop hook of Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cShake It Off\u201d with a punk-rock sneer on \u201cThe Ditch,\u201d a scorching take on present-day political anxiety and the first track off his upcoming album, <em>Kick<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The former leader of alt-rock band the Loved Ones and frequent tourmate of punk peers Brian Fallon and Chuck Ragan, Hause is no stranger to anti-Trump missives \u2014 see 2017\u2019s \u201cDirty Fucker.\u201d On \u201cThe Ditch,\u201d he takes a more measured approach to the state of the country, accepting the situation for what it is: something he has no choice but to endure, or risk going crazy. \u201cIf I can\u2019t make it out of this ditch\/I better make a home of it,\u201d Hause sings in the chorus, with a hint of resignation.<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s also searching for a kindred spirit, someone to \u201cshake, shake, shake\u201d through the nightmare alongside him. \u201cWhether it\u2019s the discomfort of wrestling with mental illness, or the realization that the whole world seems to have gone mad, this song is about committing to trying to survive the storm,\u201d he says. \u201cIf you can\u2019t change the circumstances around you, sometimes the only thing left to do is to try to make a home out of the wreckage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hause\u2019s keening vocal delivery and the Nineties guitar tone ratchet up the tension, before the whole thing explodes into one last cathartic plea. \u201cI better make it home,\u201d Hause repeats over and over, leaving it unclear if he\u2019s finally accepted his fate or is hoping against hope that he\u2019ll someday get back where he belongs.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BB96cc0-FuI?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/dave-hause-the-ditch-song-you-need-to-know-800263\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philly-raised songwriter Dave Hause blends the power-pop hook of Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cShake It Off\u201d with a punk-rock sneer on \u201cThe Ditch,\u201d a scorching take on present-day political anxiety and the first track off his upcoming album, Kick. The former leader of alt-rock band the Loved Ones and frequent tourmate of punk peers Brian Fallon and [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441113","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 17:44:54","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}