{"id":2447330,"date":"2019-08-08T15:40:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T21:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=868260"},"modified":"2019-08-08T15:40:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T21:40:10","slug":"the-first-time-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/the-first-time-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time: Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TFT_Banks_Thumb-clean.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jillian-banks\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jillian-banks\" data-tag=\"jillian-banks\">Jillian Banks<\/a>, better known simply Banks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-banks-doubles-down-on-her-emo-goth-pop-with-iii-857851\/\">released <em>III<\/em>,<\/a> in July and to help support her latest album, the singer-songwriter visited <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> to chat about her first experiences: her first time writing a song, her first time seeing her musical impact, and her first time going on tour, among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was in London at Notting Hill Arts Club,\u201d she said of her first time performing live. \u201cI had such bad stage fright when I first started. I couldn\u2019t face the audience. I would turn to the back, and everyone would be like, \u2018Turn around!\u2019 And I\u2019d be like, \u2018No\u2026&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Banks also talked about her experiences with writing poetry, and how it led to her interest in crafting songs and sonic peculiarities. \u201cWhen I write a sentence that has a certain flow to it, it almost sounds like a riddle. Like in [my song] \u2018The Fall\u2019: \u2018Still tripping to slip in your own dirty fingers to dip in the chicken now.\u2019 I like how it kind of sounds like a tongue twister. I like that type of stuff, and I always have, even when I was younger. I\u2019ve been interested in how, sonically, words come out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>III<\/em>&nbsp;marks Banks\u2019 first album since 2016\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Altar<\/em> and her third LP in total. Banks is currently on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/banks-north-american-tour-dates-new-album-iii-843698\/\">a lengthy North American tour<\/a> that opens September 3rd in Toronto and concludes October 19th in Miami.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jillian-banks-songs-album-868260\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jillian Banks, better known simply Banks, released III, in July and to help support her latest album, the singer-songwriter visited Rolling Stone to chat about her first experiences: her first time writing a song, her first time seeing her musical impact, and her first time going on tour, among others. \u201cI think it was in [&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-2447330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 23:53:52","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":"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\/2447330","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=2447330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}