{"id":1088,"date":"2008-12-11T00:03:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T18:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2014-12-31T15:25:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T09:55:51","slug":"jmascis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/2008\/1088\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock idol J Mascis to hold concert for Amma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Famed American rock guitarist and singer J Mascis is holding a concert to benefit Amma&#8217;s charities on Saturday, 13 December. The concert will be held at Go Yoga (112 N. 6th Street, Brooklyn NY &#8211; 718-486-5602). Mascis will be joined by fellow New York musicians Andrew &#8216;Devadas&#8217; Labrecque and Tony Jarvis.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1090\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;margin: 5px\" title=\"mascis\" src=\"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/files\/2008\/12\/mascis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mascis is most famous as the leader of celebrated rock band Dinosaur Jr., formed in 1984 and continuing to this day. The group&#8217;s 1987 album Your Living All Over Me consistently places among critics lists of &#8216;Top 100 Greatest Rock Albums&#8217; and Mascis is considered one of the greatest living rock guitarists.<\/p>\n<p>A long-time devotee of Amma, Mascis has recorded a number of songs inspired by her, including &#8220;Ammaring&#8221; on the J Mascis &amp; The Fog album More Light. In 2005, Mascis released an album titled J Mascis &amp; Friends Sing for Amma, all of the proceeds to which are donated to the Mata Amritanandamayi Math. The album includes a heavy-metal version of the Mahishasura Mardini Stotram.<\/p>\n<p>The album is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theammashop.org\" target=\"_blank\">AmmaShop <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famed American rock guitarist and singer J Mascis is holding a concert to benefit Amma&#8217;s charities on Saturday, 13 December. The concert will be held at Go Yoga (112 N. 6th Street, Brooklyn NY &#8211; 718-486-5602). Mascis will be joined by fellow New York musicians Andrew &#8216;Devadas&#8217; Labrecque and Tony Jarvis. Mascis is most famous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e.amritapuri.org\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}