{"id":479,"date":"2011-03-29T07:08:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T11:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=479"},"modified":"2011-03-29T09:18:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T13:18:07","slug":"update-on-empires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2011\/03\/29\/update-on-empires\/","title":{"rendered":"Update On: Empires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weareempires.com\/home\/\">Empires<\/a>, still the scrappy little band of my heart,  has progressed to ROUND TWO of the Rolling Stone cover contest. That means it&#8217;s time to vote them into round three, which you can do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/choosethecover\/artists\/empires\">here.<\/a> Voting on this round lasts until <strong>APRIL 14.<\/strong> They&#8217;ve also uploaded two new songs created special for the contest, <em>Night is Young<\/em> and <em>Hard Times<\/em>, which you can also listen to at that link.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, here they are talking about how they became a band, &#8220;home video&#8221; style:<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_2sGkX2NkHu8\"><div id=\"lyte_2sGkX2NkHu8\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/2sGkX2NkHu8\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/2sGkX2NkHu8\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/2sGkX2NkHu8\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"340\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empires, still the scrappy little band of my heart, has progressed to ROUND TWO of the Rolling Stone cover contest. 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