{"id":590,"date":"2014-07-15T14:39:52","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T18:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/?p=590"},"modified":"2014-07-15T16:36:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T20:36:05","slug":"turn-it-up-norah-jones-new-group-puss-n-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/07\/15\/turn-it-up-norah-jones-new-group-puss-n-boots\/","title":{"rendered":"Turn It Up: Norah Jones&#8217; New Group, Puss N Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norah Jones is always doing interesting things, and in various mediums: singing duets with the likes of Outkast and the Foo Fighters and performing in side projects like The Little Willies. A few years back she made her film debut in Wong Kar-wai\u2019s <em>My Blueberry Nights<\/em>, and last year she recorded an album with Billy Joe Armstrong of Green Day, called <em>foreverly<\/em>, on which they reinterpreted the songs from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Songs_Our_Daddy_Taught_Us\">Everly Brothers<\/a>\u2019 Son<em>gs Our Daddy Taught Us<\/em> album. <\/p>\n<p>Most recently, Norah appeared as herself in the Amy Poehler\/Paul Rudd comedy They Came Together, performing a song for the movie while IN the movie (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PM7gjyQY6LM\">how meta<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"702\" height=\"395\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ThB1n6ay1Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jones has now teamed up with Catherine Popper (from the bands Grace Potter and the Notcturnals and Ryan Adams and the Cardinals) and singer Sasha Dobson as <strong>Puss N Boots<\/strong>. Here\u2019s a track, \u201cDon&#8217;t Know What It Means,\u201d which is currently making the rounds on college and independent radio stations. The album, <em>No Fools, No Fun<\/em> is out today on the Blue Note label, and I am definitely purchasing it (yes, the <strong>WHOLE ALBUM<\/strong>, some people still do that). It\u2019s alternative country. It\u2019s all girls. It\u2019s all good.<\/p>\n<p>For more info on Puss N Boots, including current tour dates, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluenote.com\/news\/puss-n-boots-announce-debut-album\">Blue Note<\/a> and the band\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pussnbootsband\">Facebook<\/a> page. <\/p>\n<p><em>(header photo, from the band&#8217;s Facebook page, by Robert Ballard)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norah Jones is always doing interesting things, and in various mediums: singing duets with the likes of Outkast and the Foo Fighters and performing in side projects like The Little Willies. A few years back she made her film debut in Wong Kar-wai\u2019s My Blueberry Nights, and last year she recorded an album with Billy<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/2014\/07\/15\/turn-it-up-norah-jones-new-group-puss-n-boots\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,201],"tags":[289,292,291,288,286,287,290],"class_list":{"0":"post-590","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"category-new-releases","9":"tag-catherine-popper","10":"tag-dont-know-what-it-means","11":"tag-no-fools-no-fun","12":"tag-norah-jones","13":"tag-puss-n-boots","14":"tag-sasha-dobson","15":"tag-they-came-together"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hardwoodandhollywood.com\/pop-culture-spin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}