{"id":1179,"date":"2013-01-30T23:18:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T23:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2013-01-30T23:18:57","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T23:18:57","slug":"alabama-shakes-to-play-snl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/1179\/alabama-shakes-to-play-snl\/","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Shakes to Play SNL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1183\" title=\"Alabama Shakes SNL\" alt=\"Alabama Shakes SNL\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/alabama-shakes-snl2.jpg\" width=\"261\" height=\"256\" \/>The band we once knew around here simply as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/2011\/08\/introducing-the-shakes-athens-alabamas-the\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Shakes<\/a>&#8216; will continue their meteoric rise on February 16th, as Alabama Shakes are set to guest with Academy Award winner\/current nominee Christoph Waltz for a performance on <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em>. <!--more-->Following high-profile appearances at festivals and on television (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.twentyfourbit.com\/2012\/02\/watch-alabama-shakes-on-conan\/\" target=\"_blank\">Conan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/42\/video-alabama-shakes-on-letterman-1234\/\" target=\"_blank\">Letterman<\/a>) last year, the Athens, Alabama group have just one more stop after the big <em>SNL<\/em> gig: The Grammy Awards, where they&#8217;re not scheduled to perform, but will be in the running to win Best New Artist.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve known this is a special band since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/2011\/11\/alabama-shakes-you-aint-alone-live-the\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;You Ain&#8217;t Alone&#8221;<\/a> rattled our cage back in 2011, but it would&#8217;ve been hard to predict they&#8217;d reach such great heights so quickly. Now, with a little help from <em>SNL<\/em>, the world will know come that Saturday after Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The band we once knew around here simply as the Shakes&#8216; will continue their meteoric rise on February 16th, as Alabama Shakes are set to guest with Academy Award winner\/current nominee Christoph Waltz for a performance on Saturday Night Live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1186,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179\/revisions\/1186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}