{"id":339,"date":"2008-09-06T11:59:52","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T11:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=339"},"modified":"2008-09-06T11:59:52","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T11:59:52","slug":"the_legend_that_is_coyote_j_ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=339","title":{"rendered":"The legend that is Coyote J. Calhoun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bwcitypaper.com\/Articles-i-2008-09-04-223707.113122_Hang_the_DJ.html\">Hang the DJ: Black &#38; White, Birmingham&#8217;s City Paper<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMen at Work and Duran Duran were just starting to put a harmless face on edgier pop. Meanwhile, Coyote\u2014fresh from California\u2014was quietly staking out airtime on 95 Rock with a playlist worthy of any Los Angeles DJ steeped in the hippest scenes. But in 1982, not everybody was ready for Romeo Void, an unknown band called The Cure, or even a post-punk oldies act like Joy Division. &#8220;There were death threats,&#8221; Coyote recalls. &#8220;I was called a fag many times. Some of the locals considered my playing Soft Cell to be promoting the gay lifestyle.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n***\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis is why it took until 2001-02 for me to discover most of New Wave.  Anything I did know &#8211; which was mostly late-80s stuff like Gene Loves Jezebel, Love and Rockets, later Cure and Smiths &#8211; was all because of the Coyote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hang the DJ: Black &#38; White, Birmingham&#8217;s City Paper: Men at Work and Duran Duran were just starting to put a harmless face on edgier pop. Meanwhile, Coyote\u2014fresh from California\u2014was quietly staking out airtime on 95 Rock with a playlist worthy of any Los Angeles DJ steeped in the hippest scenes. But in 1982, not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/?p=339\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The legend that is Coyote J. Calhoun&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iwasmisinformed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}