{"id":4222,"date":"2026-04-08T15:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sistersound.com\/blog\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:25:58","slug":"forgotten-art-of-the-house-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistersound.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/08\/forgotten-art-of-the-house-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten art of the house party"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe class=\"youtube-player lazyload\" width=\"920\" height=\"518\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZZEYDYcyeqk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do people still throw shows at house parties? Back in the 90s, they were pretty common. This time capsule was recently shared with us, featuring Sistersound performing some deep cuts at a house party in northern VA in 1997, with clips of &#8220;Blink&#8221;, &#8220;Envelope&#8221;, and &#8220;Ecstatic Hum&#8221;. We had recently recorded these tunes in Maryland with Mark Smoot, marking a high point in our early years, at probably the height of our slow-core era. I&#8217;m told this video was provided by Wayne. Thanks for sharing this with the world!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do people still throw shows at house parties? Back in the 90s, they were pretty common. This time capsule was<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sistersound.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/08\/forgotten-art-of-the-house-party\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Forgotten art of the house party<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[11,12],"class_list":["post-4222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-show","category-video","tag-chris-gallo","tag-pete-grothey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sistersound.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/video-still-Sistersound-house-party-1997.png?fit=708%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6wQDd-166","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistersound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistersound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistersound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistersound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistersound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sistersound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4224,"href":"https:\/\/sistersound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4222\/revisions\/4224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistersound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistersound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistersound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistersound.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}