{"id":35639,"date":"2025-11-27T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=35639"},"modified":"2025-11-27T10:44:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:44:23","slug":"new-music-this-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2025\/11\/new-music-this-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just added to the Fox playlist &#8212; Sombr &#8220;Back to Friends&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fun facts:<\/p>\n<p>His real name is Shane Michael Boose.\u00a0 He went with &#8220;Sombr&#8221; to acknowledge a rough period he was going through at the time and also because it happens to include his initials &#8211; SMB.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s just 20 years old and grew up in New York.<\/p>\n<p>He was a theatre kid and admits he was &#8220;obsessed&#8221; with Dear Evan Hansen.<\/p>\n<p>He writes all his own music and has also produced songs by himself as well.\u00a0 He says he&#8217;s more productive on his own because he can be more vulnerable in his songwriting.<\/p>\n<p>Sombr was nominated for three MTV Video Music Awards in 2025, and he won one for Best Alternative Video for &#8220;back to friends,&#8221; making it his first major award!<\/p>\n<p>He is nominated for &#8220;Best New Artist&#8221; at the 2026 Grammy&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c8zq4kAn_O0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just added to the Fox playlist &#8212; Sombr &#8220;Back to Friends&#8221; Fun facts: His real name is Shane Michael Boose.\u00a0 He went with &#8220;Sombr&#8221; to acknowledge a rough period he was going through at the time and also because it happens to include his initials &#8211; SMB. He&#8217;s just 20 years old and grew up","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":15984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6508,6507],"class_list":["post-35639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-back-to-friends","tag-sombr"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 20:43:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2025\/11\/new-music-this-week-2\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35642,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35639\/revisions\/35642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}