{"id":363232,"date":"2025-12-23T06:06:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363232\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:06:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:06:14","slug":"rhett-miller-is-cruel-to-be-kind-in-latest-a-v-undercover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/363232\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhett Miller is &#8220;Cruel To Be Kind&#8221; in latest A.V. Undercover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a recent trip to New York, Rhett Miller took a break from touring with The Old 97\u2019s to drop by Chelsea Studios and join us for an all-new season of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/av-undercover\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A.V. Undercover<\/a>. The erstwhile <a href=\"https:\/\/atorecords.com\/releases\/rhett-miller-the-messenger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Messenger<\/a> and his band previously appeared on season eight to cover T. Rex\u2019s \u201c20th Century Boy,\u201d but this time Miller was on his own, and he chose to reinterpret Nick Lowe\u2019s \u201cCruel To Be Kind.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>When he first caught the video for the song, which initially appeared as one of Lowe\u2019s B-sides in 1978, Miller admits to having an ambivalent reaction. At the time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b0l3QWUXVho&amp;list=RDb0l3QWUXVho&amp;start_radio=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the video<\/a> was \u201ca very strange outlier\u201d on MTV, sandwiched between offerings from some of the biggest pop and rock acts of the \u201980s. \u201cThis isn\u2019t glossy and shiny,\u201d Miller thought; there was something \u201cweirdly terrifying\u201d about it. But the song, which was later rerecorded for Labour Of Lust, eventually revealed itself to be \u201cthe dark underbelly of the music\u201d Miller already liked. \u201cThese are my people,\u201d Miller soon realized.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Old 97\u2019s are getting ready for a three-day stint at Evanston\u2019s SPACE at the end of this month, and you can find <a href=\"https:\/\/old97s.com\/shows\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more shows here<\/a>. We\u2019ll be back with a new Undercover video on January 8, 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On a recent trip to New York, Rhett Miller took a break from touring with The Old 97\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-363232","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}