{"id":866707,"date":"2026-08-21T22:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866707\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T22:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T22:44:13","slug":"west-end-motel-matt-pike-honor-mastodons-brent-hinds-with-return-of-the-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/866707\/","title":{"rendered":"West End Motel &#038; Matt Pike Honor Mastodon&#8217;s Brent Hinds with &#8220;Return of the Kid&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/west-end-motel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">West End Motel<\/a>, the soul, gospel, and heartland rock outfit founded by the late <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/brent-hinds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brent Hinds<\/a>, released the new song \u201cReturn of the Kid,\u201d on Thursday, August 20th, the one-year anniversary of the Mastodon guitarist\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2025\/08\/brent-hinds-dead-motocycle-accident\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tragic passing<\/a> last year in a motorcycle accident. The track features High on Fire frontman <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/artist\/matt-pike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Matt Pike<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReturn of the Kid\u201d sits somewhere between Bruce Springsteen and The Band, fusing a country rock and gospel feel against a rock \u2018n\u2019 roll backbone. There are flashes of harmonized guitar and solos that live in that prime spot between southern rock flash and heavy metal zing.<\/p>\n<p>The sax on the track is pure Clarence Clemens while the drums are active and vigorous, using the superb guitarwork as the backbone while the other instruments elaborate on top in a way that feels genuinely joyful. The guitar solo is provided by Pike, who clearly pours his heart out for his lost friend.<\/p>\n<p>Related Video<\/p>\n<p>Vocalist and co-founder Tom Chesire confirmed the song\u2019s dedication to Brent Hinds with an Instagram post depicting a psychedelic version of the late guitarist as well as a touching \u201cLong Live B Hinds!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pike had previously teamed up with Hinds, with the latter providing a guitar solo on Pike\u2019s solo album <a href=\"https:\/\/consequence.net\/2022\/02\/high-on-fire-matt-pike-mastodon-brent-hinds-land\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pike vs. the Automation<\/a>. Stream \u201cReturn of the Kid\u201d and see the dedication below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West End Motel, the soul, gospel, and heartland rock outfit founded by the late Brent Hinds, released the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-866707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866707","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=866707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}