{"id":188885,"date":"2025-12-17T20:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/188885\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T20:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:57:11","slug":"robber-robber-cover-elvis-presleys-suspicious-minds-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/188885\/","title":{"rendered":"Robber Robber Cover Elvis Presley&#8217;s &#8220;Suspicious Minds&#8221;: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robber Robber, one of the more exciting young indie bands on the rise, have decided to close out the year with an Elvis Presley cover. The Burlington combo announced their signing to Fire Talk with last month&#8217;s impressive &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2479948\/robber-robber-talkback\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Talkback<\/a>.&#8221; Now they&#8217;ve shared a recording of the King&#8217;s 1969 chart-topper &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2024703\/the-number-ones-elvis-presleys-suspicious-minds\/columns\/the-number-ones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Suspicious Minds<\/a>.&#8221; The Robber Robber version completely transforms the song, turning it into a wall of grungy guitar distortion cut by a pretty, delicate vocal from Nina Cates. Below, check out the video, assembled by Cates and bandmate Zack James.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robber Robber, one of the more exciting young indie bands on the rise, have decided to close out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-188885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}