{"id":152971,"date":"2026-04-22T06:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=152971"},"modified":"2026-04-23T06:57:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T11:57:41","slug":"massive-attack-tom-waits-boots-on-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/04\/22\/massive-attack-tom-waits-boots-on-the-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Attack + Tom Waits &#8211; &#8216;Boots on the Ground&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Massive Attack \/ Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L-57FrioeuE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Massive Attack &amp; Tom Waits<\/strong> &#8211; a surprising collaboration &#8211; released the music video for <em>Boots On The Ground<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what they have to say about the video:<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;Film created by Massive Attack (working with US photo artist thefinaleye). This montage work portrays a momentous American epoch that is yet to be named, and comes in the aftermath of the largest public protests in American history &#8211; focused on opposition to ICE raids, the militarisation of domestic forces, and state authoritarianism.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massive Attack &#038; Tom Waits &#8211; a surprising collaboration &#8211; released the music video for Boots On The Ground.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/04\/22\/massive-attack-tom-waits-boots-on-the-ground\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Massive Attack + Tom Waits &#8211; &#8216;Boots on the Ground&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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}},"categories":[18,40],"tags":[236],"class_list":["post-152971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronic-musicians","category-music-videos","tag-massive-attack"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/boots-on-the-groud.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152972,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152971\/revisions\/152972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}