{"id":321,"date":"2006-10-22T13:08:43","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T05:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.djcharlie.us\/log\/?p=321"},"modified":"2018-07-20T11:26:16","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T11:26:16","slug":"music-log-hilltop-hoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/music-log-hilltop-hoods\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Log: Hilltop Hoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.justcharlie.com\/images\/the_hard_road_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t get the opportunity to check out much Australian hip hop, but I breezed through a Hilltop Hoods album in 2003 (<em>The Calling<\/em>) and came across their new release, <em>The Hard Road<\/em>, a few weeks ago. From Adelaide, Southern Australia, they generally have a distinct jazz-influenced style which I can really appreciate, finding myself in the middle of the Crunk Era or whatever XXL probably calls it. Finding new hip hop that I can get into has become increasingly difficult since about 2000 for me, but while I rate the new <em>Blue Carpet<\/em> album from Snoop fairly high, Hilltop Hoods seems to more suit my tastes. Check out a track from their latest album, titled <em>Conversations From a Speakeasy<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube\">\n\t<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aWZHDVadKKk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t get the opportunity to check out much Australian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Music Log: Hilltop Hoods<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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