{"id":1639,"date":"2013-05-18T14:03:32","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T20:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2013-05-18T14:05:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T20:05:57","slug":"hippos-of-doom-road-trip-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/hippos-of-doom-road-trip-ep\/","title":{"rendered":"Hippos Of Doom &#8211; Road Trip EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1640\" alt=\"Hippos-of-Doom-Road-Trip-cover-300x300\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2013\/05\/Hippos-of-Doom-Road-Trip-cover-300x300.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2013\/05\/Hippos-of-Doom-Road-Trip-cover-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2013\/05\/Hippos-of-Doom-Road-Trip-cover-300x300-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Punk rock has always been more about attitude than style. True punk fans will be willing to forgive sameness and lack of technical skill if there is a sick riff and \u201cI think I can change the world through music\u201d attitude. Oh, and also an understanding that there is a difference between humor and utter silliness. With a name like \u201cHippos of Doom\u201d, well, one might be worried that you get silliness and lack of attitude rather than humor and rock. Thankfully, the Hippos give us the attitude, energy, and humor that punk rock fans really want. They even cover \u201cHoliday Road.\u201d Yep, <em>that<\/em> \u201cHoliday Road.\u201d Best song title goes to \u201cThe Royal Philharmonic Goes To The Bathroom.\u201d Overall, a fun EP that is a bit of the good parts of pop punk thrown in with a good lot of old school punk. And its free, so what are you gonna lose?<\/p>\n[2013 Thumper Punk Records \/ Veritas Vinyl \/ Indie Vision Music | Download: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indievisionmusic.com\/2013\/04\/23\/hippos-of-doom-road-trip-ep\/\" target=\"_blank\">Indie Vision Music<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punk rock has always been more about attitude than style. True punk fans will be willing to forgive sameness and lack of technical skill if there is a sick riff and \u201cI think I can change the world through music\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/hippos-of-doom-road-trip-ep\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,331],"tags":[340,341,232,302],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-review","category-september-2013","tag-hippos-of-doom","tag-indie-vision-music","tag-thumper-punk-records","tag-veritas-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1642,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}