{"id":2232,"date":"2009-07-01T07:11:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T11:11:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-07-01T12:03:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T12:03:47","slug":"hipper-than-thou-be-the-first-to-champio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hipper-than-thou-be-the-first-to-champio\/","title":{"rendered":"Hipper Than Thou: Be the First to Champion an Obscure Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OlyEQKzRTbU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s your chance, Rock Town Hall, to champion a totally <strong>obscure artist<\/strong> with a degree of hipster pedigree: <strong>Cruella De Ville<\/strong> and their <strong>Roy Wood<\/strong>-produced single &#8220;I&#8217;ll Do the Talking.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>No one&#8217;s asking you to really have to like this song, but like a true barrel-scraping hipster, you need to make a case for why its an overlooked gem of epic proportions. What modern-day bands have been heavily influenced by this band &#8211; or will say they have been after reading your testimony? I mean, see if you can spin this as the greatest obscuro find, like, EVER, or at least until next Tuesday, whichever comes first.<\/p>\n<p>In case you need a little more evidence of the band&#8217;s genius, check out this next clip:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zwdba7AUQ1E?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s your chance, Rock Town Hall, to champion a totally obscure artist with a degree of hipster pedigree: Cruella De Ville and their Roy Wood-produced single &#8220;I&#8217;ll Do the Talking.&#8221; No one&#8217;s asking you to really have to like this song, but like a true barrel-scraping hipster, you need to make a case for why <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/hipper-than-thou-be-the-first-to-champio\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}