{"id":10552,"date":"2013-08-12T11:15:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T18:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=10552"},"modified":"2013-08-12T11:15:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T18:15:26","slug":"the-mother-hips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/08\/the-mother-hips\/","title":{"rendered":"THE MOTHER HIPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10553\" alt=\"THE-MOTHER-HIPS-M-Review-No28\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/THE-MOTHER-HIPS-M-Review-No28.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/THE-MOTHER-HIPS-M-Review-No28.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/THE-MOTHER-HIPS-M-Review-No28-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>THE MOTHER HIPS<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><b><i>Behind Beyond<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>motherhips.com<\/p>\n<p>Californian to their core, the Mother Hips know that life is nothing to get hung about. No matter what earthly concerns harsh our mellows, \u201cman is not the man,\u201d and we all wind up \u201cback in the ocean.\u201d So frontman Tim Bluhm sings on \u201cIsle Not of Man,\u201d the leadoff track on their eighth album. These self-styled \u201cCalifornia Soul\u201d survivors don\u2019t fear a return to the Pacific, and on these slightly countrified psych-rock jams, they relight bonfires set by the Byrds, the Dead and the Beach Boys. \u201cJefferson Army\u201d may be a commentary on libertarianism, but the Hips actually sound ready to take up arms and defend their state against the feds. Clearly, it\u2019s a place worth dying for.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE MOTHER HIPS Behind Beyond motherhips.com Californian to their core, the Mother Hips know that life is nothing to get hung about. No matter what earthly concerns harsh our mellows, \u201cman is not the man,\u201d and we all wind up \u201cback in the ocean.\u201d So frontman Tim Bluhm sings on \u201cIsle Not of Man,\u201d the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,6978,7003],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10554,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10552\/revisions\/10554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}