{"id":24180,"date":"2015-08-15T06:02:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-15T14:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=24180"},"modified":"2015-08-15T11:43:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T19:43:07","slug":"check-out-minneapolis-trio-bad-bad-hats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-08\/check-out-minneapolis-trio-bad-bad-hats\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out Minneapolis Trio Bad Bad Hats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BADBAD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-24446\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BADBAD-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"BADBAD\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BADBAD-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BADBAD-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BADBAD-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/BADBAD.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The indie-pop threesome, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badbadhats.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Bad Bad Hats<\/strong><\/a>, hail from Minneapolis and recently released their debut album <em><strong>Psychic Reader<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0as a free download (who do they think they are, <strong>Radiohead<\/strong> or <strong>U2<\/strong>?). \u00a0We like everything we&#8217;ve heard so far from this winning trio, but especially <em><strong>Fight Song<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(first up below). \u00a0Singer Kerry Alexander and the boys sound to our ears like a winsome mash-up of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-01\/the-best-albums-of-2012-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Best Albums of\u00a02012<\/a><\/strong> faves <strong>Allo Darlin&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0(No. 1 that year) and <strong>Like Pioneers\u00a0<\/strong>(No. 2 and where have they gone?). \u00a0High praise in our book. \u00a0Check &#8217;em out below.<\/p>\n<p>You can download the entire\u00a0<em><strong>Psychic Reader<\/strong> <\/em>for free <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/afternoonrecords.com\/bad-bad-hats\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>, but why not kick in some cash while you&#8217;re at it? \u00a0<strong>Bad Bad Hats<\/strong> are out on tour and headed to the West Coast in October (with the <strong>The Mynabirds<\/strong>) as you can see <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.badbadhats.com\/tour\/\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8r1NQ17G9gI\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZOUC6m82xEc\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GL0WjBtZ1Zs\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The indie-pop threesome, Bad Bad Hats, hail from Minneapolis and recently released their debut album Psychic Reader\u00a0as a free download (who do they think they are, Radiohead or U2?). \u00a0We like everything we&#8217;ve heard so far from this winning trio, but especially Fight Song\u00a0(first up below). \u00a0Singer Kerry Alexander and the boys sound to our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24180"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24450,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24180\/revisions\/24450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}