Every now and then labels or the companies promoting their product companies send me copies of stuff to enjoy and review, it’s a great side effect of running this website and doing the show on Goonbag Radio.  Unfortunately a lot of the time I’ve already got a copy or got a copy coming and I end up with doubles, so I pass them on.

Vents-Marked For Death

TONIGHT on Goonbag Radio at 7pm AWST or 9pm AEST, I’ve got a small Golden Era Records prize pack you can win:

1. 1 x Vents-Marked For Death (CD)
2. 1 x Hilltop Hoods-Parade of The Dead (DVD)

You’re going to need a twitter account and it’s all going to require you’re listening to Goonbag Radio between 9pmAEST and 10pmAEST if you want in.  The only thing I’m going to suggest is that you better keep your Vents close if you want to win.  So tune in to Goonbag Radio tonight at 9pm AEST or 7pm AWST be logged into twitter, follow us on twitter and you’re 75% on the way to winning.

Ahhh The Blacklist, it’s been living a pretty solid life in all of my music players and for a good reason.
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Under the newly established Born Fresh Records, Crate Creeps (DJ Butcher and Tommy Illfigga) have just released their consistently hot debut release It’s About That Time.

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The Hilltop Hoods drop the next video clip from their recent album State of The Art, The Light You Burned feat. Trials.  The video clip features a very sweet cartoon style that seems to be an evolution of what was used in the video for Clown Prince.  According to the lads Facebook posts, this animated clip was inspired by cartoons of old, especially the works of Hanna-Barbera. It’ll take you back to a time when cartoons were an artform, drawing inspiration from the likes of The Jetsons, Magilla Gorilla and The Flintstones.

You can grab the Hilltop Hoods latest album State of The Art from iTunes now, also available is the Still Standing EP, which contains instrumentals and remixes of Still Standing.

This Saturday at 10am on ABC1, Australia’s biggest hip hop act the Hilltop Hoods will be guest programming rage. If you’re not sure what this generally entails, it’s a selection of tracks and clips from the guys and usually a really light chat to go along with it. So set your TIVO/Reminders to 10am Saturday 28/11/2009 on ABC1 or catch the repeat on ABC2 at 5:00pm) and set aside an hour for the Hilltop Hoods as they take us through some of their favourite music video clips.

Also starting at 11:25pm on Saturday night on ABC1, they’ll be continuing the guest programming with more of their favourite clips.

The Hilltop Hoods let a bit of info out via Twitter this morning.  The information? well it seems after leaving Obese they’ve managed to keep/hold onto/get back the rights to the albums they released while signed to Obese.  The upside of this is that now they’re free to reissue those releases and they’re doing just that.

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The crew over at allaussie hip hop have come up with a very unique idea (in hip hop circles anyway) and are proud to present you with their first ever post for their monthly cooking column. First on the chopping block is Mr Pressure from the Hilltop Hoods, Pressure quickly breaks down his “Drunken Lamb” recipe, though i’m pretty sure you wont need to be drunk to cook it, but it’ll probably make it more fun.

They’re also running a competition in conjunction with this post, with your chance to win posters, stickers and a CD or two, all you have to do is cook Mr Pressure’s Drunken Lamb and send them a photo, easy much? Head over to the Allaussie Hip Hop Blog now and learn how to be a Pressure Cooker.

A lovely article over at ABC News was brought to my attention today, the article in question titled “Hip-hop ‘a driving force’ in Oz music industry“ is all about Australia’s favourite son’s of hip hop, the Hilltop Hoods and their six ARIA nominations.  The interview goes on talking to Pressure and discussing the hoods but then throws in a doozie.. a picture of Bliss N Eso subtitled as “Hilltop Hoods are nominated for six ARIAS.  (Getty Images: Kristian Dowling)” (which has now been removed 4 hours after it was published, however we have a screenshot below).

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