"The Hippy Mafia just might be the best new f****** band in the entire world" ~Dan Burke / The Velvet Underground
"The Hippy Mafia are what the Gorilaz would have sounded like if they'd been real people from Manchester." ~Chris Long / BBC RADIO
Depending on who you follow on Twitter - sometimes you can discover some pretty phenomenal music.
As is the case with Canadian music loving CBC Greek boy, George Stromboulopoulos...
@strombo A new day. Song to start the day... @thehippymafia - Apollo Creed... tiny.cc/6f210
And cue me listening to the track like a hundred times over two days. Love it.
So who and what is The Hippy Mafia? Well it's the collaboration of individuals from different music genres hailing from different parts of the globe and they effortlessly fuse elements of funk, hip-hop and Brit rock into their musical landscape.
'Apollo Creed'
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