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Topless girl and all, Sebadoh's Tuesday night show was a rocking good time. The Roxy was packed with an extremely eclectic mix of fans--everything from aging rockers and suited 20-somethings to clean-cut alterna-boys and their hipper chicks. Even teenage rave kids were to be found bumming cigarettes and acting cool. Nobody paid much attention to the opening acts; instead they swarmed around the six bars that service this converted ballroom. Playtopia, the second opener, got some attention by the sheer volume of their amps. Despite much heckling and hooting to the contrary, I thought these...
...Even hipper among the haterati are the nonorganizations, especially Internet hate sites (there were 254 last year, up 55%) and local cells, small bands of racists without time-consuming newsletters or top-heavy structures. These cells' guerrilla hate campaigns are virtually impossible to monitor. "There is a whole philosophy of leaderless resistance, and that is making it more difficult for us to track them," says Ray Velboom of Florida's department of law enforcement. John William King and his alleged accomplices in Jasper, Texas, can be seen as an example of followers whose behavior may never be traced back...
What is most appealing about Richman's music, aside from general excellence, is its unironic appreciation of life, rare in today's hipper-than-thou culture. Richman is never less than totally honest and earnest and although he is aware of this and its effects, he is never putting on an act; he's just being Jonathan. This was very apparent when he played to a packed downstairs at the Middle East on Nov. 2. With just his guitar and drummer Tommy Larkins, Richman played one of the most entertaining and energetic live shows I've seen in a very...
...kids are smarter and hipper than the boomers in their prime, why aren't they changing the world? You already know the easy answers. AIDS, harder drugs, pocket-size weapons of mass destruction, global warming, economic scarcity--the world today doesn't lend itself to simplistic oppositions or easy optimism. But beyond that, the new counterculture is basically postpolitical and tribalized. The TAZ movement eschews changing the world in favor of finding some liberated space, or even a liberated moment, within it. And from goths to rastas to ravers to slackers, the focus of countercultural tribes is on evolving alternative...
...music in one democratic bite. If Beck had lassoed the presumed spirit of Generation-X cool with his way-ward loser persona, the massive sound collage of Odelay put Beck even a step ahead of the zeitgeist. This was the sound of the future--just like the past, only hipper, more eclectic and with even more banjos...