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...following pages, you will meet some of them. There's Hiroshi Tsutsumi, who tries to predict the behavior of one of the most fickle, most influential demographics in the world: the Tokyo hipster. Former jazz musician (and current Federal Reserve Chairman) Alan Greenspan has been staring the future in the face for years and has to put our money (and his) where his mouth is. Peter Schwartz is the man whom Senators, CEOS and movie directors go to for previews of the future. He predicted the rise of OPEC in the 1970s and the fall of the World Trade Center...
...importance of this second release, the litmus test for staying power in the record industry, has no doubt weighed heavily on the band members, whose debut inspired such acute hyperventilation among indie rags. Fortunately, neither the watchful eyes of hipster nation nor the inflated anticipation for their follow-up have knocked Interpol off course. Unintimidated, the band appears to reassert its artistic and commercial ambitions bluntly in the album’s very first line: “We ain’t going to the town/We’re going to the city.” Antics finds...
While the band’s highly orchestrated visual and auditory concoction would impress any young hipster, their versatility managed to astonish everyone. The audience, filled with Gen-Nexters and baby-boomers alike, hollered their approval for the entirety of Wilco’s two-and-a-half hour...
Sahara Hotnights’ story seems plucked from some major label’s idea book: Four women, all younger than twenty-five, growing up together in the same Swedish neighborhood, eventually discovering the Buzzcocks and Ramones and deciding to take on today’s hipster boys at their own game of 80’s-inspired punk-pop. While the formula sounds more Spice Girls than Sleater-Kinney, the Hotnights still manage legitimacy. Since their teenage years the four have been making rock music on their own terms and have risen from European obscurity thanks to nonstop dedication...
Hailed as one of the finest filmmakers of the 1990s American indie boom, Russell has had no trouble establishing his reputation among the celluloid hipster set. His darkly comedic films have tickled critics and cineastes alike, from the low-budget Spanking the Monkey, a dark comedy about masturbation and incest, to Three Kings, a comedic, scathing take on the first Gulf...