Word: hipsterical
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...fast, Hipster #1. The band in question is actually Grizzly Bear, an un-Collective-affiliated act led by Edward Droste. The Watertown native, who wrote and performed almost all of Grizzly Bear’s debut Horn of Plenty, grew up listening to the Pixies and his mother’s Scottish folk records, not the Brian Wilson symphonies that other, trendier loopy psychedelic duo always seem to be pining...
...even in a scene saturated with New York swagger and California ennui. The perfect complement to a cold, listless winter day, Low’s music becomes more beautiful as it becomes more familiar, their maudlin, Mormon message piercing to the bone of even the most jaded big city hipster...
...clear that the audience enjoyed it, but there was disagreement over how to express this. Apparently the rules of ex-hipster concert etiquette haven’t been cemented yet: bouquets of flowers were thrown onstage, as were bras. Some felt the need to crowd surf, while others applauded politely...
...Xuan is not all bright yellow Pumas and post-modern bite. Says his friend Neil Ellingson ’05, “Beneath all the ironic detachment and hipster posturing, he’s sort of a good...
...cultural imperialism, an effort to insulate America from representations of Asia. In a 1997 article in Slate, Eric Liu writes optimistically about the “Asianization of American culture,” the possibility for merging East and West. Today’s bubble tea-drinking, karaoke-singing hipster could be tomorrow’s cultural acceptance and integration. But how much effect can Asian culture have in America if its Asian origins are denied? Apparently, pop culture has since figured out the solution to the Yellow Peril: Just whitewash...