Word: hipsterism
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...Director for the campus radio station WHRB, sees irony as a mask, not a tool. For her, enjoyment is enjoyment, ironic or not.“If you enjoy the song, no matter on what level, then that’s sincerely enjoying it,” she says.The hipster criticality, Putnins believes, is little more than a way to cover up true tastes. “Irony comes when [a song is] something you’re not expected to like. But who’s expecting it: me, or other people? From Putnins’s view...
...took two bright sparks in the music industry to realize the business opportunities presented by a generation of hipster parents who came of age going to touring music festivals like Lollapalooza, Warped and Ozzfest and who would be willing to pay to give their kids the same sort of experience. DuFine, a former Polygram executive who started her career at MTV, and her business partner, David Codikow, manage the rock band Velvet Revolver and helped put together the first two Down from the Mountain bluegrass and country-music tours. But it was DuFine's toddler daughter who planted the seed...
...interesting individually and who are even more interesting together.”The Carpenter Center’s main lecture hall reached capacity 30 minutes before the event began, and the line outside stretched to the steps leading to Quincy Street. Audience members ranged from middle-aged Cantabrigians to hipster students sporting thick-framed, Daniel Liebeskind-style glasses.Though Lin is a true-blue Yalie—she earned two degrees in architecture in New Haven and is an alumni fellow of the Yale Corporation—she’s no stranger to Cambridge. Lin began taking classes...
...innovation I find myself more and more willing to sacrifice. Maybe it’s the schoolwork, or maybe it’s because, under 21 and without a fake ID, I miss out on the $12 Keystone taps that the rest of the aging hipster white-boys in the room get to clutch while bobbing their heads and making awkward motions with their hands at Dizzee Rascal shows. Either way, for the most part, count me out.Abe: But OMG Henry I totally went to this one Medeski Martin and Wood concert and they were totally improvising and also...
JuiceboxThe StrokesWhat do you get when you combine five swaggering New York hipsters, rooftop lesbian soft porn, nausea-inducing taxi-cab cunnilingus, and a dirty bathroom stall hookup? There are two possibilities: Finals Club initiation season, or the music video for “Juicebox,” the newest pomp-rock mashup by the Strokes, those loveably trendsetters widely known as the saviors of indie swagger. And let me tell you, my friends, the “Juicebox” video has enough bravado to fill a bathtub or two. Over a pilfered bass riff, the video bounces between...