Word: hipsterism
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...RAPTURE. Hotly tipped New York City post-punk newcomers share the stage with hotly tipped New York City avant-funk band Out Hud. Go if you need to be a hipster, or just to experience some of the most exciting sounds in contemporary rock. Thursday, Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. Tickets $10 advance, $12 door. The Middle East, 472-480 Massachusetts Ave., (617) 864-EAST...
...artsy Halloween party of mega-hipster Meadow F. Zapir ’02-’04, roughly three-quarters of the guests were dressed as penises, and the rest went as tampons, abstract concepts and obscure girl-punk bassists. Most of the guests spent the party wallowing in the nebulous netherworld between irony and sincerity. “I like your costume,” they said to each other honestly or questioningly or insultingly...
...artsy Halloween party of mega-hipster Meadow F. Zapir ’02-’04, roughly three-quarters of the guests were dressed as penises, and the rest went as tampons, abstract concepts and obscure girl-punk bassists. Most of the guests spent the party wallowing in the nebulous netherworld between irony and sincerity. “I like your costume,” they said to each other honestly or questioningly or insultingly...
...garage-rock movement continues to slather its greasy mixture of hipster apathy and commercial aspiration all over mainstream radio and magazine covers, another movement is bubbling just below a neon Spandex surface. It has finally arrived, with refreshing intelligence and flair, in the form of OK Go. The Chicago-based group’s eponymous disc meshes its tweaked guitars with rebel yells, resulting in one of the year’s best debuts...
...crying and start laughing again? Jonathan Safran Foer's first novel, Everything Is Illuminated (Houghton Mifflin; 276 pages), is a very funny book about very tragic times, and it's just a little bit nervous about being so funny. After one comic aside, the narrator?a Ukrainian would-be hipster (and remedial English student) named Alexander Perchov?feels as if he has to reassure his audience: "It was not wrong to make a funny here. It was the right thing...