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NEOPS (short for neopunks) embrace the do-it-yourself ethos of punk as an alternative to mass production. They're the anti-Wal-Mart generation--progressive and experimental, emphasizing imperfection and originality over uniformity. A neop would rather discover a chair in a Dumpster than buy it at Pottery Barn and is likely to opt for handmade or customized clothes instead of off-the-rack. "The handmade thing comes about because independence is an important thing here," says Hively. "There's an undercurrent of rebellion. It's like, 'I don't have to wear a suit to work. Nobody...
...jacket with a $3 vintage dress. It's Christian Louboutin's Trash line--one-of-a-kind shoes with found objects like boarding passes, foreign currency and feathers tucked into a clear outer lining. It's a music collection that includes everything from a vinyl EP of the disco-punk band the Rapture to Whitney Houston singing The Star-Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl. "There's a pride taken in being open minded, whether that's Top 40 music or some obscure German laptop artist," says Margot Nason, director of trends at Youth Intelligence, a firm that tracks tastes...
...this new generation already endangered? As the Beats spawned the beatniks--beret-wearing urbanites who hung out in coffee shops--the hipsters too have their imitators. "There's definitely the hipsters, and then there's the gypsters," jokes Blake Miller, 33, the lead singer of Moving Units, a punk-inspired Silver Lake band. "There's people who figured out they just need to go to a thrift store and buy a tattered blazer and cut one side of their hair shorter than the other. And that's unfortunate because that usually is the first sign of a scene getting ready...
...cultural oxymoron scale, the idea of a "Singaporean punk" weighs in somewhere between "Chinese democrat" and "Texan pacifist." Singapore is supposedly the air-conditioned Eden, as neat and ordered as the corner of a well-made bed. Forget teen angst and despair. Who despairs in heaven...
...SECRET CHANNEL. These pop-punk locals incorporate atypical rhythms to make their songs ever more upbeat. Singer Eddie Gutierrez’s grinding vocals dynamically accentuate every nuance of the guitars, which are comparable to Sonic Youth. The Information opens, with Enon headlining. Thursday, August 21 at 10:15 p.m. $8. T.T. the Bear’s Place, 10 Brookline...