I’d like to apologize to all the fine tunes I had to leave out, but these dozen were the ones that I listened to the most. Enjoy. alt-J, “Breezeblocks” Father John Misty, “Nancy From Now On” Grizzly Bear, “Yet Again” Hospitality, “Eighth Avenue” Mansions on the Moon, “Darkness” Miniature Tigers, “Female Doctor” Patrick Watson, “Quiet…
Evolution of the Hipster
Dear Jack…
Hipsters: The New New Puritanism?
Came across this on reddit: “The hipster phenomenon has been regarded with, among other things, amusement, derision, and confusion by those outside the hipster subculture. Several websites (most particularly metafilter) disdain the use of the term itself, saying that it most commonly is used to mean “young affluent white people who I consider beneath me,”…
The Beatles Never Broke
This site is fascinating. A man has traveled to a parallel dimension and brought back a Beatles album. Sounds legit. In any case the music here is actually amazing. The Beatles, Everyday Chemistry – “Talking To Myself”
Hipster Jesus II
Keeping the Beat
“The hipster world that Kerouac and Ginsberg drifted in and out of from the mid-forties to the early-fifties was an amorphous movement without ideology, more a pose than an attitude; a way of ‘being’ without attempting to explain why. Hipsters themselves were not about to supply explanations. Their language, limited as it was, was sufficiently…