Many of us have been waiting with baited breath for my BPM feature article, “Behind The Blog,” to be published. I just got my copy of the magazine in the mail today - it’s issue #90, and it’s…The Hipster Issue. Ta da! I’m very happy with the piece and I even got a profile in the front of the mag :). The piece gives you all a little inside look at who is running the blogs we all know and love - Bigstereo, Missingtoof, IHEARTCOMIX!, Panda Toes, Kiss Atlanta and Palms Out Sounds. Thumbnails below, click on the images to bring up the full size page.
March 17th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Don’t you think that this whole “hipster” business is a fad? I hope it dies soon so that we can all just get back to the thing that matters most. The BPM cover is just a mockery of the “hipster” aesthetic. It’s more like sh*tster than hipster. I think the name itself is a tag that I wouldn’t want to be aligned with at all.
MUSIC is what matters most. Not how asinine you can look.
Now to post this on Kissatlanta.
One last thing, Good questions posted to each blogger in the BPM article Dani.
I like that they don’t feel a sense of pressure to find or put out good music. There is so much good music out there now it shouldn’t be hard at all.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
I posted this already at missingtoof but whateva, these people are just too annoying and we need to march them off to a camp somewhere hahaha:
How could you even put this up, even as a joke? All of these self-congratulatory bloggers are pathetic, lonely boys. Hipster is the stupidest word I have ever heard, and the whole thing of it implies some kind of bogus notion of superiority or eliteness that isn’t there. It’s just a culture of lemmings waiting for the next suburban dork to tie a handkerchief around his arm to achieve the illusion of individuality. I wish we could just start raving again and leave this unhealthy, uncool trend to die the death it needs to die.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Never did I say anything about “superiority” or “eliteness” and actually, I didn’t even know it was the hipster issue until it was published. The feature was a pitch I put together independently and BPM accepted.
Coming from someone who themselves has a blog and posts “hipster” associated artists like Strip Steve and Kill The Noise, you yourself are guilty of assuming an air of eliteness with your belittling comments. On the contrary, every person I interviewed was gracious, friendly and very forthcoming with their answers. I highly doubt Kissatlanta’s Preston admitting to his physical disabilities or Greg from Panda Toes conceding that he has a shitty day job to pay his bills to be an air of superiority.
The tone of the article from the beginning was supposed to be light but also touch on important issues related to blogging, the internet and their impact on music. Like it or not, these people - you included - are spreading a very specific genre of music that has become associated almost exclusively with blogs. Whether you like hipsters or the fact that they love the shit out of it is besides the point - it’s simply the truth and they provide the traffic to your blog.
Who knows if these blogs or “hipsters” will be around much longer. What I do know is that even though my bullshit meter goes through the roof with most of the tunes I hear on blogs, I can’t deny it’s beginning to make stars out of the artists who deserve it most. And bloggers rightly deserve credit for it.
Please get your facts straight and post comments when you have something to contest based off of my known opinions or concrete items I have written.
Thx
March 17th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Dani, that was well put.
Incidentally I plan on purchasing this BPM issue in support of your article.
I might have an aversion to the slang /term “hipster”, but I don’t have one to you or your writings.
Now back to the studio to make sure my damn kick drum isn’t too loud for my next remix!
March 24th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
” All of these self-congratulatory bloggers are pathetic, lonely boys. Hipster is the stupidest word I have ever heard, and the whole thing of it implies some kind of bogus notion of superiority or eliteness that isn’t there.”
@lindsaylovesme:
how many of these bloggers do you know? in my years of blogging i have met dozens and dozens and dozens of other bloggers and i can comfortably say that 99% of the kids who do this are some of the most friendly, welcoming and generous people i know. we don’t do this for our own egos — we do this because we’re passionate about something and we want to share that with the world. it’s really a bunch of rainbows and hearts and shit.
dani’s approach was to get “behind” the blogs. the focus is rarely on us… she thought it’d be an interesting angle. sorry you couldn’t appreciate that.
and yeah, it’s not like we signed up for the hipster issue. honestly i was kinda embarrassed when i saw that, but whatever. there will always be a label and there will always be a trend and just stop hating about that because theres nothing you can do to change it. just be yourself.
March 24th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
the word hipster is 6 yrs old anyway, this is a classic case of the print world showing up so late and so out of uniform that no one even bats an eye. if they had an issue about gay-for-shock fixedgear noiserockerz..then we would be onto something hitting 100 ‘cool-art-hip’ cities at once…maybe…
March 26th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Nice issue. I’m self-congratulatory. Jeez, I’m heaps cool, hey?
March 30th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Cool article Dani, great to read about this stuff, Lindsay is prolly just jealous cos no one reads his blog, who knows where music is going next? I think bloggers probably have a better idea than anyone