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July 11, 2008

A blog name with the word "hipster"

[Looks meaningful]

For those of you who like their music blogging in vibrantly sloppy, unedited, stream of consciousness speeds, you might like this (via).

Last month the topic was 'Meaningful-Core Bands' such as...

I feel like we're at a time where 'popular indie bands' achieve more critical acclaim than 'popular mainstream bands.' Although the popular bands outsell the 'indie' bands, they both have exposure and acclaim from similar sources. Is there any difference between these high-selling white acts with male lead singers?

Popular & 'respected' mainstream bands:
1. U2
2. Coldplay
3. Radiohead
4. Dave Matthews Band
(...a few others)

Popular & 'respected' indie bands
1. Death Cab for Cutie
2. Arcade Fire
3. The Shins
(...a few others)

Whenever one of these indie bands releases an album, people are like 'omg! I can't believe it's #1 on iTunes! WTF? They r indie! I used to listen 2 them, but not any more.'

And...

A band like Death Cab can gimmick mainstream bros and entry-level altbros in with lyrics like, 'so this is the New Year... and I don't feel any different. :-( '

Altbros and mainstream bros: classic stuff. The curiosity of the cartoonish writing style is tough to shake - at first, until you realize it makes a lot of sense. Meaningful-Core Bands". Love it. Someone needs to be a nerd and get a t-shirt that says "altbro" and wear it to a show, photo it and send over so I can post it. It'll be hilarious. We can share a collective laugh with the music blog reading folks. All five hundred of you. One of you will have glory, and the rest of us clever people will step over each other trying to best the last in comments heavy with mocking tones.

Posted by Merry Swankster at July 11, 2008 01:00 AM

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