Somehow we haven’t heard a peep out of the over-energized Italian hipsters — Ex-Otago — since 2007′s Tanti Saluti– the critically lauded, neon bright indie album that saw such hits [...]
Tags: Amato the Greengrocer, Corona, Ex-Otago, Genoa, hipster, Indiepop, Luisa, Marco Corre, Marco Runs, New Music, Punk, Tanti Saluti
Their album had only come out that morning, but when Sleigh Bells‘ front woman Alexis Krauss played Treats‘ most down-tempo track — “Rill Rill” — she paused after the first [...]
Tags: Adriane Quinlan, Alexis Krauss, Audience, Brooklyn, Coachella, Crown on the Ground, Derek Miller, hipster, Indie, Joanna Farah, Live, Live Show, M.I.A., Market Hotel, Maya Arulpgragasam, metal, NEET Records, new album, New Music, Pop, review, Ridgewood Masonic Temple, Rock, Sleigh Bells, Sundelles, The Cults, Todd P, Top 25 Bands of 2010, Treats, Twee
South by Southwest, as a music festival, is incredible. You can see one mind-blowing band, walk half a block, and get to experience another amazing act. We’ve had the pleasure [...]
Tags: Accessories, Anthony, Austin, Band of Horses, Bands on Tour, Beards, contest, Dance Contest, Exene Cervenka, Fashion, Festival, Gag Gift, hipster, Loomis & The Lust, loomis and the lust, Muse, Music Festival, Noah, She and Him, South By Southwest, SXSW, Texas, Video, Video Blog, Vlog, Wayne Kramer, Will, Winner
Born in Zimbabwe, singer-songwriter Tinashé came to the UK’s Hackney to, he wrote, in order to “become a doctor/lawyer and wire money back home via Western Union.” But… “That didn’t [...]
Tags: Acoustic, African Accent, Album, BBC, Come On Over, Eastend, Ellie Goulding, guitar, Guitar driven, Hackney, hipster, HMV, Kissy Sell Out, Marina & The Diamonds, Mayday, Mayday EP, Mbira, new album, New Music, Pop, Q Magazine, South Africa, Tinashe, Tour Dates, Travel, Western, Zambezi, zimbabwe
Beijing’s Madi Ju doesn’t take pictures of China like you’ve seen. She doesn’t photograph smoky factories or ironic misspellings. She has no interest in huge architectural photographs of communist housing [...]
Tags: Beijing, China, cliche, DIY, hipster, Madi Ju, My Little Dead Dick, Photographs, Photography, Ryan McGinley, Sexy
Remember in the nineties, when you would go to a club and sing all the lyrics to that Eurythmics song? Oh, you weren’t born? Well, this is like that. These [...]
Tags: 1980s, 1990s, Club Music, Eurythmics, hipster, Ladyhawke, leather, New Zealand, Perez Hilton, Synth, TechnoOn Tuesday November 4th, I wallflowered an Election Night party in Fort Greene to see how BK would usher in the age of Obama under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. I arrived just past 7 PM, made my way down into a basement apartment on Clinton Street, and settled in for a night of intense emotions.
Tags: Bangladeshi, Barack Obama, Brooklyn, elections, Erykah Badu, Fort Greene, hipster, Indian, Middle Eastern, Mos Def, ODB, Richard Wright, South African, Spike Lee, Talib Kweli, Truman Capote
