L.A. alt weekly L.A. Weekly, who is known to put together some of these “Worst … Ever” lists, just piled together their 20 Worst Hipster Bands countdown. Their thesis:
On its surface hipsterdom seems to be an individuality-grab, but most of today’s 20 and 30-something bands from Silver Lake and Williamsburg sound shockingly similar. They’re all playing variations of retro garage and soul music — or bringing glockenspiels and choirs on incestuous nationwide tours — all the while clad in vintage garb likely infested with lice. We’re not saying that they should be outlawed by, like, Congress or something. Just that they should be avoided.
(via LA Weekly)
The list:
20 The Black Keys
19 TV On The Radio
18 Sleigh Bells
17 fun.
16 MGMT
15 Death Cab For Cutie
14 Wavves
13 The Decemberists
12 Pomplamoose
11 Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros
10 White Rabbits
09 Beach House
08 The Airborne Toxic Event
07 Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
06 Beirut
05 Grizzly Bear
04 Bright Eyes
03 Arcade Fire
02 tUnE-yArDs
01 Bon Iver
View the paper’s breakdowns here.
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i only listen to maybe 3 groups on this list- but the rest of it isnt close to the worst bands out there.
How awesome is it that every “Shut Up, Dude!” best and worst will be from this column next week? It’ll be like LA Weekly‘s 20 Worst Hipster Bands nostalgia.
Hipsters live their lives taking advice from LA WEEKLY articles. Its a vicious cycle.
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*Weekly (That’s how irrelevant you are)
this is so retarded….
“The guitar-and-drums “blues” punk combo thing wasn’t very good even when The White Stripes did it.”
Well… so much for reading the rest of that article.
Surely making out that you’re too cool for a load of bands that other people really like makes you…. well…. kind of a hipster?
The 5 worst hipster bands, old people version:
5. Bob Dylan
4. The Beach Boys
3. Joan Baez
2. Carole King
1. Simon and Garfunkel
Fuck L.A.
What I got out of the list is that I need to check out Pomplamoose.
Yep. And Jack Conte. And Nataly Dawn. The two people who are Pomplamoose. Together they have three YouTube channels, all worth spending some time on.
Now wait a minute: wouldn’t it be impossible for a list of hipster music (bad or good) to coalesce? Isn’t the point of “hipster music” being “hipster music” is that no one has ever heard of it? Am I extrapolating correctly?
*”hipster music” being “hipster music” that no one has ever heard of it?
I would agree with this list, most of these upstart bands piss me off, they’re only popular because of hipster sensation. Losers who have no clue what music is about, they just like to dress up, go out and be cool. The worst part is there are so many truly talented bands that never get recognized because they stay true to the substance of what music has to offer, rather than the cheap stylistic thrills these shitty bands have to offer. Expand your minds people, there is so much good music that isn’t overproduced bullshit. Support local music! Substance over style.