MUSIC is what matters most. Not how asinine you can look.

Now to post this on Kissatlanta and Dani's page.

One last thing, I love this blog!

First rule of Hipster is that you do not talk about Hipster.

Though I have to admit, it is viscerally off-putting to look through those pages and see a bunch of friends and acquaintances glamorized celebrity culture style (which has very little to do with the writing and more to do with the art direction, really). That’s certainly not how I’d like to think of what we’re doing. But on the other hand, I’m all for people like the ‘toof kids and just about everybody else written up in there getting a wider audience. Just the idea that this little subculture is for the moment accessible via magazine racks is pretty fucken cool.

PS bpm does have this whole issue on their site

As the author of the BPM article, 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