This months issue of BPM magazine has an article titled ‘Behind The Blogs‘ in which they exposed a few of the boys behind the musicblogs that we all know and love. They got Chaz Requina representing Palms Out, Travis holding it down for BigStereo, Franki Chan repping IHEARTCOMIX, Preston of Kiss Atlanta, Greg for Pandatoes and Disaster backing up the ‘Toof!
You guys should all run out and go grab a copy. But, until you can hit up your local newsstand head over to Dani Deahl’s blog. She’s is the lovely lady who put together the article and interviewed us. She’s got screencaps of all the interviews.
Filed in Music.
So is that what you were doing all this time?
I’m glad to see the Toof has returned.
@ Jonas:
Nah. We’re (A) caught up with dayjobs and (B) working on a harder, better, faster, stronger Missingtoof site. Thanks for sticking around, I know this site had a layer of dust on it there for a bit.
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 and Dani’s page.
One last thing, I love this blog!
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.
Ah, just be happy there’s a popular subculture at all. Nothing wrong with being part of a movement, and nothing unexpected about the media machine moving to co-opt it.
On the mix: great TL, but that first mix is pure ass.
Funny that lindsaylovesme strictly limits who can comment on his site. Guess he doesn’t want people farting on his effort they way he’s done here. And he wants to start raving again?
Have a seat, grandpa. No one’s calling YOU hipster.
This is directed towards lindsaylovesme, who also posted the same comment on my 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
well put dani!
It sounds like to me Lindsayloves me is just jealous of “hipsters”. Thanks for puttin’ him in his place Dani.
Dani on point.
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
writing an article about hipsters is so not hipster…
@ lol:
First rule of Hipster is that you do not talk about Hipster.
I”M IN THAT ISSUE TOO!! CHECK OUT The Crazy Robertson on page 46!!! Nice for us….
it’s official… they caught me. it’s documented. i’m a hipster.
fucks sake, as if anyone who reads shit like electro mp3 blogs isn’t a hipster