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Passion Pit’s ‘Take A Walk’ Wanders in the Wrong Direction

Passion Pit’s first LP Manners exploded onto the east coast music scene in 2009. The Kidz Bop electro-twee of Manners is sweet enough to rot teeth at times, but several of the tracks are mercilessly catchy and were played on repeat in my apartment. Passion Pit’s sophomore record Gossamer is due to be released this July but unfortunately, the debut single ‘Take A Walk’ will have fans of Manners and the earlier Chunk of Change EP wanting to do the same.

Passion Pit fell off the musical map for only three years Continue reading →

Tags: Columbia Records, Desaparecidos, Gossamer, hipster, James Blake, Manners, Michael Angelakos, Passion Pit, Take A Walk

Gravenhurst – The Ghost in Daylight

7 May

Bristol’s Nick Talbot has been releasing music as Gravenhurst for over a decade now. That being said, The Ghost in Daylight is his first release in half a decade. Since 2007’s The Western Lands Talbot jettisoned the band that he had toured and recorded with. On The Ghost in Daylight he melds elements of finger-picking folk, shoe gaze and Continue reading →

Tags: All I Need, Blow Up, Bristol, Carousel, Circadian, dream pop, Elliott Smith, Fitzrovia, folk, Gravenhurst, hipster, In Miniature, John Talbot, Kraut rock, Michelangelo Antonioni, Peacock, Radiohead, shoe gaze, The Foundry, The Ghost in Daylight, The Ghost of Saint Paul, The Prize, The Western Lands, Three Fires

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RIP Levon Helm

21 Apr

This past Tuesday Helm’s wife and daughter asked fans to pray for Levon as he had end-stage cancer. At 1:30pm on Thursday, Levon Helm passed away at age 72.

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A lot of young music enthusiasts go through a classic rock phase when they are younger. You come home from school one day and ask your parents “What did you guys listen to when you were my age?” Continue reading →

Tags: American Son, Bob Dylan, cancer, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Levon Helm, Midnight Rambles, Ramble at the Ryman, The Band, The Last Waltz, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, Up on Cripple Creek

Kids in the Hall: Death Comes to Town

10 Apr

A few months ago I placed an Amazon order for the Kids in the Hall movie, Brain Candy, which I thought would round out my KITH collection (owning seasons 1-5 of their sketch comedy), but I discovered thanks to “customers who bought this item also bought…” that they had released a mini-series on the CBC (reran on IFC) entitled Death Comes to Town in 2010. As a Kids shill, Death Comes to Town was an exciting and obvious purchase.

The series, directed by Kelly Makin (KITH director since the early 90’s), takes place in the fictional Shuckton: a small Canadian town with Continue reading →

Tags: Amazon, Big City, Brain Candy, Bruce McCulloch, CBC, Corinda Gablechuck, Crim Hollingsworth, Dave Foley, Death, Death Comes to Town, Doc Porterhouse, Dusty Diamond, Heather Weather, hipster, IFC, inept police, Kelly Makin, Kevin McDonald, Kids in the Hall, KITH, Levon Blanchard, Marilyn Bowman, Mark McKinney, Marnie, Mayor Bowman, Rampop, review, Ricky Jarvis, Scott Thompson, Shaye, Shuckton, sketch comedy

Layne Staley: 10 Years Gone

5 Apr

April 5th, 2012 marks the ten year anniversary of the death of Alice in Chains’ frontman, Layne Staley. Staley was the lead vocalist and predominant songwriter for Alice in Chains which is one of the most memorable and influential Grunge/Alt. Rock bands of the 1990’s. AiC’s debut, Facelift, their iconic follow-up, Dirt, second, acoustic EP, Jar of Flies and final self-titled LP (sometimes referred to by fans as Tripod because of the three-legged dog on the albums cover) are all certified platinum.

Alice in Chains’ sound, owed heavily to Staley’s dark, pain-stricken vocals and Continue reading →

Tags: Alice in Chains, Alt. Rock, Alternative Rock, cocaine, Cold, crack, Days of the New, dirt, drug addiction, Facelift, Godsmack, Grunge, heroin, Jar of Flies, Jerry Cantrell, Layne Staley, Man in the Box, Puddle of Mudd, Staind, Tantric, Tripod

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Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie: Make that Money

10 Mar

Tim and Eric sure can make a great television show. It started with the peculiarly animated Tom Goes To The Mayor, and carried over to their later venture, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! They certainly could fill a 15-20 minute block of time with wacky loops and awkward conversation. There was no shortage of celebrity cameos either. I was a big fan of Awesome Show for the majority of its run. I even saw their live show, which was the second sold out show of the night when they played the Wilbur Theater in Boston. They opened that particular show with a song about diarrhea. Actually, it was about fifteen minutes long, and consisted of them simply repeating the world “diarrhea” over and over again. Since I bought my tickets late, on a whim, the seats were towards the back. I overheard a conversation between two ushers at the Wilbur, which went something like this:

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Tags: Billion, Dollar, Eric Wareheim, heresmychippy, james quall, Movie, self referential meta humor, shrim, Tim Heidecker

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RIP Barney Rosset

25 Feb

Owner/publisher of Grove Press from 1951-1985 and founder of the Evergreen Review, Barney Rosset, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 89.

Rosset was a counter cultural icon and 1st Amendment revolutionary that was pegged as a peddler of smut in the 50’s and 60’s. Rosset and Grove Press defended the publication of D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer and William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch among other works, citing their literary/artistic merit. Decades later, those three novels Continue reading →

Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Barney Rosset, beat generation, counter culture, D.H. Lawrence, Eugene Ionesco, Evergreen Review, Gary Snyder, Grove Press, Harold Pinter, Henry Miller, hipster, Howl, jack kerouac, Jean Genet, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Naked Lunch, October on the Railroad Earth, Philip Whalen, Samuel Beckett, San Francisco Scene, Six Gallery, Tom Stoppard, Tropic of Cancer, Waiting for Godot, William S. Burroughs

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10,000 Views

18 Feb

Yesterday, February 17th, The Self-Hating Hipster reached its first viewing milestone: the site now has over 10,000 total views. That may not seem like much to some, but considering that I started the site in late August 2011, it’s nothing to scoff at. Our readership has grown exponentially over the past six months. The average number of views per day for the first two months was a measly 13. Our average number of views per day for the month of February is over ten times that!

More and more people are beginning to follow the website which Continue reading →

Tags: hipster, milestone, views

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Beard of the Week: February 2

2 Feb

Welcome to February, arguably one of the crappiest months of the year. We’ve got Valentines day, football madness, and today the groundhog didn’t see his shadow which means we’ve got six weeks of more pleasant weather to look forward to!

But have no fear, because I have a quite a list of beards to give to all you which, trust me, will keep you nice and warm during the next few cold weeks!

This week’s beard belongs to someone who most might call a “man’s man”, I have enough issues with that statement, but I figure it’s important when discussing the quality of one’s beard. Continue reading →

Tags: beard, groundhog day, han solo, harrison ford