Tuesday, June 29, 2010

HIPSTER RUNOFF

HIPSTER RUNOFF

GRAPHIC VIDEO: Crazy Ass Ravers riot with cops, nearly crush a girl to death

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 01:40 PM PDT



Apparently, there was some ‘monetized rave’ in Los Angeles called Electric Daisy Carnival that drew 185,000 people to the Los Angeles Coliseum. I think this is a new business model, since there are so many old/unused stadiums in Los Angeles, and so many teens who want to get into the alt/electro scene. Wonder how much money they made from this event. Usually they just care about profits, and don’t really care about security/facilities management. I feel bad for the wannabe-ravers whose parents read the newspaper and then will never let them go to their local movie theatre just cuz things are so crazie.

Seriously, tho… some1 is gonna die at 1 of these things within the next 2 years based on ‘the craziness’ of this video.

The video opens with tons of alts trying to break down a fence/squeeze through an opening, then they end up trampling eachother. Sorta weird to see so many LA ravers/tweens in this ‘life or death’ situation. Would expect this if they were waiting in line for ‘food/survival’, but they seem to be ‘chasing the party.’ Feel sad for this girl for getting her face jacked up.’

Can’t believe so many alts fought with cops. I am so used to hanging around with higher-level alts that I don’t understand the ‘class struggles’ and stuff like that going on with formative alts. Feel relieved that I am not trying to find my identity at electro raves, searching for something more than just a Hot Topic vibe at a local mall.

Seems ‘poetic’ to watch some of this while u hear Steve Aoki DJing in the background.

Should the people who threw this rave ‘be thrown in jail’?
Have u been to an alt-teen-aimed electro rave in Los Angeles that was a huge health and safety hazard?
Will Los Angeles and its surrounding suburbs ’shut this type of shit down’/bring in riot cops next time?
Should authentic raves not rely on police, fences, and riot squads?
Should the police just chill out and let these people get trampled to death?
Is Lil Jon the only person who can level with these people?

Do yall like watching girls in slutty rave outfits jump fences?
Are _____ people ‘better at jumping fences’ because they are ‘used to running from the cops’? [via generic racist jokes]
Should they have converted the Coliseum into a jail, and just kept every1 imprisoned while this event was going on?
Is this video ‘awesome’?
Which music festival /rave will have a ‘casualty’ due to poor management?
Have u ever almost died at a music festival /rave?

RAVE OR DIE (pt 40 of 100000)

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 01:24 PM PDT

Photos by the cobrasnake http://thecobrasnake.com/partyphotos.html


Sometimes I wonder what the future of the music festival is. It seems like most are ’so corporate’ now that they are sort of losing their identity, and don’t fully take advantage of middle America. I feel like are sorta like the NASCAR of live music events. It sorta caters to the massive market of ‘low-end’ consumers who just need an excuse to drink/do drugs/assimilate with their weird interpretation of alt culture.

feel like ‘low-end alts’ might be the future of mass alternative markets. The high-end indiesphere ‘isn’t where all the money is. Apparently this ‘rave’ called Electric Daisy Carnival drew 185,000 people.

really are getting out of hand. This rave seems chill because there are ‘free refills’ on water [via water fountains].

not every1 can afford fiji/smart/vitamins/coconut water.

Fans want to ‘create their own merch’ instead of buying overpriced tshirts and tote bags.

Got this for free with my Sega Saturn when I was 10 and turned it into a rave necklace.

Definitely give this bro props for his Super Ninendo controller built in to his rave flair.

Zany Spongebob Bro. Wonder if it is still ‘quirky’ 2 ‘like Spongebob’ of if that phase died in the 1990s.

Maybe lil Muppet Backpacks are a chill rave prop

Got really effed up. Had 2 throw up behind a dumpster

Also had to poop and pee thru my leggings

Luckily hire custodial staff to make sure everything is clean.

But still, gotta wear an electro gas mask to ‘keep out’ negative vibes / port o potty fumes / vomit fumes out of my nose

Wonder if there is a new genre of bros who work out just so their bodies look good at .

sup bro pt 2

sup bro pt 3

Who is more authentic 2 ravers, Deadmaus or Mickey Mou5e?

Worried about this lost clown bro

Wonder if she tore this shirt after putting it on, or if it was some premeditated slashing

Just want to go to a place with progressive thongs.

Do u want ur parents to drop u off at the rave after telling them it is a ‘Late Night Soccer Tournament’?

Or do you want to use a rave as an opportunity to reconnect with ur mom after ‘dropping E’ together?

Not sure if this is a juggalo or a raver


Might make a brand extension of the ‘more cowbell’ meme

Worried about carny vendors who thought they were gonna make mad bank, but ended up watching kids get fucked up and pee on themselves

Hey look it’s famous people [via Blink 182]

Good to see Steve Aoki and Tiernan Cowling doing well. Was worried that their engagement was cancelled/ was an April Fool’s joke

Thought they’d break up after Steve bro sent a girl out to get murdered/groped by 100K hornie fans

A Neon Indian

Verne Troyer/random electro little person

Always just good 2 see some alt tits/raver tits

Wonder if every1 is underage, overage, or if they ‘aren’t valuable to society, so we don’t have to protect them from themselves’

Need more energy. Might drink some MONSTER

Need more energy. Might ‘lube up’ anal beads with my own spit.

Worried. Feel like lost alt tweens need more parental supervision so that they don’t end up dead at an electro rave

Have yall ever been to a rave?
Was it mad authentic, or full of tweenstreamers / hot topic / lower class alts?
Should be targeted 2 high end alts or low end alts?

BEST COAST releases new mp3 lovefest about her boyfriend WAVVES

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 10:27 AM PDT


[MP3]
Best Coast Boyfriend

Most of Best Coast (aka Bethany Cosentino)’s songs are about the beach, weed, waves, or Wavves, her boyfriend. This new song is called “Boyfriend”, and we can only assume that it was written about her boyfriend and how much she depends upon her ‘man.’

After WAVVES’s song “Post-Acid” [link], we have to start to wonder about how limited their song writing abilities are. We understand they are in love, and have a perfect buzzband life together, but at some point they gotta ‘branch out’ and write songs about other stuff, sorta like how AnCo can write about weirdo stuff, then they can write about taking care of their families. Bruce Springsteen can write anthems of the common man. The Arcade Fire write suburban anthems about childhood. Other buzzbands can write songs about “Deadbeat Summers” and “Feeling it All around”, with various bleepy bloop musical stylings.

Wish I coulda chilled with them .

Feel like the song “Boyfriend” really puts me into the mindset of an insecure girl who just wants a boyfriend. Glad Best Coast found her dream man. However, I feel like Best Coast and WAVVES should probably break up just to get more press for their next album cycle.

Do yall like this song?
Is “Boyfriend” too literal?
Do u think she played this song for WAVVES the first time, and he kinda cried, then they went out 4 burritos?
Do yall respect Best Coast for accepting the fact that she is ‘nothing’ without a boyfriend to enable her 2 have a bloggable identity?
Will Best Coast’s album be more well-liked than WAVVES’s album? Is it because she is a woman, and the blogosphere is made up of jealous bros who would love to date a hot buzzband girl?
Do u wish Wavves was her boyfriend?
Do yall wish they would sing about more different-er stuff, or do u like the simplicity of their California style lives’?
If I move to California, will my life be perfect?
If I learn to California, will my fuzzy buzzy sound project ‘take off’?
Are yall jealous of their relationship?

Kanye West performs for black people at BET Awards on top of some dumb-looking volcano

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 08:02 AM PDT


I am not sure why every1 ‘loves’ everything that Kanye West does. All his songs sorta sound the same to me, singing about ‘how bad ass’ he is in an insecure kinda way. Maybe he uses good samples or something. N e ways, Kanye performed some new song called “Power” on the , which I assume is a sequel to the song “Stronger.” From what I understand, BET is ‘the MTV of black people’, except they don’t really have shows like ‘16 and Pregnant’ which showcase Middle American white people at their worst. Instead, they ‘celebrate’ art, culture, commerce, and hip hop culture.

I thought he was supposed to be an ‘authentic artist who cares about conceptual execution’, but this volcano + projector gimmick really ‘failed’ hard. Seems like something you would see at your local high school talent show done by the Tech Theatre department. Really just ‘amateur hour’ for Kanye West. Feel bad for him. Song wasn’t really memorable either. Feel bad that everything has to be so ‘epic’ for him. Thought he could have stolen ‘’ from indie music and taken it to the mainstream, promoting chillvibes instead of the generic rap vibes.

Is Kanye West a ‘true artist’?
What makes every1 luv him so much?
Are we just waiting for him 2 fail / die / release a sex tape?
Are all of his songs/lyrical content the same?
Is Kanye West ‘the next Jay-Z’?
Is Kanye West for ‘black people’ or ‘white people’?
Should BET make a ‘black version’ of 16 and pregnant, or would it be racist/sad?
Will Kanye West ever top his Taylor Swift interruption meme?

M.I.A. tries to be an ethnic Lady Gaga, wears zany wig & zany weed goggles

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 06:36 AM PDT

Photo via http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2010/06/28/mia-rainbow-hair/


I think one of M.I.A.’s latest gimmicks is ‘talking about how unoriginal’ Lady Gaga is [link]. It seems like M.I.A. is trying to ‘pull off her own zany gimmicks’ to create bloggable photo memes. Maybe all are the same / have the same goal.

I am not sure if what she is doing ‘works for me.’ Feel like women in music are supposed to ‘dress like sluts’ and ‘act sexual.’ M.I.A. dresses like an electro urban homeless woman, and acts violent. Really not a good combo for me, in terms of ‘getting turned on’, which is Lady Gaga’s model.

Also feel confused by her ‘weed goggles.’ Would rather just get stoned and have crazy red eyes 2 let people know how danked I am. Worried that she bought that camo hoodie from the ‘hunting section’ of Wal Mart. (Actually a kinda good idea, might start buying camo hoodies

Are yall more into Lady Gaga or M.I.A.?
Does MIA ‘wish’ she could have as many twitter followers/fans as Lady Gaga?
Should I buy WEED GOGGLES?
Should I buy more clothes from the Walmart hunting section in order 2 look like I am a Sri Lankan terrorist / freedom fighter?
Is that wig, or is that her real hair?
Can M.I.A. go mainstream, or has she already maxed out her market potential?
Should all artists just dress in ‘all black’ like the XX?

VIDEO: Washed Out takes us on a chillwave tour of his chill lake house/studio

Posted: 29 Jun 2010 06:09 AM PDT

Via: http://www.gorillavsbear.net/2010/06/28/washed-out-x-adult-swim/
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Washed Out bro (aka Ernest Greene) is a chill bro from South Carolina who is one of the pioneers of ‘the movement’, one of the most important genres of music of the modern world. He made an MP3 for Adult Swim’s record label / marketing project [link], then they made this additional video interview to create more branded web content that would get more ‘blog buzz.’

He takes us on a chill tour of some lake in Georgia, where he is living and ‘recording a new album.’ We get to go on a motorboat, a rope swing, to some authentic hot dog joint, and even . He seems like a chill Southern bro, just lounging at the lake, jumping off stuff and splish splashing, riding waves. Wonder if he will get a jet ski with his next round of indie $$$$$.

He talks about important themes like ‘isolation’, giving us hope that we don’t have to be a ‘Brooklyn-based’ buzzband in order to break thru and become a relevant indie artist. Always thought that ‘the indie press’ only took u seriously if you listed ‘Brooklyn’ as ur home in ur myspace profile.

Do u wish u could chill with Ernest Greene at his lake house?
Did he make enough indie $$$ to buy a ‘beach house’ [via lake house]?
Will ‘last forever’ or will the artists ‘break away’ from the genre?
Is Washed Out the most talented chillwaver, or will Toro Y Moi ‘break out’?
Whose stock is the highest/lowest? Who would yall invest in?
Should I move 2 Georgia/South Carolina 2 ‘get in touch with Mother Indie’?
If I live on a lake instead of in Brooklyn, will I become a better artist?
Is ‘driving a boat’ more authentic than ‘relying on public transportation’?