Sunday, February 27, 2011

HIPSTER RUNOFF

HIPSTER RUNOFF

Electric Daisy Carnival moves 2 Las Vegas 2 kill ppl there instead of in LA

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 01:33 PM PST

Link: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/02/electric-daisy-leaving-la-for-las-vegas-good-riddance-says-coliseum-commissioner.html


Some ppl say that there is a difference between 'music festivals' and 'raves.' Raves usually feature electronic music, drugs, underaged tweens, and tons of chaos. Even though they are marketed as 'music festivals', it is sorta an unspoken agreement that 'crazy shit can go down' in the confines of a public stadium/park. Any ways, the Electric Daisy Carnival is a rave where some ppl died [link] and a bunch of ppl jump fences and it is crazy. So now Los Angeles is all like 'uhhh we can't have that here bc angry parents of dead ravers are suing us and this is a PR disaster.'

The ongoing brouhaha between Los Angeles politicos and promoters of dance-focused concerts has seemingly resulted in one of the nation's largest electronic music festivals leaving Los Angeles for Las Vegas. Insomniac Inc.'s two-day Electric Daisy Carnival, which last June drew between 80,000 and 100,000 people per day to the L.A. Memorial Coliseum and adjoining Exposition Park, is leaving the Coliseum for Vegas after Insomniac's 13 years working with the L.A. venue.

So the festival is moving 2 Las Vegas bc Las Vegas allows 'basically anything.' Sorta wanna fly to this rave, OD, gamble, and buy a few prostitutes.

Late Thursday, however, Insomniac announced that an official agreement was still not inked, and Electric Daisy would be staged the same weekend in Las Vegas.

I feel bad for Los Angeles club/rave/party promoters. They made this sweet 'infographic' to warn tweens abt drug use.

Numerous efforts were made to convince L.A. officials that dance events were safe. Insomniac established an 18-and-over policy for all its events and pledged to have more medical staff on site. Dance promoters, who were not named, even funded a card distributed by the county's Department of Public Health to warn concertgoers of the dangers of Ecstasy.

Seems rlly informative.

R u happy that the Electric Daisy Carnival can 'live on' forever?
What are the odds that some1 will die at EDC Las Vegas?
Can we just call raves 'death parties'?
Is LA 'being unchill' abt raves? Should they let alt tweens party hard?
Will we lose more lives' in Las Vegas than we lost in Los Angeles?
If u go to a rave, is there a high chance that u will die?
Is the Electric Daisy Carnival a 'chill time' that got an unfair wave of negative press just bc a few ppl didn't do drugs properly?
Can we create some sort of waiver where rave goers 'waive' all of their human rights and willingly acknowledge that they might die?

We leave u with the parting words of an unchill local Los Angelino politician bro.

Commissioner Rick Caruso, an ardent advocate against large dance concerts, told L.A. Now, “My first reaction is good riddance.” Caruso had been one of the more vocal critics of DJ-driven concerts, saying they breed drug abuse and unruly behavior.

"Good Riddance" [via "I hope yall had the times of yalls lives']
-Green Days

Gotta go practice fence jumping 4 the upcoming festival season.
Peace, yall!

Mainstream teen heart throb Zac Efron 'tries 2 be alt', rides a fixed gear bike

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 11:39 AM PST

Link: http://www.splashnewsonline.com/2011-02-24/zac-efron-is-one-hunky-hipster/


From what I understand, 'fixed gear bicycles' are 'the official bicycles of hipster alts.' I guess for alts who can't afford cars and don't live in suburbia and ur parents don't drop u off at work at Best Buy 4 days a week.

I guess maybe it is true... alt is going mainstream...
Our music...
Our fashion...
Our methos of transportation...

Sorta wonder if Zefron should dump tween Mexi slutwave Vanessa Hudgens and maybe just become an indie alt celebrity. He was in the hit pre-Glee tween 'it show' High School Musical: Let's Fingerbang 1 another Underneath The Bleachers, so I'm sure he has enough talent to be drafted into Vampire Weekend.

Will mainstream tweens start 2 get fixed gear bikes now?
Do u have a super sweet neon 'fixie'?
Are fixies 'safe' or are their brakes not good enough 2 keep u safe??
Do yall prefer bikes with or without gears?
Do u think he listens 2 chillwave buzzbands as he rides thru the streets of Brooklyn?
Is Zac Efron 'hotter' than Ezra Koenig, or should he 'go rapegaze' like JackyJack?

TV on the Radio unveils album art, rips off Interpol's "Turn on the Bright Lights"

Posted: 27 Feb 2011 11:24 AM PST

Nine Types of Light album art TV on the Radio
TV on the Radio 'unveiled' their album art in JPG format just because they wanted to force another blog post out of the blogosphere. Anyways, a pretty boring album cover...

I guess the only way to make it interesting is to claim that it ripped off pre-existing album cover(s).

Maybe it ripped off "Turn on the Bright Lights", the classic indie album by Interpol. Seems 2 have only reds and black colors.

U gotta wonder if Interpol is gonna 'sue the eff' out of TV on the Radios?

Based on this album art, can we safely say that this album is 'effing terrible'?
Do u <3 TV on the Radio, or are they 'effing annoying' blah blah blah bloo music?
Did they rip off an album cover that u can think of?
Does TVOTR need to 'get their own colours'?
Is TVOTR just a cool dad noise band, or do they were Arcade-Fire-Grammy-worthy albums?
Can TV on The Radio become the next Esperanza Spalding?