the other day i was having coffee with a few buddies from my school, and we stumbled on the topic of “hipsters” (after of course discussing at length my current favorite website). while i successfully navigated the site, took my hipster test, and reviewed the results, i was unsatisfied with the given criteria.
let me be clear, i am not a hipster.
so after much discussion about what is hipster and what isn’t in today’s culture, i decided to take on the daunting task of compiling a little test, using the medium of music, to find out if you’re a hipster or not.
we’ll less of test, and more of an internal checklist. chances are, though, that i’m revealing to you the top secret music barometer for hipsters, that may cause the music to become too mainstream, in turn, giving hipsters the grounds to disown these staples.
we are going to move through the more “popular” groups, then head down toward more specific regions of the hipster community. i’ll be using some bands i’ve previously wrote about in hopes of breeding familiarity. take every band as a fair represetetive of the sub-genre it represents. or not. here we go…
