According to NME, these r 25 bands that r 'making America cool again.' I think they got some of them wrong.
HRO [EXCLUSIVE] BREAKDOWN
1 Vampire Weekend -
is it Alt to hate them? or is it alt-er to transcend 'hating them'? or
is it alt-est to pretend you don't really know who they are?
2 Lil Wayne -
filling the quarterly demand for a rapper that it is [highly regarded]
as being historically significant by white people who like to pretend
that pop-rap is an important reflection on the social evolution of
African Americans that they feel tolerant about 'identifying with'
3 Glass Candy - a band making your electroblog authentic again/ 1 band with the #1 MILF in alt music
4 Kings Of Leon - I have heard 1.5 of their songs. They will probably be around forever and I will never give them a chance.
5 MGMT - Please direct your attention to this post about why uninteresting people think they are supposed to like MGMT.
6 Spank Rock -
1 post-post-ironic sex-core think-piece rapper. If I were a black
person, I would h8 him for 'making fun of us and thinking he is s00
smart/artsy.'
7 TV On The Radio - I think they would choose to be from another country if they had the opportunity, since it would make them 'more authentic.'
8 Boy Crisis - with a name
like that, they are probably going after the market of people who like
to say 'GIRL TALK'. But SRSLY...who is that?
9 Black Kids - 1 band that I will never learn the difference between them + The Cool Kids
10 Holy Ghost Revival -Is this HOLY GHOST! or some different band?
11 The Hold Steady - for some reason I think this band is from the emo-era of 2k0
12 Fleet Foxes -
Am I not a good American if I haven't bothered to look into finding a
way to appreciate them? Does n e 1 know if they are meaningful? Or are
they one of those post-2k8 semi-meaningful-authentic bands that
probably should have come around in 2005 so they wouldn't be
cannibalized by blogs. (Being cannibalized by bl0gs only works for
electro-ish artists, but they aren't expecting to get paid.)
13 Amazing Baby - Have they been blggd abt? They might as well be a local band that I ignore.
14 Jay Reatard -
He has an interesting name, but otherwise, I shouldn't know who he is.
Does n e 1 know if he is retarded IRL? Is that his stage gimmick?
15 HEALTH - I wonder what these concept bros are up to. Is there a HEALTH backlash after 2 many remixes?
Save Our Scene
Some of the hottest bands from the past year are coming out of exotic locales in Europe, Canada, and Australia. Is America losing its indie rock juice? NME offered a list of 25 U.S. bands that will save our authentic souls. Hipster Runoff just wants to know who the hell Chester French is.
