Bryant Kitching Returns From The Underground

Some people go to exotic destinations like Mexico or Florida for Spring Break to get overly intoxicated and make bad decisions with their peers. But we here at the Hipster Doucheblog burn easily and have never quite been the life of the party. Naturally, the only logical alternative to going away for Spring Break is to make a mash-up, and that exactly what we did. After several months on hiatus, DJ/college student Bryant Kitching makes a glorious return to the mash-up scene (yes, sadly there actually is a mash-up scene) with this great track. Enjoy!

Bryant Kitching - Dirt Off Your Reptilia

hipster douche comment of the day

in response to ad in new yorker:
"Keith Richards for Louis Vuitton? What a whore!"
-my mom

Hipster Doucheblog Presents: The only music you should have listened to this year

Top 10 Songs:

1. Ragged Wood- Fleet Foxes

2. Blind- Hercules and Love Affair

3. While You Wait for the Others- Grizzly Bear

4. Sabali- Amadou and Mariam

5. Walking on a Dream- Empire of the Sun

6. Made in the Dark- Hot Chip

7. Gobbledigook- Sigur Ros

8. In the New Year- The Walkmen

9. Teen Creeps- No Age

10. Hearts of Fire- Cut Copy

Top Album: Chinese Democracy... not

1. Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend

2. Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes

3. Girl Talk- Feed The Animals

4. The Walkmen- You & Me

5. Amadou and Mariam- Welcome to Mali

for all other opinions see here

Hipster Doche Comment of The day

"Okkervil River sounds like they played Red Rover against The Decemberists and The Strokes and got closelined when they tried to break through" -J.Wolf

Record Review: Deerhunter – Microcastle

Bradford Cox is not a bad guy. Back in May, the lead singer/songwriter and his band’s third album, Microcastle, leaked onto the Internet and entire five months before it’s release date, early even by the Internet’s standards. So who can blame him for getting a little ticked off? Now that the soap opera that has been the past few months on Deerhunter’s blog has died down, you can finally sit back and truly enjoy the music itself. And enjoy it you will, for Deerhunter’s follow-up to 2007s critically acclaimed, Cryptograms, shows the band exploring new, quieter sounds, yet staying true to the ambient noise-pop sound that makes them one of the most prolific bands making music today.

Deerhunter employ an interesting tactic on Microcastle, especially if you are familiar with any of the band’s other material, and that is they turn the volume way down. The album oozes along in stark contrast with the loud, shoegazing firestorm that was their last album. They explore more of a pop sound, as all of the songs contain lyrics and are almost all under five minutes in length, but the general soft sound that the album emanates makes it anything but conventional for a band like Deerhunter.

The first few tracks do not hit you with the same force as tracks like “Lake Somerset,” or “Strange Lights,” off of Cryptograms did, rather they seem to come at you very gently. The track “Agoraphobia” may be more conventional than anything else the band has yet produced, but still fits well within the context of the album as a whole. “Little Kids” is also a standout track, complete with its epic climax.

The album’s main flaw is that it is at times too quiet. The band’s new soft sound sounds like My Bloody Valentine turned up to 5, instead of 10. Three consecutive tracks smack in the middle of the album, “Cavalry Scars,” “Green Jacket,” and “Activa,” struggle to hold the listeners attention. Luckily the band saves this lull with the bass-driven gem, “Nothing Ever Happens,” complete with an ending that, believe it or not, will make you want to get up and dance, and is perhaps the best thing the band has ever written. Where Deerhunter seem to perfect this subtler sound is on the fantastic last track, “Twilight on Carbon Lake,” which starts like a noise-rock lullaby song, but ends in a triumphant blaze of noisy perfection.

Microcastle’s great appeal will undoubtedly be that is has things that old Deerhunter fans will find appealing, yet also a slightly more pop-friendly sound that will most likely attract newer listeners who were turned off by some of their earlier work. While Deerhunter’s new album is not perfect, it shows them exploring new sounds and trying new things. Though this reviewer is not sure he would like to see Cox and his band continue with this quieter sound on albums in the future, on Microcastle at least, they are successful in creating and album to both enjoy and to chill out to.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Lilly Allen Breaks the Doucheblog Silence

New song from Lily Allen off of her new album to come out soon

Listen click here

Hipster doucheblog in haitus

With the sub prime mortgage crisis the hipster doucheblog no longer has adequate funds to actively post to the blog. We had to lay off most all of our writers, and the two we left are running two to three other jobs at the same time. Bryant is artificially inseminating horses by day and bar tending at a gay bar by night. Jesse is working as a test subject for pharmaceutical companies. He is currently testing medication that will cure his nonexistent heart murmur. We will attempt to do our best to entertain you bi-somethingly. goodnight and goodluck

Radiohead... the musical?

Ride the Beast

Chris Baker Disses Radiohead, Loves Oasis

It was only a matter of time, but yet another poor soul has jumped on the anti-Radiohead bandwagon. This time it's fellow blogger/douchebag, Chris Baker, a freshmen at Brown University. This is what Chris commented to our post regarding Oasis the other day:

"If Thom Yorke really cared about global warming and such, he'd be a public servant..."

Come now Chris, did you really think we were gonna let that one slide; and right on our own blog too! But then again, what can you expect from a man who calls the Magnetic Fields his favorite band? To add gasoline to the fire, Chris then stated the very same comment:

"...Oasis is...remarkably powerful..."

It is for this reason why we are telling everyone not to look at Chris' blog.

Ball's in your court my friend.

hipster douche comment of the day

Pitchfork you've done it again, this time not in so much a condescending way but in a pitifully poetic way:

On the new stars EP:

"The music here burns slow and then smolders-- not unlike the piles of autumn leaves (under cold gray skies!) that dot the lyrics-- and it's easy to imagine this music serving, for a lot of concertgoers, as a wistful memento of That Cold Night We Saw Stars"

...tear

(They went on to give it a 6.2... bastards)

Ugliest man alive goes skinny dipping

Yes my friends it is true (maybe) Our favorite lead singer went skinny dipping recently. Personally i just can't imagine Thom Yorke naked but that's just me (and probably the rest of humanity). I think the only thing more awkward than that would probably be Jonny Greenwood skinny dipping. Anyway just dropping by to leave those disturbing images in your head.

hipster douche comment of the day

Somebody wrote on my last.fm

"Your music taste = superb"

i don't know who you are anonymous music listener but thank you for affirming what Bryant already knows.

PASSING ON THE WORD

Just read this on stereogum, oasis bashes Radiohead:

"They're [Radiohead] middle-class boys worrying about pushing an envelope somewhere, and all that carbon footprint and all that bollocks. Every time there's a polar bear on his tiptoes on an ice cube in the middle of the Antarctic, you know whose fault that is? Rock stars'. That's their fault. Any time there's food running out somewhere-- 'Let's do a gig. That'll sort it out. Let's do a big fucking gig. Let's fly everybody in from all over the world and pontificate to poor people about how they should be saving the planet.' Go fucking kiss my ass. It's very easy to just say, 'We're going to become difficult now and challenge our audience.' I like my audience. They paid for my swimming pool. I'm not fucking challenging anybody."

We'll it looks like Oasis doesn't know the difference between whining in their music and whining in real life. Hey Oasis, try creating something that doesn't sound better when you're not performing it.

Going to Liberal Arts College: Checklist

So Hipster Doucheblog following the Bed Bath and Beyond trend is creating it's own back to school checklist: liberal arts edition. I know it seems a little late and next year fashions may drastically change but in case you have no sense for college trends here's a list of what you may be missing.

- Burkenstocks
- North Face Back Pack
- Matching or Complimenting North Face Jacket
- American Apparel Hoodie
- Book of Frost Poems to carry at your side when you walk
- Sigg Metal Water Bottle (Metal is the new plastic)
- Classy Older Road Bike
- Scarf to blow in wind while riding bike
- Bizarre retro sunglasses that border on out of fashion
- Indie Band tee-shirts
- Frisbee that you never use

Hipster Doucheblog Issues a Challenge to its Readers

   Hey readers! This is everyone's favorite hipster (Bryant, of course) reporting live from college for the first time. While our blonde-haired-buddy is out climbing trees in the middle of the forest somewhere, the blogging still refuses to stop here in the city that never sleeps. Anyway, before we all embark on our college journeys any further, we here at the Hipster Doucheblog would like to issue a challenge to all our readers. 

   Surly everyone remembers this past February when a certain Hipster's house (again, Bryant) was transformed from an average dingy basement to a club party featuring mix-up master, Girl Talk. We here at the Hipster Doucheblog don't see why just because we are all off doing bigger and better things, the spirit of the Girl Talk Dance Party has to die. Our challenge is for everyone of our readers, by the end of this school year, to throw at least one Girl Talk Dance Party at their respective schools. Photographic evidence must be provided to prove the fulfillment of this epic challenge. When we do get photos (and we better) we will be sure to run them in a special feature post on our blog. 

   That's right guys! It's time to step up, mash-up, and spread the magic that is the Girl Talk Dance Party. 

   Anyway, we hope everyone is doing great and ask for people not to be afraid to comment on any post they find interesting. We always love hearing form our readers.

Girl Talk - Play Your Part (pt. 1)

 

Hipster Writers off to Campus Life

Your favorite writers leave tomorrow for a fantastical journey through space and time (mostly time) in the universe many call... college. The hipster world will most probably explode around everyplace we walk on campus so don't be surprised if we start any movements. We will probably take a short long weekend hiatus until we settle in. Enough said fellow readers, we bid you farewell.

Vampire Weekend - Campus

Of Montreal Love Sex!

   Well, Athens band Of Montreal's latest album has leaked. Entitled, Skeletal Lamping, this 15 track, 50 minute sex romp through the demented mind of lead singer/songwriter Kevin Barnes shows that Of Montreal have gone down and dirty for this highly anticipated follow-up to last years Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? Hear are a few choice selections from Skeletal Lamping.

"My pleasure puss, i want to know what it's like to be inside you"

(from track "And I've Seen a Bloody Shadow")

"I want to make you come, 200 times a day" (from track "Gallery Piece")

"Ejaculate until it's no longer fun" (form track Plastis Wafers")

"I'm so sick of sucking the dick of this cruel cruel city" (from track "St. Exquisite's Confessions")

I could go on and on. Thanks Kev. You have a dirty, dirty mind.

Of Montreal - Gallery Piece

Hipster Gab

This is, verbatim, a conversation i recently had with fellow hipster douchebag, Jesse Wolf.

hipster douche comment of the day

In response to the new Bloc Party album Intimacy Pitchfork writes:

"If it wasn't the name of this record, there's almost no way I'd use the word "intimacy" in relation to Bloc Party.''

COVER ME

Seeing as how the new Bloc Party album utterly an completely sucks, i thought i'd post something better for everyone to listen to. Here are a few really cool covers that i've been sitting on for a while.

Vampire Weekend - Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac Cover)

John Mayer - Kid A (Radiohead Cover)

Arctic Monkeys - You Know I'm No Good (Amy Winehouse Cover)

Jose Gonzalez - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division Cover)

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - D.A.N.C.E. (Justice Cover)

Final Fantasy - This Modern Love (Bloc Party Cover)

Jack Johnson - My Doorbell (The White Stripes Cover)

Enjoy.