So who ARE that insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai TV ads?

So now can we talk about who's a prep and who's a jock?

Parsing 'indie' vs 'hipster' ITT is like parsing the tonal qualities of a car alarm. My point is RAARRRGH OMG MAKE IT STOP.

On the other hand, I love you ILM.

contenderizer can field that one (not on ilnfl though) xp

bob dylan is corporate folk, the kingston trio are hipster/roots, pomplamoose are video installation

makes sense to me

you don't actually have a clear understanding of the pejorative use of the word "hipster" do you

― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 3:20 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

i do. and i rebel.

Best quote so far from Zvookster's linked article:

She makes Zooey Deschanel look like Charles Krauthammer.

Peter Paul & Mary were the strings on Prince's guitar
But Pomplamoose went down more like Har Mar Superstar

do u ppl have jobs

other than your company, what do you think we're avoiding here?

har mar has o.g. am rep punk cred though, calvin krime was p. awesome

Guys! Guys!

http://www.gawker.com/5785369/hyundai-hipster-couple-were-ska-kids-before-they-were-evangelicals

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2010/12/how_pomplamoose_made_me_hate_c.php

we thought she was just being precious but really she was trying to hide her ska evangelical past

Pomplamoose (ex-Skavangelists)

courtesy http://i54.tinypic.com/11l4yvn.gif:

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5126/5307330316_05ebaf2651.jpg

lol

omg so fucking fitting that they opened for The Dresden Dolls as I was going to mention them upthread as another example of a band like this that should be made to disembowel each other while being broadcast on a Jumbotron

indie duo cockfighting is a sport I would pay to see

nothing more annoying to me than a drummer who insists on not using a chair. i'm pretty sure noah lennox started this.

the deerhoof guy used a milk crate

Most drummers in fact insist on a stool.

Okay, fess up. Which ILXOR is trolling the SF Weekly comment board:

Smedley_t_hambone 1 week ago

Don't you have anything better to do with your time than hate a tv commercial? Or hate someone cuter than you? What an idiot and what an incredible waste of time.

the deerhoof guy used a milk crate

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 6:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^thought that was so awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfIrbF6J9sA

In re the effectiveness of the commercial: I kind of like the image of people angrily rushing off to buy hyundais and not quite knowing why.

deerhoof drummer would be great sitting on half a pig

specifically that

woah buzza is the woodward and bernstein of pomplamoose

ugh that video: Puffy Ski Jacket Guy is so much worse irl

if only those balloons were filled with saran gas

or saran wrap

The image of Don Draper just advocating for the usage of hipsters to promote the new Hyundai just kinda strikes me as wtf why

nothing more annoying to me than a drummer who insists on not using a chair. i'm pretty sure noah lennox started this.

If you mean "drummer standing up" I really dont think anco started this, i mean ffs bands like the Fall and Big Black have had standing (and duelling!) drummers years ago. And uh I dunno, Moe Tucker?

Yeah, but that trend didn't exact exactly last up until now.

considering those aforementioned bands were from the late 80's, mid 90's. I'm sure there are outliers but it's definitely a thing I have noticed in the past couple months whenever I go to the DIY venue here in town. p. much ever since post mpp

*early, not mid. whatever.

these ppl are yuppies theyre audience are yuppies and their music is corporate folk

― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 5:15 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dont get this post. i dont have the knowledge base as far as what strain of indie this is exactly but parsing the diff between this & sufjan stevens to someone who has never listened to a sufjan stevens album but has heard his stuff playing in a barnes & noble i used to work at, is serious hair splitting, in terms of the overarching aesthetic

i mean, i think to 'mainstream america' this is indie. contenderizer (!) otm

maybe to indie fans this is something else now but

Hopefully they'll be dead with the year

scurvy, hopefully

oh my god.

You fucking guys know that hipster, yuppie and indie-person are all parts of the same interlocking venn diagram right?

im not talking about 'indie person' im simply talking abt the style of music theyre playing & how its presented

guys guys it's all car alarms

i dont rlly have a horse in the ARE THEY HIPSTERS?? contest -- just observing that i think they code 'indie' to 99% of ppl who have an concept of what 'indie' means

anyone who can't see that these two morons are indie AND hipster AND yuppie to varying degrees needs to take a cold hard fucking look at how they identify themselves

don't forget skavangelicals

But I thought hipsters played the part of vanguard proletariat revolutionists? Are you to tell me many of them are in some ways middle-class?

anyone who can't see that these two morons are indie AND hipster AND yuppie to varying degrees needs to take a cold hard fucking look at how they identify themselves

― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 6:52 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

loving this sentence

Is that a keffiyah youre wearing? look in a mirror, punk