Is indie/underground music any less looksist than chart pop?

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Because there seems to be inordinant amount of hotties (both m & f) among popular indie acts.

― Feller! (thirsty), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:08 (twenty years ago)

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― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

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― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:16 (twenty years ago)

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― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Grandaddy: mostly hott (but now I'm considering that indie has its own aesthetics) Pixies: Kim was super hott

― Feller! (thirsty), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:21 (twenty years ago)

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― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:24 (twenty years ago)

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― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:33 (twenty years ago)

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― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

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― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

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― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:37 (twenty years ago)

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― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

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― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:38 (twenty years ago)

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― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:39 (twenty years ago)

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― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:40 (twenty years ago)

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― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:41 (twenty years ago)

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― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

Okay, how about we talk about indie NOW as opposed to indie THEN. Because you know, I think there's a point to be made.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:47 (twenty years ago)

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― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:49 (twenty years ago)

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― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:51 (twenty years ago)

xpost Is that A Flock of Seagulls feat. Napoleon Dynamite?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:51 (twenty years ago)

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― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:53 (twenty years ago)

MESSAGE: Nope, they all still look like a buncha idiots...

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:54 (twenty years ago)

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― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:55 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't that guy on the right in the Fabulous Thunderbirds?

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)

LMAO:
Arcade Fire=A Flock of Seagulls featuring Napoleon Dynamite

That just about says it all.

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

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― Captain Wordsworthy, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

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― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

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― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:01 (twenty years ago)

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― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

Okay, how about we talk about indie NOW as opposed to indie THEN. Because you know, I think there's a point to be made.

i sense you just wanna say "jenny lewis and neko case"

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)

DCFC is about as underground as my big toe.

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)

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― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:06 (twenty years ago)

ah jenny lewis will not age well

― senseiDancer (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I liked Jenny Lewis and Neko Case the first time...

...When they were named Juliana Hatfield and Liz Phair...

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:09 (twenty years ago)

Gibby Haynes looks better than ever!

― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Hot Indie/Underground Music Bloggers?

http://static.flickr.com/40/114315364_dc0afd96e2.jpg

― Weird Catapults, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

DCFC is about as underground as my big toe.

no shit sherlock!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

OH GOD. I hate that photo of me.

i sense you just wanna say "jenny lewis and neko case"

Actually, I would've said "Conor Oberst and Sufjan Stevens."

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:29 (twenty years ago)

CYHSY should rename themselves The Receding Hairlines or The Large Foreheads

― Weird Catapults, Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:33 (twenty years ago)

Actually, I would've said "Conor Oberst and Sufjan Stevens."

I'd hit it.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:42 (twenty years ago)

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Ghostface is a good-looking guy. I can't help it, you can't help it.

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MF Doom...well, cat wears a mask.

― M. Biondi (M. Biondi), Wednesday, 22 March 2006 23:52 (twenty years ago)

he was a cutie back in the gas face video!

he kinda looked like the army dude from A Different World's nerdy son that they had on the show in the later days!*

*I'm totally obsessed with A Different World right now! Dean Cain was on as a racist college kid today.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 23 March 2006 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Who is Perpetua with in that photo?

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 23 March 2006 00:20 (twenty years ago)

Lindsay Lohan and Philip Seymour Hoffman

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 March 2006 00:22 (twenty years ago)

AGE SHALL WITHER THEM.

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― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 23 March 2006 00:26 (twenty years ago)

not you tho, eh?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 March 2006 00:30 (twenty years ago)

That's Ashley from Rock Insider on the left and Eppy on the right.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Thursday, 23 March 2006 00:31 (twenty years ago)

Do you really expect us to believe that was taken in Austin?

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 23 March 2006 00:43 (twenty years ago)

I held up the paper in case we got kidnapped or something. Actually it was 10:30 am and I was at a "blogger brunch" so I didn't really know what to do with myself.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 03:29 (twenty years ago)

Tho there were tacos with bacon in them.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 23 March 2006 03:29 (twenty years ago)

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― Mike Dixn (Mike Dixon), Thursday, 23 March 2006 03:58 (twenty years ago)

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― timmy tannin (pompous), Thursday, 23 March 2006 04:18 (twenty years ago)

somehow jandek is the inevitable punchline to all posts on ILM

― davelus (davelus), Thursday, 23 March 2006 04:33 (twenty years ago)

whether they're 'underground' or not, can we just spend the rest of this thread talking about the bassist from Death Cab For Cutie's hair?

http://www.dcfc.jp/profile/image/160447950_m.jpg

it's mystifying. I mean, they've been around and kind of well known for at least, what, 5 or 6 years now? and he's had those weird little handlebars on his forehead the whole time. like he's really committed to that look.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Thursday, 23 March 2006 05:22 (twenty years ago)

and here i was thinking chris walla was the band style maven...

― friendship7, Thursday, 23 March 2006 08:42 (twenty years ago)

"It is only the shallow who do not judge by appearances." Oscar Wilde

― Momus (Momus), Thursday, 23 March 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

I'm starting to instinctually see bands like this, with only men in them, and think of them as "boy bands," like it's a gimmick. I mean.. it is, kind of.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:00 (twenty years ago)

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― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:07 (twenty years ago)

Tho there were tacos with bacon in them.

that sounds awesome!

LOCK THREAD.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:16 (twenty years ago)

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― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:38 (twenty years ago)

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― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 March 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

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― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:58 (twenty years ago)

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― Edward III (edward iii), Thursday, 23 March 2006 20:59 (twenty years ago)

it took me til Edward II's post to realize this wasn't a "It's March What Do You Look Like" thread.

― Will (will), Thursday, 23 March 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

Will OTM, lock thread

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Friday, 24 March 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

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― Tiki Theater Xymposium (Bent Over at the Arclight), Friday, 24 March 2006 00:26 (twenty years ago)

indie boobs sell records

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 24 March 2006 00:30 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pinktink.250x.com/bands/ultrasound/feb98-2_files/image012.jpg

― MitchellStirling (MitchellStirling), Friday, 24 March 2006 01:45 (twenty years ago)

Schlub Core. A lot of these bands could actually use some style.

― James Slone (Freon Trotsky), Friday, 24 March 2006 03:06 (twenty years ago)

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http://www.clashmagazine.com/issues/issue_july2005/images/hot_chip.jpg

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:33 (twenty years ago)

hot chip make music that make you want to alternately cuddle and fuck though so there's that

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:42 (twenty years ago)

alternatingly?

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:42 (twenty years ago)

nm alternately was right

― nervous (cochere), Friday, 24 March 2006 05:43 (twenty years ago)

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