I looove Elf Power’s new album “The Greatest”!!!

I heard it was recorded in Nashville.

The whole “cred” thing is totally uncool. I’d spend the rest of my life with German soccer thugs before I’d do anything to impress anyone in that mess.

If you know any songs by those bands you shoul burn in hell.

I seriously hope “cool guy” is joking about “elf” Power. Anyone care to fill him in about that great new album. I won’t. And show Mangum some love RS, his last record was epic from a lyrical and sonic standpoint…

My cred is BEAST! Who run it?!

I got to tell you. I just ate the most delicious sausage ever. It was swimming in spicy mustard and placed ever-so delicately inside a bun of whole wheat! mmmm!

sorry, i love Apples in Stereo’s “Please.” Video with the go-karts rocks!!!

Hipsters are so funny. When we’re all back in the stone age after WWIII, they’ll be the most uncool people in the world because they’ll be buggin’ my animal-hunting-punk-rock ass for a meal. Veaganism should be a crime.

I’m not much of a hipster, but I’m pretty jealous of the people who can have a night like this. Going from venue to venue, hearing great new music, and even sh*t that should never see the light of day. It’s better than sitting at home, reading Rolling Stone blogs about what songs from 30 years ago should be pulled off an album. It takes tastemakers to turn us all on to the music that will one day matter.

Jesus, no wonder my girlfriend left me.

She did. It was pathetic.

Rs is so cute with little tounge/cheek jokes about Pitchfork. At they have a solid opinion about music, particularly progressive music. Everything reviewed on RS is three stars when the editor-in-chief can’t spell the name of any musician (or band for that matter) not supported by Clear Channel; or a established 20-year career. Pitchfork is a youth-supported movement that reflects and shares in what is happening NOW. Rolling Stone will pickup on it LATER. Unless they’re doing a cover story on Britney.

Wow! A movement that doesn’t move. They seem like a bunch of halfbaked dorks that are too afraid to make a statement about a single thing. They care more about their carefully undone hair and new vintage clothes than the music such an image is supposed to be in service of. I guess we’ll just have to wait it out until some people that actually have something to say wake us the hell up. As for now… copies of copies of copies.

Elf Powers latest is called “Back to the web” or did ya mean its the greatest?

What! They didn’t stop at a Starbuck’s for a mochafrappacappulatte something or other…? Or is that not considered vegan?

I really hope this is some kind of joke.

There is nothing more uncool than a so-called “hipster.”

Wow, I know these people, the dudes in that photo are friends of a friend, and I happened to be up in New York for the weekend to catch those shows.

And here I was thinking I was just a nerdy computer programmer with some unusual friends. Apparently I’m so hip I can’t breathe.

Rolling Stone, these bands were cutting-edge underground in 1996. But don’t let that bother you, guitar groups are on their way out, after all.

God bless Pitchfork (snobs that they are) for injecting some personality into their criticism and being unashamed about giving props to individual editors’ personal favorites. Rock is not, in fact, engraved in stone, and there are fun quirky new bands in nearly every city in the country. Do some legwork, read some flyers, and go party. Have some bands play in your living room and buy your friends some beers. Fun music, you might be surprised to learn, wasn’t actually embalmbed and placed on a shelf in 1974, but continues to roam wild and free to this very day.

So, to be a hipster these days one has to listen to music derivative of The Olivia Tremor Control?

That is a nice tongue in cheek reference to Jeff Magnum’s return and a not-so-obvious stab at the ever growing site for music, but it would all be worthwhile if RS was merely feigning ignorance about the indie rock scene(s).

Pitchfork gives listeners a limited scope of what’s praiseworthy, not doubt, but its a rather tedious complaint compared to what RS does in terms of promotion…U2, the Boss, the White Stripes, Coldplay…cough cough.

You’ve once again reminded “hipsters” who grew up when America cared about the publication why it’s now a lost cause, taking on farcical proportions.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that RS may have finally touched on why Jeff Magnum has ducked the spotlight for so long. Kudos.

“I looove Elf Power’s new album “The Greatest”!!!

I heard it was recorded in Nashville.”

I think, you mean Cat Power… Nub!

Whoops my bad, guys.

I guess I’ll just slink on back to my P-Funk records and then head on over to Great Clips for a haircut.

it makes me cry a little when i think that for some people music is nothing more than another way for them to show how cool they are.

Y’know, Rolling Stone used to be about loving music, now it’s about hating something outside of their boundaries. Yes, I know Elf Power, and Os Mutantes, and even Circulatory System. Does that make me a stupid indie kid? I think Rollingstone needs to get off the bandwagon of “hating indie kids”. It’s funny, because they’re trying their hardest to become a music blog, which is what makes the indie world thrive, in my opinion. So in conclusion… Rolling Stone: Go screw yourself.

I just saw Os Mutantes at the Filmore this week (awesome!) but I can’t name a single song. I downloaded some Elf Power a few years ago, but it didn’t strike a chord with me. And I’ve been to New York – born there, in fact!

Judging by the bulk of the comments here, this puts me in the upper echelon of what RS thinks is “cool.” But since I know this is just a silly game, and most of the other folks here are taking this stuff WAY too seriously, maybe I’m not so cool after all.

Well put pgillty.

I, too, drip with hipster cool based on your little test. Heck, I have two Japancakes albums on my computer at work. What amuses me is I’m probably about as non-hipster as they come. Instead of poking fun, why not go explore some music you won’t find on mainstream radio? Looks like that paragraph gives you a good place to start….

The bands mentioned here are just as well known by my mom as by anyone. Knowing who the hell Elf Power is doesn’t exactly grant one credibility.
Silly Stone. Wots got into you?

Living in Athens means that at least one person from every one of these bands (except that foreign one with the psychedelic pants) has made you a burrito at some point.

Knowing them is not hip so much as the secret to getting an extra cup of cheese dip.