Tag Archives: The Shins

Meaningful-Core Bands

What is Meaningful Rock?I feel like we’re at a time where ‘popular indie bands’ achieve more critical acclaim than ‘popular mainstream bands.’ Although the popular bands outsell the ‘indie’ bands, they both have exposure and acclaim from similar sources. Is there any difference between these high-selling white acts with male lead singers?Popular & [...]

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Shins Business Decisions

Check out this ZUNE COMMERCIAL with The Shins. (In case you didn’t know, the Zune is Microsoft’s version of the iPod. Don’t feel unhip if you don’t know about it. If one of your friends has one, it’s probably because it came for free with a Dell laptop or something).Do you think the [...]

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Natalie Portman is Not a Role Model

Pitchfork and Perez Hilton have been writing all of this crap about Natalie Portman.
She has great taste in music. She is a humanitarian. She went to college. She made a playlist for Entertainment Weekly that showcases her love for freak folk. She is the real-life version of her characters in “V for Vendetta” [...]

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Interview with MC Steinberg

[Cartoon by Brian Michael Weaver]
The feedback on MC Steinberg has been 110% positive. After a long day at the Dollar Store, MC Steinberg was kind enough to answer a few questions for Hipster Runoff at a public library. It was intimidating to interview the man known as ‘the hipster Barbara Walters,’ but it [...]

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