http://www.wouldbehipster.com/2009/10/goodbye-or.html

goodbye, or?

Two years ago, we started this blog...to get free stuff and foist our opinions on others.

One Christmas compilation, twenty-six months, numerous trips to House of Pies, and a zillion Swedish indie rock references later, I can now say: Mission accomplished.

Confessions of a Would-Be Hipster is not shutting down. m.a.b., L.A.R., ako, lmc, and cev still have your musical back.

However, starting today I’ll have a new Internet home. Together with Darius Fong (a.k.a. producer extraordinaire), we'll be running WEarePANEL.com and the “We are Panel” iPhone application.

As far as websites and apps go, our goal is pretty simple—to bring you great music. Every week we’ll be hitting the streets, talking to the people who make music happen on every level: producers, purveyors, and provocateurs. Artist or business owner, famous or infamous, we guarantee one thing—our weekly “Panelist” will have a passion for music and a story to tell.

Not only are we dedicated to bringing you that story; we’ll be bringing you the music as well. Every week we’ll be streaming two complete Panelist-approved albums. That’s right—two album recommendations a week from some of the most knowledgeable fans in out there.

Confessions of a Would-Be Hipster has been a blast. Chances are I'll poke my head in from time to time and say hi. Until then, so long...and thanks for all the fish.

Love,

Laura (a.k.a. LMS)

A bevy of contact info:

laura(at)panelmusic(dot)com
WEarePANEL.com
Myspace.com/WEarePANEL
facebook.com/WEarePANEL
twitter.com/WEarePANEL

http://www.wouldbehipster.com/2009/06/contest-win-hockey-vinyl.html

I'll keep this one short and sweet. Why not combine forces?1.Would-Be Hipster guilty pleasures include (but are not limited to): The Monkeys, Ace of Bass, Boy George, Kenny Loggins and Crowded House...and no, I'm not naming names.

http://www.wouldbehipster.com/2009/06/carina-round-hotel-cafe-autographed-cd.html

Carina Round is awesome. Wanna know exactly how awesome she is?

Contest: E-mail us (wouldbehipster(at)gmail(dot)com) with your mailing address and profound or absurd fact that we should know. The person who makes us giggle or ponder our on mortality the most wins an autographed copy of Carina Round's new EP Things You Should Know. Contest closes Monday night @ 8pm (PST).

In celebration of Plastic Snow ('case as far as we're concerned, it's already Christmas at WBH headquarters), we decided to post an exclusive (oohh!) behind-the-scenes look at some of the hard work that went into the album.

Slip into your favorite Christmas sweater and download of Plastic Snow here.



Fearless leader, producer Darius Fong


Let's Go Sailing






Pierre de Reeder






Great Northern




All images by our favorite photographer, David Studarus

Tomorrow, November 10th, Confessions of a Would-Be Hipster will be guesting on KUCI show Scene and Heard (2pm-4pm PST). Plastic Snow artist Pierre de Reeder will be preforming a live set sometime in the second hour. Catch his lovely music and our stuttering here.

People in your life too cool? Can't get enough of your favorite geeky gals?

Stalk the Would-Be Hipsters -- now with extra interactivity!

Confessions of a Would-Be Hipster last.fm listening group --join the geeksquad. Tell us what's cool and do our work for us.

Would-Be Hipsters on Livejournal -- Oh come on, like you really deleted that old account.

The twits are twittering--yeah...



Would-Be Hipsters on the Hype Machine --nothing cute to add really, just thought it was cool.

Love, as always,

Answer: NO! Minus 30 hip points.

of course... we're not your average hipsters. We're Would-be Hipsters. What does that mean to you? Well... err... in layman's terms, we're geeks. And darn proud.

If we've found you, chance are we've hunted you down and are most likely your geekiest fans. (hint: look for the girls at the front of the stage, looking equal parts giddy and shameless.) If you've found us... well congrats. We could quite possibly be your new biggest fans. Or at least we're open to the idea.

love always,

The Would-Be Hipsters.