Admission: I’m an Animal Collective fan at Idolator.com. Yep. I’m a real bro’s bro. I know we are hated around these parts, and I tend to keep my mouth shut when Maura is on one of her rants about them. She seems to think that AC fans are uniformly crazy, and I’ve been defending them, saying not all of us are crazy, and some of us are quite nice, I swear, and just give us a chance. Well, after today’s foofaraw in the weird, wild world of Brooklyn Vegan’s comments section, I’m beginning to think maybe she has a point. Just look at the case of one Seth [last name redacted because we aren't jerks], who felt the wrath of the mouth-breathing Animal Collective faithful. MORE »
Posts Tagged ‘brooklyn vegan’
on the blogs
Animal Collective Fans: They’ll Go After You (So Don’t Eff With Them)
on the blogs
Prolonged Exposure To That Magic Eye Cover Makes Animal Collective Fans Go K-R-A-Z-E-E
People really like Animal Collective! How do I know this? Well, any post that happens to have the words “animal,” “collective,” and “leak” in them does really well for us, Google-wise, even if said post happens to be talking about something wholly unrelated to Merriweather Post Pavilion making its way out to the Internet. (It hasn’t yet! Don’t worry!) But today there’s even stronger evidence that there are bros out there who are are, like, Tokio Hotel fan levels of mental about this band, thanks to a Brooklyn Vegan post that mentioned a password-protected ticket sale for an upcoming Animal Collective show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. And if you thought that password was going to be given out lickety-split to the commenting masses, well, you must not know any real music snobs. MORE »
Idolator goes to cmj
CMJ Day One: All-You-Can-Eat Music From Brooklyn Vegan
Like a shy loner whose mom pressures her to go to the middle school dance and socialize with her classmates, I have been thrust into this year’s CMJ coverage. Of course I’m always delighted when Maura is generous and crazy enough to grant me a press pass, and Lord knows I’m not complaining about free shows all week, but let’s do some real talk: CMJ is ridiculous. Who are all these bands? Couldn’t they have just narrowed it down to a few actually good ones and put on just one or two great concerts instead of a hundred mediocre shows? Oh wait, I forgot–the point of music is to consume as much as possible in the shortest amount of time. Join me for a recap of day one’s journey into the heart of darkness: Brooklyn Vegan’s showcase at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. MORE »
on the blogs
Brooklyn Vegan Commenters Offer Their Expertise On Mixing Drugs, Diversifying Investments
Sure, we’ve had a bit of fun at the expense of the Brooklyn Vegan comment section in the past. But sometimes, the anonymous, indie-loving hordes over there take a break from sardonically flaunting their “insider” status and general awesomeness in favor of actually trying to be helpful. And somehow, the results are even more hilarious than usual! MORE »
on the blogs
In what I have to applaud as a savvy way to maximize pageviews from bored Internet rubberneckers, Brooklyn Vegan has put up another post full of pictures from Sunday’s inexplicably packed MGMT/Ting Tings show at McCarren Pool. Will the comments on that thread (currently at 64 and counting!) MORE »
on the blogs
In what I have to applaud as a savvy way to maximize pageviews from bored Internet rubberneckers, Brooklyn Vegan has put up another post full of pictures from Sunday’s inexplicably packed MGMT/Ting Tings show at McCarren Pool. Will the comments on that thread (currently at 64 and counting!) MORE »
MGMT Show Makes The Anonymous Hordes NGRY
Despite the threat of thunder, lightning, and pouring rain, yesterday’s show at Brooklyn’s McCarren Park Pool featuring MGMT and the Ting Tings filled the place to capacity–even on the celebrity side, as Agyness Deyn and Kirsten Dunst were both in attendance. Alas, I had a date with an awesome Mets victory, so I was not in attendance, but I got a feel for the afternoon’s vibe via those sweaty New York City types who can’t help but gloat about their ability to stand in line and, therefore, be better than everyone else in the comments section of Brooklyn Vegan. Their writings have been giving me fits of laughter/periods of despair at our future, and naturally, I couldn’t help but share some of the “best” comments, with the definition of “best” either meaning “funniest” or “aptly capturing the multitude of reasons I was happy that the Warped Tour was my weekend all-day outdoor concert of choice.” (Hey, I am a girl from Long Island. I know my place.) MORE »
Is Your Music Blog In Need Of Traffic? Post Some Photos Of Ladies!
Apparently the folks at Vulture still have the stamina to scroll through the scores of concert pics and peanut-gallery members that populate the heavyweight blog Brooklyn Vegan, because someone over there noticed a recent trend in the site’s endless, nearly wordless documentation of shows: “it seems that summer concertgoers–particularly women–now have to deal with blog photographers and their long-lens cameras.” Yes, the combination of hot weather and hot women has apparently proven to be too much for whoever’s selecting shots for the site these days, resulting in some craziness from all that heat. Quoth Vulture: “It was [Thursday's] recap of Feist’s Prospect Park show that really started to edge into creepiness, with a few long-range shots of random women just hanging out…. We’re sure the Feist fans in question loved checking in at Brooklyn Vegan to see voyeuresque photos of themselves above comments like ‘more pictures of the indie sluts please’ and ‘I’d mushabang those Feist-type girls.’ ” Well, with come-ons like that, how could they refuse? Am I right, ladies? MORE »
the new model
Brooklyn Vegan’s commenters respond to AP’s version of the “hey, gas prices may be getting too expensive for small bands to tour” story the only way they know how: “hey. whatever it takes to get some of these bands who can’t play their instruments to begin with off the road…i’m all for it.” MORE »
on the blogs
The One Comment That Might Very Well Sum Up The Kerfuffle Over Brooklyn Vegan’s New “The Week In Music Licensing” Feature
“I bet the same people complaining that a band… MORE »
4:30 AM on Fri Oct 31 2008
By Maura
2 Comments
Latest by Lax Danja House:
Wow, some/most of those people are douchebags. That one postmodernism spiel was absolute batshit.
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