The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List

This list might as well be called "20 most popular hipster bands", but for you I'm sure there isn't a distinction

why isn't mumford and sons on here? generic indie folk faux rustic bullshit. This isn't the 60s! Folk is dead, sorry!

worst band you will ever see/hear is a group from san diego CA called "embalmers"- the fakest band out there.

http://www.americannonfiction.com/arcade-fire-delayed-appraisal/117

You know the way you wrote the copy for these articles sounds straight from a hipster novel.

You know the way you wrote the copy for these articles sounds straight from a hipster novel.

You know the way you wrote the copy for these articles sounds straight from a hipster novel.

The authors are fucking haters. This is total shit. There are plenty of bands on this list that i don't particularly like, but I can understand why others do because they happen to be pretty good musicians. The closest thing to decent music that the slimy music critic authors of this make is sitting on the toilet. This is a disgusting piece.

I know 8 or 9 of these bands and the only one I don't like is the Black Keys, and even they have a couple of decent songs. Given that hit rate I am definitely going to check out the rest of the list. Thanks for the heads up.

Magnum crapus. Magnum. Crapus. How retarded do you have to be to think that "Magnum crapus" is even close to funny. And I do NOT appreciate your statement of the White Stripes being that good in the first place.

Why are you so angry? This debunking of some truly talented people is really what said "hipsterism" is really about. This is long form trolling, and it is very sad. The only thing surprising about this article is its length is greater than 140 characters. Perhaps if you spent less time talking about what people were wearing, or how they appeared on album covers and actually focused on what people were trying to convey you might offer a music fan something. In fact, the article is pretty devoid of any understanding of music itself. The only question left for me is if you feel this dismissive, what the hell are you listening to that you are not going to rail against 6 months later?

this blog sucks.........haha sounds like a bunch of jealous tools who think they can call people hipsters when they in fact are probably hipsters,I guess in reality everyone is a "hipster" if they like something that is recent and "hip" but hey people will be people,this whole elitist movement is so childish and annoying. Music is music,let it be,and enjoy it.

I understand that MGMT is more of an acquired taste. However, the short sliver of lyrics that you gave do not offer them any justice and respect whatsoever. As a music critic, it is essential that you take the time to do background research to give the band you are critiquing a fair chance. By giving a fair chance and showing the opposite side respectfully, you can then shoot it down using your own opinion. This makes your arguments more reasonable and strong because you show that the other side is just as strong.

Here is my analysis of the lyrics.

I'll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms.
I'll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world.
I'll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home.
Yeah I'll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone.

My interpretation is that the narrator misses the simple time in life that everyone experiences before going out into the world alone, without the guide of an adult and the comfort of home. This approach is both sentimental and sad because the narrator is becoming emotionally sick of the fake, senseless people that he surrounds himself with in exchange for excitement and pleasure.

We'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end.
We were fated to pretend.

From these lyrics, I think that the narrator and others that drink alcohol will throw up and choke and die. The reason for this tragic ending, even though the person is completely responsible, is that people fall back on being irresponsible to have fun. Those pretend to live great lives this way to convince themselves that everything comes easy, even though they feel empty on the inside.

Beach House x Kendrick Lamar

There's nothing hipster about it.

I think you've conveniently forgotten that these are critics, music critics, people trying to make a name for themselves,  and now that the kiddies don't read Rolling Stone (shame shame) real writers and opinionated douche bags alike have to start battles where ever they can, lucky for us the internet was born and turned loose to a world pining for attention where a thesaurus is more readily available! YAY! This is what they do, how they get their kicks and how I get mine too! Reading the oozing contempt for music especially when branded by our own generation reminds me that there are opinions out there yet to be had or heard. Original thought isn't dead, but unfortunately indie music is on its way. Not that Ill stop listening, it will just become a secret affliction :))

let's be more positive, people - read backwards, it's a list of the 20 best hipster bands

The Complete list and the Black Eye Peas are not on it?  Is there a worst band more full of posers that these douchebags?

YES BLACK KEYS SUCK THANK YOU

Most of these bands aren't even "hipster" - many have gotten Grammys and platinum albums. Also, the writing style is so nauseatingly masturbatory that you almost make me want to defend shit like Beirut. THAT is an accomplishment.

However, you're definitely right to have Bon Iver as #1, and the reasons included were fantastic.

This article is hilarious.  The Best Buy zombies defending some of these bands is even more hilarious.

This article is hilarious.  The Best Buy zombies defending some of these bands is even more hilarious.

But you know what the ultimate hipster act is?

Shitting on critically acclaimed bands other people enjoy.

This is a joke. Doesn't anyone get that?

Fuck this article for the most part. Who are these so called aficionados of indie music that think they deserve to bash good, talented bands for their own personal music loving, pretentious, self sucking pride? This article, for the most part, is dumb for not including acts like Passion Pit, Two Door Cinema Club, the XX, Vampire Weekend. How can they make a "worst hipster band" list that claims that their music taste is better and not be aware that they make their damn selves seem "hipster" as fuck. Also, I hate the word "hipster". It's insulting that they included Death Cab and Arcade Fire and others. Those bands paved the way for a lot of what's happening now. I'm still shocked that these writers didn't crack at Passion Pit and (oh shit!!!!) Mumford and Sons! What is this??

One or two Arcade Fire ( I didn't realize Napoleon Dynamite was in that band!) songs and an Ariel Pink cover aside, pretty much all these acts suck. Nice to see them called out.

I can only liken it to watching a Woody Allen movie!!! Rather have GLASS SHARDS shoved under my fingernails!!! And what the heck was Whole about hole???

Bruce springsteen and his off key crap is comparable to Bob Dylan~~good writers bad singers that sound like they are constipated

bands like these are why i stopped voting in the VV P&J poll after 30 years. there is something to be said for musicians who can really play. but i don't really think black keys belong on this list... check out the new bombino album he produced... not hipster, just very hip. 

The authors of this article are the real hipsters. 

I;m surprised that Beck and Cake didn't make it on this list. Judging by the writer's taste, they'd at least make the top 13 mark.

You know what? It's okay. This list goes to show that there are two kinds of people in this world: people who have ears and decent in music and deserve respect, and LA Weekly. There's room for both. :)

White Stripes also suck. Jack White can't play or sing live

A list of anything dubbed "Worst Hipster Bands" that doesn't include the Strokes is just plain stupid! 

Furthermore, I don't think any "group" with only 2 members should ever be allowed to sign a record contract unless they are just doing acoustic music and the definitely shouldn't be called a "Band"!

Pathetic linkbait listicle. Nice try, asshats, but I'm not sharing.

This article is terrible. Death Cab, Beach House, Bon Iver?! Does the writer listen to Volbeat or something?

omg sleight bells and black keys on this list?? pfffffff

Here's a good way to spend some energy you idiot, stop thinking so hard about how this "movement" is so exhausting. Get over it, move the fuck on. Think long and hard about all the dumbass shit you do.

I agree that some of the bands here are maybe not all they're cut out to be, but some of these musicians are classically or jazz trained musicians, who know the rules and thus have the ability to break them. They have an understanding of music that greatly exceeds your knowledge of...probably anything.

go write a real article, you non-talented ass clown.

And all you people who think this is hilarious, go listen to your scratched up nickleback cd and shut the fuck up.

OH WAIT. you probably don't even buy cd's...right, supporting an artist is TOTALLY hipster!

baaahahahahahahahahhahahahahahah this list was spot on.

Although, it's not really fair since there are no good hipster bands. I guess its just gathering the worst of the worst. 

I love that all the pretentious hipsters commenting on here are so butthurt because you pointed out how fake and laaaaaammeee their stupid movement is. Take off your non prescription hipster glasses, stupid tuques (especially in summer???) and shave your beards. Fucking fake faggots pretending to be an introspective 60's or 70's rock band. Stop ruining and conceptualizing the style of genuine genres from the past. It's pathetic and shows this generation has no integrity or originality. Can't wait for this fake fad to dissappear. What is even more sad is that hipsters believe that they have refined and indie taste in music. They actually believe that they are the antithesis to modern pop. hahahahha how sad...

 http://leatherrebelblog.com/who-killed-rock-and-roll.html

Now, I'm sure you're retarded...  (Or just trying to troll...)  Beach House is consistently amazing...  Fuck off either way...  You're exhausting... 

Brighteyes sucks too..

Arcade Fire does suck...  This article is retarded...

The saddest excuse for an article. This man has a stick in his arse and sand in his pussy. I'm certain they just thought up "Hey lets make a 20 worst hipster bands article that'll give us ad revenue!" So they conjugated up a big list of "hipster bands" (half of these aren't even hipster) they found on a Google search. The problem was they were LOOKING shit, trying to listen to music and see what critical mess of shit they can spew about it. Most of these bands are fucking incredible.

uh your quote for the black keys was complete and utter bullshit. also white stripes fucking rock. do you even have a music taste? and if you did you would know that jack white it anti "HIPSTER". 

So your argument for putting Arcade Fire on this list is "It sounds like good music, but its not". In regards to whiny fucking hipsters, "Pot meet Kettle".

So your argument for putting Arcade Fire on this list is "it sounds like good music, but its not." You sir, EPITOMIZE a whiny fucking hipster. Worse, you're the hipster who hates hipsters. You should be fired.