by Loukas Crowther I know I should’ve reviewed this when it first came out, but I needed time to let my gushing fanboy-ness settle a bit. Like, could there be a more personally relatable album released this year? Apathy, listlessness, workplace drudgery, male pattern baldness, the uneasy acceptance of adulthood, the need for a good massage—real talk, yo. Packaged in a pre-grunge-era wall of …
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Pissed Jeans King of Jeans (Sub Pop) (The Coast)
Tie: 44 Club and Terry’s State Street Saloon Every bar that has karaoke is the best bar, really, but the 44 and Terry’s bump the K levels up a notch or 12. Maybe you have Steve Perry’s pipes but could never quite rock the mullet and skin-tight acid-wash jeans. Or, you know Carrie Underwood has nothing on you except a great fashion sense and a record label. Maybe you think the words of summer …
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Best Local Karaoke Bar (Boise Weekly)
Here at BW HQ, we’ve slugged it out in a few nasty brawls over the completely oversaturated term “hipster.” It seems that every staffer has a totally different mental image of what constitutes a hipster—whether it’s tattooed and pierced dudes or tight jeans-wearing teens with angular haircuts—and when it’s appropriate to use the word in print. Though Time Out NY called for the death of the …
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Bye Bye Hipster (Boise Weekly)