Is Brooklyn the center of the musicial universe????

This article from yesterday's NY Times claims that Brooklyn is now the center of the alt rock universe, sighting Yeasayer, Dragons of Zynth, Dirty Projectors and of course Vampire Weekend among others. Does anyone recall when the NY Times wrote this exact same article about fifteen years ago but it was all about how Seattle was the center of the alt rock universe and one of the bands sighted at the forefront of the alt rock scene was Soundgarden!!?? And that chick from Sub Pop made up really stupid grunge slang as a goof on the Times and the Times wrote it as fact and the slang got picked up by other mainstream media! Hipsters don't seem smart enough to goof on the Times like that! Humor is something that doesn't seem relevant in the world of the hipster, unless it's evil sarcasm or completely boring and unfunny political humor or two lameos who sing songs full of annoying pop culture references!

In another ten years or fifteen years from now what location do you think the NY Times will be writing about and calling it the hot bed of the alt rock scene?? I say it's gonna be Hohokus New Jersey!

One last thing about the Times article...say what you will about Vampire Weekend I know they are trust fund kids who grew up on Central Park West and dropped out of Ivy League colleges..basically the preppy Strokes and the ultimate hipsters...but I think that song "A-Punk" freakin' rocks! And all this talk of hipsters has me asking all of you if you caught last night's episode of "King of the Hill".....I thought that was brilliant! I love Hank's line to Peggy..."But their hipsters Peggy"!

From the 3/9 NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/arts/music/09sisa.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

On an unrelated note, tonight I will be hard at work bringing you guys my interview with Orion from the Orion Experience and FINALLY!...the edits on my Johnny Lloyd Rollins story have been done. So look for those two interviews to be posted the end of this week.