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New York Magazine: OMG These 40 Brooklyn Bands Are Way Kewl!!

1:33 a.m. · November 11, 2009 · by Sarah Dupuis

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Urb4n0utfitt3d: hey gurl! have u heard about this way cute neighborhood Williamsburg? it’s so totally like the NYU campus except there are lots of hotties with facial hair, and all the bars there take my fake ID!!!

Kanyeglasses7: omg i know, it’s so fun frolicking around Bedford Ave with my biddies and hitting on tattooed dudes at concerts. btw, did you see that article in New York Magazine about the 40 Best Brooklyn Bands of Right Now?

Urb4n0utfitt3d:  yea, it had some of my total favves! Vivian Girls, St. Vincent… i would tooootally make out with those chicks if I got drunk enough, fyi.

Kanyeglasses7: eww u r a lesbo. i’m more into MGMT. New York Magazine says they’re “prodigious.”

Urb4n0utfitt3d: wut does that mean?

Kanyeglasses7: it’s like sexual. omg and Vampire Weekend is on here 2! vampires are sooo hot right now.

Kanyeglasses7: i totally saw them at a Columbia frat party. isn’t that, like, not Brooklyn?

Urb4n0utfitt3d: umm… idk… it’s, like, really far north on the 1! anyway, New York Magazine says their front man Ezra Koenig has “roots in the grimy Brooklyn underground,” so it must be true.

Kanyeglasses7: they also listed Grizzly Bear’s “Knife” and LCD Soundsystem’s “All My Friends.” wait, those aren’t from now. they’re, like, two years ago, ‘cause we totally dirty danced to them at your 14^th bday party. 

Urb4n0utfitt3d: who cares if they aren't from now? can you say “vintage”?!?!

Kanyeglasses7: New York Magazine is so totally cool and in touch, almost as cool as palestinian support scarves.

Urb4n0utfitt3d: almost… but not quite. and definitely not as cool as TAYLOR SWIFT!!!