Hipster How To: Music

Make sure your music is as pretentious and obscure as possible. Eschew mainstream notions. Ask a DJ to put on Neon Indian instead of Tiesto. At The Drive In? Pssh, they don't hold a candle to Brainiac.

Heres' a primer on some bands you should listen to if you wanna be a hipster, and not a wanna-be hipster.

Bands:

Animal Collective
Black Dice
Black Moth Super Rainbow
Abe Vigoda
Beach House
Wavves
Neon Indian 
Hella
Fleet Foxes
Destroyer
Bloc Party (RIP RIP)
Morrissey 
Joy Division
The Smiths
Ladies
Xiu Xiu
The Black Lips
Passion Pit (gett'n2mainstreamtho, lol)
Women
Health+
Antony and the Johnstons
Metric
The Black Heart Procession
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart


...and much much more!


That's just a small primer of bands. Next up we got essential genres that you need to subscribe to and cling to:

Genres:

Chill-wave
Lo-fi
Indie (sooo overplaydlulz)
Noise
Experimental
Avant-garde
Beach Punk
Flower Punk
Noise-pop
Dream Pop
Shoegaze
Post-punk
trash-a-lot
No wave
Tropicali punk
Math rock
Post rock

So many other options as well.. But if your a hipster worth your weight in crushed PBR cans, you already know this, right?