Blog: Ohmpark

Last week's cover story for Creative Loafing was entitled Damn hipsters: Is Atlanta falling prey to its indie cachet? I'm about to quote half that article so get ready. The thesis may seem hard to get at between the product placement tie-ins and glaring contradictions, but the argument goes like this: Other cities have had cohesive music scenes shape a large part of their identity...But Atlanta seems to lack the sense of cohesion around which a defining scene can be built...Atlanta hasn't typically lent itself to being easily packaged and sold. The various [...]