Brooklyn Gets Its Own Anthem?

Nabewise and Stuff Hipsters Hate got together and decided to create a local band face-off, Brooklyn Anthem Bash, in order to provide our beloved Brooklyn with the anthem we allegedly never had.

Through May 9th, unsigned hipster bands all over Brooklyn will be allowed to send in their original music to compete for a day’s worth of free studio time at Let ‘em In Music Studios in Park Slope. This is a pretty sweet deal; recording shit ain’t cheap!

The participating band must be unsigned, with at least two members living in Brooklyn. The song must be an original recording that is no more than five minutes long, and must be about Brooklyn or the Brooklyn neighborhood they live in. The deadline for submission is May 9.

NabeWise and Stuff Hipsters Hate will select ten finalists to put up for public voting on the NabeWise website from May 16th-22nd.

The four top-voted bands will compete live on June 5th at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn. Each band will have twenty minutes to showcase their work. The audience, plus a panel of Brooklyn celebs, will choose a victor, who will receive 10 hours of recording time with an engineer at Let ‘em In Music Studios.

Of course it makes sense that the mascot of Brooklyn, the hipster, will be the one in charge of creating its anthem (whether stated outright or not), but I can’t help but take this opportunity to make some broad and possibly insulting generalizations. Here are a few random thoughts that popped into my head when I first read that this was happening:

1. Wait…isn’t mentioning the word “original” in conjunction with something that involves hipsters an oxymoron? (Oh NO she di-int just say that. Yes she did!).
2. Going with the notion that hipsters all essentially look and act alike, isn’t this technically going to be a battle of the band?
3. Do you think it would be pretty easy to make a drinking game out of every time one of the songs mentions flannel?

Alright hipsters, now that I’m done talking trash/being a hater, time to bring in the noise, bring in the funk. You’ve got some big ass shoes to fill.