Stuff You Need To Know To Avoid Cultural Ostracism

PRESS DARLINGS
Glowing Feist profile mania!
A veritable Feist feast! Feistmas! The Feistgeist!

AWKWARD IM CONVERSATIONS
"Man, I'm really bored here, nothing to entertain me but the hives."
"Yeah, man, great band."
"No, I mean I just went camping and I broke out in actual hives."
"Oh."

ABRUPT TICKET-BUYING HYSTERIA
The National evidently sell out every available venue in town every night for the next three months.
Great band, but what the hell is going on here?

BAND NAME EMBLEMATIC OF OUR SORRY-ASS GENERATION
The Twilight Sad
Describes your emotional state after listening to Shitdisco.

UNFORTUNATE REALIZATIONS
Finding out that you actually kind of dig The Twilight Sad.
They totally kick Snow Patrol's ass.

TRANSCENDENT CONCERT EXPERIENCE
The Dirty Projectors absolutely mortifying a crowd of NYU students at Kimmel Center as an opening act for Battles Thursday night.
Two cooing ladies + one deranged, screeching dude frontman = total ecstatic bewilderment.

GREAT MOMENTS IN AIRPORT FENG SHUI
The fact that wherever you're standing, you are never more than 100 yards from a Pac-Man machine at JFK.
An especially useful distraction during endless baggage carousel debacles.