THE CULTURE OF ME is a music, art, news, mp3, and nightlife photography web site based in New York City. The focus is to consume for the consumer, provide resources of all kinds for the culturally needy, and document the lives of the people who would read the site. 
Think demographically of a VH1 Celebreality viewer who happens to peruse Paper magazine and seeks out open bars and killer DJ sets as often as possible.
Jeff, the creator of THE CULTURE OF ME, lives in Brooklyn and vows never to leave (though his lovely girlfriend can see right through that one) downtown New York City in a Thai food-smelling building. He's deathly afraid of cream cheese, Indian food, bad grammar, the sound of ligaments/bones/hearts breaking and insects. He's also looking endlessly for a lyric to match "Teenage dreams/ so hard to beat".
MP3s on THE CULTURE OF ME are available for a limited time only and are intended for evaluation purposes. If you like what you hear, support the artists featured by buying their records, rocking out at their shows, and wearing the t-shirts for VICE to make fun of.
(Ed. note a/o October 5, 2009: The United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will soon pass requirements that put into law that blogs--like THE CULTURE OF ME--must clearly disclose any freebies or payments they get from companies for reviewing their products. Now, we don't get a check for making reference to band X, Y or Z, but boy, we'll tell you, we get a lot of freebies and payola-like items from labels, PR companies, independent artists, etc. We're on mailing lists and press contact databases, just like the tens of thousands of other "tastemaker" blogs and Web sites you all read every day. So, yeah, secrets are out, we guess. If you didn't already know that, then, er, consider yourself enlightened. We don't work for any of these labels, PR firms, artists, promoters, etc. and all of the opinions that appear on this Web site are ours and ours alone. We never make reference to things that we don't like and wouldn't think our readers would like or wouldn't back on our own, so rest assured: we're merely using them to get free CDs, tickets to shows, invites to special events, crap and news like they're all using this site and others like it to make even more money while claiming the recording industry is dead.)
Have a news tip or came across something that THE CULTURE OF ME should know about? Email me at thatdudejeffwho @ gmail dot com.
If you own copyright to one of the songs posted or images used and would like it removed, simply email us and we'll promptly take care of it.
All photographs posted are copyright their respective owners or the property of THE CULTURE OF ME. If it looks like THE CULTURE OF ME took the photograph, it's probably because we did. Any reproduction or further uses are restricted without the proper consent of THE CULTURE OF ME. Again, just email and we're pretty sure we'll okay it.
"...rather splendid music blog." - Mark Hooper, Guardian UK
"You're like the blog-house gazette." - Dances With White Girls
"Thanks to music-photography blogs like THE CULTURE OF ME, you can forgo attendance at just about any hipster forum and still feel like you were there...the musicians and their eccentric fans are captured through a fuchsia-tinted lens." - Sophia Betz, Zoom-In Online
"...a hip New Yorker who writes about the music, art and nightlife that inspire. Take one part Studio 54, one part Village Voice, add a large helping of originality, and you’ve got THE CULTURE OF ME" - TypePad feature
"...normally great..." - vainattempt blog
"that blog just keeps getting bigger and bigger doesn't it?" - RCRDLBL.com
"Apparently humor is lost on the likes of your pathetic indie ass..." - Kristen, a reader
"writes about music and things I want to read about." - a StumbleUpon user
"...some great stuff." - Blake Garris, Buzzgrinder.com
"And by ‘me,’ they mean ‘you,’ and by ‘you,’ they mean someone super hip. Music! Art! Fashion!" - Anne Stewart, "53 of the Best Indie Music Blogs"
"THE CULTURE OF ME has been busy -- every time we open our goddamn inboxes, we've got three new emails from him. But unlike those reminders from your mom to make a dental appointment, his emails actually get opened. Why? Because he consistently finds the best up-and-coming tracks and has something intelligent to say about them. Music blogging at its best." - MeanRed Productions
"Your gay" - Jon, a reader
"The hippest of the hip, THE CULTURE OF ME chronicles music that should be in the know as well as the happenings of those in the know, specifically of NYC nightlife. Tunes + tales of the city = cultural coolness" - Popsense.com
"You're really interesting and I'm glad to have been a part of that." - our psychologist
"THE CULTURE OF ME is not only A) down with the Royal We, B) not above posting the Doherty heroin video with a ‘Godspeed’ wish at the bottom but C) out of EVERYONE that is posting the new Hot Chip track, asks that you sign up for the band newsletter… which was the whole point of the free giveaway to start with. The other blogs should be ashamed." - punkphoto
"Nicely writted (sic) personal blog with some various indie etc musical offerings and more" - Gravy Bread
"I think what you're doing is great." - our parents
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