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^^Indeed. First place I remember seeing it used contemporaneously, rather than as a jazz/beat throwback thing, was the liner notes of Belle & Sebastian sleeves in the nid/late 90's, which talked about Glasgow hipsters lazing around in coffee shop, but not in a pejorative sense, just as a quaint term for 'fey indie kid'. As you say, it was the post-millennial Strokes/NYC/Pitchfork-thing that redefined it.
Mind, these days, it says a lot more about the person using it that it does the subject.
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