June 2010

By Izzy Cihak Defining “Indie Pop,” or any other genre that arose from arbitrary music-lingo-qualifiers, is no easy task and not something I deem myself capable of doing. I’m not sure how much the artists on my list have in common with each other. I doubt they Read More

By Brian Kindle Photo by Zack Gross Can The Armchairs be trusted? It’s a thorny question. But the four members of this local shambolic indie band come across as the types who might not let veracity and accuracy get in the way of a good time. After all, they claim to base Read More

By Danielle Reicherter In a label obsessed time, bands often classify their music using self-appointed genres that sound like terrible band names in themselves (Crabcore, Tron-pop, Crunk, Really?) to stand out from everyone else within a sub-subculture. So what adjective-laden Read More

By Scott Deckman The Supersuckers have long been one of America’s great rock’n’roll bands, tearing through the States (and other parts), spreading their love of everything raunchy and heartfelt, filling car speakers and home stereos with the love of Marshalls Read More

By Raymond Simon According to Herbie Shellenberger, one of the guys behind England Belongs to Twee, Philadelphia’s oldest established permanent floating disco devoted to Oi, British punk, and indie pop, the March night when he’d booked Standard Fare to play at The Ox Read More

By Kirk Greenwood Photo by Adam Cantor This past spring saw the release of the seventh studio album from the Denver, CO indie godfathers, The Apples in Stereo. The 16-track album, Travellers in Space and Time, is a strange mix of unearthly, futuristic themes and blissfully Read More