Archive for the tag 'Indie'


Benoît Pioulard, Deerhunter, Foxes in Fiction, Trans-Bedroom Sound

Autumn is setting in, which brings with it a cold, crisp, fragrant wind, and a humble and familiar change in the tones of nature that touch our very souls and affect its temperament. It leaves me in an ambivalent state, I already miss the warmth of summer, but I look forward to the sobering silence […]


Body Language, Lips, T.H.I.T.H., Twin Shadow

I think today could use a bit of popmusik, wouldn’t you agree? Today’s posts are filled with great examples of indie pop music, from respectably-signed to virtually undiscovered, there’s a wide world of people who are making bright, accessible, style-drenched pop that will likely (secretly) influence the kinds of people who define what’s cool in […]


Ariel Pink, Foxes in Fiction, Weed, The Samps

The summer is here, and that means it’s time for fun in the sun, a trip to the beach, maybe an Absolute and Ice or two, and it’s more dangerous than forgetting your sunblock if you don’t have the right music to narrate the experience.  Here are a few musicians that are defining the summer’s […]


Clogs, RF & Lili De La Mora, Bibio, Benoît Pioulard

Time to take a slightly folksy turn for today’s music picks.  I cannot deny that I’ve had this strange sort of aesthetic brewing in my head, inspired visually by things like Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park and the World’s Fairs of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s.  Or things like these 18th-century peep show box images I […]


The Radio Dept., The Rice Twins, Asobi Seksu, Pia Fraus

Time for some dream pop, the kind of hazy, frenetic shoegaze that plays like orange-pink clouds reflecting off the mirror in your room back in the late 80’s or mid 90’s.  The light refracts and illuminates your collection of casio and swatch wristwatches to be worn on both hands, the jewel on your treasure troll’s […]