indie pop

  • Annie Hart Goes Ambient (11/30 at WCL)

    November 26, 2021
    You may know Annie Hart as a composer of synth-heavy, postmodern pop jams, both as one-third of Au Revoir Simone and, since 2017, a solo artist.  However, her latest solo effort, Everything Pale Blue, which dropped this May, took Hart in a different direction.  In the middle of lockdown...

  • Stars: “It’s the holidays! So we are pulling out all the stops.” (12/11 at WCL)

    November 25, 2021
    This year marks the 20th anniversary of Stars’ debut LP, Nightsongs.  It also sees the Montreal-based intellectual indie poppers bringing back their customary holiday shows, after last year’s painful drought of live music.  Torquil Campbell, Amy Milan, Evan Cranley, Chris Seligman, Patrick McGee, and Chris McCarron will bring The...

  • Faye Webster, 9/23 at The Foundry (“I have high expectations!”)

    September 14, 2021
    Although Faye Webster’s September 23rd show at The Foundry has been sold out for quite some time now (There are still Verified Resale Tickets available.), when I talked to the singer/songwriter last month, she told me that she still had no idea what fans could expect of her current...

  • The Wild Reeds Would Like You To Be On Your Feet (4/9 at WCL)

    April 5, 2019
    Although we have nothing against The Lone Bellow or Wild Child (we’ve actually covered them quite a bit), and Union Transfer is certainly one of our favorite places in the city, we must admit that we’re quite anxious to have indie folk poppers The Wild Reeds back at a...

  • Fenster and “high philosophy, trashy aesthetics, and poignant reflections”

    March 4, 2014
    NYC/Berlin quartet Fenster have apparently been through even more than I realized between the release of their 2012 debut, Bones, and their follow-up, The Pink Caves, which is out today on morrmusic.  The hyper-mystical, hyper-moody, and hyper-postmodern indie pop outfit kick off a string of US dates tonight at...