indie rock

“I can see if you’re on Twitter or on Instagram.  I can read your phone,” jokes Addie Sartino, lead vocalist for The Greeting Committee, upon being asked if she has a message to fans coming out to see the indie rock band on their upcoming headlining tour.  Sartino, a...

Just last March we saw Quasi – Janet Weiss and Sam Coomes – return to Johnny Brenda’s in support of Breaking the Balls of History, both their tenth studio LP and their first studio LP in ten years, in addition to their first for Sub Pop.  However, the Portland...

“I came from the late ‘90s hardcore scene, and the uncool-est thing you could do is release an album of songs under your own name.  Being a singer/songwriter was extremely uncool before the indie thing,” Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Handsome Furs, Divine Fits, Operators) tells me during a recent...

The last time Walla Walla, Washington indie rockers Chastity Belt played the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection was nearly half a decade ago, when they headlined First Unitarian Church in November of 2019 in support of their self-titled fourth LP.  Well, they’re preparing to return to the...

Hyper-melodic folk and shoegaze-inspired indie rock duo Babehoven, comprised of Maya Bon and Ryan Albert, found themselves in the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection twice last year in very different settings…  In March they opened an exceptionally quiet show for Naima Bock at The Lounge at World...

“Union Transfer is amazing and one of my favorite venues, like Top 3.  That’s the place I would want to go to see a show,” says Josh Hodges, founder and mainman of Portland, OR indie rock outfit STRFKR.  The band has played the Eraserhood ballroom numerous times over the...

“Every show’s just been amazing…  It’s really fun to connect in a physical manner for the first time after not being able to do that for so long.  We’re never gonna take that for granted again,” says Alex Bleeker, bassist and co-founder of New Jersey indie rockers Real Estate,...

We last caught up with Land of Talk – Montreal-based indie rock outfit of Lizzie Powell, who have been signed to Saddle Creek since 2008 – in April of 2022, when they were touring behind their four-song Calming Night Partner EP, released in 2021, between 2020 LP Indistinct Conversations...

“I think we’re a bar band and we always kinda will be.  We’re bringing bar band energy wherever we’re playing,” says Paul Banwatt, drummer for Canadian indie rock outfit The Rural Alberta Advantage in a recent phone chat (During an interview last year, vocalist/guitarist Nils Edenloff echoed an alarmingly...