Indie Pop Prom

TPOBPAH, Sad13, Sports, & Half Waif played Indie Pop Prom 5 at Brooklyn Bazaar (pics)

The fifth annual Indie Pop Prom served as a benefit this year, with proceeds going to The Pink Fund. Check out our pictures of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Sad13, Sports, Half Waif, and T-Rextasy at Brooklyn Bazaar.

TPOBPAH, Sad13, Sports, Half Waif & more playing Indie Pop Prom 5

For the first time ever, Indie Pop Prom takes place in both Philly and NYC this year.

Allison Crutchfield, Eskimeaux, WALL & Pouty playing Indie Pop Prom; Radiator Hospital schedules NYC show

The fourth annual Indie Pop Prom, which doubles as show curator Maria Sherman’s birthday party and brings together a lineup of mostly lady-fronted bands, happens February 26 at the recently reopened Mar…

Priests, Amanda X, Sports, Leggy & Mannequin Pussy played Indie Pop Prom 3 at Baby's All Right (pics)

Huge surprise shows weren’t the only kinds of live music going on in NYC this past weekend. There was also Indie Pop Prom 3 at Baby’s All Right on Friday (2/13), the annual Brooklyn show highlighting lady-fronted punk bands, and doubling as a birthday celebration for show curator Maria Sherman…

Indie Pop Prom 3 happening at Baby's w/ Priests, Amanda X, Sports, Leggy & Mannequin Pussy (tix on sale)

Brooklyn’s third annual Indie Pop Prom happens this year on February 13 at Baby’s All Right. Like in past years, it’s only bands featuring ladies, doubles as curator Maria Sherman’s birthday party, and is really more of a punk show than an indie pop show…

Bad Banana, Perfect Pussy, Radiator Hospital, Pity Sex, Places to Hide & more played Indie Pop Prom at Baby's All Right

“indie pop prom was everything i could dream of and more” – Sad Girls Guide Katie & Allison Crutchfield of Bad Banana @ Indie Pop Prom (via BV Instagram) The second annual Indie Pop Prom went down in Brooklyn at Baby’s All Right on Saturday (2/22), and like last year was stacked with incredibly solid bands the whole night…

Perfect Pussy expand tour, add NYC shows w/ Green Dreams, Tumul & Friendless Bummer (updated dates & new video)

Perfect Pussy at NYU in 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Syracuse noise punks Perfect Pussy, whose upcoming debut LP, Say Yes to Love will now be more bloody, just played NYC opening for Total Slacker last week (2/12) as part of their ongoing tour, and now that that’s in the past, they’ve tacked on a headlining NYC gig to the end of the tour happening April 5 at Mercury Lounge…

Indie Pop Prom returning w/ Pity Sex, Bad Banana, Radiator Hospital, Places to Hide, Friendless Bummer & more (on sale)

Pity Sex at Baby’s All Right at BV-CMJ 2013 (more by Amanda Hatfield) Last year’s Indie Pop Prom (which featured TPOBPAH, Swearin’, Waxahatchee and others) wasn’t a one-time thing; it will return this year on February 22 at Baby’s All Right with Syracuse punks Friendless Bummer, Ann Arbor shoegazers Pity Sex, Atlanta’s Places to Hide, scrappy poppy punks Radiator Hospital, a Bad Banana reunion (one of Katie Crutchfield and her twin sister Allison’s old projects), DJ sets and Neon Indian, and very special guests “Traitor Bitches” (TBA 2/12)…

Pains of Being Pure at Heart headlined Indie Pop Prom (pics)

My prom didn’t have a band, just a DJ who was our electrical engineering teacher, Mr. Sark. (His DJ name was Sark After Dark.) But it was always a fantasy to have a cool band play it…