indie rock
Perfume Genius & Weyes Blood talk indie rock & more: "I don't wanna be indie rock"
”I feel like indie rock is something that happened a long time ago,” Weyes Blood said, in conversation with Perfume Genius.
"All your indie faves are jam bands now"
The indie/jam crossover is bigger than ever, and has now inspired a Washington Post article titled ”After a long, strange trip … all your indie faves are jam bands now.”
Pitchfork unironically posts Jet news
2017 brings sincere coverage of Jet by the website that once reviewed them with nothing more than a video of a monkey peeing in its own mouth.
28 exciting indie rock albums (probably) being released this spring-fall
In the world of traditional “indie rock”, this year has already been pretty rewarding, musically speaking. Here’s almost 30 more mostly-established indie rock artists we love that are releasing — or probably releasing — albums before 2018 gets here…
on Poptimism in the Indie Rock world; a conversation with Greys' Shehzaad Jiwani
We talk to Greys frontman Shehzaad Jiwani about playing in an abrasive rock band during a time where the “indie rock” world favors pop music, today’s indie subculture, if “the kids” still like rock and roll, the criticial re-evaluation of the Deftones, and more. Also: Greys are streaming their killer new album Outer Heaven (out today on Carpark).
People are tweeting their embarrassing indie stories with the #indieamnesty hashtag
As you may have seen in the Twitterverse today, the hashtag #indieamnesty is going around and people are using it to confess their most embarrassing indie stories. Topics range from bands you wish you never liked to bands you pretended to like and plenty of the in between…
Pop punk's complicated relationship with indie rock, and the great new Wonder Years album
“Pop punk” was once widely considered a dirty term in most indie rock circles, but over the past few years it’s been sneaking into indie rock vernacular…
Paradigm announces Windish "partnership"
Rumored yesterday. Now 100% confirmed this morning via Billboard:Financial details were not disclosed. Asked to clarify the deal, Windish tells Billboard, “It’s a partnership…
Paradigm bought Windish Agency
Two huge companies that book many of our favorite bands may now be one bigger company. If you don’t book shows, you may barely known these companies exist, but most touring bands who play festivals and popular venues have an agent booking their shows for them, and many of those agents work at Paradigm and Windish (others work at WME, CAA, Agency Group, Billions, Ground Control, High Road Touring, etc)…
