Strummy singer-songwriter confessionals, twisty guitar pop, L.A. shoegaze, Spanish garage-punk, North Carolina folk-rock, Ohio disaffection — it was a great year for all manner of indie-rock.
The combination of a small city and art-school students was as important to 1980s indie rock as it was to contemporaneous British punk. “The land-grant university,” wrote the music ...
Brett Newski, indie rock musician and author, joins Sean Lewis on the WGN Weekend Morning News to talk about his new book, “P*** In the Wind: Misadventures of an Indian Troubadour.” ...