The Indie Equation

Simulcast on Three Imaginary Girls Times New Viking Times New Viking Rip it Off Matador, 2008 “No, it’s not your stereo. It’s supposed to so...

Statehood I had the great privilege of seeing Washington D.C.’s legends of lunacy The Dismemberment Plan three short months before their un...

Simulcast on Mog.com Tunng Tunng Good Arrows Full Time Hobby/Thrill Jockey To the 18-35 set passive aggression is seen as a generally bad th...

Simulcast on Mog.com VHS or Beta VHS or Beta Bring on the Comets Astralwerks Maybe I’m missing something, but isn’t the flamboyant, post-dis...

Simulcast on Mog.com Liars There’s always some guy in the music scene who likes the bands that no one else can stand. They hover around used...

Simulcast on Mog.com Glint Gotta give the guys of Glint some credit for being thorough. How often is it that a debut album holds an intimida...

Simulcast on Mog.com The Clutters If one had a single word to describe The Clutters it would have to be “relentless”. The Nashville anomaly...

Simulcast on Mog.com What do you get when you get a guy who looks like Iggy Pop, put him in a punkish, fuzzed-out garage band and set them l...

Simulcast on Mog.com The Mooney Suzuki God bless The Mooney Suzuki. The one American band to shamelessly rip off The Rolling Stones and The...

Simulcast on Mog.com The Cribs There's an idiom that people use to describe the even in which a new addition to an old stereotype pushes...

Simulcast on Mog.com Satellite Party If there's one thing that many music lovers can agree on, and I'm sure there's at least one...

Simulcast on Mog.com Editors The definition of "emo" has been the subject of countless inquires, arguments and late night, coffee/...

Simulcast on Mog.com Battles The robots are coming! And they've learned how to make you shake your booty! The debut full-length by the m...

Simulcast on Mog.com Fields. This is a Tek Screw. It's a self-drilling screw for sheet metal that's used a lot in the industry I wor...

Simulcast on Mog.com Travis Were Travis ever cool? I can't tell. I used to listen to "The Man Who" and think that it was cool;...

Simulcast on Mog.com Pela Thursdays at my office are pretty boring. Everyone sort of stands around wishing it was Friday, waiting for that s...

Simulcast on Mog.com Handsome Furs If you're not paying close attention you'd assume that Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner are the same...

Simulcast on Mog.com Sage Francis Hi, My name's Puffmagic, and I'm a white guy. Because I was born white and live in the suburbs I d...

Great Northern Behold the glorious resurrection of the Indie Equation with the band Great Northern. In conjunction with my Mog and the reco...

Butterfly Explosion Anyone who knows me can attest to my love of shoegaze and of Anglo-oriented music, thus it's no surprise that I inst...

The Boy Least Likely To I've only recently discovered these two fine young brits, and when I kept seeing them pop up in Rolling Stone I ...

Climber Portland band Climber are one of the best local bands I've ever seen, and I don't think it's because I'm a huge Radi...

Wolf Parade So, first off let me say that (1) I'm sorry that it took me 6 months to post a new equation and (2) I REALLY appreciate all ...

mewithoutyou I recently saw these guy in concert and, though they were the opener for the opener for the opener, I think I got my ticket and...

In the meantime, whilst I'm away conjuring new equations, (yes that's right, I haven't completely given up on this thing yet) pl...

The Indie Equation is on a break. Here's a couple reasons why: 1. I've taken a closer look at the stats for the page and I notice th...

Quickspace Oh yeah! Quickspace! If you've ever heard them before that's probably what's going through your head about now. Yes, ...

Idiot Pilot Idiot Pilot. Where to even begin. I can't seem to get a solid opinion from multiple reviews. Some hate them, some adore them...

I'm sorry my pretties, there's no equation today. I just got done being groomsman in a wedding and drinking and dancing my little em...

Autolux Why a tire fire? It's obscure, I know. Tire fires are slow burning, like Autolux. Tire fires are nearly impossible to extinguish...

Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age is one of my favorite bands, and for a band that's been making music for as many years a...

Thanks to all, this graph tells me I need to get my ass back in gear and start dishing out new Equations. This Saturday, I promise! Also, al...

Took this weekend off because I was working on my feature for Subter . It should be going live in the next few days so check it out. It'...

The Indie Equation is on vacation until next week. While you're waiting, why not sign the guestbook? It's right over there. --------...

Due to me being out of town this weekend I bring you this week's equation 2 days early. Enjoy.

First off, thanks for all the folks checking out the Indie Equation from woxy.com and audioscrobbler and last.fm, it's a pleasure to amu...

I've taken a week off from the equation to relax and whatnot, I'll resume my wiseass behavior shortly.