INDIE ANDYY

‘Indie rock’ is what my Mother likes to say when describing her son’s band to her friends today. That’s just how things like that progress. Naturally as humans in our society, we feel like we have to label everything so that we can try and fit in. It’s always struck me a little funny and sort of odd how artists are consistently trying to create something unique/different, but the mass of popular society always begs for an end product they can immediate relate with, make comparisons to, and feel 100% comfortable with after the first listen. This worries me. Indie rock just sounds so warm and fuzzy though right?

Andy Hamm of Local Natives

→ Chuck Klosterman Repeats The Beatles

The Beatles’ “long play” debut, Please Please Me, came in 1963, opening with a few rudimentary remarks from Mr. McCartney: “Well, she was just 17 / If you know what I mean.” If this is supposed to indicate that the female in question was born in 1946, then yes, we know exactly what you mean, Paul. If it means something else, I remain in the dark. These young, sensitive, genteel-yet-stalkerish Beatles sure did spend a lot of time thinking about girls. Virtually every song they wrote during this period focuses on the establishment and recognition of consensual romance, often through paper and quill (“P.S. I Love You”), sometimes by means of monosyllabic nonsense (“Love Me Do”), and occasionally through oral sex (“Please Please Me”).