
If you were of age in the pre-Nirvana years, indie rock meant something completely different than it does currently. It meant giving your old man the bird if he tried to strong arm you into liking his Jackson Browne and John Lennon records. You took your belt whooping like a man if necessary. It was just the way it was done. There wasn't much of a difference between punk rock (hardcore or otherwise) except that the punkers were too weird to be trusted. There was a need for something vicious and yet apparently (on the outside) completely normal. Out of [...]