Blog: Citizen Dick

What exactly does it mean to say a particular musician is indie? Any reasonably comprehensive definition of that word is going to be necessarily complex, but if you let me get parsimonious on your asses for a second, I'll say the indie tag employs a combination of (a) financial integrity and (b) a songcrafting/recording/produci ng style that is, in one way or another, somewhat fucked up, quirky, unique, or just plain different enough to void any chance of mainstream radio play. The professor in me automatically thinks of such definitional situations in terms of matrices, in this case a [...]