Because indiepop is so twee, here's a picture of a cute cat, which I got from here.
Look, I know it's a little weird that every four months the show deviates from the whole "here's an arbitrary theme" format & features songs in alphabetical order about a genre of music that most anyone listening knows almost nothing about. "Indiepop" as a genre has never really been a force in music, & it has happened that now people use the word "indiepop" to mean "pop music made by independent musicians," which means anyone trying to sound like Katy Cyrus who hasn't made it big yet is an "indiepop" musician. That's not really true, but indiepop itself isn't really fighting back, so what the hell. It can mean what you want it to mean. What it means for me is bands like the website twee dot net feature. I use that list as a skeleton for my own show, where I add bands that have influenced or have been influenced by indiepop. My list is a lot longer than theirs, which is probably why I'll never finish the series.
Hey, I'll understand if this is not your thing. But I might finish the letter K today! (I won't finish the letter K today.) It might feel like a milestone to have covered hundreds of bands from the first eleven letters of the alphabet in forty-eight shows! (But it won't, because I won't finish the letter K today.)
It's on from 4 to 6pm today on 88.1 fm WRFL in Lexingtown, & online at wrfl dot fm. I'll archive it tomorrow on the Self Help Radio website, where, by the way, you can listen to almost all the previous installments, what? Yeah! Maybe you'd find them easier on this table of contents page which indicates that I've been doing this for ten years. Ten years! That's insane.
Maybe you'll listen today though?
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