About IndieAddict

IndieAddict was the immediate result of spending two weeks in bed following a tonsillectomy. With no voice to use and lots of time on my hands, I started to jot down ideas that had always been floating around in my head but had never had a chance to mingle and hook up.

IndieAddict was the long-term result of being for years completely and utterly devoted to indie rock and its various offshoots/related genres, shamelessly obsessed with the forums of particular bands, and wholly in love with the immediate visceral reaction to be had from outstanding visual art. Fully aware that most other indie rock devotees are equally consumed by their passion for music, and often their appreciation for the arts in general, I figured a site like IndieAddict could prove useful to this tiny, but special segment of the world’s population.

IndieAddict also arose out of the frustration with having to visit separate forums for separate bands that are all essentially cut from the same cloth and whose fans typically have interest in much of the same music. I figured why should people spend time logging into and out of Sonic Youth’s forum, PJ Harvey’s forum, and/or Interpol’s forum, etc., when most SY, PJ, and Interpol fans probably listen to a lot of the same music and have a lot of the same interests and should just be chatting in one general community forum dedicated to ALL of the best indie music?!

Finally, I recognized that while zillions of indie music websites focus on the sacred Review, there are relatively few places where fans can share their own opinions. While I have endless respect for the many talented critics who guide the rest of us through the untold options we have when it comes to this ever-expanding, ever-complicated genre called indie, I also feel that regular Joes and Janes have a right to respond to, argue with, and even completely disregard the increasingly powerful Word of the Tastemakers and to find out whether other fans feel the same way.

With all this in mind, IndieAddict is here to serve You, the insanely rabid members of the indie music community. You, the people who refuse to go anywhere without an MP3 player (probably an iPod) strapped to one of your body parts. You, the people who spend hour after hour thumbing through dusty used CD and vinyl bins in lonely record shops that seem to hang on by a thread. You, the people who feel certain that bands like The Shaggs and Half-Japanese are just as important to the story of rock as the Beatles or the Stones. You, the people who await each new release by your favorite band as if it were the coming of the Messiah. You, the fanatics. You, the possessed. You, the Indie Addicts.