chickfactor will celebrate its 20-year anniversary with five blissful nights of sparkling indie pop on the Northeast Corridor of the USA (three in NY; two in DC) including the first shows in years by ...

With shit like the Vivian Girls and Dum Dum Girls blowing up lately, I’ve been trying to trace the all-to-familiar sound back to at least a semblance of its roots. While I could name off a hundred ...

Some reissues work because they winnow a voluminous discography down to manageable size. This one does the opposite. Washington, D.C., noise-poppers Black Tambourine had the briefest of careers ...

Ask some fans of noisy indie pop, and they’ll tell you the genre hit its apex with Black Tambourine. The D.C. band, one of Slumberland Records’ early flagship acts, recorded only a handful of songs ...

Black Tambourine was a short-lived Maryland noise-pop band that was influenced by the U.K. indie-rock scene, which combined the D.I.Y. of punk with an ear for melody (and fuzz). In the nearly 20 years ...

Surfing across the indie-music blogs earlier this year, you’d think it was 1990 all over again: Stereogum, Aquarium Drunkard, Pitchfork, Some Velvet Blog, Brooklyn Vegan, Tiny Mixtapes and countless ...

Earlier this year, venerable indie Slumberland issued the complete recordings of the Washington, D.C. indie pop luminaries Black Tambourine. Well, turns out there's more where that came from, as ...

When exactly did Black Tambourine become “the seminal indie pop legends Black Tambourine”? It’s hard to pinpoint the moment, probably because there wasn’t one. But it certainly didn’t happen during ...