Chris Lowe Quotes

I really love Grimes, Niki & the Dove, stuff like that.

There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

You gotta look beyond the mainstream... the mainstream'll drown you, you know? There's always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.

I'm really into the indie-music scene and listen to a lot of De La Soul.

I just got exposed to electronica, and I really liked it. I am also good with alternative rock. I like Lana Del Rey, Adele, Dido, Jack Johnson, and I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

I like alternative music, so I like to hear new bands.

When Blur first started and we were playing Manchester the Hacienda was the place to go. That was where a lot of exciting stuff was happening and London was pretty dead.

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But those were also the years when hip-hop exploded, beatbox disco soared, indie rock took off, and new wave invented a language of teen angst.

If someone says 'grunge' or 'punk,' you know what the sound is, but if you say 'No Wave,' it's kind of mysterious. That was the most interesting part and should have been the most inspirational thing about it... here's this collective sonic insanity, and none of it sounds anything alike.

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

I know Diplo knows a lot about underground music culture - he was one of the people to put me onto music like that when I used to listen to the Mad Decent Mixes. It was like, 'Oh, he knows what I want.'

We used to play the underground clubs like the UFO, and Middle Earth, and they were great because they would have on things like a poet, string quartets, and then a rock band! It was kinda cool!

I always thought of indie-rock as being rock music by bands that were on independent labels, and that's a great thing.

I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

I'm definitely a cult artist.

When Soundgarden formed, we were post-punk - pretty quirky.

I really like Au Revoir Simone.

I wanted to make something that, from the sound of it, could be down at the club. I just realised that I'd never heard Tame Impala played somewhere with a dance floor or where people were dancing.

I enjoy independent music, even more than Bollywood.