Caroline Polachek Quotes

The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.

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.

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

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.

When I was a kid, I was into hardcore music. The scene in New York was tiny. Every person hanging out was in a band and played at the A7 Club. There was not much rehearsing or anything. Just doing.

All the serious bands, all the punks, came from Bristol.

When I joined the band, I hadn't been introduced to a lot of these bands on the scene - no emo bands or punk bands. The only band I knew was My Chemical Romance.

Bath was hardly known for its rock'n roll. We weren't part of the London scene or the New Romantics or any of that.

When we first started playing shows, we were all 17. Everybody started somewhere. There were guys throwing shows in condemned houses and backyards just for the love of music and for the love of what bands were standing for.

Punk helped musical fringes get attention. Stuff like Nirvana could never have happened without it.

Games isn't really pop music, and neither is OPN. Both are part of the same ecosystem and both deal with exploring the undercurrents of pop music.

I'm not really into rap.

I am not a pop musician; I don't want to play bubble-gummy pop stuff.

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.'

Since I loved underground music, I tried to carve a space for feminism within it. Those were my hopes.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

The world that I come from is the world of raves, hip-hop clubs, and rock and roll.

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

I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.

I was never attracted to the pop world. I listen to music that is pop sometimes. But I've never thought, 'Oh, I need to work with Ne-Yo now.' It's never really been my thing.

Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.

I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping.

Electroclash is good because it's stayed underground.

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

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.