Indie Pop Quotes

Nirvana, Weezer and Smashing Pumpkins, all those bands, at their core, are just really incredible pop music and I think a lot of that stuff has deeply affected the way I approach music.

I'm actually in my 22-year-old son Jason's band, After Midnight Project. The music is like Coldplay-ish rock.

Definitely one of the biggest influences on my music is the music that Ben Gibbard's associated with, so Death Cab and The Postal Service.

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.

The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'

Flying Colors is more alternative pop with a prog edge. Think the Beatles meets U2 meets Muse and Foo Fighters. It is the opposite of Adrenaline Mob, which has more classic metal influences like Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Pantera, or Disturbed. They are completely different ends of spectrum.

Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis.

Over the years, El Perro del Mar became this artist that, every record that came out, I just loved it.

That Yo La Tengo record, 'Painful,' has got some real awesome, noisy, mellow heartbreakers.

Back in the day, I was definitely a child of alternative radio.

The personality and songwriting of Holy Ghost! trumps the originality card any day.

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

I listened to Kanye West and also dove deep into bands like Radiohead, Portishead, and Bon Iver.

Like, Mission Of Burma to me always sounded almost like they were part of the British Arty New Wave. I kind of like that. I like not being able to tell the difference.

I would love to see Regina Spektor, Bjork, and some really cool-sounding festival bands like 'Metric' and 'The Cardigans,' who are one of my favorite bands.

The band Grizzly Bear, I think they're excellent. There's a beauty and a musicality there that I wish would have been in vogue in the late '80s, when I was forming bands.

Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.

I kinda learned to sing singing to Echo and the Bunnymen songs and Smiths songs: Morrissey would be a big favorite.

I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.

I guess my music taste is pretty predictable: I like new indie rock stuff, older stuff.

I love Unknown Mortal Orchestra, who are from New Zealand, living in Portland.

I'm into Incubus. Growing up, I was a huge Taking Back Sunday fan. I'm still a fan, but I don't listen as much as I used to. When I was 13 or 14, I started getting into emo-pop-rock, so that influenced me. I also love Drake... I have a pretty diverse collection.

That's one of my favorite Matador records: Cat Power, 'You Are Free.'

I'm a big Arcade Fire fan. I love the way they make records - 'Funeral' being my favorite.

In everything I do, my principal inspiration is the 1996 Belle & Sebastian album 'If You're Feeling Sinister.'