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Today's comment comes from Tele in regard to Rev. Adam McKinney's piece on Minus the Bear, a band playing the University of Puget Sound's Memorial Fieldhouse tomorrow.

Tele writes,

Good article, though it's too bad we're spending energy redefining or contemporizing ‘indie,' as if it means anything anymore. What did ‘alternative' mean after 1994? Seems like, locally and beyond, there's a quest to put the gears in reverse, ape the 13th Floor Elevators and call it ‘indie.' As if overt throwbackism is prerequisite to wearing the ‘indie' badge. Minus the Bear have never sounded like a band looking into the rear view mirror, and I would rather not see them measured by some inane 'indie' yardstick.