In the early 1990s, a new generation of indie kids made gleeful, intentionally amateurish music that romanticized childlike energy and subcultural pride. Scores of cheekily playful "love rock" bands--Tiger Trap, Cannanes, the Vaselines, the Pastels, Heavenly, Some Velvet Sidewalk--found a home on Calvin Johnson's Olympia, Washington-based K Records, a syndicate for homemade music that served as a lighthearted brother to the more doctrinaire releases on the Kill Rock Stars label. Compilations like... More >>>