It would be wrong to call A Sunny Day in Glasgow's April 1st Kung Fu Necktie show a homecoming.

Formed in the late 1980s in Eugene, Oregon the Cherry Poppin' Daddies have gone through very different sounds and line-ups in their more than 20 years of touring and recording. Through all of it the band's front man Steve Perry has been one of the few constants. He spoke with us before a recent show at the North Star Bar in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia's City Council is sort of like the latest Michael Bay remake of a classic horror movie: Terrible.

Hello, hello. It's Izzy Cihak... likely the most eccentric, cynical, and pretentious member of the Origivation family. Welcome to my column, "108 lbs and Condescending."

This past spring saw the release of the seventh studio album from the Denver, CO indie godfathers, The Apples in Stereo.

According to Herbie Shellenberger, one of the guys behind England Belongs to Twee, Philadelphia's oldest established permanent floating disco devoted to Oi, British punk, and indie pop, the March night when he'd booked Standard Fare to play at The Ox was not promising.

The Supersuckers have long been one of America's great rock'n'roll bands, tearing through the States (and other parts), spreading their love of everything raunchy and heartfelt, filling car speakers and home stereos with the love of Marshalls and Gibsons from a campy, postmodern hillbilly perspective.

In a label obsessed time, bands often classify their music using self-appointed genres that sound like terrible band names in themselves (Crabcore, Tron-pop, Crunk, Really?) to stand out from everyone else within a sub-subculture. So what adjective-laden description does lead singer of Plants and Animals, Warren Spicer assign to his music?

Can The Armchairs be trusted?

It's a thorny question. But the four members of this local shambolic indie band come across as the types who might not let veracity and accuracy get in the way of a good time.

Defining "Indie Pop," or any other genre that arose from arbitrary music-lingo-qualifiers, is no easy task and not something I deem myself capable of doing. I'm not sure how much the artists on my list have in common with each other.