For this month's installment of Let's Independent, you might want to wear your favorite shoes; not your walking or even your dancing shoes, but the ones you most enjoy staring at — 'cuz that's what you'll be doing as three local goth-gaze acts take the stage in slow-mo succession. The Black Pine take the pixie-fronted retro-indie archetype to brainy heights, while the Black Kites throw a little more blues into a similar sound, and EXITMUSIC get outright spacey behind their siren of a lead singer.
– Shana Nys Dambrot