Now that indie music has increasingly begun to incorporate pop music into its life, we've found ourselves at an interesting crossroad, where the underground no longer has any fear of selling out or sounding too corporate; instead, bands have folded Top 40 sounds into their brand of uncompromising idiosyncrasy, resulting in the lo-fi R&B of How To Dress Well and others. Weirder still, though, is a band like Sister Girlfriend, which smashes together the blue-eyed soul of H&O with the frantic house music of two decades ago. It's experimental in the oddest way: not charting new ground, but taking two sounds and violently spinning them in a centrifuge to see which comes out on top.

Read Rev. Adam McKinney's full feature on Sister Girlfriend in the Music & Culture section.

SISTER GIRLFRIEND, w/ Grex, Shadows, 8 p.m., Monday, March 23, Deadbeat Olympia, 226 N. Division St., Olympia, $5, 360.943.0662