Songs We Love: Katie Ellen, 'Lucy Stone'
Chumped's Anika Pyle and Dan Frelly are back with a new band that's more pop than punk and a song named for a 19th-century abolitionist and suffragist.
There are no clear-cut earmarks of success in independent music. Perhaps there shouldn't be: When bands find themselves inspiring attention beyond their basement-show aspirations, what looks good externally could chip away at the heart of something to embark on indefinite hiatus, a turn of phrase most commonly associated with veteran acts — or, like, One Direction. But it's not all bad: From the band's dissolution, frontwoman Anika Pyle and drummer Dan Frelly formed Katie Ellen, a group best defined by its previous iteration's inverse: punk-pop.
