"They call themselves the Tough Shits, and they'll beat you up if you say anything mean about them. That includes calling them an indie band. For while this Philly foursome may be independently minded, their garage-punk sound is a far cry from the Built-to-Spill/New-Pornographers etherealness that has come to connote "indie." The Tough Shits are more like an indie band parody, with brazen displays of debauchery and over-the-top outfits. (Even Man Man doesn't wear pants like this!) The band cites its influences as Kiss, the Rolling Stones, Sam Cooke and the Clash; we think they sounds more like '90s punk-rock outfit Bouncing Souls (and its 2000s equivalent, the Black Lips) and American alt-rockers the Replacements. But we can see how the band might admire that reckless, young guitar-smashing-authority-mocking thing that bands like Kiss and the Stones have going on. Consider for example, the band's live show. To call it a wild, raucous insane fest would be an understatement. Think frantic thrashing, head-banging, shirtlessness and lots and lots of volume."