Philly's Remote lslands to Play Main Street

Warren Johnston, Valley News, 8 November, 2007, c-1.

Colin Pate, front man, songwriter and voice of Philadelphia indie band Remote Islands, wanted to get away from the mainstream.

He has the talent, which copms through loud and clear on the band's first album, Smother Party, to produce something less original, more pop and perhaps commercially viable—something that would allow him to quit his other job.

But instead, the 27-year-old is writing, singing