Indie News

The Barclays Center has released its June event calendar, which lists nine events in 30 days--busier than May, but slower than many earlier months.

The beautifully bewhiskered Sam Beam's fifth outing as Iron & Wine has split the critics between those who think his new, slightly startling 70s-drenched sound sees his "characters getting lost in their clothing" and those who see the smooth jazz-like polish of tracks like Grass Windows as a bold and confident move from a man who has been ... (more)

Hopefully you'll get to spend plenty of time outdoors this weekend, soaking up the sun.

Seryn Using mainly acoustic instruments including ukelele, accordion and banjo, Texas-based six-piece Seryn craft shifting, swelling, almost liturgical compositions that bear a passing resemblance to folk, while sharing common touchstones with indie-pop. Seryn's multi-instrumental live presentation has been described as "a music shop threw up ... (more)

Lance Bangs spent his youth making music videos for bands such as Sonic Youth, R.E.M. , Belle & Sebastian and The Shins , and, among other camera jobs, lensing episodes of Jackass .

Staying in NYC this weekend? There's actually no shortage of things to do here, even though the weather forecast is less than ideal.

The daughter of pioneering and highly regarded animators John and Faith Hubley , she was originally going to be a writer.

A recent increase in dog attacks on Indiana letter carriers has prompted the U.S. Postal Service to urge dog owners to do a better job of controlling their canines when the postman approaches.

A conversation with The Thermals' Kathy Foster about bass, Rocky and their first decade as a band This spring, Portland indie-punk trio The Thermals turned ten and released an album that's got all the fuzzy scuzzy energy and aggression of their 2003 debut More Parts Per Million .

The Fox Event Center in downtown Redlands is showing three classic movies during the month of June.

Boston Calling Okay, it's not in Somerville, but it's cool. This two-day festival will feature 18 bands, including Fun, The National, Of Monsters of Men and The Shins.

If you need even more shows to choose form, be sure to check out our comprehensive and constantly updated New York Concert Calendar.

You can call Calvin Johnson a weird-out. But "low-fi," "twee," "twee-pop" are another story for the singer-songwriter who hits Cleveland on Saturday.

White House press secretary Jay Carney is questioned by the press during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, May 20, 2013.

The stamp is a reproduction of an 1887 chromolithograph by Thure de Thulstrup, a Swedish-born artist who became an illustrator for Harper's Weekly after the Civil War.

T he beauty of the live music landscape in the Colorado summer is, well, literally in the landscape.

Vanessa Paradis isn't bitter about her split from Johnny Depp. The French singer-and-actress and the actor separated last June after 14 years together and Johnny is now in a relationship with Amber Heard - who he starred with in 'The Rum Diary'. Vanessa - who has two children, Lily-Rose, 13 and Jack, 11, with the Hollywood heartthrob - has accepted ... (more)

This Feb. 24, 2009 file photo shows Johnny Depp, nominated for an Oscar for best actor in a leading role for his work in "Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," arriving with his girlfriend Vanessa Paradis for the 80th Academy Awards in Los Angeles.

Thirty "Coachella-type" rock bands on three stages over two days in late August at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, that's the enticing recipe for the inaugural First City Festival.

The general plotline for Ola Podrida's Ghosts Go Blind reads like the sort of indie film songwriter David Wingo is better known for scoring.