Indie News

Things have been amiss with Comedy Central's talk show programming lately. John Stewart is on a break from The Daily Show in order to direct Rosewater , putting John Oliver in the hot seat .

Two House chairmen applauded the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service for shuttering three post offices in the Capitol complex.

WITH A FONDNESS for oldies radio and a knack for cut-to-the-quick lyrics, Camera Obscura ushered in a doo-wop revival on their 2001 debut, Biggest Bluest Hi Fi .

One of the highest honors a performer can receive is to have a menu item named after them, like the Woody Allen sandwich at Carnegie Deli in New York City or the Salma Hayek at Chicago's Hot Doug's.

Sigur Ros are celebrating the June 18 release of their seventh album, Kveikur , by performing a live, 360-degree interactive webcast from Dresden, Germany Wednesday .

Omaha rock band Cursive will embark on a short tour with Digital Leather that begins today in Iowa City and continues through the Midwest, hitting Omaha on Sunday and finishing up the next day in Kansas City.

Street Eaters have been hastening the end of civilization for a few years now. The duo's nervy, chunky, and politically charged punk rock tells tales about the brutality and traumas of modern life, often sounding like a less artsy Death from Above 1979.

A guitar-less rocker seems like a complete oxymoron. Half of the definition of rock comes from the heavy presence of electric guitar, but Crash Kings has completely done away with guitar-and on purpose, too.

They've joined QOTSA , Thirty Seconds to Mars , Primal Scream and Phoenix announced earlier this month.

As the folk revival rages on in the indie music scene, many bands continue to look backward, aping the sound and look of Dust Bowl Okies and all things Woody Guthrie.

Kings of Leon fans will get to soak up the US rockers' first new album in three years after the band confirmed today they will be a headline act at The iTunes Festival.

Also, @JimGaffigan is guest The #ColbertReport will be dark again tonight, airing a rerun with @fakedansavage .

The Postal Service perform during Day 2 of the 2013 Coachella Music Festival on April 13, 2013 in Indio, California.

Duluth experimental rockers Low gave one of the most polarizing performances ever to hit Rock the Garden this month.

Looks like Norbert Leo Butz will go girl-crazy at 54 Below well into the summer.

"We're not really a band," Ben Gibbard said last night as The Postal Service stepped out onstage for its encore.

After the release of Unknown Mortal Orchestra's 2011 self-titled debut, the band spent a lot of time on the road.

Released: Jun 12, 2013 Genre: Post-Rock, Ambient, Shoegaze, Post-Metal Label: XL Recordings Number Of Tracks: 9 Musical experimentation within a band isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Will Sheff, frontman for literate Texan indie band Okkervil River, has lately been busying himself with the DIY synthpop project Lovestreams , but his main band comes roaring back in a couple of months with a new album called The Silver Gymnasium .

An intimate Holy Sons performance of "Bed of Nails II" within the collectable confines of Emil Amos' home studio.