Indie News

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.

Portland musician John Moen is best known these days as the Decemberists' drummer, but the's been a behind-the-scenes force in the city's music scene even longer.

The 125 mph winds of the May 1979 Westminster tornado tore the roofs off the Shriver Canning factory buildings at Route 140 and Route 27.

The violent tornadoes that roared through Oklahoma over a three day period sadly resulted in the loss of lives, property and impacted mail service in the delivery areas of Carney, Luther, Shawnee, Newcastle, and Oklahoma City Moore and Santa Fe Stations.

Geocache enthusiasts traveled to Greene County Parks & Trails' first "Choose Your Own Adventure," recently that was based at Caesar's Ford Park, 520 S. Stringtown Road.

Some of you may remember early/mid-'00s Detroit-area band Thunderbirds Are Now! , who are in semi-permanent hibernation at the moment.

Nearly everyone I know who has seen the official poster for the 66th Cannes Film Festival - a bird's-eye view of a kiss between a young Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward - has been crazy about it.

A back room at the post office on Brookside Avenue in Redlands is packed for a community meeting on Tuesday, May 21.

The FBI said Wednesday that agents have arrested a 37-year-old man after a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin were discovered in Washington state last week.

Managing Editors Danny Djeljosevic and Nick Hanover, who pretty much have paper and ink in their blood, and CB Columns Editor Andrew Tan, who got his start in comics late in life through Adrian Tomine and is slowly dipping his toes into the broader aspects of the medium.

Better Than Ezra has been around long enough to know when the time is right to release a new album.

A tractor-trailer transporting mail for the U.S. Postal Service struck a barrier along Interstate 64 in Louisville, Ky., Wednesday morning, causing the truck to flip and become engulfed in flames.

Of her next broadcast, host Yibing writes, "Come celebrate Las flores' 50 and 51st programs on the KCSB airwaves! We will be having two local bands in the spotlight playing live in our studios: Ultraviolet and Sun Daes .