In the bleak indie movies, they don’t get the happy ending; they get a tragedy. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I knew loads about Jesse—he loved baths but hated hot tubs, he listened to self-important indie music, cologne made his eyes puffy, he never washed his jeans—but Diego was an enigma. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Are any of them secret indie rock fans? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She sits with the second-tier popular kids at lunch, she seems nice, but does she blast indie rock in her spare time? Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A boom box played mellow indie rock as they all sat around their campfire eating and talking and laughing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

There’s a little indie bookstore with tall, arched windows, a grocery co-op on the corner, and two guys walking down the sidewalk, holding hands. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“I stick to indie stuff, mostly. Lots of comics online.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“School,” I say, trying to sound natural, trying to sound like my sudden interest in the old-school indie rock is what all the brown girls are doing these days. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Unlike me, she cared about the myriad pop musical distinctions: punk, indie, alternative, hard-core, emo-core. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell him I mostly like indie and New Wave, but he doesn’t know what those are, and they’re hard to explain in Spanish. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Water several indies deep swirled around us, but was not tugging at us. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His wardrobe consists primarily of T-shirts from indie coffee shops around the city, and he gave me this Dream & Bean shirt last night when he came over for dinner. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Tyrion that the lad had grown three indies since being knighted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The entertainment for the night is a British indie rocker who looks like a root vegetable and is popular with people in Alex’s demographic for reasons he can’t even begin to understand. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Both musicians also point to regional arts institutions that have stepped up to support indie musicians' transition to performing exclusively online. How musicians are moving their gigs online during quarantine 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z

Self-described "indie filmmaker" Lee said: "I put my own money in my films." Spike Lee reaches Kickstarter goal 2013-08-19T09:06:29Z

Jill Soloway’s “Transparent,” about three bruised Los Angeles siblings and their father, who’s working on becoming a woman, may be the closest a serial drama has come to replicating the texture of an indie movie. Amazon’s ‘Mozart in the Jungle,’ With Backstage Drama 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

There was talk of a postponement of the release date, but 27 July looked so wide-open, with The Watch rolling out opposite Step Up: Revolution and a dozen no-threat indies, it was never seriously considered. Is The Watch 2012's unluckiest film? 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z

How distant those skirmishes seem, in a movie decade when blockbusters rule, critics have no box-office relevance and most indie films are far less adventurous than any of a dozen Altman movies. Home Movies: Robert Altman, Hollywood Renegade 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

I have a tone on my phone that announces the arrival of a new indie supergroup, and it's bleeping a lot at the moment. Paul Morley on music: supergroups 2011-03-27T00:05:31Z

They spend the night searching for their favorite indie band’s concert, but their friends and former lovers keep getting in the way. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Miracle Workers’ and ‘Temptation Island’ 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Taking his anguish, and how he is publicly perceived, as starting points, XXXtentacion is jarringly raw on “17,” which emphasizes spare folk-minded indie rock over hip-hop. Lil Uzi Vert and a Generation of Rap Stars Looking Beyond Hip-Hop 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

The band soon signed with venerated indie label SST, and Lanegan moved to Seattle at the dawn of the grunge years. Review | Screaming Trees’ Mark Lanegan delivers a nothing-but-warts memoir, full of drugs, alcohol and Kurt Cobain memories 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z

After signing with indie label Colemine Records, the vintage soul trio's debut album gets a wider release. Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio pushing its smooth sound beyond the 206 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

And it’s not that weird really, but at the time it was not cool in our little indie rock universe.” Mary Timony’s ‘Mountains’ confused lots of listeners 20 years ago. It always made perfect sense to her. 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

Sleater-Kinney, the acclaimed Pacific Northwest indie trio hailed as the “Best Band in America” by “Time” magazine in 2001, left many fans disappointed when they went on what was called “indefinite hiatus” in 2006. Sleater-Kinney returns with new box set 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

This summer, he directed the breakout indie comedy The Big Sick. Michael Showalter on the Mature Side of Wet Hot American Summer 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

San Fermin’s collective ardor reinvigorates familiar indie tropes: the analog eclecticism, the lavish harmonies, the songbird women, and the solemn men. San Fermin Brings Back Lavish Ensemble Indie Pop 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

It's called simply Sky, and it looks as mesmerizing and visually balletic as indie studio Thatgamecompany's last three games, Flow, Flower and Journey. This Is the Creator of Journey's Stunning Next Big Indie Game 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

Ms. Michele, a secretary and indie pop singer in Costa Mesa, Calif., was diagnosed at birth with arthrogryposis, an incurable condition that affects her joints and muscles. Are Accessible Cosmetics the Final Frontier in Makeup Inclusivity? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

But the movie works, in great part because the director Karyn Kusama, best known for her indie breakout “Girlfight,” commits to the material’s malice and keeps sentimentalism in check as fiercely as her hardworking star. At Toronto, Women Who Are Shockingly, Thrillingly Human 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Pictures of matchstick men ... the professor reveals some of indie gig history's most important dance developments. Ask the indie professor: Why have audiences stopped dancing? 2010-09-28T12:12:00Z

The film was an indie hit, winning the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and igniting the careers of both actor and director. Peter Dinklage: ‘Tyrion has a sense of humour'’ 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z

With a budget in the low six figures, the digitally shot “Cold Weather” is indie through and through. Film: An Indie Gumshoe in Oregon?s Gloom 2011-01-30T02:13:01Z

Some gaming sites have started changing their policies to prevent possible conflicts of interest: Kotaku, for example, now forbids its writers from donating money to indie designers on Patreon, a Kickstarter for indie games. What Is #GamerGate and Why Are Women Being Threatened About Video Games? 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

His upcoming films dip into both worlds, indie cinema and multiplex: a fourth Pirates is due next year, and he plays leading man to Angelina Jolie in the upcoming thriller The Tourist. Johnny Depp 2010-09-24T08:20:00Z

Then, while editing and putting the finishing touches on the film, he stole away to play Lawrence Olivier opposite Michelle Williams' Marilyn Monroe in the indie flick "My Week With Marilyn." Branagh: Hopkins inspired him to play Olivier 2011-05-05T18:01:20Z

Between 2011 and 2012 I started The State of Music project, where I discovered and interviewed one unsigned or indie label band from all 50 US states. Blog jam: Choose My Music 2013-02-13T15:15:00Z

These local indie rockers are playing their first show of 2020 this Sunday. Listen: From Greyson Chance to Moon Palace and more, a playlist of songs by musicians playing in Seattle Jan. 17-23 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Nobody outside of indie films steps outside the box. Jennifer Lawrence: a shot of Kentucky spirit 2010-09-02T22:01:00Z

If you like “My Mad Fat Diary,” or if you wish quirky indie movies had more developed stories, try “Please Like Me.” What You Should Watch This Weekend: ‘Please Like Me’ and Films Leaving Netflix 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z

Stuart Murdoch's indie bookworms will return with a new LP Dust off your cardigans: Belle and Sebastian are releasing a new album. Belle and Sebastian announce new album 2010-08-12T11:09:00Z

He's been an actor, a filmmaker, a rock music and indie films promoter. It's no act: Scandiuzzi rejuvenates a prime Seattle theater 2012-04-10T22:15:23Z

By any account, making an indie movie has been difficult since 2008 when financing all but dried up and several major distributors went out of business. Indie film pared to the bone in "Winter's Bone" 2010-06-18T16:03:00Z

Posey, a cult favorite for her indie film roles, offers a chance here to imagine yourself seated next to her on a plane, able to ask anything — a fantasy for many a bearded hipster. New & Noteworthy 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

Forged around the homegrown grunge scene, Sub Pop became one of America’s most influential indie music labels, helping break bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney, its star rising with theirs. Sub Pop at 30: How a Seattle record label’s storied past prepared it for the future 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Director Gordon Green, whose films have varied from blockbuster comedies like Pineapple Express to intimate indies like George Washington, says he admires Bullock’s refusal to be limited by her résumé–or her gender. Women Flip the Script on Hollywood 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Various Artists, "You Wish: A Merge Records Holiday Album" Venerable indie label Merge Records caps off their 30th anniversary year with a compilation of new recordings from a selection of their bands. Here are 20 new holiday music releases to bring festive cheer to your ears 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z

The only surprise about this indie crime drama is that it sticks to its guns and doesn’t suddenly succumb to the slasher movie conventions of glossier missing-woman crime movies. | 'Kalamity': Young Men Are Adrift; A Girlfriend Is Missing 2010-10-21T23:12:00Z

When she was seventeen, she moved to Phoenix to study music and joined the indie scene there. Listen to Carla Morrison 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Check listings for details Photograph: Jim Yeager Portland's original electro-dance club, Holocene has filled a void in the Portland music scene, once awash in indie rock and top 40 dance clubs. Top 10 live music venues in Portland, Oregon 2013-05-24T23:10:00Z

As Cassavetes had subsidized his indie films with roles in so-so movies and TV shows, so did Falk use Columbo as his day job, allowing him to go trekking into illuminating back alleys. Peter Falk: From Lt. Columbo to Wings of Desire and Princess Bride 2011-06-25T05:45:00Z

Erol Alkan draws on a heritage of indie DJing going back nearly two decades to come up with some intriguing rock/dance crossovers. Clubs picks of the week 2013-01-26T06:00:14Z

The sea change for indie in the US was the wave of turn-of-the-century bands that used British indie music as their inspiration, and the international democratisation of music discourse due to the internet. Ask the indie professor: why do Americans think they invented indie? 2011-07-28T09:06:39Z

Sevigny jokes that the American indie movie industry has fallen on hard times; she remembers a point when she could barely move for new scripts. Chloë Sevigny: ‘I now have total disdain for directors’ 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

The 2004 indie cult classic is beautiful, funny, enlightening, inspiring, and downright clever … but it’s also bitter, depressing, nostalgic, sobering, and painful. Ranking: Valentine’s Day Films From Worst to Best 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Not your standard indie baggage, this warm, smartly told story deals with it sincerely, and gets the sweet/sad balance just about right. This week's new films 2011-07-22T23:07:03Z

Then pop in to Hipsley Lane for vintage finds and browse indie design brands and pop-up clothing boutiques. 36 Hours in Canberra, Australia 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Besides "Parasite," April boasts a range of offerings, from indie darlings and horror flicks, to action films and family-friendly fare. Something for everyone: The best movies to stream in April 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z

Glasgow, which Chvrches call home, is an indie mecca, twinned in spirit with Olympia, Washington, where the pop meek rule the Earth. Chvrches – review 2013-03-01T20:00:01Z

Just don't be fooled into thinking this is some indie in-joke. New band of the day ? No 878: Electric Youth 2010-09-30T16:01:00Z

But like other films directed by Larry Cohen, the indie outré director who died in March, it’s a smartly considered indictment of capitalism and the American food industry. A Horror Genre Where Dresses (and Fridges) Can Kill 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tellefsen has been editing films for more than 20 years, with a diverse resume that ranges from the indie movies “Metropolitan,” “Kids” and “Gummo” to studio fare like “The Village.” | Below the Line: The Oscar-Nominated Editor of 'Moneyball' Deconstructs a Scene 2012-02-08T18:00:35Z

Also featuring a young Seattle rapper on the rise, a Tumblr-friendly Swedish MC and a tribute to indie rock’s dourest band. Your week in Seattle music: X, The Moondoogies and The Maldives and more 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

Bands like Nirvana “were my way into alternative American music,” said Justin Young of the British indie sensations the Vaccines. Arts & Leisure: Sonic Youth Film ?1991: The Year Punk Broke? on DVD 2011-09-25T03:30:07Z

Another die-hard indie, Daniel Miller, who recently extricated Mute from the EMI wreckage, paints an equally simple picture. Stop predicting music’s future: The next Pixies, White Stripes or Adele will come from the indie ranks 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

All across town, studios and indies are making similar calls as they enter the later stages of awards season. 2010-01-14T18:15:00Z

The attention was not entirely new; she attended the 2011 Academy Awards as a best actress nominee, for the gritty indie “Winter’s Bone.” Jennifer Lawrence Has No Appetite for Playing Fame Games 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, tracks like “Heavy Balloon” show the band’s lighter indie side. 3 new music releases you need this fall 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Many of these films deliberately mimic the tropes and stylistic tics of indie cinema – alienated teenagers, dysfunctional families, meditations on suburban soulnessness, self-consciously quirky humour, and a generous resort to shock tactics or the taboo . Reaching Nirvana 2011-03-04T21:30:00Z

And yet Ulven’s vocals are rendered dreamily, almost inspirationally, over guitars that slash and throb in the manner of loud 1990s indie rock. Chloe Moriondo and girl in red, Maestros of Growing Pains 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

The catchall "indie rock" that's rehearsed or performed in barns, fields, basements, abandoned buildings or rooftop shacks by ragtag bands of shaggy hipsters isn't inherently offensive or subversive. 'No One Knows About Persian Cats': A pair of Iranian rebels just want to rock 2010-04-29T20:10:00Z

But let's not forget this is an album made by self-confessed social outcasts, that merges the fringes of indie and dance culture. The xx win Mercury prize 2010 2010-09-07T23:38:00Z

Still, the indie film business's inconvenient truth is that films thought to be bound for glory are often bound for anonymity. Are indie films just expensive blogs? 2013-01-17T18:30:01Z

And I’m picking on “Heaven Knows What” because it is decidedly not the kind of noncommittal drama and indifferent craftsmanship so often encountered in the indie sphere. The other “Girls”: Gritty indie “Heaven Knows What” shows the flip side of Lena Dunham’s New York 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

This English singer-songwriter is bringing his indie folk-acoustic music to Seattle for a stop on his North American tour in support of his latest release, “Gratitude.” Listen: From Benjamin Francis Leftwich to Morrissey and more, a playlist of songs by musicians playing in Seattle Sept. 27- Oct. 3 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

It's a $3.3-million indie outside shot that somehow keeps hitting the mark. Oscars 2015: Indie outside shot 'Whiplash' keeps hitting the mark 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Calvin Harris and the indie pop group Foster the People. What's On This Week Around The World 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

Sex is still such a taboo topic in American films, even indies trying to walk on the wild side. 'Two Night Stand' a one-act sex comedy that grows cold too soon 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Here it seemed, was proof that what you once might have called indie music had succeeded in taking over the mainstream largely by narrowing its horizons. Broadcast: Berberian Sound Studio Original Soundtrack – review 2013-01-03T15:30:02Z

“What Apple is doing to music retail,” Krukowski said on Twitter, “is exactly what I saw chains do to books in the nineties: kill indie competition, then eliminate the product.” The Anxious Ease of Apple Music 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

But for a genre guy like West, an indie director best known for slow-burn horror like “The House of the Devil” and “The Sacrament,” it’s unicorn territory. The Multiplying Horror of Ti West 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

The disaffected Bed-Stuy pizza delivery man played by Mr. Lee in his spectacular urban epic carries a pie in a different neighborhood almost 25 years later in his fevered 2012 indie drama. Same Character, Different Film: Recurring Roles in Non-Sequels 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

It is all part of his mission to put Malkmus back atop the indie pedestal. Stephen Malkmus had his groove denied. He was upset for about five minutes. 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Or displaying affluence by putting diamonds in their teeth when for an indie band even putting on a suit is seen as dressing up? Ask the indie professor: Why are there so many white indie bands? 2011-01-04T13:10:38Z

Pete is in denial about the financial crisis of his indie record company, which is bringing out new releases from old rockers, and Debbie about the similarly dire figures figures for her clothing boutique. This Is 40 – review 2013-02-14T15:29:01Z

Kelly Reichardt’s nervy, gripping indie thriller “Night Moves” drops us right in the middle of what the newspapers and the FBI will no doubt describe as a “terrorist plot.” “Night Moves”: A nail-biting procedural explores the “eco-terror” left 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

If that history holds true, this year's best picture winner will be "Boyhood," "Selma," "Birdman" or, less likely, indie favorites "Whiplash" or "Mr. Turner." How Godard's movie beat 'Boyhood' at National Society of Film Critics 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z

Though they often acted in other directors' films, it was the indie projects written and directed by Cassavetes that won the greatest acclaim. 'Dance Lessons' helps Gena Rowlands kick up her heels 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

Her past modeling appearances included a shoot for Buffalo Zine, an indie fashion magazine. Ella Emhoff Gets a Major Modeling Contract 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

The Polyphonic Spree, a Texas indie rock band, opened for Mr. Bowie on his Reality Tour in 2004. Bowie Tribute Concert to Have a Second Night, at Radio City 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Arguably the biggest indie band in existence, Arcade Fire is plagued by its own significance. An inspired evening with Arcade Fire at KeyArena 2010-09-30T19:52:00Z

And with the growth of streaming and cable outlets, there’s even a kind of “indie TV,” series like Togetherness, Transparent and Rectify that share the sensibility of indie film. Upfronts Roundup: Fall TV, Like Summer Movies, Plays the Imitation Game 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

These indie actors, who get hardly any film work outside the series, may not have the marquee value of the guest stars who show up at the end of , but they are no less welcome. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones: Familiar Scares With a Salsa Tang 2014-01-03T17:23:22Z

And now Dubai is finally developing an alternative, arty side, with a fast-rising gallery district, ambitious indie fashion designers, a crop of cool organic cafes and world-class night-life spots. What to Do in Dubai 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

The indie fashion magazine Nylon highlights vests, jackets and even dresses in a feature this month called “An Army of Many.” Fashion?s Military Invasion Rolls On 2010-02-20T05:10:00Z

With his early company Miramax, and movies like “Pulp Fiction” and “The Crying Game,” Mr. Weinstein took indies from the art house to the multiplex. After Turbulent Flight, ‘Finding Neverland’ Alights on Broadway 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

It may be too soon to tell whether the patronage of Red Bull, Mountain Dew and Converse will warp the sound of indie rock. Arts & Leisure Preview: Looking to a Sneaker For a Band?s Big Break 2010-10-06T17:01:00Z

Falk himself was a full-fledged member of his buddy Cassavetes’s indie gang — whose raw, idiosyncratic portrayals of American outsiders blossomed outside the studio system. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Columbo’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

The points at which indie rock and horse racing intersect are few. Pavement get back on the horse 2010-04-27T21:45:00Z

Without a doubt, indie has a more enlightened sense of gender relations than many musical genres. Ask the indie professor: Are gender stereotypes still present in indie music? 2010-09-01T11:59:00Z

Even introspective indie rockers such as Arcade Fire have embraced its pulse. New wave of neo-soul 2013-10-11T15:13:21Z

At the Spirits, the preeminent indie film soiree, nominees are limited to films made for less than $22.5 million. ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’ tops Spirit Awards noms 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

A fascinating temporary exhibition surveys the images of Seattle on film, ranging from “Tugboat Annie” to “The Fabulous Baker Boys” and recent indie projects. Museum Review: Museum of History & Industry Reopens in Seattle 2012-12-29T01:25:41Z

Whereas hip-hop could bring joy to the masses while retaining a sense of experimental play, perhaps indie rock had become too “refined and effete,” increasingly detached from “lived, earned experience.” Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

A succession of skinny indie boyfriends and drinking – always lots of drinking – became primary source material. Funny, messy and real: why Sharon Horgan is the most watchable woman on TV 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

On the Wikipedia page for Suicide Squeeze Records, Bay Area rap eccentric Lil B is curiously listed as one of the Seattle label’s artists — alongside Northwest indie titans Elliott Smith and Modest Mouse. Suicide Squeeze: Seattle music label defies risks, turns 20 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

“Not sure yet if that means as a stage production, as an indie film or something else, but there definitely has been some interest.” Harvard senior’s Disney-inspired Korean musical a hit online 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

The jangling, electronics-driven Seattle indie rockers released a new album, "Infinity Overhead" in August. 7 days of Seattle music: From Ben Gibbard to Emanuel Ax 2012-11-09T20:04:04Z

It should be noted the song was released in April 1979, before the titular heroine was elected, though it became an indie hit a year later. Five songs about Margaret Thatcher 2013-04-08T13:36:00Z

We’re focused on Europe for Americans who want a combination of indie and group travel, with things to do and where to stay, with a focus on neighborhoods. A travel-loving couple expand their passion with themed coloring books for adults 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

It was the first one presented outside of New York City, apparently–like the many other corporate brands promoting themselves at SXSW–to capitalize on the festival’s indie, do-it-yourself credibility. ArtsBeat: Capitalizing on South by Southwest's Credibility 2011-03-18T10:42:22Z

The duo part company with Telstar soon afterwards, but it's important to remember that these principled tunesmiths kept it indie until the very end. PJ & Duncan – Let's Get Ready to Rhumble is not even their best song 2013-04-01T15:05:00Z

"Norway" was another, its wavering synthesizer line blossoming into stately indie rock, from "Teen Dream," also on Sub Pop. Concert review: Beach House at Showbox 2012-10-05T16:31:07Z

It's the kind of terrific little indie that not so long ago might have gone quite a few rounds on art-house screens before hitting other viewing platforms. 'Glass Chin' a neo-noir knockout with fight-ready cast 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, as TV has become a desirable alternative for indie filmmakers, episodic storytelling has a larger profile at Sundance this year. Chicago represents at Sundance Film Festival 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

Behind her, the band echoes the slurry guitars, tonal abrasion and down atmosphere of early-to-mid-1990s indie rock like Helium or Polvo. Music Review: Speedy Ortiz Cuts Through Thick Night Air at Death by Audio 2013-07-07T21:48:44Z

Ms. Ray, an aspiring indie rocker and Mets fan, sent in a tape of her performance at a high school basketball game. O Say, Can You Sing at the Ballpark? It’s a Tough Song 2013-07-04T00:02:52Z

And he appears in indie horror film "The Final Girls." Thomas Middleditch's nerdy 'Silicon Valley' part hits close to home 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

The indie rockers also released a meandering interview on YouTube shot like a VHS home video, all in keeping with the band’s vintage aesthetic. The Strokes Just Released Their First New Song in Years 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

After decades of playing lovable rogues and vampire hunters, Campbell got his chance to direct an indie feature — the low-budget “Man With the Screaming Brain” — in 2005. Actor Bruce Campbell offers an engaging master class in schlock 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

This minimalist indie with a title appropriate for a Judd Apatow comedy, is a smart seriocomic playlet with some emotionally harsh moments, although it refrains from plumbing its subject in agonizing depth. | 'The Freebie': Loving Couple Wonder Where the Ardor Went 2010-09-16T23:53:00Z

Matt Shultz, the lead singer of the indie rock band Cage the Elephant, was arrested at a Manhattan hotel on Thursday on weapons charges, law enforcement officials said. Matt Shultz, Cage the Elephant Singer, Arrested on Weapons Charges 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs hangs a large frame with a favorite line from indie band Pavement’s song “Shady Lane” that she scrawled on a piece of art paper. Everything must go: A DIY-savvy designer sells her stuff and starts over 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Could “Mistress America,” the latest from Noah Baumbach, a beloved director whose films don’t tend to sell many tickets, be a breakout at the indie box office? Sundance 2015: Ryan Reynolds and Noah Baumbach Draw Mixed Verdicts 2015-01-25T05:00:00Z

Australian rapper Iggy Azalea debuted at No. 3 with "New Classic," while indie rockers Neon Trees clocked in at No. 6 with "Pop Psychology." 'Frozen' reigns atop Billboard 200, holds off Future, Iggy Azalea 2014-05-01T06:46:10Z

She was weaned on indie rock but as she grew older soured on that scene’s holier-than-thou outlook — what she called a “church of hush” mentality. The Sun Never Sets on the Techno Tourist 2010-05-20T21:55:00Z

During my late teen years I fell in with a group of snobs, and we prided ourselves on only using our televisions when we’d rent indie, foreign, classic or underground films on VHS. Ken Burns's The Civil War: America's greatest documentary rides again 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

Soup Kitchen also boasts a popular bar, an underground event space and an on-site indie publishing house. Next Stop: A New Act for Manchester 2011-04-29T19:37:03Z

The show's Spotify playlist brings its flawed characters to life with a balanced assemblage of modern-day indie ballads and '90s rock tunes. “Yellowjackets” soundtrack: Listen to this nostalgic playlist from Showtime’s brutal thriller 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

“Certainly and deliberately it has overtones with indie rock that are homemade, new and out on the edge. It is the response of the younger classical music world.” Bringing Classical Music to the Club Scene 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

See the season’s breakout indie hit for yourself and jump into the debate! 2012′s best — so far 2012-07-04T14:00:00Z

Fast-forward six years and with only one other album to their name – 2007's disappointing Proof of Youth – their mix of old school hip-hop, indie guitars and restless playground-style chants seems slightly stagnant. The Go! Team: Rolling Blackouts - review 2011-01-27T23:00:00Z

East India Youth is the stage name of electronic producer William Doyle, who turned to computer music after getting frustrated with life in an indie band. Mercury Prize 2014: The nominees 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

For his part, Butler's never been one of those indie purists who believes that big-time success comes hand in hand with a fundamental loss of integrity, anyway. Carrying the Fire 2010-08-27T23:02:00Z

The food press spin on the old Etonian Tom Byng's company is that it represents a kind of credible indie alternative to the corporate McDonald's and Burger King chains. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the coalition plays silly burgers 2013-06-29T23:06:38Z

But no doubt equally unnerving, in the same section, will be an uncharacteristic entry from the indie darlings Josh and Benny Safdie: “Heaven Knows What,” a heroin drama. In Venice, Kicking Off the Fall Movie Festival Season 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Set in the near future, this ingratiating indie comedy has at its center a man who has lost large patches of his past. Robot & Frank: An Endearing Showcase for Langella's Star Turn 2012-08-16T14:29:17Z

Ms. Barnett, 30, is stubbornly grounded in hand-played, not overly processed rock that traces a throughline from 1960s folk rock and garage rock to 1970s punk to 1980s indie rock to 1990s grunge. Courtney Barnett Faces Doubts and Doubters on ‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Reward for the 1st person who takes a photo of themselves buying from an indie bookstore on their phone while standing in an Amazon Books. Amazon opens a brick-and-mortar bookstore; Twitter embraces the irony 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

But buyers at least knew they were getting indie rock. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck needed a new label. The one he chose won’t take your credit card. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Admittedly, Burbank's not the most tech-savvy guy, but he behaves like an Internet-literate millennial, and as indie rappers say, is on his grind. Luke Burbank's thriving "Too Beautiful to Live" podcast records live shows at Columbia City Theater with Sir Mix-A-Lot, Blue Scholars, The Long Winters 2010-07-06T21:49:00Z

Fans who dug the band’s old sound might cringe at its unabashed radio-readiness and robot-love motif, but it could also serve as an “indie” gateway for new mainstream listeners. Ra Ra Riot’s new album is a pleasing radio-ready departure 2013-02-07T23:24:56Z

He began auditioning and landed a small role in "Cowboys & Aliens" as well as some indie films, including the recently opened thriller "Cold in July." Wyatt Russell's new goal: an acting career 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

At first, they reached their audience organically, traveling around the Sahara region through informal file-sharing networks; more recently, Moctar signed with the New York-based indie label Matador, solidifying his foothold overseas. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

“The reason indies beat majors as a rule is that the people who own these companies can make decisions and move,” he said. Indie-Label Folkie to Rock Patriarch 2011-03-06T01:45:27Z

“A lot of my friends are indie artists that are coming up in the scene,” she said. Wallice, an Indie Pop Sensation from Los Angeles 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

There’s a difference between surviving and thriving for some indies. Shakespeare and Company Is Coming Back to the West Side and the Village 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

This was England at the turn of the last decade, and the indie rock bands I loved were mostly made up of scrawny white men with artistic bangs. ‘Spice World’ & Me 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

As the singer of Interpol, the impressive baritone of Paul Banks has been an integral part of the group's transition from melodic post-post-rock group into one of the world's most epic and successful indie bands. This week's new live music 2013-01-19T06:00:03Z

While it’s not hard to find, say, authentic indie rock — throw a dart at a map of Brooklyn or Portland or Austin — country music, of the not-built-for-stadiums, non-Keith Urban variety, is more elusive these days. T Magazine: Origin of Country 2012-03-12T16:45:50Z

In an article for The Times, Jason Zinoman called the film an “indie gem,” writing that the “contentious mother-daughter relationship is rooted in such heartbreaking realism that it evokes ‘Lady Bird,’ plus witchcraft.” What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Trump and Taxes’ and ‘Pyewacket’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

The "True Blood" actor has picked up roles in action feature "The Killer Elite" and indie drama "The City of Gardens," both shooting abroad this month. "True Blood" Bowler actor lands two film roles 2010-05-26T05:55:00Z

At 53, he gravitates toward more offbeat fare, from an upcoming episode of the British series "Black Mirror" to the indie film "Finding Vincent." 'Moon' and 'Fountain' composer Clint Mansell will perform soundtrack pieces at Theatre at Ace Hotel 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

And a good fit for Spoon, which started out as an emblem of the indie scene in its hometown, Austin, Tex., and now, 17 years later, is as expansive and enduring as a flag. 2010-01-07T21:50:00Z

Trevorrow, previously known for the indie film Safety Not Guaranteed, broke box office records this summer with the fourth installment in the Jurassic Park series. Star Wars: Episode IX to be directed by Jurassic World's Colin Trevorrow 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z

Spend a few hours at Sundance or Cannes and you are bound to hear someone conjuring up the old days, when indie film really, you know, mattered or when Marcello Mastroianniwas standing right over there. Critic?s Notebook: A Film Festival With a Penchant for Making Tastes, Not Deals 2010-09-23T22:17:00Z

"The marketplace is pretty much in a malaise, unless you're a specialty or indie film playing in a limited number of theaters," said Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian. 'Narnia" cruises to No. 1 debut with modest $24.5M 2010-12-12T23:16:00Z

Striking the perfect balance between good old rock 'n' roll and indie pop, Take a Card is one hell of a song. Now listening: reader playlist 2012-05-23T16:08:00Z

Also present is Ali Hedrick, a Seattle booking agent who books shows for indie darlings Sufjan Stevens and the New Pornographers. The Seattle band The Head and the Heart prepares itself for something big 2010-10-15T23:07:00Z

Taking on the fashion monster Could Matt Smith, with his ankle boots and indie haircut, be the man to finally make the Doctor cool? Doctor Who: Matt Smith's debut in The Eleventh Hour - the verdict 2010-04-03T18:25:00Z

Was it a conscious decision to move away from big studio films and pursue these more indie roles? Daniel Radcliffe on Why He Loves When People Make Fun of Him 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

The idea for La La Land dates back to Chazelle’s Harvard days when he and Hurwitz played in an indie pop band. Is hit Hollywood film La La Land about to become a stage show? 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

British indie band Ultrasound, touted as the "next big thing" in the 1990s only to sink without trace following bitter bust-ups, reports of in-band infidelity and "creative differences", fits the bill neatly. UK band Ultrasound rises from ashes of 90s implosion 2012-10-15T15:56:31Z

“Top Five” is effectively an indie with a megastar in charge. Chris Rock and Questlove Discuss 'Top Five' 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Rainy Day is lovely in a 1983 indie sort of way, like something from an old Marine Girls record or a lost demo from the sessions that produced Jane's It's a Fine Day. New band of the day ? The Crayonettes (No 856) 2010-08-27T15:13:00Z

But the 72-year-old actor would prefer some wider attention for his recent low-budget indie film, “Standing Up, Falling Down.” Q&A: Billy Crystal on Oscars and ‘little powerhouse’ film 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Since then, however, Gyllenhaal hasn't redoubled his efforts at mainstream success or retreated to shoestring indie projects. 'Nightcrawler': Jake Gyllenhaal keeps up his gonzo streak 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z

Like many indie record stores, Miller’s White Label Vinyl provides a place for people to get together, talk about music, and to check out the latest new and used records, and other merch. Vinyl records surge during pandemic, keeping sales spinning 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

But he became best known for his work in the indie comedy “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” which centered on a middle-class Greek American woman who falls in love with an upper-middle-class White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Michael Constantine of ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ dies at 94 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

For those savvy enough to avoid alternative rock radio in 2014, Bastille’s “Pompeii” is a good summation of the entire format: an anthemic, focus-group-friendly amalgam of pop and the indie rock of the last decade. Your week in Seattle music: Fleetwood Mac, Usher and more 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Gabriel’s collection of covers felt like his personal playlist, with an emphasis on Starbucks-friendly indie rock acts such as the Magnetic Fields and Bon Iver, their delicate compositions often beefed up with swelling orchestral arrangements. Judging albums by their cover (songs) 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The Mecca of indie film-making is starting to look more like a sanctuary. Sundance, sunset: is the death of indie cinema imminent? 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z

A fable about an 11-year old motherless boy in a rough, depressed mining town, and his burgeoning passion for ballet dancing, the indie film was gritty but also sentimental, bleak but hopeful, too. Review: 'Billy Elliot' is pro-union, and pro-razzle-dazzle, too 2011-03-25T00:20:39Z

They top categories honored rap, pop, indie music, folk and dance. Kanye gets 7 Grammy noms; Adele, Mars, Foos get 6 2011-12-01T11:49:09Z

It's also within a mile of two independent bookstores, Bookworks and the Gallery Bookstore Ltd., and just over a mile from indie booksellers Unabridged Books and Bookman's Corner. Amazon's brick-and-mortar bookstore expansion to include Chicago 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

So it’s surprising to see indie taking over at least one corner of Twitter today. Never apologize for carrying a Weezer lunch box! Amazing #IndieAmnesty confessions are nothing to be embarrassed about 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Sony also put indies front and center early in the night, including multiple titles from Devolver Digital as well as Hello Games’ “No Man Sky,” an atmospheric space simulator. E3: Sony puts a date on 'The Last Guardian,' showcases new 'Uncharted' 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

It might be indie heresy to admit it but for all the perennial fuss made about Pavement I actually prefer the debut solo offering by the band's former frontman, Stephen Malkmus. Old music: Stephen Malkmus – Jenny and the Ess-Dog 2012-06-26T12:49:20Z

Moves is overflowing with such pithy, spirited bonhomie, and expands the BFB's countrified indie sound with Johnny Marresque guitars, pedal steel and pianos. Singing Adams: Moves – review 2012-11-29T22:15:01Z

Before Amazon’s largess, Mr. Allen, like most indie filmmakers, financed his movies by preselling distribution rights. Can Woody Allen Work in Hollywood Again? 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z

At the Culture Project theater on Bleecker St., early in the going at Winter Jazzfest on Friday night, they sounded ready for a bigger stage, or at least an indie film soundtrack. ArtsBeat: Winter Jazzfest: Pretty Postbop From a Comfy Seat 2013-01-12T01:17:35Z

The throwdowns are lively, good-natured, a breath of indie air in a city where massive corporations dominate the coffee industry. | Is Coffee in Paris Improving? 2011-01-07T15:33:24Z

The indie movies are about learning and growing as an actor. Mary Elizabeth Winstead on '10 Cloverfield Lane' and Why She's Screwed for Doomsday 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

“Less sleep, more art”, say the creatives of Toronto, who are transforming the city for an all-nighter of contemporary art hosted by major cultural institutions, indie arts venues and public spaces. 10 of the best night-time festivals this autumn 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

We posed a similar question on Twitter several months ago and were inundated with stories of indie legends shopping in B&Q and infamous hell-raisers stopping to ask for directions. Have you met any famous musicians? 2012-12-05T15:22:44Z

“Not every director working in indie filmmaking actually has a business sense.” Ava DuVernay and ‘Middle of Nowhere’ 2012-10-07T05:03:01Z

This film is a big leap for you having made a series of indie films like "Colma: The Musical" and "Bitter Melon." "This is a dead wife movie" that isn't maudlin says "The Secret Art of Human Flight" filmmaker 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

Jeremiah Green, a drummer who was one of the founding members of Modest Mouse, an indie rock band that rose to mainstream fame in the early 2000s, died on Saturday. Jeremiah Green, Drummer for Modest Mouse, Dies at 45 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

Start at the bookshop Konst-ig, filled with indie magazines and rare design and art tomes. 36 Hours in Stockholm 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

If you said you were in an indie band, people would kind of roll their eyes at you. Michael Kiwanuka Felt ‘One Step Away.’ Now He Has a Seat at the Table. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

An early internet success story, he topped the chart with his independent debut, “Blue Slide Park,” in 2011, the first indie album to do so in 16 years. Mac Miller, Rapper Who Wrestled With Fame and Addiction, Dies at 26 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

Some of us had nowhere to stay, so the indie production company Killer Films found competitively priced living spaces to accommodate their out-of-town actors. Anna Kendrick: The First Time I Made a Movie (at 16) 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

"There's rock, there's indie, there's folk, there's electro-pop and there's actually a large dose of experimentation as well," he said. 'Glorious' music prize shortlist 2012-08-29T08:10:08Z

The music is slightly twisted indie rock, riffing with a guitar answered by a tootling keyboard but in 9/4 rather than the usual 4/4; like this election campaign, it keeps knocking itself askew. The Playlist: Pusha T Spurns the Doubters and Kendrick Lamar Tempts the Critics 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Usually the most lauded groups – especially indie ones – are of the rebel-rock genus. Trophy Wife (No 876) 2010-09-28T15:47:00Z

It sounded like she tended to be more into indie bands. Date Lab: The more they talked, the more they seemed alike 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

The total surpassed the initial outcome for “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” which became a runaway indie hit in 2014. ‘La La Land’ Sizzles in Limited Release in North America 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z

It’s not the type of music that gets the indie kids going, either. Garbage?s Reunion Rock Record Feels More Like an Anomaly 2012-05-15T16:19:09Z

Byrne earlier in the year finished a run on Broadway in "You Can't Take It With You" and was recently seen in the indie comedy "Adult Beginners." Melissa McCarthy-Rose Byrne chemistry is the secret formula in 'Spy' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

So it's down to critical indie group Bon Iver and The Band Perry, who have won so many music honors from all 10,000 of those awards shows for country music. Will Adele be the belle of the Grammy ball? 2012-02-10T03:01:04Z

The company’s subsequent purchase by Disney gave the brothers the financial clout to virtually corner the indie market. | 'Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project': ?Unauthorized: The Harvey Weinstein Project? ? Review 2011-10-09T21:49:19Z

The heads of the indie labels that have placed their modest bets on African music also point to the conditions that make this boomlet different from those in the past. Music: Indie Rock Embraces an African Invasion 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z

This ephemeral survival led to an invitation in 2011 to play a reunion show at All Tomorrow's Parties: a festival that presented the outsider bands of their youths to indie rockers trudging into middle age. 'Your Band Sucks,' but your book is a mixed bag 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

In addition to its biggest acts, the festival includes a number of indie darlings like Jamie xx, St. Vincent and Die Antwoord. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

The reason for the turnabout for an actor who has so far mostly stayed away from big-budget Hollywood movies after impressing critics with serious indie dramas, was Carell, he said. Ryan Gosling takes on comedy to cure the blues 2011-07-27T19:35:33Z

Most of the works were hybrids of exotic timbres, electronica and indie pop. Music Review | Kronos Quartet: Reveries From the Arctic Circle, at Zankel Hall 2010-03-15T04:55:00Z

Thanks to groups like Animal Collective and its peers, the shamanic impulse is as alive as ever in indie rock. Music Review: Prince Rama: Summoning the Spiritual With Cowbell 2010-08-10T22:37:00Z

While "real" R&B often deals with life in the moment, indie R&B tends to look back from the foggy haze of the next morning, creating distant, disconnected slow jams. Did gloomy hipsters ruin R&B in 2012? 2012-12-29T00:06:55Z

TerminalDecline Yes, there is a landfill. It's non-toxic. It's not full, and the only people who complain don't live nearby. The indie landfill is found at your local festival. Ask the indie professor: What is indie? And how does rainfall make it better? 2010-07-19T15:43:00Z

For some time, I tried to rebel against that by playing indie rock, trying to be weird for weird’s sake. For Fans of Robert Ellis, Vivid Contrasts in a Stylish CD 2011-07-10T06:00:30Z

In “The Afflicted Girl,” by Oscar Bettison, that sensibility was fleeting: the harsh opening chords seemed rooted in indie rock. Music Review | Bang on a Can All Stars: Work by the People and for the People 2010-02-25T22:50:00Z

And then we start listening to the angsty indie music, and the two puzzle pieces clicked in my mind. Grace VanderWaal Doesn’t Want to Exist Without ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’ 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Last October, just before the deal-making frenzy of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the indie publisher Johnny Temple received an e-mailed book proposal that he was tempted to brush off. A Heckuva Book Pitch. That?s Putting It Mildly. 2011-06-07T21:50:25Z

British indie rock band Kasabian will return to England's Reading and Leeds Festival as headliners after a five-year absence, organizers said on Thursday. British rockers Kasabian to headline Reading and Leeds festival 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

The musicians appearing in Michael Azerrad's "Our Band Could Be Your Life," about the indie scene of the '80s, only now appear in boldface. 33 1/3 essential books that rock 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Now, at the Vans showcase, they're blasting huge indie choruses with the professionalism of a stadium outfit. SXSW music festival: Solange, Death Grips and Kendrick Lamar 2013-03-18T16:49:11Z

Aster is as close as the indie company has to a signature voice, a house stylist. Ari Aster Has Something Funny to Show You. Don’t Be Scared. 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

That American pastime of chopping cars is just one of the many true details that distinguish the seductive, grubby-beautiful, low-budget movie “Bellflower” from the usual indie chaff. | 'Bellflower': A Souped-Up Romance Turns Demolition Derby 2011-08-04T21:58:54Z

If his "indie" followers stay with him now he's signed to a major, he'll be massive. New band of the day ? No 1004: Ed Sheeran 2011-04-13T16:35:14Z

The company has deals with all of the major labels and quite a few indie ones, which has allowed their storefront to swell to over 10 million items. Garth Brooks Returns With A New Album And His Own Digital Music Store 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

A new project aims to introduce Bob Dylan's music to young people by having buzz-worthy indie artists cover one of his best-known albums in a digital-only format. Project uses indie artists to introduce Dylan 2010-10-04T16:43:00Z

Members of Lebanese indie rock band Mashrou’ Leila were scheduled to take part in a discussion about “media revolutions in the Middle East” at Northwestern University’s Qatar campus on Tuesday. U.S. university in Qatar cancels Lebanese band talk after anti-gay backlash 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Nineties indie rockers Ultrasound, who split acrimoniously a decade ago, reunited to cover Big Ship, and are now reformed and on tour. Cardiacs tribute album to raise money for paralysed singer Tim Smith 2011-02-03T21:59:01Z

It would be an interesting little indie movie where we're just really talking for a long time. Paula Pell, queen of comedy: On her "SNL" years, making "Wine Country" with Amy Poehler and more 2019-05-13T04:00:00Z

Only women behind the camera, actually: For her indie comedy “Band Aid,” released Friday, June 2, Ms. Lister-Jones hired an all-female crew, from the grips to the drivers to the production assistants. When the Grip Is a Woman (and the Gaffer and the Camera Operator, Too) 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

An up-and-coming indie rock band called Ironic Maiden is playing its final song at a local dive bar. Review: Hipsters find love in a rock comedy 2013-03-25T22:40:10Z

At its best, it evokes early 2010s indie pop act Cults, whose hit “Go Outside” was a candy-coated the Mamas & the Papas homage that hinted at a rotten core underneath. Review | Lorde returns with ‘Solar Power,’ but it’s mostly just wind 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z

The lineup laden with indie rock heavyweights was announced Monday. Sasquatch! music festival returns to indie rock roots with 2018 lineup 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

He is also preparing to return for the eighth season of “The Game” and is an executive producer of “Lemonade,” an indie feature starring Marisa Tomei. I’m Not a Doctor, but I Play One ... 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

I loved my indie bands but working at the club I started to pine for more complicated harmonic expressions which really affected me emotionally. Corinne Bailey Rae: Soundtrack of my Life 2010-03-28T00:06:00Z

But he no longer fears the ennui that follows a small-town upbringing, nor that of middling indie fame. Feels like Devon 2011-04-01T23:01:00Z

It is a song that changed their sound as a band, establishing their more edgy indie approach, one that is evident throughout their debut offering and is a refreshing take on the local music scene. August's best new music from across the MAP 2011-08-17T17:09:56Z

Chances are, though, that this enormously insidious hybrid of urban rhythms and brittle indie textures will be the strong favourite anyhow – and rightly so. Mercury prize 2010: A dozen of the best 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

On the other hand, "indie cred" is about as important to Wheatley as getting that pool. Ben Wheatley: 'I don't think I'll ever be a Hollywood guy' 2013-06-22T05:00:00Z

There's something kind of refreshing about this grimy, nervy, confrontational indie – a portrait of a manically neurotic New York man who's difficult to like or befriend. This week's new film releases 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z

Willow Creek mega-church in Chicago pioneered sound and light shows and indie rock bands that entice young people into the club by emulating familiar entertainment media. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z

These are secular hymns for the indie kids — one exhortatory song is actually called “Surfer’s Hymn,” as if to pre-empt comparison with Brian Wilson, Panda Bear’s most obvious touchstone — but that shouldn’t limit their appeal. Critics? Choice: New Cds: Wrapping Up Life and Death In One Album 2011-04-11T21:45:09Z

There was a coy, sometimes run-on exuberance about many indie bands in the aughts, though few encapsulated that as expressively as the Welsh group Los Campesinos! An Exclamatory Playlist! 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z

Even if it can't match the aesthetic beauty of vintage Brook, and leaves you wanting more music from the Iranian indie band, Take It Easy Hospital, the production still has great charm. The Arabian Nights – review 2012-12-09T18:01:14Z

It’s similar to what’s happened in film, where most studios lean heavily on superhero blockbusters and leave the quieter fare to indie filmmakers who must seek out smaller distributors. How 'The Good Wife' Changed Feminism and Politics on TV 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

I n the indie films he's made so far he's almost always been volcanic; and Vaughn obviously didn't tell him to lighten up just because this is a fantasy prequel. A Failing Grade to X-Men: First Class 2011-06-02T17:35:00Z

In 2011, her debut album, “The Magic Place,” became a surprise indie hit. Julianna Barwick Left Her Ghosts in New York. Then the Healing Began. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Three decades on, coming-out stories may have become commonplace in indie films and television movies, but it is impossible not to be moved by these quiet accounts of self-discovery and affective courage. DVDs: New DVDs, ?Word Is Out? and ?Meredith Monk? 2010-05-30T01:53:00Z

Over the next 20 years, I lost a record deal, two apartments and a budding film career that consisted of a prominent role in a well-reviewed indie film. Mirror: Teacher: Experience Needed 2011-03-11T17:26:35Z

It's a different matter for the indies, who now use the protracted awards season to roll out many of their films. Holding Oscars earlier would be tricky 2010-06-24T03:55:00Z

Eight years later Handling would offer him the fest director position, but this time he accepted, driven by one of his passions: Supporting indie titles he felt needed to reach a global audience. Toronto film fest boss stays cool under pressure 2010-09-03T03:05:00Z

She has even hired a part-time employee, an indie rock musician named Jake Pepper. Up Close: Talking With Veronica Vasicka, Founder of Minimal Wave 2012-04-11T21:05:26Z

It matters deeply to indies: Even without the three months of pay from Apple, Swift will be fine, and she said as much in her letter. Apple changes its tune for Taylor Swift: What have we learned? 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Or, put another way, as high-quality TV becomes more entrenched, the need for indie TV increases. Sundance 2015: Can an animated animal show change the way TV is made? 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Most of the celebrated indie rockers of the nineties were male, and the term “indie” remains a clumsy signifier for white, a fact that wasn’t lost on either of us. Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

Working for a non-profit organisation that supports the city’s music scene, Weiss has seen local venues blossom, from indie hall Vaudeville Mews to nightclub The Lift, and smaller, folkier joint The Gas Lamp. The best towns and small cities in the US: Des Moines, Iowa 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

He appeared in “Shazam!” earlier this year and will soon begin filming the FX anthology series “Mrs. America” and the indie film “Kid Detective.” Brody’s take: Adam Brody dishes on career and his TV habits 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z

After putting out a few releases independently Fleming was picked up by London indie label Blow Up and released his self-titled debut album in 2008. Baltic Fleet – New Band Up North #33 2013-07-22T16:00:00Z

A Rich Palette: Mr. Karpeh’s sound is a fusion of R&B, hip-hop and indie pop, which he attributes to his mother’s eclectic music taste. Cautious Clay Makes Music About Love in the Digital Age 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

The “this” in question was a tastemaker party with Oscar voters and industry veterans meant to reposition the indie hit as an awards contender. ‘Everything Everywhere,’ All Through Awards Season? 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

The Fighter is another indie box office success and has amassed close to $90m in the US and more than $100m when you factor in the international box office. Unknown: the indie mainstream hit 2011-02-21T17:57:26Z

If the producers decide to dig a little deeper into the indie back channels, they’d do well to keep an eye out for this relatively under-the-radar talent. Solo performance: who should score Star Wars once John Williams quits? 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

In New York that broad umbrella will cover a range that includes programs of club-oriented electronica, indie rock, free improvisation, ambient music and contemporary classical work. 2010-01-29T19:15:00Z

It was not until the New York film festival in January 1985, where critics loved it, that it became a viable movie, and Crown International Pictures, an indie distributor, bought it. How we made Blood Simple 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

A hard rock festival with occasional indie interloping, in recent years rock has steadily returned to the fore. This week's new live music 2012-08-17T23:05:00Z

The company also manages charts similar to Billboard, but for the indie market. You've Likely Never Heard Of One Of The Music Industry's Most Important Music Festivals 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Her earlier tunes—one, “Kiss with a Fist,” was written when she was just 17— were traditional, guitar-driven indie pop. The Otherworldly Charms of Florence + the Machine 2011-11-03T09:00:45Z

For me, the prizes didn't really reflect the energy and breadth of what British indie films are doing, although it was great to see Gareth Edwards winning big for Monsters. Jason Solomons's Trailer Trash 2010-12-12T00:07:00Z

Despite the Britpop-era settings, the song remains very much the same in this Liverpool indie band saga. This week's new films 2011-08-26T23:06:05Z

I want to have a low-budget, indie, British-made film,” he said. Ed Sheeran set to star in musical film that 'mixes Notting Hill with Once' 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

A hit with audiences and critics, after a successful limited run, the film went into wide release across the US, a highly unusual move for a small-budget indie comedy. The keg party's over: why gross-out comedies are going down the pan 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

It’s been one of the bright spots in a trying marketplace this year for indie film. Sundance sets lineup with Taylor Swift, ‘Tesla,’ ‘Downhill’ 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

The breakup of Girls drove fervent speculation in the indie world. Pop: Christopher Owens Leaves Girls for ‘Lysandre’ 2013-01-09T13:00:00Z

“The Lighthouse,” Eggers’ anticipated follow-up to the 2015 indie horror hit “The Witch,” premiered in the festival’s Directors’ Fortnight section. ‘The Lighthouse,’ with Robert Pattinson, illuminates Cannes 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z

Otherwise it looks like any other fashion promo, or indie film. ArtsBeat: Watch List: How Film Might Look After Google's Glass Goggles 2012-09-13T17:00:08Z

It serves as a reminder to respect your indie rock elders. Listen: 13 Best Indie Songs of Summer 2012-08-14T12:00:15Z

If you were part of the indie scene in the ’90s, there would be little reason to think we’d still be talking about Nada Surf two decades later. Nada Surf rocks: Why the indie band, with a new live record, is one of life’s great pleasures 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Mara’s latest, Una, is also the kind of film that perhaps only a true indie queen could make. Rooney Mara: look out, Greta Gerwig – there’s a new arthouse darling in town 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

His Chicago gigs this season will include Richard III at Evanston’s Next Theatre and the Will Eno solo drama “Title and Deed” at Lookingglass Theatre next spring, plus indie film work. Olney’s smashmouth drama ‘Colossal’ tackles football, disability and sexuality

But I’d also argue that TV is a good match for indie filmmakers for other than economic and practical reasons. Why TV Is the Perfect Place for Indie Filmmakers 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

In this regard, "Time" echoes the recent indie favorite "Short Term 12," also an indictment of a system; without any form of identification, George learns, for all intents and purposes, he is not a person. Oren Moverman hopes 'Time Out of Mind' spotlights homelessness 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

The people who refuted indie's existence included American and Canadian music scholars, North American music journalists and radio DJs. Ask the indie professor: why do Americans think they invented indie? 2011-07-28T09:06:39Z

The movie was acquired for considerably more than the 2006 indie hit Little Miss Sunshine, which went on to gross $100 million worldwide. Kumail Nanjiani is the Romantic Comedian We've Been Waiting For 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

I thought Knight and Day was highly enjoyable, if a little hard to recall a few weeks later, while on the indie front Splice and Winter's Bone were terrific. The Expendables: still gunning down feeble box-office competition 2010-08-23T13:18:00Z

An indie rock band rising from the orchestra pit. Pacific Northwest stars in Wolf Trap’s night of dance, music & postcard-pretty film

The indie film and critical darling Dear White People is getting a television adaptation on Netflix. These Are the 20 New TV Shows You Should Watch in 2017 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

This remix represents his indie side, which I also really like. DJ Kristian Beyer Q&A 2012-06-29T23:05:00Z

Ms. Taymour dressed somewhat similarly, too, though more “indie sleaze party girl,” she said: tube tops, heavy eyeliner, American Apparel jeans and Marc by Marc Jacobs heels. The Real Housewives of Sustainable Fashion 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

In the summer of 1989, a little-known rock band from Seattle released its debut album, “Bleach,” on the indie label Sub Pop. 15 Great Songs From 1989 (the Year, Not the Album) 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

Well-regarded executives at indie labels Summit and Spyglass have been consulted but failed to convince weary Lion debtholders that their management prowess alone can put the studio back on the path to prosperity. Hunt for MGM CEO hits snag 2010-06-16T05:13:00Z

With her third album, Better Than Wages, she fully embraced the indie sounds with a full roster of straightforward guitar-pop. July's best new music from across the MAP 2011-07-18T08:26:00Z

Guitarist Brad Allen Williams, a new addition to James' band, pushes the music toward spiky indie rock, of all things, in "Anywhere U Go" and "EveryLittleThing," which suggests Prince fronting Nine Inch Nails. José James demonstrates a mastery of vibe on 'While You Were Sleeping' 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

What was the indie rock tribe, which you joined when you were in college in the mid-’80s? “It’s not about Nirvana”: The real story of the music uprising which upended corporate rock and killed hair metal 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

Chavkin: I’m seeing a huge proliferation of people downtown and in some uptown channels working indie rock. 'Evan Hansen,' 'Great Comet,' 'Come From Away': Tony contenders gather to hash it out 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Eclectic weekend throngs: indie rock dudes, women in overalls and Spielberg caps, tourist families, meandering bros in board shorts caught in the limbo between nearby Berry Park and Spritzenhaus. A Makeshift Bar on a Dusty Brooklyn Patch 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

"We're six white kids who grew up on indie rock," said guitarist Michael Parker during a chat with four of the band's members last week in Greenwood. Pickwick wasn't always a soul band 2011-12-01T22:00:05Z

Robert Redford added the festival in 1985 as an offshoot of his Sundance Institute that offers professional support to indie filmmakers. Indie time: Sundance sets focus on low-budget film 2013-01-16T15:35:14Z

Bringing up the average is 78-year-old U.S. director Monte Hellman, who will be premiering his indie feature "Road to Nowhere," about a young writer who gets caught up in a crime. Festival announces 79 world premieres for Venice 2010-07-29T14:33:00Z

It's clear that landfill indie might be your best bet if you want a healthy life on the music scene. Mike Starr and the deadliest musical genre 2011-03-10T08:15:27Z

Instead, it's a genuine pop epic embarrassing everything Vampire Weekend have put their skinny indie bongos to. This week's new singles 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

“Ultimately, we sort of backed into an indie version of the Pixar process,” Camp said. The Next Act for Marcel the Shell (and Jenny Slate) 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

Is it possible for a man to lose a few pounds for the sake of his health and still keep his indie credibility? Kevin Smith: Skinnier -- but not proud 2011-02-11T16:12:00Z

The genial 2008 indie “Bottle Shock,” free on Amazon Prime, is a paean to connoisseurship, depicting in fiction form the rise of California wines in the 1970s. Oh, My Aching Head: Movies for the Soused or Now Sober 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

The city of some 39,000 has an art museum and annual jazz and film festivals, and supports another fine indie bookstore, Watchung Booksellers. In the Jersey Suburbs, a Bookstore Whose Vibe Is Pure Narnia 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z

So perhaps it’s not too surprising that Seattle’s big-little indie label is opening its second brick-and-mortar store in the middle of a pandemic when online shopping is soaring. Take a peek inside Sub Pop’s new flagship store in Seattle’s Denny Triangle neighborhood 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z

Do you see irony in an indie band taking their video in that direction? T Magazine: For New Idea Society, a New Dimension 2011-01-05T21:15:52Z

This indie micro-budgeted film, Mr. Porterfield’s second, is really an impressionistic portrait of a place and its residents, a number of whom have been involved in drug dealing. | 'Putty Hill': Drugs, Death and Downward Mobility in Baltimore 2011-02-17T23:38:30Z

It's become something of a cliché: the indie band who want to achieve the polished perfection of Michael's disco apotheosis. Kinema (No 749) 2010-03-18T17:56:00Z

His aim was clear: to demystify the process of actually making a living as an indie film-maker. Joe Swanberg: 'be prolific and people will lose the will to fight against you' 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

If you've been put in a box marked 'jingle jangle indie pop blah blah' then it's your responsibility to break out of that, otherwise you're creatively dead. Johnny Marr on the Smiths, Morrissey and putting politics back in pop 2013-01-11T07:00:00Z

She and Mr. Moore are divorcing, upending one of indie rock’s reliable musical and romantic institutions. Music Review: The Julie Ruin, Body/Head and Majical Cloudz Play Northside 2013-06-14T21:48:15Z

Love at the Bottom of the Sea isn’t the Magnetic Fields’ best album, but it doesn’t need to be — they’ve already ensured their spot in the indie pop pantheon with 69 Love Songs. Can The Magnetic Fields' New Album Recapture that 69 Love Songs Magic? 2012-02-29T16:08:20Z

Ms. Plaza chipped away at her sarcastic veneer with the 2012 indie comedy “Safety Not Guaranteed,” in which she is a somewhat earnest writer. Aubrey Plaza Is Dangerously Funny 2013-07-11T17:02:12Z

This may be a dumb question, but what criteria are you using for "indie" here – musical/hairstyle, or artists who aren't signed to a major? Ask the indie professor: What is indie? And how does rainfall make it better? 2010-07-19T15:43:00Z

On Sunday she’s presenting two groups from Brooklyn: Small Black, popular on indie radio, and Radical Dads, whose name alone should be enough to attract children. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 13-19 2013-12-12T23:34:34Z

The first trailer for new horror film Slice, Chance the Rapper’s screen debut, has been released by indie studio A24, the company behind Moonlight and Lady Bird. Slice: first trailer for Chance the Rapper's pizza werewolf movie 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

This Canadian indie rock band makes earnest, romantic guitar anthems that could go on a mixtape with Wolf Parade, Constantines and Weed — and that's a good thing. 7 days of Seattle music: From Ben Gibbard to Emanuel Ax 2012-11-09T20:04:04Z

I could stand at one end of the office and read the day's indie updates. Peter Robinson's Radio Daze: Xfm 2012-07-20T23:04:00Z

Holy Ghost! has so far avoided that fate with a trickle of dance singles and indie remixes full of an un-self-conscious buoyancy. Playlist: Look Back at a Legend, Then Revisit Disco 2011-04-01T21:50:45Z

Pretty much leading the “Madchester” scene of the late 1980′s, the Roses fused indie rock with a baggy dance beat that quickly won them plaudits from the press and a passionate fanbase. They Wanna Be Adored: The Stone Roses to Reunite for Tour 2011-10-18T15:55:37Z

Ms. Shawkat, who also has an executive producer credit here, has appeared in her share of indie productions. Review: ‘Duck Butter’ and the 24-Hour ‘for Real’ Relationship 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Feel more at home with the indie crowd? Graphic Evidence Of Comics Fanatics 2010-10-07T14:45:00Z

The shift in acquisitions reflects the changes in how people consume movies—with indies often finding bigger audiences on couches than in theaters. These Are the Sundance Movies That Will Be Big in 2016 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Several large indie pattern companies, the biggest of which was Canadian Closetcase Patterns, responded in furious agreement, saying their decision not to run larger sizes was “about resources,” not exclusion. Stitch-up: online sewing community at war over cultural appropriation 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

That indie vision sounds a lot like Hollywood. Are indie films just expensive blogs? 2013-01-17T18:30:01Z

As it happens, Mr. Soderbergh, whose career oscillated between small indie productions and studio fare like the “Ocean’s Eleven” franchise, brought up “Iron Man 3” in his talk. Movie Review: ‘Iron Man 3,’ With Robert Downey Jr. 2013-05-02T12:00:01Z

So if it’s put you in the mood to shed even more tears, check our our list of favorite sob-inducing indies below. 11 amazing movies that will make you cry like a baby 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Related: Arthouse blues: why did indie films have such a terrible summer? Sundance 2016: which films are set to reverse festival's box office flameout? 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

It’s like something from the end of a version of “Rudy,” set in an indie bookstore. Riff: A Critic’s Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical 2012-08-15T15:40:06Z

In fact, the indies who occupy the rap album category seem like outliers – until you realize that the majors only released a handful of such albums last year. Grammys 2015: The Music Industrial Complex reveals this year's models 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

Hard to say in this marketplace, when indie bands no longer look askance at corporate sponsorship, and underground artists hope to appear on a reality show. Reverend Billy?s Revelation: A Role for Money 2010-10-08T22:42:00Z

That was the case when the sound of a bellowing elephant was used to vocalize for a ghost bride in “The Innkeepers,” a 2012 indie from Ti West. They Scream! We Scream! 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Use this as a platform to create a different experience by booking acts that would be playing a small club - an emerging rapper or indie band or guitarist for example. Rock in Rio report card: 6 ways to make a better festival 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

By most metrics of what makes a successful indie band these days, Animal Collective checks nearly every box. Animal Collective wants to do their own thing and that means saving coral reefs 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

An indie film that looks, walks and talks like a studio film, but with nearly half the box office going to Soderbergh and his creative partners. Steven Soderbergh: 'Film-making is like sex. If I accidentally give someone else pleasure, that's fine' 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

The past decade has seen Mothersbaugh alternating between undoubtedly well-paid studio gigs and more impassioned compositions for indie jobs – for every Hotel Transylvania 2, there’s a Brad’s Status. Solo performance: who should score Star Wars once John Williams quits? 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

Related: Remembering Memento and Spectre-bashing – film show extra podcast It grossed $25.5m at the domestic US box office, qualifying it as an indie hit, and received Oscar nominations for best screenplay and best editing. Christopher Nolan's Memento is being remade – just 15 years after the original 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

The band gives soul music a modern twist by combining it with indie rock and new wave. Fitz and the Tantrums throw down at the Showbox 2012-01-22T02:00:06Z

Released on 13 July under the guise Fresh Touch, the indie supergroup will release the limited edition track in aid of Oxfam's Syria appeal. Damon Albarn launches another supergroup as Syria fundraiser 2013-07-05T15:36:52Z

Edward Burns has carved a distinctive path as an indie filmmaker in the quarter-century since he made a splash with his debut, “The Brothers McMullen.” Edward Burns Returns to Long Island with ‘Bridge and Tunnel’ 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

"Least Among Saints": An indie drama about a Middle East war veteran who befriends a newly orphaned 10-year-old opens Friday at the Southcenter 16. Weekend Preview: GirlFest, Harvest Food & Wine Festival 2012-10-17T23:18:11Z

There is a great deal of genuine artistry in this film, which is the most polished and mainstream to date from the maker of indies like "Trash Humpers." Review: `Spring Breakers' is a hypnotic mix 2013-03-13T21:55:13Z

Instead, she turned to the college radio station, where she became a music director; she also started organizing indie concerts. L’Rain’s Songs Hold Ghosts, Demons and Healing 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

Every year, there are a handful of unsigned or indie acts who end up being on everyone’s lips. Inside Man: A Q&A with Indie-Label Exec Thaddeus Rudd – South By Southwest (SXSW) 2013-03-14T12:00:18Z

Beyond the stable of talented Seattle bands, Block Party’s indie rock component has waned a bit, but hasn’t completely disappeared. Day In Day Out festival announces 2022 lineup likely to please old-school Capitol Hill Block Party fans 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

The cast of small-town characters he imagines is like that of a 1990s indie movie; a compliment, in this case. Can Handiwork Save Your Soul? A Quiet Novel Suggests It Can 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

Did your background as an indie filmmaker help prepare you for this? Edward Burns Returns to Long Island with ‘Bridge and Tunnel’ 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

As a musician you straddle two music communities, the indie scene and the more traditional orchestral symphony scene. Q&A: Joanna Newsom on her New Album, 'Have One on Me' 2010-03-01T08:15:00Z

And that interested British indie publishing houses in the kind of book I was writing. Val McDermid: a life in writing 2011-08-12T21:55:20Z

Hummingbird was co-produced by The National's Aaron Dessner and recorded at his studio in Brooklyn, New York Los Angeles' indie rockers Local Natives enjoyed massive critical acclaim with their debut album Gorilla Manor in 2009. Local Natives: 'better than ever' 2013-01-30T08:37:00Z

There's not a guitar to be heard, yet if you needed an existing musical term to capture this mood, you'd be tempted to use "indie". Mount Kimbie: Cold Spring Fault Less Youth – review 2013-05-23T20:40:02Z

Earlier this summer, Champion unleashed her “Single Rider” LP, an immaculate reinvention of her own that found Champion trading emo-tinged indie rock for synth-pop jams that will leave you crying on the dance floor. Death Cab for Cutie headlining 107.7 The End’s relocated Deck the Hall Ball 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

Pop or hip-hop values are often at odds to the indie DIY ethos. Ask the indie professor: Why are there so many white indie bands? 2011-01-04T13:10:38Z

Our own Andrew O’Hehir — who back in 2012 dubbed Stewart “the thinking person’s movie star” — writes that Stewart’s indie career is “no gimmick, and no surprise.” Cultural tipping point alert: You can all stop making fun of Kristen Stewart now 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

He played drums in indie bands, but grew dissatisfied. Purity Ring bridges indie cool and mainstream pop 2013-08-29T13:19:00Z

Ever wanted to know why gloomy indie bands from rainy towns have something in common with the expressive ritual cycles of Northwest Coast Indians? Sleeve Notes: The Mercury prize gets the temperature rising 2010-07-23T14:48:00Z

“Dealing With Dad,” a low-budget indie from the writer-director Tom Huang, is a surprisingly lighthearted movie about two serious subjects: generational trauma and chronic depression. ‘Dealing With Dad’ Review: A Family Dysfunction 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

Mac McCaughan, a founder of the band Superchunk and the indie giant Merge Records, said that New York’s record shops were part of what brought him to the city in the 1980s. Other Music Record Shop, Yielding to Trends, Will Close 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

More TV roles followed, notably on Fox’s “Red Band Society” and some films, too, including the indie “The Long Dumb Road” and the Netflix anorexia drama “To The Bone.” For 23-year-old Ciara Bravo, ‘Cherry’ is a star-making role 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z

"Tiny Furniture": Young indie filmmaker Lena Dunham wrote, directed and stars in this drama about a young woman just home from college who's trying to sort out her life. 35 holiday movies to anticipate 2010-12-03T00:02:00Z

His major label debut album, “Good for You,” out Friday, July 28, is joyously off-kilter, taking in Southern rap, cheerful pop, indie rock and more. Meet Aminé, a Joyful Rapper With an Eye on Politics 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

The prospect of going directly from a low-budget indie to a $150-million, CGI-heavy summer tentpole could easily be overwhelming — in taking such an radical leap, safety is most certainly not guaranteed. 'Jurassic World' is Trevorrow Land 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

And it is in utilising this very real story, told with a deeply personal twist, that Mills intends to move from that annoyingly reductive indie pool, into something that resembles whatever "mainstream" is. Absolute beginners 2011-07-15T23:03:00Z

Chart-topping pop stars strive to be eclectic and strange; some can even claim to be “indie” by virtue of partnering with streaming services rather than major labels. Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

He asked for their dream list of labels, which inspired them to reel off cool indies like 4AD and Sub Pop. New York Has a New Band of Buzzy Post-Punk Teens: Geese 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

It has been viewed half a million times on YouTube, indicating that the barometer hasn't quite swung away from quirky indie yet. Sivu (No 1,522) 2013-05-30T16:53:50Z

It will offer a stylistically mixed bill, with a variety of indie rock, electronica, dance and hip-hop acts booked to perform. ArtsBeat: Governors Ball Music Festival Is Planned 2011-02-22T19:08:36Z

There has been voice work in Ice Age and Lego movies, prestigious Oscar bait in the form of The Founder, and such heartfelt little indie films as 2018’s Hearts Beat Loud. Nick Offerman: 'Trump is about to be presented with a gory butcher's bill' 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Turning away from anthemic indie, Lightbody has tapped into his passion for Americana in his new side project Tired Pony and, combining what was originally two separate shows, this is the band's first-ever gig. Tired Pony 2010-07-18T21:01:00Z

On a recent Sunday afternoon the Brooklyn bands Mon Khmer and Dream Diary played energetic sets of melodic, new wave-inspired indie rock while a scrum of toddlers bobbed and weaved. Young and Restless, And Ready to Rock ?n? Roll 2011-01-06T22:24:13Z

He had gathered dozens of songs that he was interested in recording, ranging from indie rock to traditional spirituals. With a Nod to His Past, Plant Moves On Again 2010-09-05T00:14:00Z

With the struts kicked out from under independent film — a parade of studios have shuttered their indie divisions — Sundance’s decisions have more potential than ever to have an impact on the genre, industry veterans say. 2010-01-21T06:26:00Z

For Roth, the indie gigs he started out with in the US included a tiny low-budget movie called Reservoir Dogs. Double take: Tim Roth and Gary Oldman, the perfect shooting match 2010-10-22T13:08:00Z

One year in, the music press's campaign to insist that – despite all evidence to the contrary – we're living through a golden age for indie rock seems to be gathering momentum. Palma Violets – review 2013-02-14T15:30:02Z

In June, YouTube threatened to block videos by acts signed to indie labels after they refused to sign a new deal. Iggy Pop takes aim at YouTube and U2 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

It is almost 30 years since MacDowell received her first big industry nod for her acting – a Golden Globe nomination for Steven Soderbergh’s acclaimed indie film Sex, Lies and Videotape. ‘I’d ask my mum: why do you drink?’ Andie MacDowell on childhood and Hollywood 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

It’s a gorgeous, careful re-creation of one of indie rock’s first crossover moments, a miniature model of something grand. Music Review: Diving Into the Simulacrum, Moptop First 2011-05-08T22:17:27Z

This time around, buyers are largely reacting to films with appreciation as indie film fans and disappointment as business people. The Carpetbagger: At Midway Point, Sundance Lacks Bidding Wars 2014-01-21T00:21:25Z

It was "the biggest day ever for indie stores," Spencer Hickman, of Rough Trade East, told Billboard. Jack White: vinyl ambassador 2013-02-20T10:45:13Z

Vampire Weekend, Cold War Kids and Bright Eyes are among the indie bands headlining Music to Know, a new two-day festival at the Easthampton airport. Clouds Have Lifted, and the Hamptons Beckon 2011-05-25T22:26:19Z

The acclaimed indie rocker, now more widely known as “Bean Dad,” issued an apology on Tuesday for his series of posts that drew widespread criticism. Seattle’s John Roderick, aka ‘Bean Dad,’ apologizes after social media backlash 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z

"The Swell Season" is a kind of inversion to "Once," the 2006 indie hit that won an Oscar for best original song. Atypical sequels abound at Tribeca Film Festival 2011-04-27T17:57:08Z

“She’s kinda indie and pretty hot,” as Aaron sings, “and a lot like all the things that I am not.” Theater Review: ‘First Date,’ a Musical, Opens on Broadway 2013-08-09T02:00:09Z

In a time when films are either gigantic, nine-figure epics or indie pictures on a pauper’s budget, a middling movie has its theoretical charms. Ride Along: Kevin Hart, Small Cop 2014-01-15T18:37:17Z

“What’s so exciting about 80s indie is that there is no one film that perfectly captures it. There are punk films, regional subculture films, low budget horror. Nothing is cohesive.” First 80s indie film fest shows movies that paved the way for the indie boom 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

A lot of times in Young Adult books, hip-hop is only used when the characters are at parties — otherwise they’re more into indie rock. Angie Thomas Lets Hip-Hop Speak in Her New Novel, ‘On the Come Up’ 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

The problem with daytime Radio 2 is that if you are any kind of music snob – of the classic rock, indie, soul or even big-band variety – you will hear music that will repulse you. A week listening to ? Radio 2 2011-02-10T13:56:01Z

It's the , not the , of this season's indie hopefuls. Box Office Report: 'Tangled' Wins, 'Black Swan' Breaks Big 2010-12-17T16:10:00Z

Amazon Digital Discount Helps Arcade Fire Hit No. 1 The indie kids made it to No. 1, with a little help from . Arcade Fire at No. 1 Due to Discount on Downloads 2010-08-11T22:23:00Z

As a young teen, he was a self-professed indie snob who prided himself on liking only the most obscure music. Purity Ring bridges indie cool and mainstream pop 2013-08-29T13:19:00Z

There is, too, to be a host of indie titles for the PS4 and the opportunity for developers to self-publish on the platform is certain to be popular. Xbox One and PlayStation 4: the best new games showcased at E3 2013-06-15T23:05:25Z

That surge in interest in records and cassettes bodes well for the annual celebration of indie music stores, those local music hubs where people can thumb through albums, CDs and cassettes, and talk music. Vinyl records surge during pandemic, keeping sales spinning 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

After finding indie dancehall success with singles like “The Mother We Share,” the band is finally putting out a debut LP. Fall 2013 Music Preview 2013-09-06T09:45:57Z

As of late, Smith is more of a critical punching bad than a pioneering indie filmmaker. Kevin Smith has perfect comeback to people who hate his recent movies 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

Their partnership is fast becoming one of the most distinctive and mutually beneficial in cinema, a potent indie combo that has seen them rise from obscurity to big-buck deals. Trailer Trash 2013-06-01T23:05:53Z

Most of my book tour happened in bookstores, but in Fort Lauderdale the Borders had shuttered and the indies had dwindled away. 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

You all believe in each other and the indie spirit of that bolstered us. "If Anything Happens I Love You" is an animated "distillation of grief" from a school shooting 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

Jonathan, 38, is a founder of DFA Records, the indie label that defined a generation of disco hipsters with LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip and Yacht. In Film and Music, the Galkin Brothers Are on Their Own Together 2010-07-14T20:09:00Z

Actually, BLK JKS made the cut because of their international reputation, after Rolling Stone labelled them "Africa's best new band", and the taste-making US indie label Secretly Canadian snapped them up. BLK JKS: playing rock in a hard place 2010-06-03T21:26:00Z

For a while, The Avengers becomes a $200-million mass-market version of one of those indie films about a dysfunctional family whose members come home for the holidays and rip off all the old scabs. Marvel's The Avengers: A Superhero Roundup That's Almost Super 2012-04-25T12:25:56Z

Best of Toronto: Oscar candidates and indie breakouts One journalist friend of mine describes the as an exercise in chaos theory or, to put it another way, a gigantic real-world game of Tetris. Best of Toronto: Oscar candidates and indie breakouts 2011-09-16T00:30:00Z

People often do not count ethnically diverse indie bands, unless the singer is non-white. Ask the indie professor: Why are there so many white indie bands? 2011-01-04T13:10:38Z

He's more like the indie, alternative rock kinda guy, and I'm more urban R&B pop. Phillip Phillips is the new 'American Idol' 2012-05-24T11:01:05Z

“For a middle-ground indie artist like myself, CD Baby is perfect,” he said in an interview this month. CD Baby, a Company for the Niche Musician 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

Williams recently wrapped a feature film, an indie drama called “The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.” Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams have grown up on ‘Game of Thrones’ 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

British influences can be heard: there are hints of the Faces' or the Rolling Stones' swagger in Laurie Sherman's classic-rock guitar licks, and sublime opener Things Will Change dips into 1980s winsome indie. Treetop Flyers: The Mountain Moves – review 2013-04-25T20:30:02Z

It was also the only so-called indie picture released since May to make inroads with the mainstream audience. Summer Box Office Wrap: The Help Still Works on Labor Day 2011-09-05T09:55:00Z

Thanks to my team, I have final cut on nudity for these indies, and that is a huge relief. "You Mean Everything to Me" star Morgan Saylor on this seductive cautionary tale: "I love bleakness" 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z

Though it's unlikely the band will be a unifying force, the work commands attention, and it will arrive via indie powerhouse Sub Pop. Under-the-radar pop albums to watch for this year 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

Likewise, a solid performance by "The Conspirator" — starring Robin Wright and James McAvoy — would continue Roadside's winning run following indie hit "Winter's Bone" and "Biutiful." Animated 'Rio' eyeing weekend win, 'Scream 4' strong 2011-04-15T19:23:58Z

Francis stalks the snowbound house in his bathrobe like Howard Hughes with a lot less money but more indie cred. A musician slips into a kind of hipster retirement in ‘Know Your Beholder’ 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Cannes still has a monopoly on international auteurist masters; Toronto is the leading showcase for Oscar bait, and Sundance for hot indie talent. Critic?s Notebook: Tribeca Turns 10: Films on Rebels, Rock and Real Life 2011-04-14T12:00:00Z

She also wrote "Aquamarine," "The River King," and penned the screenplay for the 1993 indie film "Independence Day." "I want to believe": Alice Hoffman is always seeking magic, practical and otherwise 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z

They are two completely different sorts of albums — one a collaboration between peers, the other a love letter from an indie idol to a pop queen — that still somehow end up serving similar purposes. Teaming Up, Together (Drake and Future) or Apart (Ryan Adams and Taylor Swift) 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

The ramshackle Poor Old Soul saw indie pioneers Orange Juice moving in a funky direction, the French version retains the "no more rock and roll for you" declaration of the bridge. Readers recommend: foreign language versions ? the results 2011-03-10T17:26:30Z

The sincerity of early-aughts indie rock is a touchstone of the album—one song, “Burning Up,” is like a hybrid of Usher’s “Climax” and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. In 2016, How to Dress Well Gets Happy 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

By 1999, Pavement, the best of the American indie bands, broke up, and teen pop became enormous. Indie rock’s best year ever: 20 years later, here are 10 albums that redefined a genre 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

Scott Simpson's original Lunchbox Laboratory was an experiment in excess, the product of a brilliant madness from an inspired chef with an indie streak a mile wide. You won't leave Bellevue's Lunchbox Laboratory hungry 2012-04-12T20:15:10Z

Or, as an indie gamine and a Frenchwoman who never showed interest in Hollywood, they were too outside. Affleck Unchained: Argo Takes the Best Picture Oscar 2013-02-25T11:00:01Z

The deal valued Supreme at more than $2.1 billion and completed its path from indie darling to the heart of the establishment. Can Supreme Stay Cool While Going Corporate? 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Billboard: After being on Epic for so many years, you've struck a deal with indie label Downtown. Cyndi Lauper realizes longtime dream with "Blues" 2010-06-18T20:54:00Z

“Geiger’s solution on some level scares me,” said Frank Riley of High Road Touring, an indie stalwart who books artists like Wilco, My Bloody Valentine and Robert Plant. He Helped Create Lollapalooza. Now He Wants to Save Live Music. 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

This year, though, the membership reverted to its preference for indie and niche bio-pic fare. This Is How to Fix the Oscars 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

And Australia's indie developers are only too happy for that to happen. Game on for PAX Australia as Penny Arcade Expo hits Melbourne 2013-07-21T23:47:00Z

This spring, Tacoma’s earwormy indie rockers, Enumclaw, drew praise from just about every national indie blog that matters, before ever playing a show. How Seattle’s storied rock scene is shattering the genre’s white male image 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Craig Johnson’s tender indie comedy, “True Adolescents,” examines the interim passages of male lives when time is nervously frittered away and the future looms through the mist like a giant scary question mark. | 'True Adolescents': Great Outdoors Beckons as a Test of Manhood 2011-07-28T22:03:05Z

That didn't stop the stark, sentimental and somewhat contrived indie from being nominated for a Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. Why can't Hollywood get Jews right? 2010-05-27T19:45:00Z

She got her break in Carol Morley’s British indie mystery The Falling, after picking up a leaflet advertising auditions while studying for her A-levels. Florence Pugh: ‘Me, the next Kate Winslet? That’s ridiculous’ 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

To avoid accusations of exploiting his fans — this is indie rock, after all, not big business — the organizers will put on a second, nonfestival appearance on Oct. Alternative Rock Festival Is Moving to Jersey Shore 2011-01-26T01:01:16Z

Fleetwood Mac memory No 2: Interviewing a hot, new indie band. Fleetwood Mac: magic you just can't cover 2012-07-25T15:09:00Z

I went to a convent school, very strict, and the time I was growing up it wasn't cool to be an indie kid. Lauren Laverne: 'Let's face it, TV's not brain surgery' 2010-07-01T19:30:00Z

Signing to hip French indie Kitsuné may not have been an obvious move, but was typical of Two Door's logic. How Two Door Cinema Club became shock blockbusters 2010-12-16T22:55:01Z

There is a whole class of indie games where it doesn't matter if you win or lose, full of bizarre ideas. Tom Ellard of Severed Heads - what I'm thinking about 2013-03-14T04:31:17Z

"Moonlight" was the first movie A24 financed on its own, marking the company's transition from indie distributor to full-fledged art house studio. How the indie studio behind ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Lady Bird’ and ‘Hereditary’ flourished while breaking Hollywood rules 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Brent Luvaas's work on youth culture in Indonesia shows there are many Indonesian indie rock bands including La Luna, Pure Saturday, and the Upstairs. Ask the indie professor: Why are there so many white indie bands? 2011-01-04T13:10:38Z

Mr. Rechtshaid, who is credited on “All That” and “When I Needed You,” said that pop music and indie sensibilities were moving closer together, giving an act like Ms. Jepsen new space to explore. Carly Rae Jepsen, With a New Album, Is Definitely Changing Her Number 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

Think of all the 'landfill indie' bands who've come and gone. Powered by pure passion: the music venue that runs on love alone 2012-11-25T00:05:30Z

He even recruits Fleet Foxes, who more than a decade ago brought a keening shimmer to roots-friendly indie rock, making music that was epiphanic and smudgy, and a little grating. Post Malone and Pop’s Single Sound 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

Three new albums from indie artists made it into the Top 10 this week. ArtsBeat: Another Week for Mayer at Top of Charts 2012-06-07T13:55:54Z

As with “Ava,” who was a bassist, Adams offered to use his indie rock standing to help launch the career of female artists. Ryan Adams accused of sexual misconduct, emotional abuse by seven women 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z

Mr. Mangum’s appearance, at the Paramount, is one of the most anticipated events in indie rock in years. Alternative Rock Festival Is Moving to Jersey Shore 2011-01-26T01:01:16Z

It was filled to the brim with indie transplants trying too hard to make Halloween seem cool. Celebrating Halloween as an ex-Evangelical: The conflicting highs and lows of reclaiming youth 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z

The record also features a sample of British indie rock group The xx's "Intro" on single "Drunk On Love." Rihanna's "Talk The Talk" release tops iTunes 2011-11-22T22:56:18Z

Yet, the indie arena executives say, not so fast. 2010-01-27T01:01:00Z

When British indie rockers Bombay Bicycle Club went on hiatus in January 2016, they weren’t kidding around. After a dramatic exit, British rockers Bombay Bicycle Club make a hopeful return 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

You have shape-shifted into many different roles, my favorites being two indies, “Inhale” and “Undertow,” with that memorable opening — Dermot Mulroney: “Floating in warm water in middle of the night is a strange way to make a livi... 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

With no new wide releases, a number of awards hopefuls got their start at the indie box office. Box Office: 'Ralph Breaks the Internet' Narrowly Defeats 'Grinch'... 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

These productions are a no-brainer, so it seems only natural indie movies get a shot at being smothered in greasepaint. How film went to the theatre 2012-08-10T15:53:16Z

The show on Sunday was to feature the Georgia indie rock group Of Montreal, and six other bands. ArtsBeat: Escape to New York Festival Cancels Last Day 2011-08-08T01:46:40Z

Now they are returning, at last and in full throttle, with “Cool It Down,” due Sept. 30 from the indie label Secretly Canadian. The Electrifying, Emotional Return of Yeah Yeah Yeahs 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

Darren Aronofsky -- From now until the end of time, whenever some big directing job comes open, the one-time indie god of "Requiem for a Dream" and "Pi" will be mentioned. Will Tarantino direct "The Hobbit"? 2010-06-01T21:30:00Z

Among the big questions this year: Will Macklemore & Ryan Lewis sweep the top prizes, planting a flag for indie, openly liberal rap? The Grammys, a Night for Cheers (and Often Gasps) 2014-01-23T23:06:52Z

Beloved by indie rock aesthetes for its crafty hooks and brainy lyrics, the band went on to release four albums and even toured with Coldplay. With 'The Voyager,' Jenny Lewis feels the album magic 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

The show feels like a really long indie movie that somehow got distribution, OK reviews and no audience, and now kicks around on your suggested Netflix streams for eternity. Don Draper?s reckoning nears 2012-05-21T12:45:00Z

Together this world gave indie movies “buzz” and minted new stars, some of whom hit it big, going from Sundance to Scorsese. 2010-01-29T18:09:00Z

Yet following the folk wisdom that a girl marries her father, Mia falls for indie rocker Adam, who seems destined for stardom despite sporting neither skull tattoos nor outlaw attitude. REVIEW: If I Stay and Life After Beth: What If She's Not Dead? 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

Here are my 10 favorite local indie releases for 2012: 1. Top Chicago indie albums: BBU, Willis Earl Beal, Hood Internet 2012-12-13T18:59:00Z

No longer did the indie films she appeared in gain much traction, unlike the critically acclaimed "Wonder Boys" or "Pieces of April." Nothing personal, but Katie Holmes is all business 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

To trump their audacity, the writer-directors lured private investors to pony up $100 million — a huge amount for a knotty indie film. Cloud Atlas: The Wachowskis Struggle in the Stratosphere 2012-10-25T12:00:33Z

He recalls putting together road trip playlists with tracks from indie rock bands U.S. On Love: Julia Baron and Edward Garnett

Matt Wilkinson, New Bands Editor at NME, was upbeat about indie music in 2013 because up-and-coming acts like Haim had the attitude to succeed unlike more "reluctant" stars of the past. LA sisters Haim lead hopes of pop revival in 2013 2013-01-04T14:26:25Z

It showcases forgotten archive favourites on archived stock reels, right up to new indie releases that are yet to be snapped up by European distributors. Cine-files: The Filmhouse, Copenhagen 2013-03-05T15:20:29Z

That's a tiny difference for Apple, and paying indies for three additional months is worth it. Apple changes its tune for Taylor Swift: What have we learned? 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Today’s “indie opera” outfits are making do with less money than what even our country’s regional-level companies enjoy, so it’s no surprise that chamber-size realizations are often necessary. The Trailblazing Efforts of “Indie Opera” 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z

Bad Lieutenant, The Cribs, Frightened Rabbit, Delphic and Gary Numan were grounded in Europe, organizers of the indie music festival said. Volcanic ash hits "Iron Man 2" premiere, strands stars 2010-04-19T19:26:00Z

The film conference and festival in Austin, Tex., shows both Hollywood premieres and indie discoveries. SXSW Film Festival Announces Lineup 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

While the media still hypes indie bands, it's an increasingly desperate endeavour: this week, the entire top 40 features just one – Noah and the Whale at No 19. Katy B: One step beyond 2011-03-29T20:30:01Z

They either mimic Hollywood or the indie films that have scored big here in the past. 2010-01-29T07:18:00Z

If there’s an upside to so many early setbacks, it’s that Goodluck, a kid with only one decent indie cinema in his hometown, didn’t quite realise what he was losing at the time. Forrest Goodluck: the Native American actor ripping up the rulebook 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z

While Temple has been identified by The Hollywood Reporter as "an indie actress to watch," the starlet has no interest in being a celebrity, preferring a quiet private life in Los Angeles. "Dirty Girl" Juno Temple charms Hollywood 2011-10-06T17:38:30Z

It’s also the centerpiece of perhaps the coolest Oscar category this year, best song: All the nominees are superstars, whether from indie rock, pop, R&B or Broadway. Oscar-Nominated Songs With Familiar Composers 2014-02-19T22:59:00Z

The original is a risk-averse indie record by an intelligent band seemingly inhibited by public expectation. Take two: who has made the best 're-version' of their own record? 2010-08-05T14:00:00Z

I enjoy most types of music but my favorites are pop, hip-hop and indie. Live: Updates from the 63rd annual Grammy Awards 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

"There's a breakdown in distribution, especially at the indie level, for things like this," Spikes said of films whose primary target is a black audience. Alliance plans to bring black-themed films nationwide ? including Seattle 2011-01-12T23:36:04Z

He sings, plays guitar and writes wordy and offbeat songs for the Mountain Goats, the indie band of which he is frequently the sole member. ‘Wolf in White Van,’ by John Darnielle 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

I’m From Barcelona, which actually hails from Jonkoping, Sweden, fancies a strain of indie communalism associated with Canadian rock bands like Broken Social Scene and Arcade Fire. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-18T23:45:23Z

He hid the fact that he was dating a divorced, tatted, indie rock-loving white woman from his strict Muslim parents, who expected him to have an arranged marriage. Kumail Nanjiani: 'For a long time, there was one famous American brown actor' 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

Yet Oscar liberally supplied his family with copies of movies — classics, blockbusters and indies — which became the boys’ window onto the world. ‘The Wolfpack’ Brothers Step Out of Their World 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

As a former bookseller, I was pleased to see an indie bookseller played a prominent role in the book. “The erotics of books are alive and well”: Jonathan Galassi on his new novel — plus, Jennifer Weiner and why Jonathan Franzen is a feminist 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

As he demonstrated last year in the moving coming-of-age indie “The Spectacular Now,” Mr. Teller is capable of much more than the wisecracking, laid-back charm he exudes so naturally. Miles Teller Looks Beyond ‘Whiplash’ 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

It featured performances by singer Aloe Blacc and indie rock band American Authors, who closed with the hit "Best Day of My Life." One Direction, Ariana Grande win at Kids' Choice Awards 2014-03-30T02:24:38Z

In many ways it’s like the indie criminal justice system. Harvey Weinstein’s rehab – just your basic $2,000-a-night sex offender programme 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

In the late '90s, post-riot grrrl and Nirvana, indie rock was decidedly male, with bands like Pavement and Modest Mouse dominating the scene, but now women are on most club bills. The riot grrrl movement still inspires 2011-06-04T02:53:25Z

When New York indie rockers The Hold Steady took a break last year, the band's hardworking frontman, Craig Finn — who plays The Crocodile Friday — went right to work on his first solo album. Craig Finn of The Hold Steady plays Seattle's Crocodile 2012-02-23T22:13:51Z

He was uncomfortable in the same way a young indie rock or folk singer might be, unsure of how to use his body as effectively as his voice. Review: The Chainsmokers Find That Pop Is an Awkward Fit 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Taking classic 1960s soul as their base, they blend in elements of '80s Brit pop, new wave, indie rock and hip-hop to create a fresh, contemporary style that Fitzpatrick describes as "indie soul pop." Fitz and the Tantrums: Soul at the Showbox 2012-01-19T20:45:06Z

For those with a more nuanced affinity for subgenres like indie or metal, “it’s probably not going to work for you,” he said. Betting That Rock Is Back (Again) 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

Judged by headliners only, the seventh instalment looked like a segregated indie/dance/rock triptych with an eye on day-ticket buyers. RockNess – review 2012-06-12T15:46:05Z

During this time he also cultivated solid indie credentials, first playing drums for Caribou and Of Montreal, then as a keyboardist for Yeasayer. Sinkane's Ahmed Gallab: 'I like being on the move' 2012-12-14T15:00:00Z

There is continuing interest in the ethnic make-up of indie. Ask the indie professor: Why are there so many white indie bands? 2011-01-04T13:10:38Z

Luckily, director Miguel Arteta, whose roots come from indies like Star Maps and Chuck & Buck, maintains the trace elements of subversiveness necessary to make this flick appealing to its target audience. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: short on drama but lots of fun – first look review 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Opening today, the Durham Hotel in North Carolina draws on local talents, from a celebrated chef to an indie record label, breathing new life into a former bank building downtown. Friday’s Travel News and Tips 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Lyrics may operate in a relatively small sphere – breaking up, getting back together, talking through the night – but these are solid gold indie pop songs ornamented with real precision and flair. Dog Is Dead: All Our Favourite Stories – review 2012-10-04T21:00:01Z

"People who run indie labels are extraordinary, so I support them any way I can." Independent record shops: 10 of the best in Britain 2013-03-24T00:06:02Z

Do you prefer working in ensemble films, doing TV series or starring in indie comedies like “Goodbye to All That” and “The Babymakers”? What do you see as your strength as an actor? With his role as the baddie in “The Daughter,” Paul Schneider completes a hat trick of films: “In my teen years I was surrounded by older, crazy rednecks that I was desperate to impress” 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

His mixture of punk, indie and ’90s alt-rock has earned him an ever expanding fan base, and is the subject of an increasing amount of music blogs. Punk rock frontman Jeff Rosenstock is solo now and killing it 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z

Even before Cone Mills made its announcement, however, some premium indie brands that once prominently displayed the “Made in the U.S.A.” label were starting to embrace a new globalism. No Room for America Left in Those Jeans 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

New and historic buildings are home to antique stores such as Crown & Colony, indie boutiques, and galleries like Eastern Shore Art Center, which runs a first Friday art walk. A Southern Town That’s Been Holding On to Its Charm, for More Than a Century 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

This year, it offers pop-dubstep from Magnetic Man, indie contenders Everything Everything and the Vaccines, as well as Crystal Castles's electronica. The best pop for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:03Z

For now this movie from the hip indie studio A24 simply exerts itself as it tries way too hard to join the hallowed ranks of exploitation favorites extolling schlock values. ‘Dicks: The Musical’ Review: Hitting High Notes, Going Lowbrow 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z

And these days people are increasingly watching movies, especially smaller indie films, from their couches. Mike Birbiglia Wants to Trick You, Then Make You Cry 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Because when I was doing indies, everybody was always like, `Why don't you ever do a studio?' Lawrence says she nearly passed on 'Hunger Games' 2012-09-09T15:42:16Z

Shortwave usually screens two films a night, the programme alternating between a blockbuster smash and indie hit. Cine-files: Shortwave cinema, Bermondsey, London 2013-03-26T14:57:00Z

Venerated luxury brands like Cartier and Prada sought a younger and more diverse crowd, while indie downtown labels cemented their reputations for steamrolling racial and gender boundaries. The Fashion Circus Comes to Town 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

“When I sit down to write, I don’t think, ‘All right, I’m going to write a piece that’s 20 percent jazz and 40 percent indie rock,’ or ‘I’m going to write an indie-classical piece.’ A Voice Where Romance and Dysfunction Meet 2011-04-29T18:00:32Z

"We don't really think about what indie rock is." The Airborne Toxic Event brings populist rock to Showbox SoDo 2011-06-02T20:16:05Z

At first glance, Take It Easy Hospital look like any other aspiring indie duo. Rock me Ahmadinejad 2010-03-20T00:10:00Z

Its roster of contributors reads like a who’s-who list of indie rock in the early aughts, when a wave of professionalized bands defined a sound—broad, winsome, sumptuous—that became ubiquitous. San Fermin Brings Back Lavish Ensemble Indie Pop 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

The New Jersey indie pop crew grew up with Atlas, their wistful, autumnal third full-length; this was its lead single, which coasts along on Matt Mondanile’s golden guitar lead. Here Are the 25 Best Songs of 2014 (So Far) 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

The gifted Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke writes and directs this riveting crime saga, which traffics in the tropes of gangster pictures, but does so with the empathy of an indie drama. ‘Disappearance at Clifton Hill,’ ‘Damsel’ and More Streaming Gems 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

The festival is often seen as a launching pad for indies hoping to break out, having seen the first screenings of Oscar-winning films including Boyhood, Whiplash, Little Miss Sunshine and Precious. Sundance 2018: #MeToo movement set to impact first post-Weinstein festival 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Standing at her feet is Liev Schreiber, her old friend and co-star in “Party Girl” and “The Daytrippers,” warmed by his own nostalgia for that run of indie cinema in New York. Parker Posey is really pleased to meet you. Yes, you. No, really. 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

It's not like an indie rock festival or even a major label rock festival. Buzz bands seek to cut through chaos of SXSW 2012-03-13T12:20:15Z

Dever, excellent as a troubled teen in the indie "Short Term 12," has other films in the hopper. 'Men, Women & Children' is artificial look at Internet world 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

When indie was really indie, it meant hash burns in your jumper, putting magic mushrooms in your Pot Noodle and tripping to Neighbours while listening to Spacemen 3's first album on repeat. This week's new singles 2011-02-12T00:05:35Z

But “Burn Your Fire” is her meatiest sound yet, indie rock that uses country as a mode of thinking but not a stylistic guide. Music Review: Angel Olsen Sings From Her New Album at Le Poisson Rouge 2014-02-21T22:53:23Z

The celebrity quotient and red-carpet glamour has thankfully fallen away as the premiering films seem to actually belong to a festival celebrating indie filmmaking. 2010-01-29T07:18:00Z

His career, which ranges from indie to prestige, arthouse to popcorn raises the question — is Benedict Cumberbatch incapable of giving a bad performance? Celebrating Benedict Cumberbatch's best movie misfits 2022-03-26T04:00:00Z

He founded Orange Juice, the early-80s Glasgow band who largely invented the nervy jangle of indie, just in time for the Smiths to reap the benefits. Edwyn Collins 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z

And most observers do not necessarily think these writers and directors are rejecting the influences of their indie ancestors. Texas Monthly: Sundance Lineup Shows Texas Films Transcend Slackerdom 2013-01-19T23:53:20Z

Jackson Browne and the Eagles shared an apartment on Laguna Avenue in the '70s, and in the '90s and 2000s, Echo Park became home to countless indie rock acts and new clubs like the Echo. Echo Park's Club Bahia has a new dance partner: Live Nation 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

It’s certainly a long way from his last on-screen outing, as a French lounge singer in Australian indie film Girl Asleep. ‘It was a gnarly ride’: Australian Eamon Farren on his surprise Twin Peaks role 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z

Safety Not Guaranteed Time travel adds a novel twist to this indie romance. This week's new films 2012-12-22T00:05:00Z

But the way some teenagers keep football trades and indie bands at the front of their minds, Mulaney kept TV comedy. Comedian John Mulaney is the throwback kid 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

It presented his vision most effectively: electronic music that avoided dance tempos and swiped gestures from ’70s and ’80s pop, without being too coy and indie about it. Review: ‘Junk’ Builds on M83’s Strengths 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Both bills are microcosms of a staggering discography — 130 releases and counting — that includes plenty of local indie rock, but also acoustic folk, stoner metal, riot grrrl, and even comedy. Suicide Squeeze: Seattle music label defies risks, turns 20 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

If it’s hard to distinguish chains from indies, search for the place’s Web site. Frugal Traveler: Finding the Right Roadside Rooms 2013-09-10T21:17:53Z

But to truly make movie casts look more like the U.S. population, increased support for "Blue Beetle" will have to extend to Latino talent in scrappy indies, nonfranchise movies and comic book-inspired blockbusters alike. It takes more than one superhero 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z

For every step toward indie credibility, though, Chipotle has been publicly criticized or seen a health crisis – hepatitis, norovirus, E. coli – crop up. Chipotle’s marketing magic: If your brand troubled, rock music to the rescue 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Turns out it's not – it's Dom using a falsetto or a soprano or whatever it is that it takes to make him sound like the quintessential indie female. New band of the day: Dom (No 989) 2011-03-18T19:05:41Z

Reunited indie guitar band Suede collected the Q inspiration award, while Crowded House singer and solo star Neil Finn took the classic songwriter prize. Take That pick up prize at Q awards 2010-10-25T18:33:00Z

That sense of ambition and direction extended to the Crutchfields’ music, which grew to include elements of twee indie rock, traditional emo and also pop. Allison and Katie Crutchfield, Twins, Go Separate Ways 2012-08-30T13:34:19Z

A recurrent image of grackles lined up on a wire as if on the lookout haunts “Two Step,” a creepy indie thriller set in the seedier environs of Austin, Tex. Review: ‘Two Step’ Scuffles Around With Petty Criminals 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Similarly, with recording equipment getting cheaper, any two-bit indie band can put together a video that makes them look halfway on the road to becoming the Killers. MIA's Born Free: going for the jugular 2010-05-01T23:10:00Z

That specificity may be part of the reason there’s never been a large scale retrospective of 80s indies before, and why these forthcoming weeks are so exciting. First 80s indie film fest shows movies that paved the way for the indie boom 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Mind you, we don’t actually see that many of them in Rob Worsey’s indie release — just enough to learn that they move fast and react not to sound, as per common lore, but to smell. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z

Due to their budgetary limitations, indie movies rarely received companion soundtrack albums. Super sounds of "Reservoir Dogs": How this heist film changed indie soundtracks forever 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

Large American studios tend to produce only lavish, high-budget movies for the youth market, Mr. Beckman said, and “there’s no indie or specialty distribution for younger audiences.” Warning: Teenagers May Like These Movies 2014-03-06T22:41:32Z

The album prevailed in a stylistically diverse and closely competitive field, which included entries from the international pop juggernaut Ed Sheeran, the grime contender Stormzy and brooding, indie rock auteurs the xx. Sampha, the Tender Vocalist and Producer, Wins Mercury Prize 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z

At a time when a lot of indie rock is being defined by more pastoral or orchestrated sounds, Metz plays it nasty and violent. Metz: All out, all the time 2013-05-09T22:15:00Z

Florence Welch, the front woman of the English indie rock band Florence + the Machine, announced on Instagram that she had undergone emergency surgery, which is why she had canceled some of her recent shows. Florence + the Machine Singer Says She Had Emergency Surgery 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z

“Waitress,” the new Broadway musical based on the 2007 indie movie, is not your typical love story. Sara Bareilles Takes Her Slice of Broadway With ‘Waitress’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Lamacq is the hardest-working man in indie, never happier than when he's bashing about in a transit van or nursing a beer at the back of a gig. Rewind radio: Prisoner Soul; Solos on Loneliness; Steve Lamacq: Lammo Celebrates 20 Years at the BBC – review 2013-04-13T21:45:02Z

Portland indie rockers Quasi — much loved in these parts — headline. Mural Amphitheatre concert series brings free outdoor music to Seattle Center 2010-08-05T19:18:00Z

After years of landfill indie's dispiriting predictability, the Drums' pallid mithering is certainly different, but it feels like a pose, and a limited one at that. The Drums: The Drums 2010-05-27T14:29:00Z

Daft Punk early on felt a disenchantment with the French underground scene – lots of studenty types in black hanging around listening with cool passivity to imported indie. Daft Punk: 'Maybe when we were 16, rock was OK' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-20T12:41:57Z

When Metric announced they’d be joining Imagine Dragons for a summer tour in February, it felt like a sure sign the Canadian indie band was wrapping up its first album in three years. Metric Shines Bright With New Song 'The Shade' 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

Before "Dogs," indie movie soundtracks consisted mostly of plaintive scores and maybe one or two mood-setting songs. Super sounds of "Reservoir Dogs": How this heist film changed indie soundtracks forever 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

Today, a first look at the indie movie “Anything” debuted at Deadline featuring, yes, a cis-male actor portraying a trans woman. “Anything” clip: see Matt Bomer problematically portray a trans woman 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

The past couple of years have felt like an extended class reunion for indie rock groups from the 2000s, with bands like LCD Soundsystem, Fleet Foxes and the Strokes staging their comebacks. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

Accordingly, Cooper has long been interested in using Sundance's cachet to promote indie film culture beyond the conventional festival model. Sundance festival is still making magic 2013-04-25T16:35:58Z

It’s a follow-up of sorts to Carney’s 2006 Oscar-winning indie sensation “Once,” which chronicles a musical romance between a Dublin busker and a recent Ireland immigrant, who join for an unlikely, uplifting recording session. Music powers rebirth in ‘Begin Again’ 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

Much of the appeal of the hazy I.P.A.s stems from their origins as small-batch, indie brews that are sold at the source. Two Big Brewers Try to Cash In on an I.P.A. Craze 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

Fans of indie comedy may be pleased to see the mainstream favorite left of the list, but it is still a surprise considering the show’s strong Emmy track record. Gina Rodriguez snubbed, Tatiana Maslany finally in: The disappointments and delights of the 2015 Emmy nominations 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

“Star Wars” has never been indie; it’s impossible for a merchandising empire to sell out. The Growing Emptiness of the Star Wars Universe 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

It became indie distributor A24's highest grossing film of all time, and, it is expected to be an Oscar darling, even winning several awards. Why aren't cinephiles taking the Oscar bait? Salon conducted an unscientific survey 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

The music doesn't sound deliberately tongue-in-cheek, but it does sound like an indie artist striving to achieve the effortless sensuality of a D'Angelo. New band of the day (The Child of Lov No 1,483) 2013-04-02T15:54:59Z

By now, her one-woman-band concerts were attracting notice throughout the indie community. Tune-Yards overcomes 'crisis of faith' 2011-05-05T15:49:49Z

And yet top 10s are everywhere – top 10 rudest online clips, top 10 most popular indie anthems, top 10 best ever comedy moments by Morecambe and Wise-with-Glenda Jackson ever in our lifetimes ever ever. Rewind radio: The Nation's Favourite Christmas Carol; Stephen Nolan; Today – review 2012-12-30T00:06:03Z

"Rave On" to feature indie artists covering Buddy Holly Not a moment too soon: a Buddy Holly tribute album by some of the music industry's hippest names. "Rave On" to feature indie artists covering Buddy Holly 2011-06-03T15:04:00Z

His no-nonsense approach and clubbable personality meant that writers facing three long nights in Reykjavik with a miserable indie band would ask for Hugo by name. Hugo Dixon obituary 2010-12-03T16:25:00Z

The weird thing about talking to philosophers is you expect them to be super-highbrow, but many of them are my generation, and a lot are indie music fans and nerds. From pop star to chiropractor: musicians' post-musical careers 2010-09-23T21:29:00Z

Q: You've done a lot of indie as well as big studio films. A Minute With: Mark Ruffalo on mixing it up in acting and film 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

She’s already made the transition from childhood success to quirky indies. 'I'm not a quirky 17-year old any more': what Arrested Development's Alia Shawkat did next 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

Recording in solitude in his Richmond bedroom in London, he's amassed something of a cult following in a rarefied indie niche. Keaton Henson: fame, stage fright and the discomfort of strangers 2012-10-03T13:46:03Z

A lot of indie bands today are putting an emphasis on single covers. ArtsBeat Blog: New Book Covers the Covers of the 1980s 2011-10-13T18:45:07Z

In so many ways, High Fidelity is the perfect Frears project: relatable, smart, romantic, funny and sad, building on British wit to create a Hollywood picture with an indie sensibility. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Even as she shines in the glow accorded the newest indie discovery, Lawrence has moved quickly to consolidate her new status. Jennifer Lawrence: the making of an "It" actress 2011-01-20T00:28:31Z

This new Sky1 series is essentially The X Factor but more indie: here musicians from all genres are put through their paces in front of a panel of three musician judges. BBC Proms 2010-08-07T05:45:00Z

Created in England in 1999, it exists without corporate sponsorship or mainstream headliners, playing host to a slew of avant-garde noise music, indie rock and underground hip-hop acts. | All Tomorrow's Parties 2010-10-11T15:01:00Z

With the repeated caution that this category is hard to define, we present the 2012 “indie” movies that grossed more than $5 million at North American theaters: 1. 2012 Turnaround: The Avengers Brings People Back to the Movies 2013-01-03T17:21:00Z

They don't think indie bands pay much attention to them, and they may be right. New band of the day – Parquet Courts (No 1,442) 2013-01-30T18:17:10Z

The band rode high atop the wave of indie synth rock churning out of Brooklyn and could have been content to try to recapture magic by making “Merriweather”-esque albums every cycle. Animal Collective wants to do their own thing and that means saving coral reefs 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

I was on a really tight timeline because this started as an indie film. “It’s very topical”: “Hidden Figures” screenwriter on her breakthrough blockbuster 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

Since its debut at the Cannes Film Festival last May, the low-budget indie has enchanted critics, awards voters and the public. 'The Help' cast takes top SAG honor 2012-01-30T02:58:00Z

London indie band Casablanca took to the BBC introducing stage at Reading. In pictures: Reading & Leeds day 2 2013-08-25T10:01:23Z

Einhorn said theaters like the New Ohio have been essential to the development of indie performance works since the late ’90s. New Ohio Theater Announces It Will Close After Three Decades 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

Extra Extra is a burgeoning event-planning and branding affiliate of Paper magazine, the downtown indie lifestyle publication that is hip, in-the-know and connected to a certain subset of New York night life and artistic cool. New York Fashion Week: Extra Extra, Paper?s Event Planning Affiliate -- NY Fashion Week 2011-09-15T03:40:50Z

"Journey" was designed by thatgamecompany, a studio that went indie last year. Indie sensibilities embraced at gaming conference 2013-03-26T13:08:17Z

In the late ’90s, post-riot grrrl and Nirvana, indie rock was decidedly male, with bands like Pavement and Modest Mouse dominating the scene, but now women are on most club bills. Music: A Feminist Riot That Still Inspires 2011-06-03T17:48:59Z

The series was one of Gandolfini's last on-screen roles, along with indie romantic comedy Enough Said which is due for UK release 18 October. De Niro to step into Gandolfini role 2013-09-26T09:40:47Z

A few years into her acting career, after a streak of low-key indies, she asked her agent why she was never in the running for higher-profile movies. How Elizabeth Olsen Came Into Her Powers 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z

You’ve made indie films, studio films, work in TV, helmed genre movies, and now “Destroyer” which is generating Oscar buzz. "Destroyer" director Karyn Kusama: "I’m keeping a smile on my face and seething inside" 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

Chastain was in the running for Best Supporting Actress last year for her role in "The Help" while Lawrence was nominated for Best Actress in 2010 for the indie hit "Winter's Bone." Jennifer Lawrence seen winning Best Actress Oscar 2013-02-13T12:09:28Z

We actually intended it to be a little indie—yet actually still a really good fragrance—project, but it blew up and Sephora bought it. Alan Cumming on Speaking His Mind, Making His Own Hats and Getting In Touch With His Inner Elf 2012-12-07T13:00:31Z

And young indie filmmakers like Sarah Adina Smith, Macon Blair, Josh and Benny Safdie and David Lowery made films that felt truly fresh — beautifully weird or emotional or some combination thereof. The Out-of-Season Oscars: Rewarding the films soon to be forgotten 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

It’s an inquisitive collection of art-pop songs with elliptical lyrics, subtle electronics and complex, splintery guitar playing that blends the unvarnished voice of indie rock with the wonder of jazz. Wendy Eisenberg finds meaning in complexity 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

The innovative and often experimental indie band Guided by Voices announced on its website on Thursday that it was calling it quits, again. Guided By Voices Calls It Quits, Cancels Tour 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

All the films have impressive names attached, but they are indie films looking for a distributor. 2010-01-22T04:01:00Z

This small, rough-around-the-edges venue books a roster of both local and international bands that play everything from bomba and plena to indie rock and pop punk. 36 Hours in San Juan 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Of Monsters and Men has been one of indie rock’s breakout bands the past year, but nowhere are they hotter than in Seattle. Concert Review: Of Monsters and Men charms Seattle fans 2013-05-15T19:00:35Z

Last year, she played the younger version of the title character in the indie drama "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee." Home is where the heart is for actress Blake Lively 2010-09-16T01:54:00Z

We may kid ourselves that we like highbrow indie and critics' darlings. Take cover! It's the Swells iPod! 2010-06-24T11:58:00Z

Spot-on in its replication of the indie rock of that era, it’s a wonder of texture and plotting. From Retro Yuck to Foodie Rap 2011-12-17T03:03:14Z

So the indie crowd may be returning to New York and Los Angeles with a bit of the blues, but it doesn’t mean the art-house market isn’t healthy. Sundance Films Fall Short of Expectations 2012-01-27T16:19:50Z

In all, it's a peculiar piece of absurdist entertainment that occupies a singular niche in American indie cinema. 'The Living Wake': high-minded, with lowbrow pleasures 2010-06-03T22:32:00Z

In American indie cinema, by contrast, the Wimp frequently triumphs because he’s a stand-in for the guy calling the shots behind the camera. FILM: Babies to Heroes: A Field Guide to Big-Screen Men 2011-07-27T12:00:10Z

Now, indie film is more for streaming which has become boutique like that. Dennis Quaid on his Hollywood long game: "I never cared about having a Tom Cruise-type of career" 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

That week alone, Mr. Van Horn, 39, who has a Pied Piper-like effect on Washington clubgoers, had already spun at four parties, with themes including sleazy cool and indie pop. Stimulus Programs That Roll at Night 2010-03-04T06:50:00Z

Lohan also recently filmed "The Canyons," an indie film written by "Less Than Zero" and "American Psycho" author Bret Easton Ellis. Lindsay Lohan arrested on assault charge in NYC 2012-11-29T13:12:08Z

In an interview with the Film Stage, Hawke discussed what he saw as the increasing marginalisation of indie movies at the multiplex. Ethan Hawke: superhero movies are overrated 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Superhero comics, indie books and the largely underground Southern California punk scene had a big influence on their earliest works. ‘Love and Rockets,’ a Series that Helped Redefine Comics, Turns 40 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

The venerable art house/indie distribution company launched a new "KL Studio Classics" line to release older Hollywood films on Blu-ray — many for the first time. DVD and Blu-ray customers stayed loyal to their formats in 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Everyone – by which we mean everyone who works for trendy blogs and magazines and A&R people at major record companies craving some indie/club cred – loves her and wants her to be their friend. New band of the day ? No 837: MNDR 2010-07-30T16:30:00Z

Later the club ushered in the indie era with a 1992 gig by Suede. Rock music under threat as small venues go bust across Britain 2012-05-26T17:37:38Z

Many people think the only way to resuscitate the indie sector is to make it more of a laboratory again — to un-nest it from the overtly commercial motion picture business. 2010-01-21T06:26:00Z

So it's not surprise that their new video for "My Song 5" features a huge roster of indie, hip-hop and pop guest appearances. Haim releases cameo-packed video for 'My Song 5' 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z

The idea -- alternative distribution of movies via video-on-demand on cable and satellite television systems and the Internet -- is what some "indie" players at this week's major industry event, the Sundance Film Festival, are backing. 2010-01-23T18:02:00Z

"Miniatures," the latest album from indie recording artist Ken Sharp, is a wonder to behold. Tiny and mighty: Indie artist Ken Sharp recorded bite-sized baroque pop "Miniatures" on his iPhone 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

So Ms. Heller wrote a screenplay, and upon the suggestion of an early producer on the film, submitted the first draft to the Sundance Institute’s Lab program, an incubator for indie filmmakers. The Birds and the Bees as Seen at 15, in ‘The Diary of a Teenage Girl’ 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

Goodman will return in March to New York City to play alongside the husband-and-wife indie duo Tennis and the fellow New Jersey punkers Screaming Females. | La Sera 2011-02-07T17:15:10Z

One music executive, however, thinks he can save them, through a plan to invest in small clubs and build an indie touring network. He Helped Create Lollapalooza. Now He Wants to Save Live Music. 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

She then released it on Bandcamp, a music site for indie artists. In Her Verses, It’s Sammus Versus the World 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z

There was the inevitable early- career dross – Vin Diesel's A Man Apart, Gone in 60 Seconds, et al – but some creditable indie roles as well, in The Safety of Objects and Coastlines. Timothy Olyphant: a law unto himself 2010-04-29T19:00:00Z

Normally, I wouldn't have listened to anything with such a silky production, but Prefab Sprout's indie background made them credible. Musicians and their obsessions 2010-12-09T21:46:00Z

And at Saint Laurent this summer, the models looked like indie rockers who subsist on tobacco and kale juice. Waif vs. Adonis: Fashion week sets up a great manliness debate

“Me Him Her,” a loose, rambling, indie comedy, shows the mark of one of the father’s less well-known films, the cult favorite “Into the Night” from 1985. Review: In ‘Me Him Her,’ Late-20-Somethings Emerge From Life’s Confusion 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

It is followed by Steven Spielberg’s passionate ode to press freedom “The Post,” and dark indie comedy “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” with six apiece. Golden Globes: It's not who wins but who will say what 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

“And some were, like, sketchy, but you would also find, like, ‘Looking for eight- to 11-year-old boy and girl to play younger versions of Canadian indie band.’” Finn Wolfhard: ‘I have so much crazy energy’ 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z

His self-produced debut album, You Look Cold, betrays a childhood love of the usual singer-songwriters and an adolescence absorbing the obvious lo-fi indie. New band of the day ? No 915: Patrick Kelleher and His Cold Dead Hands 2010-11-23T17:08:00Z

She fell ill before she was set to appear alongside the Black star and producer Ralph Cooper in “The Duke Is Tops,” a no-budget indie. The Glory of Nina Mae McKinney, an Early Black Star in White Hollywood 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Works is one of a number of indie production companies that are finding audiences through on-demand or downloads, which she said leads to collaboration among distributors and filmmakers. 2010-01-23T18:02:00Z

Being on an indie press I receive a more generous royalty split than most: 50 percent after expenses were deducted. Hey, Amazon: Where’s my money? 2013-03-15T23:00:00Z

It’s especially poignant coming from one of the city’s most successful indie bands, which is barely able to afford to stay here. Upstream Music Fest’s strong Northwest identity outshines thorny new Seattle backdrop 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Wolf Parade After playing this very festival in 2011, Sub Pop’s cult-favorite indie rockers went on an extended hiatus, returning with last year’s adventurous “Cry Cry Cry.” Daily guide to Sasquatch! 2018: Artists to watch beyond the big names 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Take a fertile indie publishing scene, minus diversity in the mainstream press and a growing women’s movement, and you have got the perfect conditions for a new generation of women’s magazines. Zine queens: how women’s magazines found new life via indie publishing 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

Cooper noted that while digital technology has lowered the cost of making well-produced indie movies, it is still hard to raise funds and much of what is needed is simply perseverance. Sundance unveils competition films for 2011 festival 2010-12-01T21:20:00Z

Instead, he found his breakout role in the 2003 indie film “The Station Agent,” and soon after played Richard III at the Public Theatre. Peter Dinklage Is Still Punk Rock 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

The Guardian has decided it's high time that this research be made readily available to the public and so, starting this week, they're debuting "Ask the indie professor". Ask the indie professor 2010-07-13T10:44:00Z

That is an indie film — not on Paramount’s schedule — in which the cameras of dead victims have caught the horror of a biological disaster on Chesapeake Bay. They Shoot Movies, Don?t They? The Camera as Star 2011-02-19T00:02:14Z

Hunter Johnson’s gross-out, low-budget indie is a scrappy lesson in how to make potent horror on a dime. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

The Stone Roses join a long list of British bands who have reformed in recent years, from ex-boy band Take That to indie rockers Pulp and from Blur to Spandau Ballet. UK band Stone Roses reunite 15 years on for world tour 2011-10-18T16:05:47Z

Last year, she sent signed copies of “Folklore” — the first of her two quarantine LPs — to indie record stores, and later sold more autographed CDs on her website. Taylor Swift Returns to No. 1 With Autographed ‘Fearless’ CDs 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Victoria has a college-town vibe, what with its quaint streets, a bevy of coffeehouses and indie shops that outnumber the Starbucks outlets and retail chains. Victoria, Canada is a small city with a big farm-to-table scene 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Club roundtable carried the provocative headline “Maybe the Oscars got it right this year,” neatly sidestepping the conversation around “Selma” to discuss indie favorites like “The Grand Budapest Hotel” and “Boyhood.” How Common and John Legend’s performance of “Glory” fired up Oscar night’s idling empathy machine 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

The reason great indie stores succeed is that they love music as much as their customers do. Record Store Day 2013 releases include David Bowie, Kate Bush and Jack White 2013-03-22T11:13:44Z

This year’s prospectus is dominated by indie classical works — hybrids in which classical, avant-garde, pop and world music elements are combined to yield results that are not quite in any of those languages. The Week Ahead: April 15 ? 21 2012-04-13T20:56:22Z

You could add other names to the list of Fishbone’s heirs: the racially and stylistically polymorphous indie rockers TV on the Radio, the Atlanta hip-hop and soul bohemians Cee-Lo Green and Janelle Monáe. ?Everyday Sunshine? Celebrates Ska-Punk Rockers Fishbone 2011-10-02T02:45:06Z

Clark says he believes it is trying to navigate a path between the big industry-orientated ventures such as Cannes and firmly small-scale local indie festivals. Putting the Flatpack film festival on the map 2010-04-06T14:56:00Z

He played trumpet in the school jazz band, switched from banjo to guitar, and began studying indie rockers, especially Pavement, Beck, Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr. Kurt Vile, Indie Rock’s Charming Riddle 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

As you’ve returned to indie films, the landscape for marginalized voices like yours has changed. Wayne Wang Still Isn’t Satisfied 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

Judging by a few preliminary listens, Seattle duo Beat Connection 's new "Surf Noir" EP is mostly instrumental synthesizer/programmed drums headphone music sometimes overlayed with indie pop vocals. Download this: local act Beat Connection's "Surf Noir" EP 2010-07-13T21:13:00Z

He is best known for comedic roles in "Anchorman" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" yet also appears in dozens of indie dramas. Paul Rudd to star in 'Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving' film 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

The lead in a trashy teen show will jam themselves into a credible indie movie, the funny one from a sitcom is suddenly dying in a big-budget weepy – it's "artistic fulfilment" time. Elisabeth Moss: 'We're not saving the world here' 2011-01-23T00:03:05Z

Released in August 2009, the record struck a chord among indie rock listeners. A 'Familiars' story: Antlers' Peter Silberman finds spiritual center 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

Edward Burns revisits his indie roots - with a modern twist - in his latest project, "Nice Guy Johnny." Ed Burns says digital is future of indie films 2010-10-22T15:41:00Z

At the Whiskey Wednesday shows, Mr. Ellis drew both traditional country enthusiasts and a younger audience raised on indie rock but not afraid to two-step to a Johnny Paycheck song. For Fans of Robert Ellis, Vivid Contrasts in a Stylish CD 2011-07-10T06:00:30Z

I’m going to try to go shoot an indie sci-fi film. World of Warcraft Director: Female Characters Don't Need 'Slutty Costumes' 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

We seem to be witnessing the second coming of the avant-garde in indie film at the moment, which isn't necessarily something I expected to encounter in the remainder of my movie-reviewing career. "Super": The sad-sack superhero indie reaches its insane apex 2011-03-31T00:31:00Z

Sweat Records, Miami, an indie music store and cafe ANR are a quintessentially Floridian act: hard to categorise but captivating. Sweat Records' Florida road trip playlist 2013-04-25T15:51:59Z

But it was his performance as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Network in 2010 that pushed him out of the indies and into the stratosphere of Oscar nominees. Jesse Eisenberg: 'Acting forces me to be social' 2013-07-04T15:58:10Z

Though Sachs noted that "there are more women in the experimental universe" than when she began, she is surprised how few female directors there are working in indie and commercial cinema. Fandor's Fix gives female directors a vital platform 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

It might have been a fun experiment to release the album on an American indie label like Woodsist, where its shambolic properties could find a context other than Mr. Jarrett’s heavily scrutinized solo career. Critic’s Notebook: Keith Jarrett and His Trio Will Play at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-10T22:18:15Z

Bored of making indie music, lots of bands are now pretending to be robots making indie music. Teleman, The Saturdays, Palma Violets: this week's new tracks 2013-06-28T12:00:00Z

Like most of his work, The Sessions is an indie film. John Hawkes: 'To be a good actor, I need to be invisible' 2013-01-13T00:05:09Z

Somebody get Hollywood, and indie cinema too, a magic wand. Oz Reaps a Wizardly Weekend 2013-03-10T21:58:46Z

One of his projects, the crowd-sourced "A Symphony for Lucerne," includes sounds of the city, from its waterways to its indie music scene to whatever samples locals care to contribute. At the Lucerne Festival, even hip-hop skateboarders love Pierre Boulez 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

How do you keep your cool when you hear something like that, since so many of the men directing big action films right now were hired off some small Sundance indie? Gina Prince-Bythewood Made a Summer Blockbuster. It’s About Time. 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

He takes us to Book Culture, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, one of the many indie bookstores to open in New York and around the country in recent years. ‘The Revenge of Analog’: See It. Feel It. Touch It. (Don’t Click) 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

Both versions of “Dear White People” — his 2014 indie film and the series — feature smart, quirky black women and men looking to be more fully themselves. On ‘The Good Place,’ Chidi Redefines the Black Nerd 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

“Guitar music, a lot of indie, it’s still very escapist. It’s very inward,” Murphy says. The Moondoggies find love in an angry world, return with ‘A Love Sleeps Deep’ 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

He raps about tastemaking Web sites like Pitchfork and Vulture, indie rock acts like Beach House and Ariel Pink, and cool but not ostentatious clothing lines like APC, Rag & Bone and Kitsuné. Music Review: Comedian Who Raps, or Rapper? 2011-05-15T22:06:42Z

Mr. Fincher behaves, in short, like an indie filmmaker, turning out movies that are original and idiosyncratic, and yet he works for studios and with big budgets. Arts & Leisure: David Fincher Directs ?Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? 2011-12-07T13:42:28Z

The film is regularly punctuated with quasi hymns by the Canadian indie rock band Bruce Peninsula that dramatize Walter’s torment. | 'Small Town Murder Songs': Violence Close at Hand Shakes a Bucolic Setting 2011-06-30T22:03:06Z

Could “Lay the Favorite,” which features Catherine Zeta-Jones and Bruce Willis in its cast, and “Red Hook Summer,” which recalls one of the seminal films of the indie movement, have found North American distribution privately? Spike Lee and Stephen Frears Return to Sundance 2012-01-14T00:00:37Z

The progressive Seattle indie rockers return to their "home club" this weekend, Dec. 14-16, to put a coda on an impressive 17-year career. Seattle’s Minus the Bear says goodbye with 3 sold-out nights at the Showbox 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Reynolds returns to theaters next month in the indie thriller "Buried," and will illuminate screens next June in "Green Lantern." Reynolds and Cooper sign up for cop action-comedy 2010-08-31T06:40:00Z

I wouldn’t have heard of him either, except that his hilarious Brooklyn-set horror farce “Murder Party” came out in 2007, when I was following indie genre film obsessively. Patrick Stewart goes Oregon white supremacist in the devious thriller “Green Room” 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z

The songs don’t try your patience or call for dissection, but they do impart a hint of indie grandeur in its most manageable form. Music Review: Chief?s Mellow Guitars and Harmonies at Joe?s Pub 2010-08-18T22:35:00Z

Last year's festival brought us the mighty Gangs Of Wasseypur, and this year could be another vintage one for indie Indian cinema. This week's new film events 2013-07-13T05:00:07Z

The director Maggie Levin sharply captures, skewers and celebrates the atmosphere of the Generation X indie music scene in “Shredding,” about a band that revisits the site of a concert disaster. ‘V/H/S/99’ Review: Death on the Way to DVD 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

From there, the way Mark Duplass tells it, it was a bit like putting together a fantasy indie filmmaker team. “Room 104” is both incubator and stage for filmmakers you should know 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

You lose yourself in the sound of nostalgic indie guitars and swirling synths. Baltic Fleet – New Band Up North #33 2013-07-22T16:00:00Z

The opener, Honesty, is lovely, aware in its jerky rhythm of R&B but not exactly R&B, indie but not lacking in polish and melody. New band of the day: An Blonds (No 1,367) 2012-10-08T16:25:21Z

While many still know him best for his leading roles in such rom-coms as Failure to Launch and The Wedding Planner, he actually began his career in Richard Linklater's indie cult classic, Dazed and Confused. McConaughey: from rom-coms to Oscar 2014-03-03T11:38:48Z

As a teenager in the 1980s, he graduated from being a skinhead dancing to 2-Tone records to an indie kid in thrall to Joy Division and Cabaret Voltaire. George Shaw 2011-02-13T00:05:02Z

Out September 9 on Communion Records, the LP blends catchy classic rock riffs with an indie pop sensibility and a dreamy lo-fi disco sound. Tennis Brings the Goods to "Bad Girls" Video: Premiere 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

It’s a tricky but important sticking point for the celebrated indie filmmaker, whose virtual-reality project “If Not Love” premiered this week at the Sundance Film Festival’s experimental New Frontier arts and media exhibition. Watch a nightclub shooting in virtual reality? For Rose Troche, painful subjects make for powerful art 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

Critic/author David Spaner discusses global capitalism in Hollywood and the trend of indie filmmaking in a presentation called "Occupy Hollywood" on Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Film Center. Noir classic 'Laura' plays Northwest Film Forum 2012-04-05T19:28:03Z

She's the woman taking charge of her career, sussing out the benefits of taking a studio picture in order to pay for doing a more challenging indie film. The secret of her success 2011-04-01T15:28:00Z

There are a million shades to a British indie rock occasionally thought of as uniformly grey, and whether as producer or musician, Rory Attwell has roamed across this spectrum. This week's new live music 2011-07-29T23:09:54Z

Elsewhere, indie box office favorite “The Farewell” continues to fare well as it slowly expands to theaters across the country. Box Office: 'Hobbs & Shaw' finishes in first place with $60 million 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z

The initial reaction to this Louisiana quintet is one of snorted derision; a mumbled "Oh, Afrobeat mixed with indie again, well ruddy done ..." This week's new singles 2011-07-08T23:08:08Z

“I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things,” he said. For Aaron Paul, seeking good after 'Bad' 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

We thought of ourselves as an indie band and things just kind of got out of hand. Semisonic revists "Closing Time" thanks to movie 2010-12-08T01:37:00Z

Mr. Daniel, whose musical inspirations run to the Stooges, Lou Reed, Paul Simon and Prince, also rejects the indie label. 2010-01-07T21:50:00Z

"This is a disgrace to the great man's legacy!" tweet indie blokes of a certain age. Forget 6 Music ? what happened to John Peel's Radio 1 slot? 2010-03-22T15:27:00Z

Given that indie films are all about storytelling, often in a wry tone, it’s almost surprising that the show had spawned only two films, Unaccompanied Minors and The Informant!, before Sleepwalk With Me. Sleepwalk With Me: His American Life 2012-08-24T04:21:10Z

It is followed by Steven Spielberg’s passionate ode to press freedom “The Post,” and dark indie comedy “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” with six apiece. Golden Globes: It's not who wins but who will say what 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

When you sign on to do indie films, minimal salary to no salary is a given. Film: Tiny-Budget Adventures of ?Breaking Upwards? 2010-03-26T20:40:00Z

Ultimately, the most indie thing about Arcade Fire might simply be that it owns its means of production. Arcade Fire?s Hit Record, and an Indie-Rock Identity Crisis 2010-08-15T01:30:00Z

“Oaxaca Blues”! But nothing that came out of his mouth was as revealing as his elevator pitch for their sound: “Modern American folk with an indie edge.” 'Girls' Recap: Hannah and Adam Try to Rebuild 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

The idea was to honor not just critically praised indie films but real movies that real people saw. The Oscar Finalists: Silent Picture Double Feature 2012-01-24T19:13:28Z

“He never ‘settled,’’’ Chris Stamey, a founder of the indie band the dB’s who performed with the Palominos, recalled in an email. Anton Fier, Drummer Who Helped Shape a Downtown Scene, Dies at 66 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z

Things started to fall into place after she convinced a respected indie producer, Cassian Elwes, to sign on as an executive producer. Beyond ‘Crazy Rich Asians’: Angie Wang Makes a Movie 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

A group of Japanese entrepreneurs are looking to get rid of the guess work with their startup Qrates, a blend of crowdfunding and a vinyl pressing plant, and an indie musician’s new favorite company. This New Startup Is A Mix Of Kickstarter And A Digital Vinyl Store 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Taylor, an indie film producer, nodded off during Guardians of the Galaxy yet recited the lines in his sleep, said his friends. Inside the 30-hour Marvel marathon: 'Stretchy pants. Cheetos. You got to come prepared' 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

“True” was released on a label founded in part by Chris Taylor, of the digressive indie rock group Grizzly Bear. Music Review: Solange at the Bowery Ballroom 2012-12-13T23:06:41Z

In the backyard of a bar called Bungalow, as a cool night breeze blew, the 8-piece crew of melodic indie rockers played the evening to a close. Seattle artists find fans at SXSW 2013-03-20T18:18:36Z

“I approached it as a horror movie, but everything I do has comedy,” said the screenwriter S. Craig Zahler, whose credits include the acclaimed indie gorefests “Bone Tomahawk” and “Brawl in Cell Block 99.” Made of Blue Felt and Working Blue, Too: Dirty Puppets on the Big Screen 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Such is the case with Mountain Goats, one of the most respected – if not particularly widely known – indie bands of the last couple decades. Lollapalooza Day 1 in review 2011-08-06T06:57:00Z

The energetically crafted, well-acted movie about characters one would go to considerable extremes to avoid in real life is turning into a veritable indie micro-genre. ‘The Great Pretender’ Review: Tedious Love Affairs in Artsy Brooklyn 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

But for the most part, the performance seemed to put a spotlight on only one version of Ms. Du: the inventive, outgoing, quirky indie pop diva with an avant-garde edge. Music Review: Du Yun at the 21st Century Schizoid Music Concerts 2010-06-29T20:58:00Z

Most indie film-makers have to wait months – in some cases, years – for a film to debut and hopefully turn around a profit following a festival debut. Joe Swanberg: 'be prolific and people will lose the will to fight against you' 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

Against the odds, the indie bookshop is a hit, even drawing queues outside the door before it opens in the morning. Ann Patchett flies flag for indie bookshops with her own store 2013-07-02T15:40:02Z

There are some anthologies of women’s road stories coming up through indie presses, and Hollywood has made a few hitchhiker girls-gone-wild movies. Where are the women Kerouacs? 2013-03-13T22:28:00Z

Should the country’s largest bricks-and-mortar bookstore chain “never allow content with hate speech”? I expect — and want — an indie bookstore to curate its collection of titles carefully. Perspective | A hateful, conspiracy-filled book just got harder to buy. That’s no cause for celebration. 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

For a more subdued evening, catch an indie movie in an old, white-steepled Methodist church building, now Upstate Films’ newest theater, in Woodstock. 36 Hours in the Hudson Valley, New York 2013-07-26T15:18:39Z

Seemingly more suited to small, dark indie movies, he plucked the Hughes script from a pile of features Warner Bros. had sent him and "threw caution to the wind." 'Christmas Vacation' is a loopy holiday classic 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

It's entirely possible that fewer people went to Rudd's indie comedy this weekend than saw the streaker upstage a hurricane report yesterday on the Weather Channel. The Help Wins Again, as the Box Office Sings 'Bad Night, Irene' 2011-08-28T14:05:00Z

Today we celebrate the fact that Sub Pop has signed Built to Spill, one of the most influential indie rock acts from the Pacific Northwest. Sub Pop signs influential Northwest rockers Built to Spill 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

From the beginning I was thinking of a non-Bollywood audience, a Western indie audience, but at the same time making a very culturally rooted film. Avoiding Sectarian Violence to Tell a Story That Refused to Go Away 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Do you gravitate toward indie films because the characters are more complex? Patricia Clarkson wraps up three films, turns to Broadway 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Rom has been hanging with the indie crowd, looking to recover its edge with hip and heartfelt fare like In Search Of A Midnight Kiss, Before Sunset, 500 Days Of Summer or, recently, Like Crazy. Romcoms: the end of the affair? 2012-02-11T00:01:00Z

These joint headliners offer some of the most enduring indie rock of the 1980s and ’90s — and TV on the Radio, who are opening, will represent the 2000s. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Brooklyn outfit Bear in Heaven has straddled spacey psychedelic rock and somber electronic pop over the course of four albums, complicating straightforward indie rock with samples and synthesizers. Your week in Seattle music: Boston, Coheed and Cambria and more 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

Couchsurfing – the original indie travel platform where guests put up visitors for free in spare rooms – depended on the ideology of a community. Airbnb: from homesharing cool to commercial giant 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

The creators of Bo Burnham’s lauded new indie coming-of-age film, “Eighth Grade,” always knew it would receive an R-rating, that would keep out the very audience members it’s made for: teenagers. “Eighth Grade”: Why 13-year-olds aren’t allowed to see a movie about themselves 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

If “Lebanon, Pa.” is a tidy little indie with steady acting, it is too politically self-aware to transcend its well-mannered sense of fairness. | 'Lebanon, Pa': In a Small Town, Big Life-Changers 2011-04-29T04:03:01Z

Due to his exact sensibility he manages to straddle the world of the pure ’60s pop on the one hand, with the modern indie sensibilities on the other. “The Monkees songbook is maybe the third-best”: Peter Tork claims the bronze—right after the Beatles and the Stones 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

The lineup will be familiar to fans who kept up with the indie residency circuit this year. Downtown L.A.'s Brokechella festival announces 2015 lineup 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z

She records on the indie record label XL. Adele to perform Bond theme song "Skyfall" live at Oscars 2013-01-23T18:18:05Z

Now, he sees a bright future for indie filmmakers — “I don’t know if you can call us that anymore, but we’re independent-minded storytellers” — in streaming and premium cable. Edward Burns Returns to Long Island with ‘Bridge and Tunnel’ 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

The controversy--Big budget blockbuster gets beat by little indie also overblown, given the politics of the voting--easily explained by the desire to make history by selecting a woman director. Oscar's Rumblr: We React to the Academy Awards 2010-03-08T20:23:00Z

It appears the jacket is from a celebrity fashion stylist company, which used the patch of Harry’s wise father figure from an indie embroidery company. Ariana Grande Has the Coolest Harry Potter Jacket Ever 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

The selection brings the total number of films in the registry to 650, a total which includes Hollywood films, indies, documentaries, silent movies and student films, Variety reports. Library of Congress Declares 'The Dude' and Ferris Bueller Part of America's National Heritage 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z

He loves making films, especially indies, he said, but relishes still more “the infinite possibilities of the stage.” A Day Out in the Boxing Gym With John Leguizamo 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

As the starting point of his switch from hangdog indie icon to buff dance divo, "Flux" makes a fitting encore to tonight's all-too-brief set. Kele Okereke 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z

White is the rising star of US indie. Matthew E White at Vivid Live 2013 2013-06-03T01:34:53Z

“They were blasting ranchera, Mexican music, and bachata. In the front, they were listening to just different indie, new music, whatever.” WATCH: Brooklyn-based musician gives voice to invisible immigrant workforce 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z

But IndieWire would grow to play a major role in bringing online more rapid film festival reports along with more comprehensive coverage of indie films. Eugene Hernandez named director of New York Film Festival 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

The bar caters to the younger indie, alternative crowd, regularly featuring the best local and regional bands, and some major national touring acts.• Top 10 live music venues in San Antonio, Texas 2013-06-21T23:10:00Z

Note also the choice of over Winter's Bone for the PGA's indie slot. Critics' Awards: Oscars for Colin Firth, 'Social Network'? 2011-02-10T08:10:00Z

A new generation of guys with acoustic guitars in their hands is now thriving in the indie world. Italian music now: from Turin to Sicily 2012-07-10T15:48:29Z

"Gossip Girl" wasn't exactly a critical darling, and some of the movies she's been best in — small indies like "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" and "Hick" — weren't widely seen. Blake Lively balances baby, Preserve lifestyle site and 'Age of Adaline' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

It’s her fifth studio album as a solo artist — she started out in popular indie bands, Rilo Kiley and the Postal Service — and her first release on Blue Note Records, the storied jazz label. Jenny Lewis Keeps Finding the Magic 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z

Thankfully for Nothing and its growing fan base — a motley mix of punks, metalheads and indie kids — Palermo survived the ordeal, but not entirely unscathed. Alt-rock band Nothing is on to something 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

New York’s open-air options always include indie and foreign films alongside enduring favorites and recent hits. Coco and Thelma and Me: Outdoor Movies Make August in the City a Joy 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

The actor, whose indie comedy What If has just been released in the US, told the Mail he felt it necessary to be fiercely self-critical. Daniel Radcliffe admits he's 'not very good' in Harry Potter films 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ronson, a journalist and author who also was a writer on the indie movie “Frank,” said that for him, “Okja” was about cognitive dissonance. A Maverick Director, His Big Pig and the Small Screen 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

But we're also partial to Tall Ships' brand of brainiac indie. New band of the day ? No 998: Tall Ships 2011-04-05T14:55:34Z

But for indies or just plain folks, the less expensive, and possibly less rewarding, practice is to shame the copiers on Instagram. If You Shame Them, Will They Pay? 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

With movies, you can have a $150 million "Star Wars" movie, or you could have a $20 million indie that captures interest, and you don't really know which will be the better investment. NY Giants co-owner Steve Tisch on creating a Super Bowl life 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

She rides her new hobby into a new world of possibilities in director Marc Turtletaub’s quiet, indie drama. Kelly Macdonald talks to Salon about stepping into a starring role with “Puzzle” 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

Her music, often cataloged as indie or lo-fi, sways with the wistfulness of groups like the Shins. Pop & Rock Listings for Aug. 5-11 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

But if the Oscars are so eager to cram blockbuster content into a show that often celebrates small indie movies, why not invite some hosts from that tentpole realm? The Oscars Are Broken. Here’s How to Fix Them. 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

But viewed through the long lens they look pretty similar: Both are formally and thematically ambitious prestige productions made on a low budget, and both are indie films with limited audience potential. “Birdman” vs. “Boyhood”: The Oscars race to save Hollywood’s soul 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

And while the princes of indie rock in the nineties were the erudite slackers of Pavement or the sensitive members of Sebadoh, many musicians on independent labels now make rock that is stadium-sized and cathartic. Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

He took a more serious role in the indie film “Band Aid.” Adam Pally Is Very, Very Nervous 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

A voting Academy member, Henry said he thought it was "awesome" to see Quvenzhane get nominated for the acclaimed Fox Searchlight indie drama, which he called the best movie of the year. Wallis a beast of an actress, but is 9 too young? 2013-02-13T13:44:11Z

Other indie roles have included an adoptive parent in “Away We Go” and George Clooney’s younger sister in “Up in the Air.” Melanie Lynskey?s Star Shines at Sundance 2012-01-20T23:54:21Z

Among a coterie of veteran hardcore punks, metalheads, indie rock snobs, classic rock fans and people who listen to “everything,” there were plenty of not-so-secret Deadheads creeping out of the woodwork. I hate myself for loving the Dead movie 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

Added producer Jonathan Sehring, whose indie label IFC Films financed and is releasing "Boyhood": "I mean, who else is getting this kind of movie made?" 'Boyhood' director Richard Linklater versus time: the big stare-down 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

The experiment, at $3.99 a rental, earned a disappointing $10,709.16, a meager sum that suggested new media might not be as promising for indie film as some predicted. Tribeca looks to expand notion of film festival 2010-04-20T18:46:00Z

As a former record executive and longtime member of the indie hip hop collective Doomtree, Dessa has released three solo albums and also published two books. Dessa breaks down her Beatles influences: On "Come Together," the "Eight Days a Week" magic and more 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z

His question was if I thought there was a connection between indie music and Gnosticism. Ask the indie professor: Is there a link between indie music and Gnosticism? 2011-03-14T16:52:39Z

I was educated, I loved curry, indie rock and postmodern fiction. My prison redemption 2012-10-03T22:23:00Z

Last summer, Fandor started Fix, a platform on the site that allows indie and experimental filmmakers the chance to connect with potential audiences. Fandor's Fix gives female directors a vital platform 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

He’s one of its executive producers and gave his blessing to the director Colin Trevorrow, who has just one other feature on his résumé, the indie “Safety Not Guaranteed.” Review: In ‘Jurassic World,’ the Franchise Feeds the Beast 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

And in January she will jump into another indie film, about which she will say nothing except that the script really excites her and that “I cannot have my dad see this movie.” The New Season Film: Kirsten Dunst Handles ?Melancholia? Disaster With Aplomb 2011-09-18T03:53:02Z

Seattle’s big little indie label turns 30 this year and is throwing itself a beach party. Sub Pop announces 30th anniversary beach party 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

In the mid-'90s, especially given the success of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles novels and Neil Jordan's film of "Interview with the Vampire", you found a lot of gritty indie vampire movies. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'Breaking Dawn' 2011-11-17T13:54:18Z

Some filmmakers may have seen in her a cautionary tale; the picture was well-received yet indie and experimental. Julie Dash Made a Movie. Then Hollywood Shut Her Out. 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

A truly impressive debut album from a blossoming indie rocker who deserves your attention. The best Seattle albums of 2018: Critics choose the top 20 releases of the year 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

The subject of a studio bidding war when it premiered at Sundance, Michael Showalter’s understated comedy looks set to be this year’s breakout indie hit. Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

But these accomplishments didn’t prevent certain indie rock heroes from pillorying the band’s music and questioning whether the group could credibly lay claim to the alternative label. The world is still a vampire: Smashing Pumpkins can’t get the respect they’ve earned 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Here’s the good news: This year’s warm weather brings with it an especially intriguing crop of indie rom-coms. He slept with a lesbian: Summer’s hottest rom-com 2012-06-13T00:05:00Z

He left this life for New York and a role in an indie film which seems increasingly unlikely to happen. The best films of 2017 … that you didn't see 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

For example, 53 percent of developers identify as an indie developer and 46 percent of those surveyed work at companies with 10 employees or less. Indie sensibilities embraced at gaming conference 2013-03-26T13:08:17Z

What does indie music mean nowadays?' asked walnutdash, along with many others. Sleeve Notes: The doctor will see you now 2010-07-16T15:32:00Z

The 2007 indie comedy “Lars and the Real Girl” did just that, as did “You Can Count On Me,” “The Way” and, more recently, Bob Nelson’s wonderful “The Confirmation.” The rise of Christian movies for the rest of us 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

They're characters, are La Shark, or at least the intention is to present them as such – as colourful kooks in a grey indie world. New band of the day – La Shark (No 1,399) 2012-11-20T16:34:47Z

Eclectic in background and taste, some brought indie rock sensibilities to the table, others clung to jazz and folk. In Portland, cello players lay down a hip-hop beat 2012-06-01T22:01:36Z

Evidence of Barney's eclectic and inventive mind and his playful sense of humour is everywhere apparent, particularly in his press ads for the new wave-era indie labels Stiff, F.Beat and Radar. This week's new exhibitions 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

When Warner Bros. wanted to revive its Batman film franchise, the studio hired Christopher Nolan -- at the time a relatively little-known director of hit indie movie "Insomnia" -- to direct 2005's "Batman Begins." Andrew Garfield calls Spider-Man a role for life 2011-07-23T05:18:46Z

Hippies, hardcore indie kids, and as the night wears on, people bored of Gorillaz. Bubble trouble 2010-06-26T09:19:00Z

From holding self-improvement seminars for fans to dispensing advice to fellow stars in distress, We Are Scientists are renowned as the ironic funsters of indie rock. We Are Scientists – review 2012-07-26T15:42:48Z

The indie thriller Money Monster is described as a live-on-TV hostage drama in which a share tipster becomes the victim of a viewer burned by one of his recommendations. Jodie Foster to direct indie thriller Money Monster 2012-10-12T14:16:07Z

His unlikely rap inspires a spot of freestyling by Jordan Stephens and marks the start of a counter-attack by young, hip-hop, dance and grime-influenced stars, seemingly set on ridding pop music of indie rock. The V festival, day one – review 2012-08-19T13:15:31Z

I think that's especially the case with those raised on some kind of musical dogmatism – in my case, that's 80s indie, with its suspicion of big American rock above all things. Old music: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band – Rosalita (Live 1978) 2012-06-27T08:00:00Z

That decade also saw the Violent Femmes continue a tradition that has since been celebrated by rockabilly bands and, at the opposite end of the spectrum, indie anorak groups. Will the coolest drummers in rock please stand up? 2010-03-31T16:18:00Z

Note also the choice of over for the PGA's indie slot. Critics' Awards: Oscars for Colin Firth, 'Social Network'? 2011-01-18T23:35:00Z

But save for a strong supporting turn in “The Lincoln Lawyer” opposite Matthew McConaughey, he’s mostly acted in little-seen indies over the past five years. In 'Catch Hell,' Ryan Phillippe examines, and toys with, his image 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

If you're logged into your Google account, suggestions are made based on previously watched videos: for instance, it recommends artful 90s indie types Geneva and Gene because I watched a Coldplay video. Click to Download: Google music special 2011-08-24T14:30:01Z

“She’s got this gift for making that which is indie seem commercial and that which is commercial seem indie,” Ms. Singer said. The Gimlet Eye: Profile of Kim Hastreiter of Paper Magazine 2010-04-07T22:40:00Z

Blitzen Trapper This Portland, Ore., indie band has always had use for throwback rock rusticity, along with its various trappings: harmonicas, banjos, rickety pianos, Dylanesque vocals. Playlist: A Confection of Pop, and Newport Chops 2011-08-20T19:45:06Z

Director Don McKellar had admired Taylor Kitsch's work as a high school football player in the TV series "Friday Night Lights" and as a South African photographer in the 2010 indie "The Bang Bang Club." Taylor Kitsch balances heavy 'Heart' with 'Grand Seduction' laughs 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Instead she prefers quirky indies like “Captain Fantastic.” Date Lab: She liked when he confessed he liked romantic comedies 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z

“I don’t want to be ‘box-office girl,’ ” she said, “but I don’t want to be ‘that indie girl’ either.” The New Season Film: Kirsten Dunst Handles ?Melancholia? Disaster With Aplomb 2011-09-18T03:53:02Z

There is something almost quintessentially indie and shabby about them, as though they can't really be bothered to appeal to a bigger audience because they'd rather sit on that sofa and eat chips. New band of the day ? No 956: Young Buffalo 2011-01-28T16:22:16Z

Day two acts feature English indie rockers The xx, the Gypsy punk stylings of Gogol Bordello as well as headliners Green Day and French alternative rockers Phoenix. Lady Gaga to Green Day, Lollapalooza boasts motley cast 2010-08-04T21:22:00Z

The result is the sort of clear-eyed, homespun indie pop that’s as Pacific Northwest as evergreens. Your week in Seattle music: Patti Smith, E-40 and more 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

Hipsters relax: Despite Grammy, Arcade Fire still unknown Sunday's biggest Grammy win was a bittersweet moment for fans of Canadian indie band Arcade Fire. Hipsters relax: Despite Grammy, Arcade Fire still unknown 2011-02-15T18:25:00Z

Bullett magazine, an indie arts and fashion quarterly, is holding a one-year anniversary bash for its latest cover boy, Michael C. Hall, who plays the serial killer in “Dexter.” Talked-About Parties and Openings for the Coming Week in N.Y.C. 2011-12-07T21:38:22Z

This was going to be the year for low-budget indie films at the Oscars. Will American Sniper Win the Oscar Race? 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

In her first starring role, in Carine Adler's gritty 1997 indie film, Under the Skin, she played Iris, a grieving woman trying to find herself again though relentless casual sex with strangers. A powerful faith 2010-05-08T23:05:00Z

Stevenson found that many indies he saw at festivals were more original and more engaging than Hollywood's latest recycled sequel or stale romantic comedy, even those clocking in at less than half an hour. Seen these films? Probably not, unless you go to festivals 2010-10-14T22:04:00Z

Do you feel pressure as the lead in an indie film? How Matt McGorry falls in love: “When I do, I’m all in” 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

The desolate, stubborn, overcomposed indie rock of “Folklore,” though, is a tough thicket to tame. Taylor Swift, a Pop Star Done With Pop 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

But most indie success stories start in New York and Los Angeles, not the middle of the country. Texas Monthly: ‘2016’ Obama Film and the Case for Conservative Texas Premieres 2012-09-16T06:48:06Z

I, for one, am not waiting with baited breath for this most doleful of indie bands to discover a fondness for dubstep. Songs that are hungry and horny 2010-04-27T11:56:00Z

“I like that it’s not an indie rock label,” he said. Kurt Vile turns out ‘fried or sizzled out’ rock tunes 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

The quartet’s exhilarating brand of emo, primarily from their stellar album “I Became Birds,” blends the fiery rage of hardcore with the oddball existentialism of indie recluses Neutral Milk Hotel. Three emo bands fight the alienation of the online world by rocking out IRL 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

I like to look at the “indie sleaze” because I know all these people, and I was there. Can Peaches Still Fit in Those Pink Hot Pants? 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

In indie arenas like the Sundance Film Festival, female directors have inched closer to gender parity, and in 2013, half the movies in the American dramatic competition were directed by women. In Hollywood, It’s a Men’s, Men’s, Men’s World 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

A. O. Scott designated this indie romantic comedy a Critic’s Pick in his review for The New York Times and said its “sweet, soft finish is both refreshing and startling.” What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘The Guest Book’ and ‘Adam Sandler: 100% Fresh’ 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

In response, the “Healthy Artists” series was conceived as a kind of “indie ‘Cribs’ for social justice,” profiling young creatives in brief vignettes and getting them talking in a personal way about medical issues. A Crusader on What Ails Artists 2014-02-18T22:22:37Z

Also featuring a Ben Gibbard–endorsed indie band, the unhinged id of Seattle’s rap scene and forward-thinking electronic music from halfway around the world. Your week in Seattle music: Stevie Wonder, the KISS FM Jingle Ball and more 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

Ah, sweet memories of indie discos and uncoordinated flailing. Readers recommend: songs about dance styles ? results 2011-07-28T15:08:29Z

In the indie sphere the brief flowering of the New Queer Cinema of the early ’90s identified a new niche audience. Arts & Leisure: Andrew Haigh?s ?Weekend? Looks at a Gay Couple 2011-09-22T12:00:13Z

The creators of indie horror comedy Lyle will offer the film online for free next week, in an unusual bid to raise funding for the second in a planned trilogy of female-driven horror films. Lyle: the 'lesbian Rosemary's Baby' to be streamed for free online 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Posey, that former indie “it girl,” is perfectly cast as a woman who has won one Tony but can say with light sincerity, “I do need another one.” Review: A ‘Seagull’ Airlifted to a World of Soy Milk and Prada Sneakers 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

Of course, there were many fine indie games this year. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: The Year of the Blockbuster 2013-12-29T16:54:38Z

It was somehow fitting that my meditations on film festivals and indie theaters would be temporarily squashed by the far noisier publicity campaigns of big studios hawking their future sequels, spinoffs and special-effects extravaganzas. When will Hollywood learn the value of a diverse, well-balanced diet? 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Here's an ingenious way to support your indie movie theater even while sheltering in place. The best new movies you can watch from home in March 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

The indie represents a still-raw but impressive feature debut for Johnson. Struggling teen faces a rocky road in 'All the Wilderness' 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

They appear in glowingly reviewed indies and attract the attention of international auteurs, regularly landing on year-end best-of lists and awards lineups. Is Kristen Stewart too good for big-budget blockbusters? 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Washington had been good to the Phoenix-reared singer-songwriter, who was lured to the Evergreen State by the “mystique” of large water bodies and bevy of “cool indie music” coming out of the region. Forget Seattle. Rural Washington is ready to rock the Grammys 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

The season opens April 24 with Damien Rice, for which tickets are already on sale, and also includes a May 16 date with Swedish indie electronic band Little Dragon. Greek Theatre unveils 2015 concert season 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

So much of indie rock is white dudes, and what are they fighting against? Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz Adds Pop Hooks to the Band’s Sharp Edges 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Critics did warm to his more dramatic turn in the indie zombie flick "Maggie," but the film, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this spring, was seen only in limited release. Arnold Schwarzenegger embraces his aging Terminator as 'Genisys' is set for action 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

As Hoover has grown from an indie author with a cult following to an inescapable pop culture phenomenon, there is also, inevitably, a growing chorus of online critics who say she’s overrated. How Colleen Hoover Rose to Rule the Best-Seller List 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

On Friday, Fruit Bats performs with LAKE, an Olympia-based indie pop band known best for composing “The Island Song,” the end song for the popular Cartoon Network show “Adventure Time.” Seattle-area music and nightlife events, Jan. 18-24: ‘Cry & Roar IX’, Fruit Bats and more 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

One student said he chose N.Y.U. over another program with closer industry ties — and thus an easier path to salaried employment — because he wanted to meet indie developers whom he regards as superstars. Talented Designers Stream Into M.F.A. Video Game Programs 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The grandmotherly dental hygienist was on the verge of becoming a genuine indie star. | At Age 70, A Star Is Born 2014-02-26T23:00:56Z

Harmony Korine, a once fashionable indie figure whose star fell after early success with Kids and Gummo, is once again showing some spark: a gadfly who annoys and provokes. Film review: Trash Humpers 2010-06-17T22:35:00Z

And the new songs add little to the skill set of Cults, who play a simple, entrancing and intuitive strain of indie rock indebted to clean-cut ’50s rock with flashes of ’60s haze. Playlist: Sounds of Summer: Feisty, Moody, Chutney 2011-06-24T19:31:01Z

In its nominations it overlooked films and performances that many considered classic Oscar bait, choosing instead to reward indie films and those with bold acting and filmmaking choices. The Carpetbagger: Surprises and Snubs: Bold Choices Like ‘Wolf’ Rewarded; Veterans Like Hanks Ignored 2014-01-16T15:26:42Z

The album opener, Another Volunteer, is the kind of plangent affair that gives 80s-referencing indie rock a good name, with its gently insistent drums, lush bed of synths, and vocal pitched nicely. August's best new music from across the MAP 2011-08-17T17:09:56Z

They didn't win, but they were chosen as the supporting band for These New Puritans' Spanish tour and later signed to Foehn Records, home of Spanish indie acts such as Emilio José and Marina Gallardo. March's best music from across the MAP 2011-03-14T11:24:55Z

Selling well all over the world, it's a big album for Wisconsin-based, mainstream/indie darling Vernon and his new, larger backing band — touring with nine members. Concert review: Bon Iver at the Paramount 09/26/11 2011-09-27T19:12:37Z

Apparently, not only are smaller, indie labels not being offered the same deals as the majors, but the contracts that Google is putting in front of them are less than fair. YouTube Is About To Delete Independent Artists From Its Site 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

His screen credits include TV series such as “Scrubs” and “Criminal Minds” and the 2016 indie romantic drama “Wild Prairie Rose.” The star of 'At Home at the Zoo' on the risks and growing rewards of being a deaf actor 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

A “New Music Discovery” playlist, assembled by Daytrotter and Paste magazine, offers recent concert clips by Rubblebucket, Ra Ra Rio, Dr. Dog and other indie performers. Opening the Vault on YouTube: 13,000 More Performance Clips 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

He was lead singer of The Smiths, an indie rock band that released "The Queen Is Dead" and three other studio albums between 1984 and 1987, when they split up. Morrissey's 'Autobiography' a classic before it's even been read 2013-10-16T17:11:33Z

Across the pond, Manchester trio Delphic, who blend indie with electronica, appear on several tip lists, and seem keen to distance themselves from indie music's tired image. 2010-01-08T18:09:00Z

That may sound more like an indie band than an environmental aspiration, but it’s a new focus of top fashion schools. Fashion Tries on Zero Waste Design 2010-08-13T21:55:00Z

Warm, funny, beautifully acted, this American indie made it all look easy. Michael Phillips picks the year's 10 best movies 2010-12-15T22:06:00Z

To her credit, though, Kawase has a better handle on the pronunciation than most, and could do well in the western indie scene, were she inclined to test the waters. Why Japanese pop matters 2010-03-25T23:10:00Z

Now the cinematic maestro of the twee is influencing the digital realm with an indie playback video game. What to Do This Weekend 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The indie Seattle duo’s early wins sparked a trending topic on Twitter as outraged hip-hop purists and critics admonished voters for picking the pair’s work over albums from Drake, Kanye West, Jay Z and Lamar. Macklemore says fellow rapper was robbed at Grammys — by him 2014-01-27T22:30:29Z

With three screens, it runs new indie releases and repertory classics, and there is usually a noon Sunday showing. 36 Hours in Nashville 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Yes, there's a huge adjustment going from making little tiny indie movies and being the answer to all questions to then working with large corporations with another creative comrade. Lake Bell on why New York and Nebraska need to laugh together over "Bless This Mess" 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

An acclaimed indie director hired for his first big-budget movie was pushed out when the studio and producers recoiled from his kaleidoscopic treatment of the night in question. Risky Business: Hollywood Bets Big on ‘Deepwater Horizon’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Now comes indie rock stardom for Snail Mail. Perspective | Liz Phair is back, and she’s setting the record — and the record business — straight 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

The indie quartet, who released their first album "Leisure" in 1991 and are best known for the 1994 No. 1 album "Parklife," will be honored at the February 21 ceremony in London. UK band Blur to receive lifetime BRIT award in 2012 2011-12-08T01:28:03Z

But the ripe Americana of surf music will be well represented too, as it was in the superb indie film “Love and Mercy.” In ‘Good Vibrations,’ Summer Fun Soured by Mike Love’s Score Settling 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

And even as movie theaters remain a favored debut venue for many indie films, digital platforms offer the advantage of identifying and targeting a specific audience. For indie filmmakers theatrical release is an avenue to digital success 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

The Dayton, Ohio indie lifers — known for their concise pop craftsmanship, surrealist lyrical slant, lo-fi production tactics, and sheer output — play Seattle’s Showbox club Sunday. Guided by Voices back in business | Concert preview 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Presenter Natasha Lyonne, whose Netflix series “Russian Doll” was nominated for best breakthrough series in episodes less than 40 minutes, evoked that sense of indie pride with more than a touch of sarcasm. ‘Marriage Story’ dominates Gotham Awards with 4 wins 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

Most of his early roles – he was in Frances Ha, the excellent Noah Baumbach movie, and in the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis – were very good, but relatively small scale and indie. Adam Driver: ‘Compared with the military, acting isn't that difficult’ 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

The serene drift of “Inside of a Plum,” from Norwegian American indie artist Okay Kaya’s forthcoming album “SAP,” was inspired by doctor-administered ketamine therapy, which is sometimes used to treat depression. Shakira and Ozuna’s Breakup Bachata, and 7 More New Songs 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z

Keen indie fans had been hot on Beach House's output for years, but none of it sounded like it could make people, say, cry. Beach House and the curse of the big time 2012-05-18T23:01:00Z

The scrappy indie film fest, which runs May 29 to June 8 at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, is committed to discovering and promoting unknown and emerging talent. Dances With Films Festival to shine a light on emerging filmmakers 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

And perhaps it takes an indie film to tell that story. William H Macy: 'Even the bad sex I've had was pretty good' 2013-01-17T19:00:00Z

Bad Past Gone Away is what happens when indie boys do soulful. New band of the day ? No 988: NewVillager 2011-03-17T15:49:41Z

Many actors get to a plateau in their careers and try mixing it up with smaller indies or movies well outside their wheelhouse. Tom Cruise is neither slumping nor spiking. He's just Tom Cruise. 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

"The Rest of Us Just Live Here" is set in a world where apocalypses happen every generation, and a specific group of teens — "the indie kids" — are charged with fixing it. Harry Potter echoes in new books by Rainbow Rowell and Patrick Ness 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

But also timeless — thank you, Blood Hot Beat, for spitting cheap liquor in the po-face of indie rock. Fall album roundup: The Moondoggies, Truckasauras, Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives, THEESatisfaction, Blood Hot Beat 2010-09-26T00:23:00Z

That versatility kept Sub Pop evolving after grunge’s death, placing the label in an elite class of American indies with similar longevity and prominence. Sub Pop at 30: How a Seattle record label’s storied past prepared it for the future 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

His dependable strangeness and self-reliance cast him as a spiritual forebear and elder ally for songwriters at the country and folk fringes of indie rock. Michael Hurley, an Original Folk Iconoclast, Turns 80 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

All of this while maintaining its stylish and moody indie vibe. ‘Ramy’ and the New American Muslims of TV 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

That's the likely finishing mark for , which would be fine for a low-cost indie but not for a film with a $50 million budget. Box Office: Paranormal Active; Eastwood Not So Much 2010-10-24T14:30:00Z

Mraz co-wrote every song on “YES!” with the indie group from Los Angeles, except for the worthy resurrection of the heartbreaking Boyz II Men classic, “It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday.” Review: Mraz’s ‘YES!’ a bright, acoustic romp 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

The indie nomenclature was initially co-opted and embraced by video gamers, then in cinema discourse, and finally by the American music community. Ask the indie professor: why do Americans think they invented indie? 2011-07-28T09:06:39Z

But the town that birthed indie rock darlings and generational rap stars hardly has a monopoly on Washington music culture. Forget Seattle. Rural Washington is ready to rock the Grammys 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

It all adds up to a remarkable triumph for an indie film that circumvented the liberal waters of Hollywood. Movie audiences find anti-Obama doc '2016' 2012-08-31T16:31:05Z

There's an intensity of insight that seems uniquely , because of its size and breadth, its enviable indie arts heritage, and its ability to consistently pull high-profile and thought-provoking headliners. SXSWi: Bigger than ever - but does that mean it was better? 2011-03-21T07:00:04Z

It gets namedropped a lot by indie bands who like to imagine their music is so powerful and all-consuming it induces sensory delirium and confusion. New band of the day – Hands (No 1,478) 2013-03-25T16:41:31Z

Instead, the series is a domestic comedy from the Duplass brothers, two of the main purveyors of "mumblecore," an indie film niche characterized by low budgets, loose plots and naturalistic dialogue. HBO's 'Togetherness' melds domestic mirth with 'mumblecore' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

I would listen to rock music and indie, but I could never dress like those kids did — I couldn’t even figure out where to get the clothes from. Michael Kiwanuka Felt ‘One Step Away.’ Now He Has a Seat at the Table. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

The Minneapolis indie group launched their brilliant soft rock debut Relayted with a show at one of Prince's old haunts First Avenue. 2010 best guest appearances including Jack Black, Mark E Smith & Bon Iver 2010-12-18T00:07:50Z

The awards season is upon us and again the critical buzz surrounds the indies. When the alpha nerds kicked ass 2010-12-16T22:01:00Z

The city is also crackling with music venues hosting indie rock, hip-hop, metal, country, etc. Fast-changing Boise offers plenty of adventure, day or night. Here’s a list to choose from. 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

And sure, there are exceptions, but all too often, those indie houses and small chains are only options for moviegoers in larger markets. Does It Matter if You See a Film in a Theater or at Home? 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

But even that polar opposition reflects a certain parallelism: These movies both reflect the strengths and limitations of American indie cinema in the age of the Great Television Conquest. “Wild Canaries” and “Bluebird” reflect the new indie filmmaker dream — to make it big on TV 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

She was nominated for her role as Hushpuppy in indie drama "Beasts of the Southern Wild," which also earned a nod for Best Picture. Quvenzhané Wallis to play title role in "Annie" movie 2013-02-24T21:38:57Z

One day, his guests were an indie DJ duo called Queens Of Noize, with whom he struck up a friendship. Can Nick Grimshaw make Radio 1 feel young again? 2012-08-17T22:00:51Z

The band does O.K. financially; “Human Performance” was its first album for the hallowed indie label Rough Trade, and its tour schedule is less relentless than it used to be. Whither the Indie Band? 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

The indie film will tell the story of a volunteer police officer who goes full-time after the death of his mother—a highly decorated retired officer herself, according to The Hollywood Reporter. This Is Louis C.K.'s Next Big Project 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

I'll never forget, I did this show once with an indie rock band. "What is American music?": Ryan Coogler leads a fresh exploration of the national anthem 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z

The Canadian indie band Arcade Fire's exuberant "The Suburbs" CD was named album of the year in the evening's biggest upset. Lady Antebellum surprises with 'Need You Now' 2011-02-14T05:49:26Z

It’s all the “mature indie rock” you can eat! Love Story: A Q&A with Singer-Songwriter Robyn Hitchcock 2013-03-05T20:02:08Z

Hatched by foreign and indie filmmakers, they are seen in seconds-long snippets by hundred of millions of viewers on Oscar night, then dissolve into obscurity. How to Win Big in the “Little” Categories at the Oscars 2014-02-28T16:48:58Z

This band of Pennsylvania upstarts — all the members are 20 years old or younger — play imaginative indie rock: high-energy songs that meander through folk, blues and classic rock. 15 Musical Artists to Watch in 2015 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

And among the little indies: ponies for everyone! Box Office: Fockers Wins Ugly, True Grit Shoots Straight 2010-12-27T03:55:00Z

These New Puritans: Hidden Any number of post-punkish types were dropped or imploded in the past year or so as the selling power of British indie withered on the vine. Mercury prize 2010: A dozen of the best 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

The move coincides with Cera exploring new artistic expressions — the release of an indie folk album and his Broadway debut, all this summer. Michael Cera finds his comfort zone in New York

The frontman, Walter Schreifels, went on to become a constant in the great indie group Rival Schools, and performs solo at this small, hip space. Pop Music Listings for May 16-22 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

I’m looking at doing some indie films. One thing I really want to do is–I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to LA to do TV and film. Rainn Wilson on “The Office”: “It’s really time for the show to end” 2012-12-15T18:20:00Z

We’ve been in the indie rock world for a long time. Tegan and Sara’s Tegan Quin on the Group’s New Sound and Getting in Touch with Their Inner Cindi Lauper 2013-01-15T15:43:35Z

And big studios in Los Angeles are always on the lookout for new directing talent from the indie world. Arthouse v blockbuster: will superheroes wipe out serious movies? 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

In the noughties, when indie aesthetics overtook alternative music in the US, it ostensibly produced more female equality. Ask the indie professor: Are gender stereotypes still present in indie music? 2010-09-01T11:59:00Z

And just as Last House on the Left and Night of the Living Dead helped popularise the genre in the 60s and 70s, indie hits still give studios fresh encouragement to produce mainstream horror. Horrorwood! Will the new golden age of scary movies save cinema? 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

After all, no one listens to just indie or just dance, either punk or funk, any more. !!! keep the party going with Thr!!!er 2013-04-26T13:00:00Z

This week’s performers are, on Tuesday, Lucky Diaz and the Family Jam Band, purveyors of indie pop-rock for families; and, on Thursday, KBC Kids, specialists in wholesome hip-hop. Spare Times for Children for June 21-27 2013-06-20T23:01:28Z

He unpacked notable cuts from a series of indie releases — “Blue Chips 2,” music from his “F---, That’s Delicious” Web series — and his major-label debut album, “Mr. Wonderful,” released in March. And the crowd goes wild for Action Bronson at the Fillmore 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Pitchfork Music Festival: The seventh annual gathering of the indie tribes will be headlined by Feist, Godspeed You! Top weekend shows: Pitchfork, Chaka Khan, Z-Trip 2012-07-13T15:40:00Z

Lewis has spent almost her entire life lingering at the edges of everyone’s collective consciousness, first as a child actor, then as indie pop’s mid-’00s queen. Rebound, rediscovery, rebirth: How Jenny Lewis made her best album in more than a decade 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

American indie with European social-realist values, as the plight of a trio of poor, damaged, black Mississippians is rendered through quiet observation and wintry landscapes. This week's new films 2011-03-19T00:05:59Z

The result, Sherman said, is “music that you don’t often hear in kids’ shows,” including hip-hop, ’70s funk, bluegrass and country indie tunes. ‘Jam Van’ Dares to Ask: What if Family Road Trips Were Actually Fun? 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

When Taylor Swift’s record label, Big Machine, opened for business in 2005, its name seemed a self-deprecating joke — it was a tiny indie among giants like Universal and Sony. Indie Label Big Machine to Start Dot Records 2014-03-24T03:03:33Z

“It’s weird, people think, for an indie band to do a dancing video. It doesn’t happen all the time.” How Matt and Kim Videos Rock the Internet 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z

In the last six months, the words "surf", "beach" and "sun" have become the most overused in the indie rock lexicon. This week's new live music 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

Potter, best known as an indie rock performer with her band The Nocturnals, received three nominations for the collaboration. Kenny Chesney leads ACM Awards nominations with 9 2012-01-26T15:28:50Z

EP, which was based on samples of popular indie and commercial rock songs, and offered online as a free download. Seattle rapper Macklemore ready to take a shot at pop stardom 2011-02-10T05:20:43Z

"Expect them to be all over the American indie radar shortly" – Rolling Stone. New band of the day – No 1,278: Of Monsters and Men 2012-05-29T16:42:57Z

Mascis was not exactly twiddling his thumbs as he fielded offers from American indie royalty. Dinosaur Jr's J Mascis turned down Nirvana offer 2012-10-05T10:25:51Z

The White Period of Ted Danson most resembles that of Bill Murray, who, since his resurrection as an upper-middle-aged curmudgeon amid pubescent scoundrels in "Rushmore," has become an unlikely muse for indie writers and directors. Ted Danson gambles comeback on "CSI" 2011-09-21T16:22:00Z

Like a broad swath of indie pop, it is an entirely unmemorable collection of tunes that never pushes the boundaries and whose only challenge lies in identifying which more established acts each song apes. Echosmith: A young band finding its way | Concert review 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

Every few months, I spelunk into the world of online indie television. Emily Nussbaum: “High Maintenance,” “My Mad Fat Diary” Reviews 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

The lyrical scene in Nightmare and the Cat's single "Alvarado" is a familiar one to Echo Park indie regulars. Pop & Hiss video premiere: Nightmare and the Cat's 'Alvarado' 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

Low-budget sci-fi plus indie date movie equals alternative credentials, as a couple trek through a futuristic Mexico infested with aliens and metaphors. This week's new films 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z

Middle of the Map is a fun weekend in, well, the middle of the country, complete with some awesome indie and rock groups and the full festival feeling. 5 April Music Festivals To Check Out 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

The indie music world has been relatively slow to see a #MeToo movement on the same scale as other facets of the entertainment industry, although there are signs that could be changing. Sub Pop pulling Avi Buffalo’s music after rape allegations emerge 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

Those at the center of the Dallas indie scene insist that there is no competition between their city and Austin, and that filmmakers in both places are constantly working on one another’s projects. Texas Monthly: Dallas Has Its Own Indie Film Scene, and Now a Festival 2012-06-03T03:26:54Z

Most hip-hop acts here draw indie/hipster crowds, an exception this year being J Cole at Kiss and Fly, where skinny white kids in checked shirts were virtually absent. SXSW: The Strokes, the Vaccines, Odd Future and the best of the rest 2011-03-20T22:00:02Z

He cooked indie cinema’s barbed human dramas into wild opera. Pulp Fiction to Magnolia: the best films of the 90s – as chosen by critics 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

And many indie bookstores across the country provide their own monthly selections specifically tailored to each customer’s interests. Review | What do women want? One company is betting it comes between two covers. 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

Among indies, “The Big Sick,” an unconventional romantic comedy, was a big hit, with about $40 million in ticket sales. After Dismal Summer, Hollywood Pins Hopes on Fall Ticket Sales 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

The band’s profile continued to rise and Snail Mail signed with Matador Records — home to countless indie rock acts since before Jordan was born — when graduation was still weeks away. High school’s done. Now comes indie rock stardom for Snail Mail. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z

The Paradise Rock Club, on Commonwealth Avenue nestled next to Boston University, features performances by alternative and indie bands such as OK Go, Of Montreal and Paul Weller. 36 Hours in Boston 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

For an indie label such as Transgressive, the idea of risk-taking is a bit of a double-edged sword. SXSW 2011: The British labels making it big in Austin 2011-03-19T02:30:28Z

This bill, though, is the best collection of sharp, creative and up-and-coming Seattle indie, including Sloucher, Whitney Ballen and Salt Lick. Seattle-area music and nightlife events, Dec. 28-Jan. 3: Pearl Django, Great Grandpa and more 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

I am getting a little bit older, so I wanted to push myself and kind of get into a little bit more of an indie world. Gomez in an 'awkward' transition with 'Breakers' 2013-03-15T16:43:11Z

It's by no means bad or unpleasant, just average indie, some of it more rhythmic than others but none deserving of the designation disco, let alone cosmic. New band of the day – Prince Rama (No 1,337) 2012-08-23T15:42:26Z

But the Stone Roses' anthem is also an expression of independence over the irritant who's the subject of the song, and an ecstasy-fuelled but not unreasonable assertion of superiority over their largely drab indie contemporaries. Readers recommend: songs about showing off ? the results 2011-02-24T16:38:51Z

The best career enhancer, she advised, is not a fashion campaign but playing a “crazy person” or starring in an indie. Golden Globes Alert: Seeking the Next Young Actress to Reign in Red Carpet Fashions 2012-01-04T22:13:35Z

That really was the high-water mark of that indie rock culture. Alternative nation’s last stand: Lollapalooza 1995, an oral history 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

The narrow, graffiti-flecked streets of this district just outside Hamburg old town offer a kaleidoscope of indie shops for all tastes. 10 cool shopping districts around the world: readers’ tips 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

"Joker" doesn't have anything meaningful to say about comic book origin tales or the people who gravitate toward becoming outlandish characters; it just applies the gloss of the "quirky, misunderstood outsider" indie sub-genre. "Joker" isn't remotely Oscar-worthy, and these better but snubbed films prove it 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

“We have early work by Kelly Reichardt, one of the most vital indie filmmakers in the United States.” Fandor: A Streaming Rabbit Hole Worth Falling Down 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

It feels a long, long way from the indie hotspots of London. BLK JKS: playing rock in a hard place 2010-06-03T21:26:00Z

It’s been almost eight years since Garden State garnered widespread attention for Oregon-based indie rock group The Shins, and five since their last album came out. The Week Ahead?10 Things To Watch, Read and Listen To: March 19?25 2012-03-19T19:29:22Z

The "Avengers" and "How I Met Your Mother" actress broke the news to Bustle while promoting Kris Swanberg's indie film "Unexpected" at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, this week. Cobie Smulders of 'HIMYM,' Taran Killam welcome baby No. 2 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

She acted in indie films and onstage with companies like Classic Stage Company and the Atlantic Theater Company. Teyonah Parris, Katherine Waterston and Others Break Through 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Certainly in the US, major and indie studios approached the project with caution – hence it landing in the lap of HBO, which aired it earlier this month. Man of Steel leaps predecessor in a single bound as waiting game pays off 2013-06-18T17:11:52Z

The band formed in Los Angeles in 1998, moving between indie labels until finally signing with Warner Music. Rilo Kiley announce their split 2011-07-14T10:32:58Z

So the indie world, as you know, is a struggle in how you get distribution. Henry Rollins calls U.S. men "the dumbest creatures" & Trump "wrongest possible" leader for pandemic 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

Gilmore said improving marketing was key to better visibility and box office of indie films released to video on demand. Tribeca film festival turns ten 2011-04-17T12:32:32Z

For the first time since she left her Mumblecore roots for the dubious big-time of films like Arthur, she plays someone other than either the freewheeling indie chick or the scatterbrained indie chick. Damsels in Distress: Heathers, Without Cruel Intentions 2012-04-05T10:45:50Z

This is easily one of the most intriguing indie games of the last decade. 10 chill and affordable video games to play that aren't "Animal Crossing" 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

At 12/1, the Maccabees are the Mercury's indie rock meat-and-potatoes option, if that doesn't do a disservice to their latest searching, surging incarnation. Alt-J / The Maccabees – review 2012-10-27T23:17:15Z

This is what it’s like, financially, to have the indie book publicity story of the year and be near the top of the bestseller list. Hey, Amazon: Where’s my money? 2013-03-15T23:00:00Z

The 20-year-old actor, who was most recently seen in James Franco’s indie flick Palo Alto, told the audience he read Paper Towns after a producer on The Fault in our Stars encouraged him to. Author John Green On What To Expect From 'Paper Towns,' Cara Delevingne 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

There’s freedom in being Julian Sands, an actor whose eclectic career has taken him from prestige romances to subversive indie movies and sinister TV shows – and to more than 50 countries. ‘I didn’t want to be a Hollywood actor’: Julian Sands on controversy, fear and his best friend, John Malkovich 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Earlier that day, Don Hill himself, a legendary fixture in New York’s clubland who presided over three decades of underground culture bridging punk, glam-androgyny, indie rock and electronic dance, passed away abruptly in his mid-60s. All-Night Sendoff for a Clubland King 2011-04-06T23:39:28Z

With his penchant for quirky or gruelling roles in indie films, his political aspirations and his purposefully anti-Hollywood stance, it would be easy to find Gosling pretentious. "I didn't set out to be 'the indie guy'" 2011-01-09T00:16:00Z

They make selective use of that indie crutch, the plaintive solo piano, and refuse to push the viewer toward snap judgments of characters. Review: Still Alice: Julianne Moore Reveals Alzheimer's From the Inside 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Oddly, both shows from these indie outfits take an intensely rural view. Women’s Voices Theater Festival goes country as it winds down 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

And more recently, indie rock and classic disco have been embraced with a vengeance — and with a uniquely Serbian bent. Next Stop: Belgrade Music Scene: Pop, Folk, Electronica and Politics 2010-06-10T18:37:00Z

A late-career renaissance as a star character actor and indie auteur beckoned, but Hopper, in entirely typical fashion, just didn't seem to care about that, or even to think about himself in conventional, careerist terms. Dennis Hopper's strange, brilliant career 2010-05-29T18:04:00Z

He is an academically trained composer who became a rock guitarist and a founder of the indie band, The National. L.A. Phil explores Minimalism to maximal effect at Disney Hall 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

And currently, there is criticism that indie music is just too popular to be considered non-mainstream. Ask the indie professor: Is there a link between indie music and Gnosticism? 2011-03-14T16:52:39Z

And the one fascination of A Madea Christmas is how little care the country’s most popular and powerful indie filmmaker takes in shaping his own material. Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas: How Low Can You Go? 2013-12-13T20:39:26Z

“Last spring we recognized there were no good indie options for these brides who want a chic look and fun vibe without the stuffiness.” Dress Designers Add Options for Plus-Size Brides 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Bloom continues to raise his indie film profile. 2010-02-02T06:08:00Z

A flex space that caters to indie game developers is open around the clock. They Don’t Call Them Hot Desks for Nothing 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

As such, it ended up being just the shot of fresh indie realism the mainstream needed. Greenberg star Greta Gerwig steps from the shadows of mumblecore 2010-06-04T23:08:00Z

The disappearance of Williamsburg’s indie music hub prompted hand-wringing about North Brooklyn’s cultural soul, but alternatives are sprouting up deeper down the L line. Where to Party in New York This Fall 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

“I didn’t want an indie rock record, whatever that is,” Berninger says. Matt Berninger, king of melancholy music, is doing just fine 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

A year after Saoirse Ronan played a pink-haired, rebellious teenager in the indie drama “Lady Bird,” she returned to the big screen as the title character of this period drama, Mary Stuart. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Mary Queen of Scots’ and ‘WOW’ 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

“I really thought I was going to do theater and indie films,” she said. Sooner or Later, Zoë Kravitz Was Going to Be a Star 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

A band form, release a few albums, get hailed by a hyperventilating music press as the saviours of indie rock, then burn out, disappearing into an "indefinite hiatus". Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'You make music for the king and his court, or for the serfs outside the walls' 2012-10-11T09:18:00Z

In some ways this would seem like an inopportune moment for something like indie TV. Sundance 2015: Can an animated animal show change the way TV is made? 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Now some of the indies are threatening to withdraw their music from Spotify in response . Spotify should give indies a fair deal on royalties 2011-02-01T10:34:21Z

More importantly, she doesn't seem to be daunted, and there are no signs of compromising her hard-won indie credibility. Greenberg star Greta Gerwig steps from the shadows of mumblecore 2010-06-04T23:08:00Z

He sent demos to Chet "JR" White, the producer and former member of the indie rock band Girls, another act built around a charismatic and model-complexioned lead singer. Tobias Jesso Jr. has new album, 'Goon,' and rising cred as songwriter 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

She plays the bass guitar for Apricity, an indie rock band that performs in the New York area. Ting Guo, Michael Villaseñor 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

In the past couple of years, there has been a renaissance of strange indie movies. Ghost shops and farting corpses: How viral conceits became Trojan horses for brilliant dramas 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

If Hollywood’s mainstream prize ponies couldn’t all reach cinemas by the end of the year, perhaps this would be the year of increased opportunities for underdog indies – not to mention traditionally underrepresented minorities. Oscars 2021: how shifting the awards later favours the old guard 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

When I saw it at New York’s City Cinema Village East, which caters to microbudget indies other chains won’t pick up, there were just 10 people in the theater. It’s official: This is the worst movie ending of all time 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

Rebecca Lucy Taylor, better known as the pop star Self Esteem, was in an indie band at that time. Dolly Alderton Gives Female Friendship the Rom-Com Treatment 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

The McCartney Legacy depicts McCartney's initial, tentative steps with his homespun, eponymous debut album and the indie favorite "Ram" through the early days of Wings. "The McCartney Legacy": An in-depth study of Paul's angsty transition from Beatle to solo superstar 2022-12-11T05:00:00Z

While some players remain the same -- The Weinstein Co. is still around, so are Fox Searchlight and Focus Features -- there are several new companies playing the indie film game. Sundance 2011 filmmakers face new reality 2011-01-20T17:13:58Z

Ms. Cholodenko, whose previous films “High Art” and “Laurel Canyon,” made her an indie darling, built the film around her two stars. The Carpetbagger: Glimmers of Hope for Small Films During Glittery Oscar Promotions 2010-12-01T22:58:00Z

Nirvana were indie up-and-comers who wanted a shot at the mainstream. Review | Remembering Kurt Cobain as a sweetly childlike, achingly opaque creative force 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

I was warmed, then moved, by this recent history of indies, spartanly staged in low light, each a gem of shining creativity. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: The Year of the Indie 2013-12-25T13:01:28Z

He's especially eager to hook up with big-name artists from the hip-hop and R&B world – a smart move seeing as more underground, indie producers are being sought after right now, and often British ones. Guardian first album award: Rustie 2012-02-09T20:00:04Z

Striving to be a rapper in this city better known for indie rock, roots music and “Portlandia”-level whiteness was “super depressing,” he said. Meet Aminé, a Joyful Rapper With an Eye on Politics 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

And while "accessible" can be a dirty word in the indie music world, The Cave Singers don't mind. Seattle band The Cave Singers celebrates new album 'No Witch' 2011-04-21T21:51:10Z

Both are long-term purveyors of breathy, pastoral indie rock indebted to Big Star – brothers from another Sister Lover – and start making music together. The New Mendicants – review 2013-07-11T11:52:00Z

You might say that this is because their village fete-iness was only ever an ersatz one, and their brand of folk just indie rock with banjos. Mumford & Sons; Tom Odell – review 2012-12-16T00:06:02Z

Alien Laborer in the Hollywood Factory The actress Tilda Swinton has an Oscar and indie cred, but she still feels that she is feeling her way. Awards Season: The Golden Globes 2012-01-13T23:42:11Z

But at the lower budget and indie level, no caveats are necessary. Summer movie preview: 5 storylines to watch 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

Certainly there's no sign of indie folk on either of the singles revealed so far, including yesterday's surprise debut, See Me Now, featuring Beyoncé and Charlie Williams. Kanye West album may feature Bon Iver's Justin Vernon 2010-08-13T12:02:00Z

Here is a list of noteworthy movies heading to theaters and living rooms this summer — everything from blockbusters to small indies from the festival circuit. Summer Movies 2023: Here’s What’s Coming to Theaters and Streaming 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

When he got involved, there was a lot of indie film life lessons. Brian Tyree Henry stars in "The Outside Story," a road movie "with the smallest possible mileage" 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z

But while that group’s records fuse indie rock with spoken word and operatic flourishes, Ms. Friedberger’s “Last Summer” is a more streamlined pop album. ArtsBeat: Popcast: Beyonc? Grows Up, Half of Fiery Furnaces Gets Nostalgic 2011-07-01T18:00:51Z

You don't have to go to an art house to see an indie film. "Single Drunk Female" star Ally Sheedy: "My most multidimensional roles come from women" 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

One such moment was in the 1970s; another occurred recently when Miramax shook up the indie world and the studios noticed. Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

It offers live indie, rock, dance and folk music, and films, comedy shows and theater. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Quebec City 2011-10-13T19:52:56Z

Lopez’s new project represents an earnest attempt to capitalize on a very real public hunger to see a woman at the center of a mainstream movie — not an indie, but an old-fashioned popcorn flick. The Boy Next Door Is the Bad Movie Hollywood Needs Right Now 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z

EST Thursday with music he was into in high school, a mix of standard indie rock leavened with Captain Beefheart. The Black Keys' Patrick Carney to host radio show 2012-12-19T19:35:14Z

The music on their debut mixtape, Roses, ticks all the right indie R&B boxes. New band of the day – Last Night In Paris 2013-02-15T08:00:00Z

When Sex and the City ended in 2004, she returned to movies, winning a Golden Globe for her performance in The Family Stone and giving well-reviewed turns in a mixture of comedies and indie fare. From Sex and the City to Divorce – the television remaking of Sarah Jessica Parker 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

Way back when, though, they were the bright hopes of indie, one consequence of which was that they were invited to support the Smiths when that group was at their absolute peak in 1986. Hail, Hail, Rock'n'roll 2011-03-03T22:31:01Z

The record topped the indie charts for several weeks. Bobby Gillespie: 'The whole rock scene is a joke' – an interview from the vaults 2013-02-27T16:05:42Z

I hesitate to call this crop of comedies “indie,” because they are financed by some of the biggest budgets in television; a better term is prestige comedy, the counterpart to prestige drama. Save yourself! Leave Los Angeles now: TV’s prestige comedies say living in the City of Angels will destroy you 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Based on the sleeper hit indie film of the same title, “Once” includes songs by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, including tunes they wrote for the movie. ‘Once’ is in Paramount’s 2013-14 Broadway lineup 2013-02-15T22:04:18Z

“Beginners” continues its indie roll, earning nominations for best feature, best screenplay and best director at the Film Independent Spirit Awards, the West Coast answer to the Gothams. Carpetbagger Blog: 'Beginners' and 'Take Shelter' Pick Up Spirit Nominations 2011-11-29T22:26:54Z

Last year came “The Spectacular Now,” an indie about love and alcoholism in high school. The Screenwriting Team Behind ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

In making a highly personal film that's deliberately crafted to reach a wide popular audience, Cholodenko may finally bust out of the indie niche that has made her career so far almost a trade secret. "The Kids Are All Right": The gay-marriage movie America needs 2010-07-08T01:01:00Z

Now is using indie musicians as a way to define itself. In Transit: Hotels Reach Guests Through Their Ears 2011-06-01T18:02:17Z

The now-57-year-old indie mogul turned around and saw a young man from India excitedly approaching him. New 8Stem app ‘puts the power of remixing into everyone’s hands’ 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

Several indie imprints and at least one major country label passed on her music. Margo Price, Nashville Outsider, Tells It Like It Really Is 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

Leave it to Austin, proud purveyor of indie rock and artsy ideas, to become the country’s leading exporter of literary story ballets. A balletic ‘Hamlet’ takes one giant leap from Texas to Washington 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Spain's indie culture remains one of the strongest in Europe. A history of Spanish pop in 10 songs 2012-06-18T15:17:21Z

While the big-tent movies of 2014 have for the most part failed to deliver as promised, indie films are doing well this year. Big year for indie flicks! Jon Feltheimer's big payday. 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

The filmmakers and producers behind three of those indies said what propelled their films had to do less with economics than with a sense of venturing into fresh terrain. Seasoned Actors Like Michael Caine and Lily Tomlin Dot Awards Field 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

O.K., he watched “The Notebook” again last week but he also watched “Weekend,” the gay indie film, so it balanced out. The Tear-Stained Confessions of Sam Smith 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

“Tiny Hands” is also not the indie singer’s first protest song aimed at Mr. Trump. Fiona Apple Releases a Trump Protest Chant 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z

Judaism is probably the religion most amenable to an indie approach. An Online Path to the Bar Mitzvah 2010-11-19T17:46:00Z

Now your B in full Belle and Sebastian – Fox and the Snow "It's not as if it's fun," sings Stuart Murdoch to the boy on the bike in the way of the fey indie kid. Readers recommend: hunting songs 2010-07-29T23:03:00Z

That was such an interesting world because that almost felt like indie filmmaking again. Dianna Agron on embracing indies after "Glee": "When you ask for something, life can give it to you" 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

This year Pitchfork is hosting two titans of indie rock: Modest Mouse, whose breakthrough LP, "The Moon and Antarctica," is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and the freshly reunited Pavement. Summer Stages: Pop and Jazz 2010-05-07T21:24:00Z

Director David Lowery managed to do the unthinkable last year: abandon his small-scale indie roots to make a Disney family film that still retained the same lo-fi feel. No sequels allowed: the 12 best alternative movies to watch this summer 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

It appears that not only do the majors own shares in Spotify, they – and their artists – also get much better streaming rates than the indies. Spotify should give indies a fair deal on royalties 2011-02-01T10:34:21Z

Instead we just get indie movie clichés about nature and innocence served up with staid determination. Dreary 'Among Ravens' has little to crow about 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

"Lincoln" and "Les Miserables" were expected to be nominated, but mythological indie drama "Beasts" and "Amour" were two surprises in key categories, including best picture, directing and screenplay. 'Beasts,'Amour' actresses make history with Oscar nods 2013-01-11T00:22:47Z

The indie comedy — already shaping up to be one of this season’s sleeper hits — stars Jenny Slate as a 20-ish Brooklynite contemplating the termination of an unplanned pregnancy. Critic’s Notebook: The sisters of summer

But more immediately there is a robust selection of Texans releasing new music — from hip-hop to country and indie rock to Top 40 — in advance of the summer touring season. Before Summer Music Tours, a Burst of New CDs From Texans 2013-05-12T01:55:16Z

Ten years ago, shortly after moving to London, following a spell with her father in Carlisle, she fronted indie quartet La Honda. The persistence of Rumer 2011-03-17T21:29:00Z

She fronted an indie pop group while at Bryn Mawr, staying out East after graduation to sing and play guitar for the rock band Little Big League. Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner is fighting for joy through grief 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z

The 2011 lineup continues an emerging Sasquatch! theme of booking '90s college rock acts understood as pioneers of today's mainstreamed indie. Thoughts on the Sasquatch! 2011 lineup, featuring Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse, Robyn 2011-02-07T07:21:04Z

At an early age, Schreiber became a fan of indie music, but found there were few online resources. Behind the music: An interview with Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber 2010-10-21T16:03:00Z

He begins Secret committing, in about a minute flat, all the sins of sensitive indie films: solo piano, dappled slo-mo images, and a woman running down a train platform after her beloved. Oscar's Big Secret: Love and Death in Argentina 2010-04-25T02:35:00Z

Fails, an actor and San Francisco native, plays a fictionalized version of himself in this indie drama directed by Joe Talbot. What’s on TV Wednesday: Awkwafina and ‘The Revenant’ 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

He is an authentically indie artist, though his work is distributed worldwide and features on several albums. January's best new music from across the MAP 2011-01-15T12:41:00Z

He resembles Finchy from The Office in an indie wig and made me feel a bit bilious. TV OD with Michael Hogan – Cherry Healey: How To Get A Life 2012-06-15T23:05:00Z

"Is it essential to be on this or any other list?" asks Richard Walker, general manager of the indie label 4AD. If you're not on the list: the BBC Sound Of ? poll 2011-01-06T22:00:01Z

However, YouTube and Merlin, a rights organization for indie labels and artists, were able to come to an agreement, according to the Financial Times. YouTube brings its huge fan base to music streaming 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

Almereyda, a veteran indie warrior who has never chosen the easy road, made me feel the moral passion and emotional risk beneath the surface of a play that is often considered a failure. “Cymbeline”: Ethan Hawke, Dakota Johnson and Ed Harris highlight a weird Shakespeare update 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Initially, the Duplasses seem to be living the fantasy of every indie filmmaker: “Buyers, agents, managers, producers and studio executives were all swarming us,” they write. Two Dudes With a Camera 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

This summer, the progressive indie rockers announced this tour would be their last, after which the band is dissolving in order to spend more time with family and explore other creative opportunities. Seattle’s Minus the Bear says goodbye with 3 sold-out nights at the Showbox 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Let's say instead that it's another terrific auteur-driven indie out of the dynamic British scene, and that adventurous film buffs of all genders and orientations should check it out. Does "Weekend" mark a new direction for gay cinema? 2011-09-21T22:01:00Z

William’s Green is named in honor of Michael Eavis’ grandfather and the adjacent stage is fast becoming a shrine to indie rock. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

After 30 years of pranks, power chords and evolution, Seattle’s big little indie label is poised to thrive in a rapidly changing industry. Sub Pop at 30: How a Seattle record label’s storied past prepared it for the future 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

The Guardian’s Benjamin Lee called it “a half-baked TV movie masquerading as Oscarbait, a curious misstep for the Oscar-nominated indie auteur”. Linklater's war veteran comedy speaks to modern America, says star 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z

The band long ago became a quiet model for sustainable indie rock. Music Is a Sanctuary From Chaos on Yo La Tengo’s ‘There’s a Riot Going On’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

The well-liked McConaughey benefitted in critics’ groups by appearing in four indie movies last year and receiving multiple votes for different roles; the Academy rewards the performance, not the performer. Film Critics Awards: Early Clues to the Oscars 2013-01-09T16:32:50Z

The rock show’s setting — in this formerly closed-off Soviet military enclave — is one of the last places you would expect to find a posse of multicultural indie rockers. East by Far East: Vladivostok Rocks 2013-08-28T22:59:23Z

I understand the relations of scale between indie films and blockbusters, but in the streaming world there ought to be a middle ground between “Bright”-style exposure and zero public awareness. The Hidden Gems of 2017 Movies Are on ... Netflix? 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

The schedule of more than 120 bands features Lollapalooza's signature mix of mainstream headliners and indie bands. Red Hot Chili Peppers top Lollapalooza lineup 2012-04-11T05:24:09Z

Of course, there are major financial benefits to using indie musicians on your soundtrack as well: It's way cheaper to license a song that's never been heard before than one by the Beatles or Beyonce. Indie musicians help movie soundtracks hit right emotional note 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

As movies that don’t feature a superhero become more rare in theaters, Netflix continues to position itself as a destination for indies poised to find bigger audiences on couches than in megaplexes. 16 Original Movies You'll Be Able to Watch on Netflix in 2016 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

Then came a more robust set of indie rock. Amythyst Kiah Found Her Powerful Voice. Now She Has a Sound to Match It. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

Like many indie salon owners, they wanted their space, now three years old, to be the opposite. Independent Hair Salons in New York 2012-01-25T22:59:52Z

Was late December simply too late to release a slow-building indie? For your consideration: this season's most overlooked film performances 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

A new cohort of artists, ranging from indie darlings such as The 1975 to rap artists such as Kanye West openly expressed their appreciation for Collins' genius. How Phil Collins became cool (no, really) 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

The indie label Devolver Digital set up some Airstream trailers in a parking lot across the street from the convention center to showcase its newest games. Trying Out Splatoon, Evolve and Others at E3 Convention 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

Its sound is proudly retro and humbly indie: Vampy Wurlitzers, woolly acoustic guitars and trilling woodwinds abound. Clairo Takes a Defiant Leap on ‘Sling’ 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z

Breezeblocks is the sort of idiosyncratic indie we'd imagine bands we've never heard such as Swell Maps or Arab Strap would have purveyed, affirming that there are quixotic imaginations at work here. New band of the day – Alt-J (No 1,275) 2012-05-24T15:26:10Z

This finds expression in Graveola's uniquely skewed indie aesthetic, using flutes, skillets and even musical Christmas cards to create a cosmopolitan sound. Brazil's music revolution: the new stars remaking a nation's culture 2013-07-23T18:00:04Z

The gig at Warrington Hall reunited all four members of The Stone Roses Seminal indie band The Stone Roses have played their first reunion gig to an ecstatic reception from fans. Fans hail Stone Roses comeback 2012-05-24T10:52:52Z

Its biggest failure is imparting topics that might otherwise provoke debate or awareness with a style and structure that's more akin to "Beavis and Butt-Head" or "The Young Ones" than edgy indie cinema. 'The Taqwacores': An 'Animal House' of Muslim punk rockers 2011-02-10T20:49:05Z

But cinema-goers tend to be in their 20s and 30s and, as you would expect from an establishment that up until recently was host to an indie club night, its patrons are usually rather trendy. Cine-files: The Lighthouse, Wolverhampton 2012-08-08T10:16:00Z

He made the exemplary indies George Washington, All the Right Girls and Undertow before taking a detour into gross-out Hollywood comedy, including Pineapple Express and Your Highness, both starring James Franco. Postcards from Venice, Previews of Toronto 2013-09-06T15:46:17Z

Shop in Downtown Fayetteville This Arkansas college town scores major style points for its colorful mix of indie boutiques. Where to Shop 2012-11-30T15:50:06.773Z

Its core is still music aiming for college radio airplay and, more recently, exposure through the countless Internet outlets for everything loosely described as “indie.” Critic’s Notebook: Cacophonous Declarations of Independents 2012-10-22T03:57:17Z

After a long acting drought, she surfaced at the Tribeca Film Festival in April in the indie drama “Dog Years,” which is awaiting a release date. In a Body-Positive Moment, Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step? 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

It’s disorienting stuff, in keeping with the recent move in indie music toward obfuscation and haze. Music Review: Main Attrakionz at the New Museum - Review 2011-08-28T21:58:00Z

Rather than sounding American, they recall one of those British bands from 2007-8 who merged indie jangle with the tempos and textures of Afrobeat. New band of the day ? No 956: Young Buffalo 2011-01-28T16:22:16Z

Paul Giamatti stars in the indie film, and won a Globe for best actor in a musical or a comedy. Films to see box office bounce after Golden Globes 2011-01-17T21:03:24Z

Today there’s a school of young composers who work in a style, often called indie or alt-classical, that draws on both rock and classical influences, as you’ve done since the 1960s. Q. and A.: With John Cale in Paris and Along the Borderline 2013-01-15T15:30:12Z

This year, the series celebrates its 40th anniversary, a noteworthy accomplishment for any print publication, let alone an indie comic created far afield of the superhero mainstream. ‘Love and Rockets,’ a Series that Helped Redefine Comics, Turns 40 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

On a recent Saturday, for example, the dark-haired, limpid-eyed Ms. Jones, 28, who plays a love-struck college student in the indie film “Like Crazy,” was going over designer collections with the stylist Jessica Paster. Golden Globes Alert: Seeking the Next Young Actress to Reign in Red Carpet Fashions 2012-01-04T22:13:35Z

Fortunately, Hawke’s career survived just fine and he built himself one of the most varied and acclaimed careers in indie cinema. Ethan Hawke on turning down “Independence Day,” thought script was so bad he threw it out 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

The world’s best-known indie label nabbed two more nominations: Best Americana Album, for Calexico and Iron & Wine’s “Years to Burn,” and Best American Roots Performance for that collective’s “Father Mountain.” Sara Gazarek and Natalie Grant among Seattle-connected artists who could win Grammys on Sunday 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

“We were stop No. 1. But it was amazing. It was like a little indie film and everybody does whatever job there is that needs doing. I love that.” ‘Love in the Time of Corona’ is ‘time capsule’ of the times 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

He was signed to indie mainstay Matador Records for his third album, 2009's "Childish Prodigy." Rocker Kurt Vile ? yes, that's his real last name 2011-04-23T00:53:26Z

Certainly he's one of the most underrated, his melodies devastatingly simple – Shame, a kind of It's a Sin for the indie generation, doesn't even bother changing chord until the chorus – yet also devastatingly affecting. My favourite album: The Smell of Our Own by Hidden Cameras 2011-08-16T10:14:43Z

The indie aesthetics are consistent, but meaningful in a different way. Ask the indie professor: Why are there so many white indie bands? 2011-01-04T13:10:38Z

Likewise, if there’s room for an indie or two, the most likely would be “Beasts of the Southern Wild” or “Moonrise Kingdom.” ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Argo,’ ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ poised for Oscar nominations 2013-01-03T03:00:15Z

Now Gates, like the vast majority of indie musicians, is doing most of the heavy lifting herself. Rebecca Gates is back and 'totally over capacity' 2012-07-19T16:58:00Z

He’s headlined indies and television since then, but not a movie released by a studio. The Sleeper Hit That Makes the Most of Screen Time 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z

"As a film lover, I think she's a godsend," says Ted Hope, the veteran indie producer whose CV includes a long relationship with director Ang Lee. Megan Ellison, the most powerful new force in Hollywood 2013-02-18T19:56:34Z

Thurston Moore, the indie rock guitarist best known for his work with Sonic Youth, will play an experimental noise set, as well as songs from his upcoming solo album. In Transit: Festival in Paris Spotlights Indie Music, Old and New 2011-05-22T10:00:51Z

Call me an elitist, but I’ll be heading to my local indie bookstore. The 15th-Century Wool Worker’s Son Who Made Books for Princes and Popes 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

Where “Outlander” is almost baroque in its production and appeal, “The Girlfriend Experience” is a spare, indie affair of a modern, almost featureless Chicago—essentially trading one much-romanticized setting for another. Erotic and empowered: “Outlander” and “The Girlfriend Experience” are turning women on with their “prestige porn” 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z

Flatline pitches are followed by the sound of something heavy being slammed repeatedly and then by brass bands and anthemic indie folk. Review: Play and Loss, and Unusual Rituals of Mourning 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

Later this season, pop singer Sara Bareilles joins the march to Broadway, contributing the score of the new musical version of the indie movie “Waitress.” For Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, musical theater isn’t so wild and crazy 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

He was a creature of the classic-rock era with a handful of overplayed songs, but he also intrigued alt and indie rockers. David Bowie belonged to everyone: His rare appeal cut across generational and demographic lines 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

SUN Exhibition celebrating local independent video games, play 25 indie games made by Seattle and Pacific Northwest game developers, meet game makers; noon Sunday, after party, 6-9 p.m., Community calendar: First Thursday, Evergreen State Fair, Happy Tails Wine Walk, and more 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

Thursday brings Walter Martin of the indie band the Walkmen, who will perform tunes from his new solo album, “We’re All Young Together.” Spare Times for Children for June 27-July 3 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Are they properly supportive of the indie aesthetic? First Sight: Ringo Deathstarr 2011-01-13T22:30:00Z

And in true indie fashion, that was pennies on the dollar. Twilight Breaking a Record, Moviegoers Breaking Down 2011-12-04T21:35:31Z

Up-and-coming indie act The Drops, from Basle, are a safe bet when it comes to a Swiss contribution to a playlist with summer hits. June's best music from across the MAP 2012-06-13T10:52:13Z

Of course I still value the distinctive and immersive power of cinema, and not every indie filmmaker is auditioning for Showtime and HBO. “Results”: Cobie Smulders and Guy Pearce will pump you up in this buff and delightful rom-com 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

The truth: They specialise in indie's three R's: jolly, jaunty joy. New band of the day: Eliza and the Bear (No 1,447) 2013-02-07T17:15:19Z

Here are the season's top-grossing indie and foreign films, including some that opened in the spring but kept playing through the summer: 1. Box Office: Clooney, Machete and the Summer That Was 2010-09-06T07:15:00Z

Still, the indie rock that was Pitchfork’s raison d’être in its early days was well represented here, especially on Friday, though not without some internal skepticism. Music Review: Dancing Under the Sky 2013-07-22T22:01:52Z

For a decade since, the film business has been strictly binary, split between micro indies made for pocket change and studios turning out jumbotronic superhero serials. Bored of blockbusters? Why Hollywood needs another Bonnie and Clyde moment 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

This show is a homecoming for these indie stalwarts, who met at N.Y.U. and started making dark, stripped-down rock music in the late 1990s. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

I needed something more distinctive – and thought this little indie film called A Nightmare on Elm Street might be it. How we made A Nightmare on Elm Street 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

I'm surprised I couldn't track down more examples, but they're a regular fixture of American indie productions nowadays. Anne Bilson 2010-06-03T21:20:00Z

Now in its 26th year, the Gotham Awards, which honor feature-length indie movies, is the first major event of awards season. The Gotham Awards Confirmed 'Moonlight's' Path to Oscars 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

The creative spirit behind this ongoing phenomenon was the late George Romero, whose 1968 indie film classic, “Night of the Living Dead,” continues to exert its influence on an entire subgenre. Review | George Romero’s posthumous epic, ‘The Living Dead,’ reads like a definitive account of the zombie apocalypse 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z

Xavier Dolan has been regarded as the enfant terrible of indie film-making for the past decade. Teenage flicks: the youngest film-makers ever 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

The indie market has spent roughly six years trying to regroup following the collapse of DVD sales and the shuttering of most arthouse divisions by the major studios. Sundance 2015: A Buying Spree Propelled by Video on Demand 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

To document his college town's scrappy punk scene, he founded the indie label Fueled by Ramen out of his bedroom, shipping packages and handling A&R himself. Interscope CEO John Janick looks ahead 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

The group was frequently crowned, by critics and other elitists, the most important indie rock band of the ’90s. Stephen Malkmus Doesn’t Think He Was a Jerk 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

Now they've added violin and cello to their lineup and they're more of an indie chamber pop group, with a neat line in elegiac melodrama and camply overblown lyrics with the accent on narcissistic melancholia. New band of the day (Vlks No 1,485) 2013-04-04T14:04:35Z

Arguably, that entire genre is really the indie aesthetic being transferred over to TV. Why TV Is the Perfect Place for Indie Filmmakers 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

The three piece are in the running for best album, best indie breakthrough, live act and track of the year for their hit single, Strong. London Grammar lead indie awards 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

In fact, some of the best indie films of recent years were products of divisions of Hollywood studios that worked in the arena for low-budget moviemaking. 2010-01-22T05:52:00Z

When an indie game company created Among Us in 2018, it was greeted with little fanfare. With Nowhere to Go, Teens Flock to Among Us 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z

For comparison, McNally Jackson, in SoHo, stocks about sixty thousand titles; my favorite indie bookstore—Literati, in Ann Arbor, where I went to grad school—stocks twenty-five thousand, with five thousand titles in fiction.   Amazon’s Brick-and-Mortar Bookstores Are Not Built for People Who Actually Read 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z

Warm Jets, a peppy late-90s indie band, capture some of the character's loneliness. Readers recommend: songs about superheroes ? results 2011-07-07T13:32:47Z

To put things in perspective: the $41.2 million that Man of Steel grossed in its “flop” second weekend may be more than any indie film will earn all year. Pixar’s Monsters and Brad Pitt’s Zombies Gang Up on Superman 2013-06-23T22:40:47Z

Some can be made at home while others may require a quick trip to your local Petco, PetSmart or indie pet shop. 5 Halloween pet costume ideas that are quick and easy to put together 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Daniel says, "The deal is a joint venture, almost like an indie deal -- it's a 50/50 split, which is fair, because she was betting on herself so much." Courtney Love is back with a vengeance 2010-04-03T00:22:00Z

There were a few different strains of indie, including Vetiver, which winningly emulated the cohesiveness of the Grateful Dead, and Avi Buffalo, whose jangling melodies were fatally hindered by its yelping young lead singer. Music: Jeff Tweedy and Wilco Build a Festival at Mass MoCA 2010-08-16T22:44:00Z

They just couldn't match the same tax incentive that Michigan was offering at the time, and this is a low budget indie so the difference was really two days of shooting. Schwimmer puts 'Trust' in family drama 2011-03-30T13:12:00Z

Despite its midweek slot, the eclectic night captured the imagination of students unmoved by indie and house, and reigned from 2004 to 2007, when they went their separate ways. Clubs picks of the week 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z

Imitating American slacker indies, Khan follows a gang of friends – the rich, bored kids of Pakistan's elite – around Islamabad. Slackistan ? review 2010-12-02T23:16:00Z

Today, the most popular indie acts tend to be solo projects. San Fermin Brings Back Lavish Ensemble Indie Pop 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

"Sometimes smaller indie films with great acting can win the big prize at SAG, but they don't have the technical credentials to win best picture at the Oscars," said Dave Karger, movie correspondent for Fandango.com. Anne Hathaway, Tommy Lee Jones win Screen Actors Guild awards 2013-01-28T02:08:35Z

Now musicians familiar to folk and indie fans are looking forward to visiting the riverside bohemian bolthole. Ramsbottom's humdinger musicfest squares up to mighty neighbour Manchester 2012-08-14T08:39:09Z

I hated indie, I hated all modern music. From Elephant 6 to Deerhunter: The US's new psychedelia 2011-03-10T23:00:01Z

A selection of indie rock gleaned from a Pitchfork “best of” list from the early 2010s, including Foxygen, Washed Out and Unknown Mortal Orchestra. Patent Pending in Nomad is a Cafe by Day, Speakeasy by Night 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

When I insisted indie existed, I would be told it was the same thing as alternative, just with a different name. Ask the indie professor: why do Americans think they invented indie? 2011-07-28T09:06:39Z

“I don’t have a good feeling about this,” he said, worried that Richard Linklater’s indie epic wasn’t going to walk away with the top prize. What the 2015 Golden Globes Mean for This Year's Oscar Race 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Kate Stables is part of an honourable tradition of indie rock artists: a little bit bookish, seemingly a little bit fragile, yet working some fundamental tenets of compelling rock'n'roll. This week's new live music 2012-12-22T00:05:21Z

Elsewhere, on the mournful “Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris,” which features backing vocals from the indie all-stars boygenius, Williams conjures poignant imagery: Hayley Williams Lays Down New Roots on Her First Solo Album 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z

The rise of indie film over more than two decades closely tracks interest in Sundance as it put directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith and Michael Moore in its spotlight. 2010-01-20T19:03:00Z

Over 450 music groups, mostly indie names, will play in venues around Montreal’s city center for this major festival, which takes place here this fall. Post-Pop Art in Shanghai and Psychedelia in Liverpool: Global Arts Guide 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

McRobbie knew about the music business better than most, as frontman of Scottish indie pop pioneers the Pastels, signed to Domino Records. Independent record shops: 10 of the best in Britain 2013-03-24T00:06:02Z

In the years before that period, the Landaus produced artistically ambitious indie movies that followed a different model, adapting great works of literature into movies for the big and small screen. Edie Landau, Film Producer Who Was Ahead of Her Time, Dies at 95 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

Instead, Arcade Fire's built a solid block that will also feature magnetic electronic composer Dan Deacon and Canadian indie band Unicorns. A new stage for Arcade Fire 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

I was set to interview her directly after the premiere of her new indie film “The Whole Wide World.” Renée Zellweger is just fine, thanks: The actress reflects on her long journey to ‘Judy.’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

During the extended jam “Top Yourself,” a tune from his days with indie supergroup the Raconteurs, White pointed to his bandmates one by one when it was time for their solos. Jack White, a rock star with few peers, plays his catalogue full of hits

We’ve grown inured to the exotic, with a new generation of indie Baskin-Robbinses flaunting flavors like banana curry, Sichuan peppercorn, miso, garlic and lox. Hungry City: Old World Ice Cream Parlors 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

They were part of the circle of musicians contributing to the groundbreaking indie rock band Arcade Fire, which exploded into the mainstream firmament with an unexpected Grammy win for album of the year in 2011. Lucinda Childs' first new dance for her company in 16 years comes with an Arcade Fire connection 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

But unlike, say, Bill Murray's transformation into an indie icon after Lost in Translation, Williams's work in films such as Insomnia felt for all its sincerity like a graft that did not take. Robin Williams obituary 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

Youth-friendly indie in which a naive, pregnant Mormon girl falls in with Las Vegas skater punks. This week's new films 2012-07-13T23:10:55Z

It's an indie film in limited release, so don't expect eye-popping box-office numbers; on the other hand, it was made on a modest budget of about $5 million. How does 'Jimi: All Is by My Side' compare to 2014's other music bios? 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

A rough-looking but sweet-sounding Strokes played what will be the classic rock of our current generation; the Catalan teenagers in Mourn mining the '90s to find their own future of indie rock. Primavera Sound 2015 wraps up longest party of festival year 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z

“The more the big publishers consolidate, the harder it is for indie publishers to survive,” King said. Will the Biggest Publisher in the United States Get Even Bigger? 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z

“Musicians are trying to negotiate this changing landscape,” says Kristin Thomson, once a guitarist for the band Tsunami and an owner of indie label Simple Machines, now a director of the Future of Music Coalition. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z

His innovative ideas and creative flair extended far beyond indie labels and bizarre songtitles. Chris Sievey obituary 2010-06-22T14:16:00Z

As a result, we've lost projects that filmmakers wanted to shoot here, including the David Schwimmer-helmed indie "Trust," which opens in theaters next month and features suburban Michigan standing in for Wilmette. Michigan's lost film incentives may be Illinois' gain 2011-03-10T21:38:21Z

With her lead role in indie drama Ben is Back, awards pundits were busy slapping themselves on their backs by announcing that in fact, Julia Roberts is back! And the nominees aren't: the Oscarbait films that failed in 2019 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

LaBeouf was in the middle of filming another movie when he was arrested in 2017: “Peanut Butter Falcon,” which has been one of the year’s most successful indie releases. LaBeouf thought he was finished, then he wrote ‘Honey Boy’ 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

For those of you who think that getting a PhD in indie music is just another rock'n'roll swindle, here are my credentials. Ask the indie professor 2010-07-13T10:44:00Z

With a massive eight stages spanning the Cornish cliff tops, there's guaranteed to be something for everyone from dance and indie to hard rock and hip-hop. Win a summer of festival tickets for you and a friend 2013-06-08T23:05:00Z

For years, Monaghan has moved easily between studio pictures, indie movies and, now, TV. Michelle Monaghan at the heart of ‘True Detective’ 2014-03-06T20:41:09Z

However, even in 2006, when Pitchfork reviewed my book on the culture of indie music, the writer actually talked about my cleavage! Ask the indie professor: Are gender stereotypes still present in indie music? 2010-09-01T11:59:00Z

The intricacies of analog sound as deployed by acts as big as Daft Punk or as indie as Xeno and Oaklander are endlessly debated in online forums like vintagesynth.com. The synth is back: KORG and Moog revive golden-era analog synthesizers 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Down the hill, Sub Club not only hosts indie bands like Hot Chip and Optimo but also plays cutting-edge dance music well into the night. 36 Hours in Glasgow 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

The heart of this award-winning indie puzzler from Facepalm Games is the ability to create artificial, soulless clones of the lead character, who must be taken through a series of complicated rooms and caverns. Video Games: Deadpool, Company Heroes 2, Game & Wario, Color Zen and the Swapper 2013-07-09T20:36:52Z

Franz Ferdinand has been one of indie rock’s smartest and freshest groups. The best anti-Trump songs: Dave Eggers’ playlist includes some gems 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

The new indie production, however, presents challenges for the Ruby Theatre audience in ways the author surely did not intend. A troubled Filipina's battles, past and present, in 'As Straw Before the Wind' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

A lovely place to experience some of the world's finest indie pop. Vampire Weekend to play Marymoor Park 08/29/10 2010-05-17T18:38:00Z

“I’ve worked in indies for so long and I prefer it, because I feel like it’s a forum where I can do my real work,” she says. She’s Gotta Have It's DeWanda Wise: ‘Our bodies are being policed' 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z

Note also the choice of The Kids Are all Right over Winter's Bone for the Producers' indie slot. Colin Firth, 'The Social Network' Take Early Oscar Lead in Critics Awards 2011-01-07T17:45:00Z

Her eyes light up when she talks about being a “massive fan” of the indie rock band Manchester Orchestra. Paris Jackson excited and nervous on eve of debut solo album 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

Then Paul Thomas Anderson happened to see her performance in the 2008 indie film “The Babysitters,” five years after its release. Teyonah Parris, Katherine Waterston and Others Break Through 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Also popular were fragile indie outfit the xx, space rockers Muse and antipodean japester Rolf Harris. Signing along for deaf Glastonbury-goers 2010-06-27T18:00:00Z

Landfill indie, haircut indie - the nicknames suggest how identikit the records were. An X-Factor castoff does the Sugarcubes? All part of pop's new politics 2010-05-14T14:03:00Z

A Bit Silly: Best description of indie movies ever. Carolyn Hax: Brother’s girlfriend has shiny hair and a lusterless personality 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

She also starred as a transgender woman in “Port Authority,” an indie drama screened at the Cannes Film Festival. Leyna Bloom Breaks a Modeling Barrier 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

“We’re just a stupid indie rock band from Montreal, and just from that initiative, we’ve been able to raise millions of dollars,” Mr. Butler said from the stage, when the band received an award. The Carpetbagger: Ambassador Sean Penn and the Arcade Fire at a Benefit for Haiti 2012-01-15T17:22:07Z

African American film-maker Julie Dash’s riposte to the genre – the acclaimed short 1982 indie film Illusions, about a 1940s Hollywood actor who is passing for white – offered a fleeting but serious addition to the genre. 'Passing for white': how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

It has an indie vibe — something on the sunnier end of the Sundance Film Festival, perhaps, with a hat tip to “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” an Independent Spirit Award winner in 2013. Remember Family Films? Disney Plus Is Making ’Em Like They Used To 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

When dinner is done, grab a drink or catch a late-night indie movie or documentary at Ciné, a bar and theater occupying a former post office extension built in the 1930s. Athens Spirit 2010-09-16T18:31:00Z

In addition to writing, Sean Nelson is known as a musician, most notably as the frontman for defunct Seattle indie rock band Harvey Danger. Q&A with Ann Powers on 'Best Music Writing 2010' 2010-12-23T20:15:10Z

And maybe the calls to support local indie bookstores will continue even after their doors are open again. Perspective | Forget all those reading lists. During a quarantine, any book will do. 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

These are the US indie queens, women whose legends were built by low-budget films, who used their intrinsic cool and prolific output to keep the most precarious corner of the film industry afloat. Rooney Mara: look out, Greta Gerwig – there’s a new arthouse darling in town 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

The revered indie rocker, an architect of compelling yet cryptic narratives, has long been known for her wry lyrics. Neko Case keeps home-state crowd enraptured at Paramount Theatre 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

As Swanson says: "The work that he did, in many ways it was indie rock but it was truly transcendent, and as he got older his records became richer and richer, and wiser and wiser." Jason Molina obituary 2013-03-19T14:42:00Z

Several films slated for next year, including the thriller "The Boy Next Door," the indie drama "Lila & Eve" and the animated family film "Home." Jennifer Lopez, at peace with herself 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Here in the Bay Area, our local indie wrestling event, known as Hoodslam, has its own set of specific heels and faces that might not make sense elsewhere. A wrestler called “The Progressive Liberal” is infuriating Appalachian crowds, but the sport is a mirror for politics throughout America 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

It's an odd venture for an indie studio, but that's how things are done around these parts. How the indie studio behind ‘Moonlight,’ ‘Lady Bird’ and ‘Hereditary’ flourished while breaking Hollywood rules 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Or see our top picks for the rollicking evening: A is for Azealia The Harlem rapper and lyricist Azealia Banks has parlayed her indie buzz into a T by Alexander Wang campaign. New York Fashion Week: Fashion’s Night Out: A Selective Guide 2012-09-05T18:42:26Z

Many stores put on special performances - with 90s indie band Cud playing at their local store, Leeds' Jumbo Records, and Adam Ant appearing in London's Rough Trade West. Jack White cuts single in four hours 2014-04-20T11:35:32Z

More than 13 years after appearing in then indie director Justin Lin’s Better Luck Tomorrow, #StarringJohnCho is still only a fantasy. Fresh Off The Boat shows Hollywood there's life beyond yellowface 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

Boyhood is by now an indie hit with critics and audiences as well as a potential frontrunner for the best picture Oscar. Exclusive: Watch Ellar Coltrane Reflect After Boyhood Finishes Shooting 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Other indie cinemas such as the Biógrafo and the Alameda are situated in more fashionable areas, but the Normandie's prestige and diversity ensure that it still attracts the cool crowd. Cine-files: Cine Arte Normandie, Santiago de Chile 2013-07-09T09:24:00Z

Known for indie flicks with minuscule budgets, he brought his eighth film to the Austin gathering. Improv-heavy 'Drinking Buddies' premieres at SXSW 2013-03-10T08:16:04Z

Amid the thriving greenery of an indie plant shop called Dig, two living organisms are only tenuously clinging to survival. ‘Dig’ Review: At This Shop, Nurturing Plants and Weary Souls 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z

Other new releases in the top 10 are indie rock group the Decemberists' "What a Terrible World" at No. 7 and shock rocker Marilyn Manson's "Pale Emperor" at No. 8. Rockers Fall Out Boy tops Billboard album chart 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Like his previous work — “Collection of Porcelain” and the “Gone Blind” EP are his best — he made moving updates of shoegaze pop, the spacier side of new wave, contemplative indie rock. Music Review: Mauro Remiddi?s Porcelain Raft at Mercury Lounge - Review 2011-09-26T22:05:20Z

He is arranging “Cells Planets,” by the New York indie rock band Little Grey Girlfriend, for the ensemble’s tour next season. Arts: Embracing the Renaissance and YouTube, Too 2010-05-30T02:55:00Z

The series, created and written by its three stars, is essentially a low-budget feature film in seven parts, more sprightly than mumblecore but with less energy than an indie romantic comedy. Watch List: ‘Brody Stevens: Enjoy It!’ and Others on HBO Go 2012-09-30T21:36:54Z

He’s been a zombie customer in a Sprint commercial, appeared in small parts on “Community” and “Greek,” and played Vomit in the indie film “Bulimia: The Musical.” Davis plays freak in “Side Show” 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

The movie’s technical competence — very few low-to-mid-budget indie productions boast so many immaculately lit shots — is commendable. ‘Bad Therapy’ Review: A Twisted Therapist Sinks In Her Hooks 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z

Earlier this year, she released a rawer set of songs recorded when a teenager, while songs like For The Rabbits have a surprising resemblance to the quirky works of maverick indie Jeffrey Lewis. This week's new live music 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

They seemed suspicious of fame and possessive of an angular indie sound that, while impressively taut, carried little emotional weight. Foals on Holy Fire: 'We were inspired by voodoo' 2013-04-25T17:11:02Z

She belongs to a small crowd of singer-songwriters in the city who write mostly acoustic music that’s informed by indie rock, North and South American folk, and some contemporary jazz. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Half-OK Go indie, half Day-Glo Hot Chip techno, they bounce around onstage, foliage in their shorts, and get the crowd going wild. The Stone Roses – review 2012-06-15T18:00:00Z

Her latest album, “Soft Sounds From Another Planet,” doesn’t sound alien; instead, her lo-fi crooning harks back to the Pacific Northwest indie rock of the 1990s without being redundant. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z

On Tuesday’s episode of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, the musical guest wasn’t a stylish indie rock band with an album to promote. Stephen Colbert's love of gaming culture scores points with his viewers 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Surface-level tribute to the thinner genre forefathers works all right in the case of oddball indies gunning for cult glory, but Avery was working on a different scale. War is hell: Overlord and the history of battle-set horror movies 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

They were so enamored of American indie rock that their album featured them holding a Replacements record. That Time My Band Opened for Blur 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

Japanese Breakfast Born after the loss of her mother, Japanese Breakfast became Oregon native Michelle Zauner’s vehicle for mournfully lush pop songs exploring grief and beyond, thrusting a down-on-her-luck musician into the indie limelight. Daily guide to Sasquatch! 2018: Artists to watch beyond the big names 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

The sleeper indie sensation "Bellflower" might not look like any film you've ever seen, but that's only because it wasn't filmed like one. "Bellflower": The "Mad Max" romance game changer? 2011-06-14T21:15:00Z

You’ve seen it before, in plays and indie movies and holiday episodes of your favorite televisions shows. Movie Review: ‘August: Osage County,’ With Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts 2013-12-26T15:07:50Z

You work regularly, but it seems to me that your best film roles are in indie productions and you work largely on TV and make shorts. “Collisions” star Jesse Garcia: Deportation family stories have “always been relevant” 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

B&N hopes to survive by imitating the indie model and giving more reign to individual store managers. Analysis | 11 trends that changed the way we read this decade 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

For the 2017 live-action indie “The Joker,” the British character actor Martin Challinor took several minutes of quiet time in a separate room to recover from the hyperventilating takes he had just put himself through. Getting the Joker’s Laugh Just Right 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

Broadcasting from its Seattle Center HQ, the hometown indie station reaches a global audience, and apparently has a fan in Jimmy Fallon. KEXP listener Jimmy Fallon shouts out Seattle’s John Richards on ‘Tonight Show’ 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z

In "Going the Distance," Drew Barrymore plays a quick-to-laugh, ambitious young hipster who loves cool indie bands, "Shawshank Redemption" and playing the old arcade games in bars. Review: Drew Barrymore's 'Going the Distance' 2010-09-01T22:49:00Z

He’s a little unfashionable for indie rock and has only an indirect relationship with the jam-band scene. Cass McCombs: Imagine Beckett as a Cranky Singer-Songwriter 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Ex-Breeders/Throwing Muses/Belly indie goddess emerges from what appears to be this shimmering, delicate song's close with the line "I'm not finished yet". Readers recommend: songs with false endings ? results 2011-07-21T15:26:44Z

For them, here are 10 titles ranging from extreme horror to Hollywood flops to high art to blink-or-you’ll-miss-it indie fare from the US and abroad. Hidden presents: 10 Christmas movies you might not have seen 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Now Crazy Heart has passed $20 million at the domestic box office, and is the only indie film to get any monetary traction from its awards exposure. Shutter Island and Polanski's Ghost Writer Look Good 2010-02-22T14:05:00Z

They're concerned that many don't even realise the best R&B pop is as much the result of songwriting graft as whatever indie, folk or rock record you care to mention. New band of the day (Dungeonesse No 1,489) 2013-04-10T16:04:38Z

This being Texas, cowboy boots ruled, but Toms, the do-gooder slip-on sneaker, might be supplanting Converse as indie footwear of choice. On the Clothes Watch at SXSW 2011-03-23T23:33:01Z

DesignTripper.com Lush photographs and blog-like entries explore the intersection of travel and design at “indie” hotels, B&Bs and inns. Practical Traveler: Six Sites That Curate Lodging Options So You Don’t Have To 2012-05-23T14:10:18Z

Though at first glance Obvious Child might seem like just a cute indie rom-com, its release has highlighted the pro-life messages that Hollywood has been feeding audiences for decades. 'Abortion rom-com' Obvious Child is important – because it's so ordinary 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Culturally she is not trying to push her way into hip-hop; she’s more of an indie rock chick. White Female Rappers Challenging Hip-Hop?s Masculine Ideal 2011-12-23T14:30:39Z

All these indies succeed because they offer deep challenges with low-stakes failure. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: When Death Makes Us Laugh 2012-12-27T13:00:10Z

After making the most of his “Twilight” clout working on off-kilter, elusive and plain old bizarre indie movies, Pattinson has circled back around to something familiar: franchise blockbusters. With ‘Cosmopolis,’ a Limo Ride That Redefined Robert Pattinson’s Career 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z

Chew Lips impress with their snappy, electro-powered pop, while Belfast band Seven Summits offer a pleasingly literate indie stomp. Click to Download: Glastonbury catch-up 2010-07-01T20:30:00Z

Fans of the band’s relatively modest indie releases may find the production oddly sparkly, layered with keyboards, wordless harmonies, and exotic little noisemakers and ear-catching details. Album review: The Shins, 'Port of Morrow' 2012-03-19T22:16:00Z

And neither of those is anywhere near the $40-million-plus that an indie hit like Midnight in Paris, Moonrise Kingdom or The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel can earn. Pixar’s Monsters and Brad Pitt’s Zombies Gang Up on Superman 2013-06-23T22:40:47Z

The buzz: "Mix of country powerhouse lady and indie rock guy." New band of the day (Shovels and Rope No 1,459) 2013-02-25T16:35:13Z

He is quite possibly the most successful indie film-maker of all time. Tyler Perry: the creator of a racial stereotype or the greatest indie film-maker of all time? 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

The app, which was introduced last year and so far covers only New York and San Francisco, lists just a handful of concerts, mostly featuring fashionable indie bands at small clubs. Concert App WillCall Gets a $1.2 Million Investment 2013-08-08T22:44:53Z

Yelchin’s final role was in indie film “Thoroughbreds” that was released this month. Family of Star Trek' actor settles with Fiat Chrysler over fatal... 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Through every chapter, solo piano remains a constant, the format in which Mr. Mehldau best excels at converging his interests in classical Romanticism, modern jazz and anguished but melodic indie rock. Brad Mehldau Evolves in ‘10 Years Solo Live,’ a New Boxed Set 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

"There's a Coachella festival guy in me that loves all the indie rock stuff," Maxwell told Billboard. R&B singer Maxwell goes indie on new album 2010-05-10T10:53:00Z

That sets it up nicely as the indie distributor looks to expand the drama about a gay boy coming-of-age in the inner city of Miami. Box Office: 'Madea Halloween' Edges Out 'Jack Reacher 2' With $27.6 Million 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

The Seattle indie soul singer was cut during the results show, one step from the final nine, following the first round of live performances on Monday night. Seattle-native Payge Turner eliminated from ‘The Voice’ Tuesday night 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

The result is a new sort of indie rock that is chipper, rinky-dink, self-consciously handmade with discount-store melodies and neon attitude. The New Indie Pop: Off-Kilter, Handmade, Whimsical and Emotional 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

After two acclaimed indie albums, the L.A.-based guitar-pop group is readying its first major-label record, "California Nights," for release in early May. SXSW 2015: Snoop Dogg, Sam Hunt aim to stand out in a crowded music field 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

“Tweenage spitfire” might seem a stretch for someone whose prior demographic was mostly pop nerds and indie fans, but you could hear it coming. Review: Charli XCX's 'Sucker' Outdoes Her Peers 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

This 1960 picture, long considered lost, and newly restored courtesy of the bold indie distributor Cinelicious Pics, is a sex-crime thriller that teeters on the edge of morbidity before its galvanic climax. Review: Once Lost, ‘Private Property’ Is a Genuine Rediscovery 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

I don’t know what Netflix’s algorithm knows about me, but it’s mostly offering whatever twee indie made its way to New Releases. June Diane Raphael: 'So many women are kicking ass as they get older' 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

The indie company, which geared up for film production in 2006, can now boast three of the top six openings of all time. Fans Devour The Hunger Games for a $155-Million Feast 2012-03-25T16:30:45Z

Maybe there needs to be a Rush Limbaugh-conservative indie rock radio show. The Black Keys' Patrick Carney to host radio show 2012-12-19T19:35:14Z

When Bloc Party first emerged in 2005, they were seen as such archetypal indie drips that Noel Gallagher witheringly compared them to contestants on University Challenge. Bloc Party – review 2012-10-14T15:34:35Z

Even in high-minded indie rock circles, bands appear more eager than ever to glom onto branding partnerships and licensing deals. Is it even still possible to ‘sell out’? 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

Some took to the wall, overwhelmed: it’s an insider’s genre that has inevitably been taken up by indie labels and trend-spotters. A Weekend Out with Jonas 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z

At this point “Sally4Ever” parodies of every sexual awakening indie movie where a woman stuck in a dead-end existence suddenly feels her body come alive at the sight of another woman. “Smart Watch”: From “Sally4Ever” to “This Is Us,” there... 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

While these newly ambitious podcasts may constitute big projects for people working in audio, they can feel delightfully indie to film actors. The Story So Far: Fiction Podcasts Take Their Next Steps 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

In that sense it’s like a few other indie labels, notably Inner Circle Music and Marsalis Music, both established by leading saxophonists of Mr. Douglas’s generation. Greenleaf Music Label Turns 10 With a Show at SubCulture 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

But she met her partner, the music writer Ben Thompson, when she was a student and they were both ardent indie fans. A life in writing: Nicola Barker 2010-04-30T23:13:00Z

The guys mix indie with what they call 'melodramatic pop' and the result is an upbeat nostalgic sound that gets to you in the best ways. March's best music from across the MAP 2011-03-14T11:24:55Z

On Feb. 18, Chicago indie label Drag City will release a split 7″ record featuring two real songs by two fake bands. Interview: Fred Armisen On Inspirations For His Saturday Night Live Bands 2014-01-24T16:25:24Z

He ended the night plucking out heavenly slide-guitar riffs on a primitive acoustic guitar on “Seven Nation Army,” a Stripes tune from 2003 that over time has gone from indie nugget to global stadium anthem. Jack White, a rock star with few peers, plays his catalogue full of hits

Local indie bands like Smokey Brights and Cumulus got things rolling during the day, but by the evening things took a different turn. Charles Bradley leads dance party to end Timber! Fest 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

I’ve been through this cycle of disappointment with songs enough times that I mostly avoid “indie” playlists and bands that superficially strike me as marked by their influence. The Chicago Band Whitney and the Fear of Being “Too Indie” 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

This is an indie comedy that seems dead set on repeating every dishonest movie cliche about psychiatric hospitals. Peter Mullan's Neds heads London film festival's most-awaited list 2010-10-21T16:37:00Z

And Netflix has ordered a television series based on the 2014 indie satire Dear White People, about life at an Ivy League school from the perspective of several African American students. Comedy in 2017: Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle and the French Seinfeld 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

And the third is British indie and rock. An X-Factor castoff does the Sugarcubes? All part of pop's new politics 2010-05-14T14:03:00Z

If nothing else, the Tunics and Brother have signalled the return of indie bigmouths who talk themselves up something rotten in interviews. The Tunics (No 927) 2010-12-09T17:31:00Z

There will also be a massive presence from Top Dawg Entertainment, the Carson-based rap indie whose success story set a new hallmark for the West Coast rap scene. John Mayer, Imagine Dragons to headline L.A. Made in America 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

But their devastating use was by Michigan indie rockers Low – their Just Like Christmas sounds like a battle between a platoon of Santa's belled-up reindeer and the employees of a tambourine factory. Bob Stanley's guide to writing the perfect Christmas hit 2010-12-16T22:15:01Z

Fall music playlist from Lucid Inc. in SoDo Featuring lots of great songs from current indie rock and rap, especially "David" by Seattle band Dude York. Fall music playlist from Lucid Inc. in SoDo 2011-10-25T17:35:10Z

The track itself is Typical System’s literal safety net; it’s such an easily digestible track, perfect for your “typical” indie rock, post-punk album — but Total Control are obviously not interested in “typical.” REVIEW: Total Control's Post-Punk Typical System Anything but Typical 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

Since many of the moments discussed in the issue took place in the ’90s, we made a detour into D.C.’s thriving indie rock scene at the time. D.C.’s indie music scene thrived in the ’90s. A look back with one of its most beloved acts. 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

By 24, Butler had appeared in a couple of indie films. Who Is Austin Butler and What Does He Want? 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

Anxiety Wrapped in Gleaming Pop and Lamé Kevin Barnes, the of indie rock, didn’t stint on polymorphous spectacle when his band, Of Montreal, began its two-night stand at Terminal 5 on Friday night. Music Review: Anxiety Wrapped in Gleaming Pop and Lam? 2010-09-19T22:31:00Z

In 2009, Serge Lutens released Fille en Aiguilles, a cult hit that smells like a Christmas tree farm, and slowly the hibernal trend began to trickle through the indie perfume world. This Winter, Don’t Just Sit by a Crackling Fire. Smell Like It, Too. 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

But his 1997 feature, “2/Duo,” is only now receiving a New York release; it’s showing in tandem with a series at Metrograph on “Japanese indies from the punk years.” ‘2/Duo’ Review: Relationship Rituals 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

On a related note, some housekeeping: Let’s stop referring to Swift’s 2020 output as “indie.” Review | Taylor Swift really can’t help herself 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

Over four years he made more than 60 half-hour episodes containing freewheeling informative interviews and video essays covering a wide range of topics in American indie film. A Brief History of American Independent Film: ‘Split Screen’ on FilmStruck 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

"With the charts full of everything from synth-pop to techno-based indie, pop culture is once more in thrall to electronic music," notes a Klaxons press release. Forward-thinking Klaxons take one step back with Flashover 2010-06-04T23:07:00Z

Over a repeating, fuzzed-out keyboard figure, this multi-instrumentalist initially uses a mellow approach to vocals, suggestive of the gentler corners of indie rock. For Three Avant-Garde Musicians, It’s Time for Pop 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

“Split Screen” served up many of what you might call the usual suspects — Mr. Smith, whose outrageous 1994 no-budget comedy “Clerks” remains an American indie landmark, showed up early and spoke freely and at length. A Brief History of American Independent Film: ‘Split Screen’ on FilmStruck 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

The first one I remember was for this indie magazine called Option in 1985. Growing older: Kim Gordon 2013-02-16T09:00:37Z

Brooding indie rock band the National also does modern composition while a rock band such as Tame Impala delves in remix culture. More than 20 years after his death, Arthur Russell’s music is more relevant than ever 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

The slight indie kid who once gazed mournfully out of NME has been to the gym, and to New York, and has found himself somewhere along the line. Kele Okereke 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z

Fox is giving a series order to a project based on the indie hit, one of two new teen-friendly animated projects green-lighted by the network. "Napoleon Dynamite" getting cartoon makeover for TV 2010-10-12T00:25:00Z

“The Umbrella Academy” actor Justin Min, also at the Newport festival, said “it’s been a very somber time” in recent days on set as he’s been filming the indie thriller “Detained.” Stars stunned by ‘mismanaged set’ in fatal prop-gun shooting 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Between 1995 and 2000, the number of indies in the United States declined by 43 percent, according to the American Booksellers Association, a trade organization for independently owned bookstores. Shakespeare and Company Is Coming Back to the West Side and the Village 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Before grunge, before Britpop, before landfill indie and the more careerist approach we see today, alternative rock was an altogether noisier and experimental place. Araki's films are a crash course in shoegazing 2011-08-05T23:03:00Z

The style of this distinguished indie filmmaker, in Wendy and Lucy and the Western-pioneer drama Meek’s Cutoff, is meticulous, inferential, soft-spoken to the point of muteness. REVIEW: Night Moves: Political Thriller at a Slow Boil 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

What’s going to happen to the indie bookstore that recently opened around the corner? Coronavirus Notebook: Finding Solace, and Connection, in Classic Books 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

After first appearing on the indie-friendly online music platform Bandcamp, the album is now enjoying wider release on the respected indie label Other Music. | A Baroque-Folk Troubadour Takes Flight 2013-12-09T17:07:04Z

Still, it feels like a natural step in the indie stalwarts’ gradual evolution, the sound of a band once so fascinated with childlike awe acquiescing to their own version of maturity. Lana Del Rey’s Sisterly Solidarity, and 10 More New Songs 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z

Chicago native Robinson, 41, will star in two comedies centered around the biblical end of the world, playing a megalomaniac Satan in indie comedy "Rapture-Palooza" that is out in theaters on Friday. A Minute With: Craig Robinson masters the apocalypse. Twice 2013-06-05T10:48:48Z

Readers also ranked the cities for their music scenes—whether that means indie rockers in crowded bars, symphonies in state-of-the-art concert halls or renowned banjo bands that still play the local Elks Lodge. These Are America's Best Music Scenes 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Every so often a film from the indie fringe breaks into that conversation, “Beasts of the Southern Wild”-style, but that’s far more the exception than the rule. The other “Girls”: Gritty indie “Heaven Knows What” shows the flip side of Lena Dunham’s New York 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

West Asheville’s indie anchor since 2004, Harvest is that rarest of enterprises in the digital age: an expanding record store. Surfacing : In West Asheville, N.C., Bistros Mix With Tattoo Parlors 2014-02-19T16:03:44Z

Generation X, which prized the authenticity of indie and grunge rock, was ready for the unadorned voice of a 60-something Tony Bennett. ‘Conan,’ ‘Goodfellas’ and MTV: How Tony Bennett Revived His Career 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z

To help finance an album of works by the composer Joan Tower, the orchestra turned for the first time to a source more associated with indie rock than with classical music: Kickstarter. Kickstarter as a Path to Grammy Nominations, Far Beyond the Indie Scene 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Each show falls into the genre of the not-always-funny-comedy or drama-with-laughs, a category that sometimes irks TV traditionalists accustomed to clearer drama and comedy boundaries–but which is the stock-in-trade of indie film. Why TV Is the Perfect Place for Indie Filmmakers 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

Next, I’m doing a tiny indie film, “Last Right,” because I loved the script, and it was a first-time filmmaker, like Meredith who made “State Like Sleep.” "Game of Thrones" alum Michiel Huisman: "Celebrity has been a slow build for me" 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. McConaughey said he was determined to keep his slate of films interesting, though that doesn’t mean indies only. Matthew McConaughey Shifts Gears 2012-07-06T23:59:02Z

The inescapable takeaway from Oscar night: The industry wishes it were indie. The Indie Spirit Awards and the Oscars, or (Why Does Hollywood Hate Itself?) 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

Many on the indie side of the equation—a.k.a. the "critically adored" brand of rock—have made vulnerability a virtue. The Stones Come Back From Exile--Again 2010-05-07T20:19:00Z

Is Swift referring to a star from Twilight making mopey phone calls, consoling himself with "some indie record"? Taylor Swift's new album Red to feature Ed Sheeran 2012-08-15T11:16:37Z

This time, he has acutely fused two movie cultures, mainstream and indie, in a sensibility riskier than the studio norm and more muscular than the Sundance films. Denzel Washington in Flight: A Crash Landing That Soars 2012-10-16T19:00:52Z

He was one of the first actors to straddle superhero blockbusters and serious indies, and still gets asked about selling out. Willem Dafoe: 'With success comes certain things that corrupt you' 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

This fall, “Antlers,” from the Disney division Searchlight Pictures, joins other new, mostly indie folk horror films from around the world. Modern Times Call for Folk Horror 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

From major blockbusters like Deadpool and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them to striking indies such as Moonlight and La La Land, it’s been quite a year for movies. This Trailer Mashup Will Make You Feel All the Feelings About This Year's Movies 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Ricky's was a poky little club on a backstreet in central Leeds, which every Tuesday hosted an indie pop night called Kaleidoscope Pop. Extreme noise terror! What are the loudest gigs you've ever been to? 2012-11-08T15:34:27Z

The field he works in may have changed drastically – big-budget super-hero spectaculars instead of a no-budget indie venture about struggling young actors like he once was – but his ambition remains the same. Jon Favreau: the swinger who struck gold 2010-04-29T21:00:00Z

It’s currently, and always has been, the job of indie films to act as the caulking between Hollywood’s big releases, filling in the cracks and providing a fresh alternative to engaging with the mass zeitgeist. The Worst Summer Movie Season Since 1997 Wasn't Actually That Bad 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

"Take Shelter," another well-received indie film, tied with "The Artist" for most nominations with five each. "Beginners," "Descendants," "The Artist" top indie film noms 2011-11-29T17:23:33Z

The Stones have chosen a crop of "indie" bands to support them in front of a crowd of 65,000 at Hyde Park, with The Vaccines and The Temper Trap sharing the bill. Rolling Stones strut back to 1969 woodland for London gigs 2013-07-04T16:27:26Z

In the indie space, it's a little more fluid, it's open, it's more like half and half. Lake Bell on why New York and Nebraska need to laugh together over "Bless This Mess" 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

Gliding on peaceful ocean vistas and plaintive indie ballads, whimsical conversations and tinkling French ditties, “Etienne!” encourages us to brake for sunsets and smell the daisies. | 'Etienne!': Rodent Road Trip and Human Bonds 2010-09-02T21:40:00Z

In February, she signed to the Brooklyn indie label Mom + Pop, home to artists like Sleigh Bells, Metric and Andrew Bird. | Coachella Newcomer Courtney Barnett on Playing ‘Slacker Rock’ and Life in the Fast Lane 2014-04-15T19:15:14Z

If indie really means something, it’s not a youthful phase but a life commitment. Never apologize for carrying a Weezer lunch box! Amazing #IndieAmnesty confessions are nothing to be embarrassed about 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Deschanel is also the lead singer in the indie band She & Him, which released a Christmas album, "A Very She & Him Christmas" in October. Zooey Deschanel separates from Death Cab frontman 2011-11-01T23:28:20Z

Frank, of First Avenue, said the indies had “never tried to sell our industry before,” but was optimistic that Washington would recognize their cultural and economic significance — and then that the music would return. Small Clubs Are Where Rock History Is Made. How Many Will Survive? 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z

After stints playing with a girl group in the 1990s and making indie pop as a solo artist in the 2000s, Lafourcade began to investigate Latin American folk music. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

"Our band could be your life," sang the Minutemen in History Lesson Part II – a line that embodied the fierce love the audiences of the US indie underground held for their bands. The 10 best music documentaries 2013-05-18T15:00:00Z

In its 30th year the festival may be, as Manohla Dargis writes more vital than ever to the indie film scene. The Carpetbagger: Sundance Video: Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi Are Onto Something 2014-01-24T19:35:24Z

The Night Before and The Morning After are the names of two mini-albums being released by indie veterans James. Talking Shop 2010-04-15T07:57:00Z

Check her heart-baring folk style welded to hip-hop, above, in a track from the album featuring New York indie rapper/producer Aesop Rock. Late notice: Kimya Dawson / dream hampton at Sorrento Hotel 2011-11-07T17:36:06Z

Samurai Del, “Till Death” This indie electronic producer has steadily honed his craft over the past few years, culminating with this songs-oriented set dabbling in disco, future bass, trap, wavy electro-pop and more. The best Seattle albums of 2020: Critics choose the top releases of the year 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z

Before "Reservoir Dogs," American indie movies traveled on an inferior track to mainstream Hollywood movies. Super sounds of "Reservoir Dogs": How this heist film changed indie soundtracks forever 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z

Last summer, the indie band Foster the People saw its mural removed from a downtown building over a permission dispute. Google Cultural Institute database wants to give street art permanence 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Modern indie rock to my ears always sounds like it has a '70s influence, weirdly enough. From Fleetwood Mac back to Crowded House, Neil Finn weighs in on the band's open-hearted new album 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

The road to making a low-budget indie, I've discovered, is full of surprises. The Carpetbagger: Slamdance Dispatch: A Long, Um, Productive Night 2013-01-19T20:05:25Z

Her triumphant, indie debut was, in fact, not a particularly joyful moment, but packed with anxiety and trauma “and the closest I ever got to being anorexic.” Perspective | Liz Phair is back, and she’s setting the record — and the record business — straight 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

For a lot of people in the indie community, there was a bit of ambivalence. Alternative nation’s last stand: Lollapalooza 1995, an oral history 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z

However, in practicality, indie does not exist in some parallel universe. Ask the indie professor: Are gender stereotypes still present in indie music? 2010-09-01T11:59:00Z

When “Gossip Girl” ended in 2012, he spent half of a decade shooting indie movies and touring with his band, MOTHXR. Penn Badgley Flexes New Dance Moves 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

His debut, which he also wrote, was the 2009 indie "Sin Nombre," about the lives of illegal immigrants trying to cross the U.S. border. Relaxing with a good book (on film) 2011-03-17T13:51:54Z

After five years of making themselves known on the Romanian indie scene, the guys released their very-much-awaited-by-the-fans debut album, which starts like this. August's best new music from across the MAP 2011-08-17T17:09:56Z

Photograph: Getty/Michael Ochs Archives Fleetwood Mac memory No 1: I'm in a job interview for a hot, new indie music magazine. Fleetwood Mac: magic you just can't cover 2012-07-25T15:09:00Z

Will whites see a black indie film like “Middle of Nowhere”? Will whites see a black indie film like “Middle of Nowhere”? 2012-10-11T18:25:00Z

The bassist in New York City's acclaimed indie pop act Grizzly Bear is from Seattle — Chris Taylor, also the band's producer and a great singer. Six music happenings this week 2011-10-03T18:36:30Z

Tribeca is a community celebration in which art films, documentaries and indie pop movies coincide on a populist menu that aims to satisfy every taste. At the Tribeca Film Festival, Movies for Every Taste 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

For a time, its narrow industry aims gave way to increased public interest, fueled by a seemingly insatiable appetite for indie buzz bands. CMJ’s Lineup Adopts a Growing International Accent 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

Performers with small-scale careers, who are used to playing coffeehouses or indie clubs, have had to make fewer adjustments than musicians who had moved up to bigger venues and fancier productions. Intimacy Is Overrated: Concerts in the Livestream Era 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

On the Let Them Eat Cake circuit such high-profile — in the indie rock world at least — hand holders are the norm. 2010-01-11T07:09:00Z

The shift from blockbuster to indie didn’t trouble him, though “Mud” did require him to float around in murky waters while wearing a heavy, old diving helmet. Jeff Nichols Spins Another Southern Tale With ‘Mud’ 2013-04-19T18:47:43Z

The lineup continues with contemporary indie stars Japanese Breakfast, Soccer Mommy, a rejuvenated Animal Collective — who just released their first album in six years — hardcore boundary-pushers Turnstile and noise-rap alchemist JPEGMAFIA. Day In Day Out festival announces 2022 lineup likely to please old-school Capitol Hill Block Party fans 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

And relish the gently batty performance which established Bill Murray's reign as an offbeat indie god. Rushmore: No 8 2010-10-18T10:46:00Z

His talent is finding indie, outside-the-mainstream bands, who will likely be bigger deals in the future. In an area bloated with festivals, Sasquatch! still stands out 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

That, plus iffy weather, an indie budget, and an underage lead actor with restricted work hours, made the whole thing a logistical feat. How Paul Dano Came to Adapt a Richard Ford Novel for His Movie “Wildlife” 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

The latter is a much-transformed but recognizable London; the former, a rural American town with little going on but an illegal drug trade, a megastore called Hefty Mart and an indie 3-D print shop. William Gibson coaxes the future out of the present 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

As Mr. Porterfield sees it, American indie regionalism often registers as tourism. Film: Indie Filmmaker?s Seat-of-the-Pants Solutions 2011-02-12T06:33:51Z

He marketed himself as a character – the happy schlub in a hockey jersey – and literally became a cartoon, as Clerks went from indie movie to comic book to sequels to animated series. Director Kevin Smith on heart attacks, happiness, extreme weight loss – and Weinstein 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

What you’ve seen him in: The sci-fi romantic comedy “About Time,” eccentric indie “Frank” and the World War II drama “Unbroken.” 5 up-and-comers to watch in 2015 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

So I called Copaken recently to talk to her about having an indie idol cast as her, and why we’re all in love with “Modern Love.” The real-life “Modern Love” author whose love life Amazon dramatized speaks out 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

Back then the director and star were Hollywood up-and-comers—an indie director and a former child star. Director Rian Johnson on Looper’s True Meaning and Who's the Next Joseph Gordon-Levitt 2012-09-28T12:00:34Z

In the past few years he has accrued a mystique in various pockets of the city’s music world — jazz, indie rock, the media-mixing avant-garde — but remains little-known outside Washington. To Make the Messthetics, Mix a Reunion With One Virtuosic Newcomer 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

Yeah, this is your little indie to establish your cred… “I hate the word ‘quirky’”: Zoe Kazan on being an indie starlet 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

He's as idiosyncratic as they come, jumping from genre to genre, from indie documentaries to studio blockbusters. Oliver Stone 2010-07-17T23:00:00Z

In the album chart, British indie band Alt-J went to number one with This Is All Yours. Jessie J scores third number one 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

Recent indie sensation Paranormal Activity, in fact, had its premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival, which was founded by four Sundance rejects in 1995 and takes place in Park City at the same time. 2010-01-27T17:25:00Z

The winner of the Dramatic Grand Jury prize at Sundance, "Bone" became a genuine indie hit after Roadside Attractions released it in June, grossing more than $6 million domestically. Jennifer Lawrence: the making of an "It" actress 2011-01-20T00:28:31Z

His act is an action film, not an indie drama. Kevin Hart Is a Comedian Built for the Big Stage (and Screen) 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

The studio released the indie in late August, where it went on to make more than $70 million worldwide. John Cho sees the future of film in “Searching” and its colorblind casting 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

This is a canvas bag for Swing Left, an organization dedicated to canvassing in swing districts, by the New York Fashion Week indie darlings Eckhaus Latta. Why Voting Is in Fashion 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

By the early 1990s, Mr. Goldwyn Jr. had built his Samuel Goldwyn Co. into one of three major independent film operations — along with New Line and Miramax — while other highly touted indie operations had failed. Samuel Goldwyn Jr., second-generation Hollywood producer, dies at 88 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

In an extremely light year for American films, there's one indie at Cannes with the potential for some degree of breakout success -- but it's a tough sell, at least in theory. Cannes this film festival be saved? 2010-05-12T18:12:00Z

The show is described as an "indie disco special", although I'm not sure there were too many 80s indie discos playing Public Enemy. Radio Catchup: Noel Coward, Vic Galloway and Chart the Week 2010-07-22T10:46:00Z

His indie rock and folk songs take on subjects dangerously prone to caricature — aspiring death-metal rockers, masked wrestlers, spiritual seekers — yet he renders them in nuanced and empathetic ways. Mountain Goats founder John Darnielle returns with a second powerful novel 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Social media has become important for Fowler, the artist best known for his work with indie band Super Furry Animals. RCA Secret postcards sale 2013: three big names to look out for 2013-03-13T16:06:01Z

Jungle is the latest relatively low-budget indie Radcliffe has embraced since his Harry Potter days. Daniel Radcliffe on Why He Loves When People Make Fun of Him 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

But even without as much male interest, the books have meant a lot to indie bookstores. The Real Elena Ferrante Surfaces-In Books 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

Chris Salmon Built to Spill Carry the Zero A song that can lay claim to one of the best intros and outros in indie rock. F&M playlist 2010-07-22T22:00:00Z

Would there be no audience for a show that follows a good indie band around on tour, or a series documenting some of the world's most skilled musicians? MTV Searches for ‘Jersey Shore’ Magic on the Florida Panhandle 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

“It’s almost like if your indie band went on to be, not the size of U2, but a $4 trillion industry,” he said. The Latest in Web Design? Retro Websites Inspired by the ’90s 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

Crystal and her partner Grace seem very well matched – both have louche indie kid energy. RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season 12, episode 10: Send in the clowns 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

Nearby is Dinh Le Street, lined with indie bookstores, each with a small range of English books. Read Your Way Through Hanoi 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

It was to be called Axis and was envisaged as a test lab connected to the indie parent. Label of love: 4AD 2010-03-17T13:37:00Z

Del Valle remarked on Bad Bunny’s “indie bent”: “It’s pretty notable that he has that platform and he’s down to bring in people who are usually not in that realm,” he said. Behind Bad Bunny’s Summery Surprise, ‘Un Verano Sin Ti’ 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z

As studios began to pay more attention to the films screened at Sundance, the festival became an incubator where indie projects became box office successes. 2010-01-27T17:25:00Z

There are overlaps between 45 galleries exhibiting here and the other, larger fairs; there are also a number of fairs considerably more indie in scope and ambition, including Spring/Break, at Skylight at Moynihan Station. Review: Independent Fair Is More Conventional, but Still Eye-Catching 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

The indie movie “Real Women Have Curves” has been given pride of place next to “Citizen Kane” in the second part of “Stories.” The Academy Museum Finds Good Intentions in Messy Film History 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

The album is laden with samples, from soul to Southern rock to indie rock. Review: ASAP Rocky Returns to a Haze in ‘At.Long.Last.ASAP’ 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

Anchored by a select group of resident ensembles and artists, the programming will span opera, indie rock, electronica and Baroque. Music Review: ‘Skyful,’ With Brooklyn Rider at Original Music Workshop 2012-09-16T21:33:56Z

Rahman and indie rocker Florence Welch of Florence + The Machine performed a haunting rendition of "If I Rise" from "127 Hours." Stars rock the Kodak at Oscar's music rehearsals 2011-02-26T06:48:08Z

November promises to be a good month for Netflix — from big blockbuster movies like Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” to indie animated films like “I Lost My Body.” What's new on Netflix in November, from "The Crown" to "The Irishman" 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

In The Guardian, Jason Solomons said it “has the look and feel of an American indie classic.” Jeff Nichols Spins Another Southern Tale With ‘Mud’ 2013-04-19T18:47:43Z

Before releasing its first EP, the indie band was entertaining tourists on the Las Vegas Strip. Imagine Dragons headlines Deck the Hall Ball | Concert preview 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

In today’s edition of “This Week’s Movies,” The Times critics look at a big-budget blockbuster, a low-budget indie and a star-driven comedy. ArtsBeat: This Week's Movies, May 18 2012-05-18T17:15:59Z

Seattle’s rich history of music goes far beyond indie rock and grunge. Ladies Musical Club of Seattle celebrates its 125th birthday 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z

“Monster” was an indie, and this was a huge movie in terms of its production budget. The Woman Behind ‘Wonder Woman’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

The indie titans’ roughly 90-minute set was a euphoric release, climaxing a show rife with political undertones, starting with Kondabolu acknowledging, on behalf of organizers Seattle Theatre Group, that the theater sits on indigenous land. Hometown heroes Death Cab for Cutie punctuate Paramount Theatre’s unexpectedly political 90th birthday bash 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

“The grunge thing when it started was basically people with indie rock roots, but maybe when they were in grade school they were listening to Kiss and Black Sabbath,” he says. Grunge producer Jack Endino steps out of the studio 2013-04-25T20:48:36Z

Dessner, guitarist of the indie rock band the National, offered a mostly facile score in sections derivative of various musical styles. Review | In three parts, an artistic reexamination of Robert Mapplethorpe 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

Establishing London band "the Swaras" seeking female bassist We are an establishing indie/rock female band with offers from two major labels. This week's top five music links 2012-07-06T12:00:00Z

“His is obviously one style, a bit more indie, a bit more dark, and mine is a bit more summerish, I guess,” Tobtok added. Dancing Away From the Bleak Life With ‘Fast Car’ 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

Contributors include a who's who of pop acts and the contemporary indie scene like Fun., ArtsBeat: A 'Girls' Soundtrack Album Is On the Way 2012-12-10T16:14:32Z

José Ruiz is a sought-after curator on the D.C. and New York art scenes, admired for his indie sensibility, eye for emerging talent, and efforts to make exhibitions less intimidating. Indie curator showcases Rockville community 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

Alas — when expressing qualms about an ambitious indie film, critics are contractually obliged to say Alas — Amigo is one of those lost chances. Amigo: John Sayles' Latest Declaration of Indie-pendence 2011-08-17T07:10:00Z

Booming, warbly, delicate and throaty in various combinations, it’s one of the most distinctive sounds in indie rock today. The Week in Arts: Glorious Nubian Art in Boston 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z

It’s an indie distributed by a major studio. ‘Hair Love’: 3 Men and a Little Girl (With a Lot of Curls) 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

So this "party political" model of the UK musical mainstream suggests a position of unusual compression, with black stars and indie hopefuls both moving into pop territory. An X-Factor castoff does the Sugarcubes? All part of pop's new politics 2010-05-14T14:03:00Z

Ms. Williams recently wrapped a feature film, an indie drama called “The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.” Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams Have Grown Up on ‘Game of Thrones’ 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Blancomusic Records – a small indie based in Spain – is, however, far from impressed by Spotify royalties: "The rates offered to us as an indie label were so insulting that we'd prefer to forgo the 'privilege'." Spotify should give indies a fair deal on royalties 2011-02-01T10:34:21Z

Two other indie films ventured into wider release with encouraging results. A Declawed Wolverine Slouches into First Place 2013-07-28T21:01:06Z

Student films and shorts won numerous awards and led to “Sin Nombre,” an acclaimed indie thriller about Central American immigrants. Cary Joji Fukunaga on the Perils of Making ‘Beasts of No Nation’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

And here you are now, a famous indie singer. Michelle Zauner's "Crying in H-Mart" is a food memoir so painfully delicious, your eyes water 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

Like Grenier, Connolly also starred in an indie dud last year, the ensemble drama "Reach Me." 'Entourage': What else have Grenier and the gang been working on? 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

With 2004’s “Our Endless Numbered Days,” the bearded Southern songsmith solidified his place as a modern-day Cat Stevens or James Taylor, summoning older listeners’ nostalgia for simpler times and providing indie kids perfect make-out music. Reviews of new albums from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Iron & Wine and Willie Nelson 2013-04-15T21:55:09Z

Released in early 2013, the indie game simulates the experience of having depression and is played entirely by choosing multiple-choice text options. What Is #GamerGate and Why Are Women Being Threatened About Video Games? 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

At this point, Reichardt and Williams’s collaboration is one of the most fruitful in the realm of indie cinema. A New Kelly Reichardt Movie? These Actors Keep Showing Up 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

“Five Time Champion,” written and directed by Berndt Mader, is a kind of indie Every Film. Movie Review: ?Five Time Champion? Is Berndt Mader?s Coming-of-Age Story 2012-01-26T23:57:30Z

"Garden State" became a surprise indie sensation, grossing $27 million and defining the zeitgeist. Zach Braff moves on to a parental state in 'Wish I Was Here' 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

British indie band Florence + The Machine entered the charts at No. 6 with their highly anticipated second album, "Ceremonials," while Coldplay's fifth album, "Mylo Xyloto" fell to No. 7 from last week's top position. Justin Bieber's "Mistletoe" debuts at no. 1 2011-11-09T19:05:52Z

Directed and written by Josh Boone, this semi-autobiographical film drops the right names, from Raymond Carver to Flannery O’Connor to the indie rock band Bright Eyes, which provided some of the music. Movie Review: ‘Stuck in Love’ Stars Greg Kinnear as a Divorced Novelist 2013-07-04T20:34:58Z

It then landed at Rogue Pictures before ending up at indie distributor Overture Films and producer Participant Films. "Crazies" director crazy for genre movies 2010-02-26T08:17:00Z

The Washington Post talked to the owners of six indies about how they weathered the year. Independent bookstore owners look back at a year spent trying to stay afloat. Not all of them succeeded. 2021-03-12T05:00:00Z

The Cave Singers, for their part, understand their role as unifiers between the subgenres — roots, Americana, indie, whatever — that comprise the lexicon of No Depression. No Depression Festival is a musical education in Americana 2010-08-19T21:06:00Z

Despite the nagging concerns from longtime fans, The Avett Brothers earned their success the hard way, touring nonstop for several years in support of each impressive indie release. The Avett Brothers’ Slick but Charming New Album 2013-10-18T09:45:18Z

The film is shot on a typical indie budget in and around New York, and the city helps the cause. 'Obvious Child' teases the comedy out of the human condition 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

Now the two star as an engaged couple put to the test in the gritty indie "Monogamy," in which Messina plays a photographer who becomes obsessed with one of his subjects. Correction: Rashida Jones, Chris Messina friends with benefits 2011-03-14T04:39:55Z

This list is short on sensitive indie dramas, heavy on mainstream mayhem, but it was that kind of year. Fast Five is One of TIME?s Top 10 Movies of 2011 2011-12-07T16:21:53Z

The compelling wail of lead vocalist Sameer Gadhia is what the churning little indie band Young the Giant is all about. 15 of Seattle's top entertainment picks, April 1-7 2012-03-28T20:52:04Z

Bryce Dessner is best known as a guitarist for the indie rock band The National, but that may soon be eclipsed by his steady rise in the world of contemporary classical music. Classical CD review: ‘Music for Wood and Strings’ by Bryce Dessner 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

“You Know Who You Are,” its latest album, is a collection of indie rock gems that manages to stay energetic, even when the lyrics — by the frontman, Matthew Caws — delve into poignant territory. Pop & Rock Listings for Sept. 16-22 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

This is a gritty little indie film that, Erin, may not appeal to your fans from "The Boys." "Does trauma-bonding negate the love?": Stars Erin Moriarty and Jai Courtney talk "Catching Dust" 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z

While harnessing Hollywood star power is one proven way for indie bands to get videos seen, the collaborations don't always translate to high record sales over long periods of time. A-list actors get edgy in indie music videos 2012-07-05T17:43:29Z

"The Road to Freedom," which opens Monday at the Metro, is an indie movie made by Brendan Moriarty, who was 20 when he produced and directed it. 'The Road to Freedom': 2 vanish in Cambodia 2011-09-30T21:37:06Z

Some indie films act like magnets for veteran character actors who don't mind playing cameo roles. 'Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best': Half of duo steals this gig 2012-09-27T20:23:07Z

All those literate indie couplets, splenetic punk insults and hip-hop braggadocio, on display right where everyone could hear them. Readers recommend: Resurrection songs 2010-04-01T23:01:00Z

Over lunch in the East Village, Mr. Noonan explained life in indie limbo: no one cared enough to rerelease the film. Sundance Offer New Video Streaming for Films 2012-01-04T18:01:42Z

The feel-good story of the year was the continued rise of indie games. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: Surprises and Challenges for Video Games in 2013 2013-12-24T13:01:19Z

All of them gladden the heart to the extent that we are moved to declare this a new golden age of indie. New band of the day ? No 832: Still Corners 2010-07-23T15:24:00Z

No other rock ’n’ roll career has had anything like the trajectory of Chilton’s — from precocious frontman to indie pioneer to dropout and, finally, to sage. ‘A Man Called Destruction,’ About Alex Chilton 2014-03-23T20:31:53Z

In her hands, it’s not hard to imagine these songs as the creation of an especially gifted — if occasionally bloody-minded — indie singer-songwriter. Eleri Ward Captures the Longing at the Heart of Sondheim’s Work 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

A watermelon and feta salad can be found alongside great smokehouse meats; zydeco and indie rock are within earshot of soul; and up-and-coming areas like Cooper-Young are giving the city’s older haunts some stiff competition. What to Do in Memphis 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

It’s refreshing to see not just an indie dystopia with a strong sense of location, but one made by a Black director. Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

The Los Angeles band, led by Mikel Jollett, has always favored music informed by moody '80s alternative music, cinematic indie rock and the artistic grandeur of acts such as David Bowie. How Airborne Toxic Event's album "Hollywood Park" became the "soundtrack" to Mikel Jollett's memoir 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

It's unpalatable to some, but indie giant XL hosted their recent UK debut show, so eyes are on them, and rightly so. Music in 2011: skater hip-hop, dark 60s pop, Punjabi folk 2011-01-01T00:04:01Z

It's one of the few occasions when a relatively broad spectrum of music--rap and country to jazz and indie rock--gets national exposure on the same network TV show. Lady Antebellum surprises with 'Need You Now' 2011-02-14T05:49:26Z

The journey of women, especially in indie films, is different: passive saints, they abide and endure and finally, bravely, say no. Higher Ground: When God Doesn't Talk Back 2011-08-25T07:05:00Z

Miles Kane's songs also feel oddly burdened by the north's indie past – as does his haircut, the first Stone Roses barnet of the day. The Stone Roses – review 2012-06-15T18:00:00Z

The term “hyperlink cinema” was originally coined by Alissa Quart in an essay for Film Comment, describing Don Roos’ indie comedy “Happy Endings.” Moms deserve better than this: The shameless pandering of “Mother’s Day” is an argument for the death of “hyperlink” films 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

The folly of being unfaithful is outlined by Glasgow indie types Camera Obscura in the lovely Tears for Affairs, from 2006's Let's Get Out of This Country. Readers recommend: songs about fools ? results 2011-08-11T14:33:14Z

A wonderful gig sees the once archetypal indie cool band unexpectedly become all-round entertainers, as classical pop nestles alongside comedy, theatre and audience participation. Belle and Sebastian and London Contemporary Orchestra ? review 2010-12-06T21:29:00Z

What indie record stores offer is the people behind the counter: they get to know the taste of their customers, and you can respect their wisdom and knowledge. Treaure hunters 2010-04-16T07:42:00Z

Moore's still the go-to man for the "indie rock seal of approval", yet when he sang Torturing Nurse's praises following Sonic Youth's trip to China, this one-man whirlwind wasn't impressed. Scene and heard: Noi Shanghai 2010-04-26T14:45:00Z

Likewise, the 2014 indie Escobar: Paradise Lost explores how his influence strains romance secondhand, as a humble surfer makes time with a local girl who turns out to be Escobar’s niece. Gotti, Escobar, Manson: Hollywood's problem with real-life criminals 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

Come evening, the city’s theaters, music bars, indie cinemas and bookstores draw culture-hungry throngs. The French Alps Sans Skis 2011-02-25T21:55:11Z

Punters want to get their money’s worth, so you can hardly blame them for choosing the big-budget popcorn splurge on Screen 1 over the thoughtful indie on Screen 12. Return of the B-movie: why big-budget flops could be good for cinema 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

And though Big Thief is an indie darling, it’s not a particularly electrifying band, and definitely not the sort of band a vibrant scene is born around. The omnivore’s delight: Experiencing New York’s diffuse music scene at Northside Festival 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

Outside the studio, the life of an indie musician was catching up to the 30-something singer/guitarist who’d been in the biz since signing with Atlantic at 19. Deep Sea Diver’s Jessica Dobson carries the ‘Impossible Weight’ on Seattle rockers’ radiant new album 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

And whenever there is a buzz-worthy show at the Young Avenue Deli or the Hi-Tone Cafe, two clubs that anchor the indie scene in Midtown, it seems as if everyone turns out. 2010-01-29T05:08:00Z

He offhandedly mentioned collections he’s put together based around both calypso and industrial music, material he recorded with Brazilian artists and an indie rock album made with the jazz-funk weirdo Thundercat. How Four Tet Helped Madlib Make Something Totally New: A Solo Album 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z

Also opening Friday are the Australian noir "The Square"; the documentary "Exit Through the Gift Shop "; the Danish thriller "Terribly Happy"; and the indie film "The Scientist." Films opening this weekend include 'Oceans' and 'The Back-Up Plan' 2010-04-21T19:48:00Z

In fact, Death Cab for Cutie proved much funkier when the indie rock stars headlined Friday night. At Hideout Block Party, a little twang, and little funk

Sources say the actor-turned-governor-turned-returning actor is in early negotiations to play a bordertown sheriff in an indie crime thriller titled "The Last Stand." Schwarzenegger may play sheriff in crime thriller 2011-04-07T21:23:46Z

Certainly the decade was full of music that was sold and praised on the basis that there's something inherently thrilling about genres swapping spit down at the indie disco. There's nothing new in genre-mixing 2011-02-24T22:32:01Z

A man who was previously best known for playing the maracas and dancing on stage in an indie band had suddenly become the most famous man in Manchester, if not the country. Shaun Ryder: ‘I’m a really good dad, this time around anyway’ 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

Hipster indie bands in the early 2000s tried to replicate the sound, and then it really began to fade away. Perspective | Ric Ocasek showed us a way out of the ’70s. We repaid him with a zillion Friday nights. 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Wedding season is upon us, which makes this indie romance a fitting watch. What’s on TV Tuesday: A Woodstock Doc and ‘Plus One’ 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

"It's gotten harder to make movies about people," said writer-director Miguel Arteta, 49, who has chronicled the lives of ordinary folks in indie films like "Star Maps," "The Good Girl" and "Cedar Rapids." TV is viewed as holding more promise for screenwriters than movies 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

No matter how artful or impressive, whichever indie film was honored for its achievements would be snubbed at the Oscars. Moonrise Kingdom: Is the Indie Award Darling Headed for an Oscar? 2012-11-28T13:00:33Z

In honor of the first film’s 25th anniversary, I interviewed the stars and creators about making the unconventional indie romance. ‘Before Sunrise’: The Making of an Indie Classic 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

But many indie theaters will stick with masking for the near future, including SIFF’s three cinemas: the Uptown, Egyptian and Film Center. What you need to know about mask and vaccine requirements to get into Seattle-area arts and music events this spring 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

A Hapless Musician Can’t Quiet His Inner Child   Ryan O’Nan’s “Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best” is all about the inner child — that and the open road and the cloying, precious excesses of indie rock. Movie Review: ‘Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best,’ Directed by Ryan O’Nan 2012-09-21T22:00:07Z

In apparently unrelated news, indie rockers LCD Soundsystem released their own Christmas dirge, titled “Christmas Will Break Your Heart.” Miley Cyrus Released a New, Sad Christmas Song 2015-12-26T05:00:00Z

I benefitted from being an indie filmmaker; I have no expectations of my work being seen. Behind the scenes of "Fire Island," from filming sexy rain encounters to endearing dance-offs 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

It indicates how British pop and indie music are closer now than any time since 1995. An X-Factor castoff does the Sugarcubes? All part of pop's new politics 2010-05-14T14:03:00Z

The veteran indie artist Marks, 47, will release “Our Country,” her first new album in over a decade, later this year. Black, Female and Carving Out Their Own Path in Country Music 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z

Renée Fleming, a darling of the opera world, has a new album titled “Dark Hope,” on which she covers indie rock acts. Ren?e Fleming, Opera Star, Tries a Rock Album. 2010-05-31T21:58:00Z

Since forming over a decade ago, this Austin-based four-piece remains one of indie rock’s most wildly inventive groups — and one of its most continually underrated, too. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

As a low-budget indie or experimental foreign film, "American" could enjoy a festival-circuit ride where cineastes could ponder the profundities of its blank stares and static situations. George Clooney off-target in "The American" 2010-09-01T00:04:00Z

But when the indie fest gets underway next month, it will bring a very particular kind of reinvention: comic performers with robust stage reputations taking on highly serious screen roles. Sundance Film Festival 2015: Comedians get serious in new movies 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

The indie wave he helped to inspire has become a tsunami. Director Kevin Smith on heart attacks, happiness, extreme weight loss – and Weinstein 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

British indie has been – and still is – consistently and significantly more egalitarian in terms of gender relations than America. Ask the indie professor: Are gender stereotypes still present in indie music? 2010-09-01T11:59:00Z

By last month, though, Sang was getting comfortable being indie again. Zach Sang, the Ryan Seacrest of the Youth, Wants to Save Radio 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

Everywhere you turn these days, it seems that the indie rock world is exploring African sounds. Music: Indie Rock Embraces an African Invasion 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z

In indie cinema terms, that's like landing the cast of Ocean's Eleven. Greenberg star Greta Gerwig steps from the shadows of mumblecore 2010-06-04T23:08:00Z

"We're not sure how big a deal it's going to be until it gets here," said Brad Schelden, the indie music and vinyl buyer at Amoeba Music in Hollywood. The Beatles' complete mono catalog released on vinyl LPs 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

VCR is one of their singles, which reached No 15 in the UK indie chart. Now listening: reader playlist 2012-07-18T11:35:00Z

“Wink” will be released in Japan through Sony, but the band signed with the prestigious indie label Sub Pop — one of a handful of suitors — for its American release. Chai, a Band With an Ethos, an Aesthetic and a Sound All Its Own 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

For the likes of Best Coast, Crocodiles and Dum Dum Girls, the music still sounds like British indie of 25 years ago, but at least they're playing it in sunny California. This week's new live music 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

Did you have any concerns that taking on something like “WandaVision” would diminish your indie cred? Kathryn Hahn Talks About Her Insidious, Perfidious Role on ‘WandaVision’ 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z

Bravado and Caresses: Girls on the Way to Life “Mosquita y Mari,” an unassuming indie jewel, resists all of the clichés that its story of the fraught friendship between two 15-year-old girls invites. Movie Review: ‘Mosquita y Mari,’ by Aurora Guerrero 2012-08-02T21:19:57Z

Started in 1986, the quartet flew a flag of conviction in an insouciant era: First-generation indie rock was on the up, with bands like Dinosaur Jr. and Sonic Youth proposing abstention as rebellion. To Make the Messthetics, Mix a Reunion With One Virtuosic Newcomer 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

And Ms. Letissier, along with indie contemporaries like Fever Ray and Sophie, is one of a handful of pop agitators using an explicitly queer perspective to grapple with gender norms in their music. Gender Is a Construct. Christine and the Queens Built a Bulldozer. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

“So when people think of indie rock, they think of that ‘Garden State’ soundtrack type of rock, even though there’s nothing independent about it. Punk Rock Is Alive and Well, No Politics Required 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

The line up goes from pop to discovery to indie. Brit awards chairman: we wronged Adele and will make amends this year 2013-02-19T15:02:41Z

As the son of Russian immigrants, who made little effort to integrate, the east coast–based indie film-maker admits his younger life was at times isolated. LA film festival: sweet surprise follows Searching for Sugar Man screening 2012-06-20T17:20:04Z

Finally, we wrap up with Your Label's Showing, which this week looks at the rise of ickle indie label Young and Lost Club. Music Weekly: Dave Sitek 2010-09-24T11:26:00Z

Early online response to “Odd Blood” has been largely, if guardedly, positive; indie bloggers do have a soft spot for synthesizers and dance beats. 2010-01-30T00:57:00Z

It also seems unusual for an indie film to have such a benevolent view of mainstream religion. William H Macy: 'Even the bad sex I've had was pretty good' 2013-01-17T19:00:00Z

Yesterday, after an easy-lay gig in Manchester, Huggy Bear were getting bored because they felt they were becoming a "normal touring indie band". There's a riot grrrl going on – a classic tour feature from the vaults 2013-01-09T13:10:35Z

Five years ago, she klutzily tripped over her puffy pink princess gown while accepting an Oscar for a peppy indie romcom, and audiences watched with bursting hearts in their eyes. Jennifer Lawrence: the fascinating subversion of Hollywood's sweetheart 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z

The Philly-based band always delivers a reliable mix of catchy indie rock songs with guitar-driven melodies heavily influenced by 1960s pop. Music Monday: 15 Albums to Look Forward to in Early 2012 2012-01-09T15:30:27Z

Some of them were in Brigadier Ambrose, who were a good new indie band from Kent and London a few years ago and purveyed a neat line in quirky guitar pop. New band of the day (Vlks No 1,485) 2013-04-04T14:04:35Z

Good on Sarandon for agreeing to star in this low-budget indie mystery and for making her pills-and-booze-dependent curmudgeon such a smart and memorable workaday creation. Our Level the Playing Field picks: Awards for those Oscar has overlooked 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Johnny5eyes The indie fan base is extremely suspicious of popularity and success. Ask the indie professor: why shout for a song the band will never play? 2010-08-16T13:39:00Z

That is amazing in the indie world, and part of that was due to my dog-with-a-bone determination. Magazine Preview: Ellen Barkin Is No Uptown Girl 2011-04-22T14:15:12Z

Friday was primarily hip-hop acts, ranging from indie hip-hop artists like Cecil Otter and Mac Lethal to well-known headliner like T-Pain. DT Sioux Falls music festival moving into 2nd day 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z

There's really no comparable pay scale within the indie world that parallels that in the studio filmmaking world. Jennifer Lawrence: the making of an "It" actress 2011-01-20T00:28:31Z

An actor of vulnerability and panache, he bounds from experimental plays to indie films to popcorn blockbusters. Justice Smith Doesn’t Need Your Assumptions 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

Rent his 1996 debut film, "Trees Lounge," for an example of a New York indie ensemble comedy that adds up to more than the sum of its parts. The underrated genius of Steve Buscemi 2010-09-20T21:01:00Z

With references to Talking Heads, Orange Juice and The Pastels, the Leeds group are clearly indie fans first, an indie band second. This Many Boyfriends – Going Out With ... : exclusive album stream 2012-10-01T10:00:00Z

Witch Gardens looked and sounded like a band indie labels should be swarming, especially during a brand-new song in which vaguely Malian guitar lines wrapped around a pounding beat, and syncopated vocals wrapped around that. Local music underground alive and kicking at Reverb Fest 2011-10-09T21:01:06Z

Gabriel Bologna directed his father’s final film performance, as a priest in “Tango Shalom,” an indie comedy. Joseph Bologna, Onscreen Tough Guy With a Sense of Humor, Dies at 82 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z

“It’s like an indie revue. We designed a yeti to be the front man.” The Screening Room: “A Single Life” 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Any day of the year, New Yorkers can catch foreign films, indies or classics at Film Forum, the art house and repertory cinema in Lower Manhattan. How Influential Is Film Forum? Christopher Nolan and Others Explain 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Castro spent much of 2008 exploring the option of signing with an indie before choosing a multirights deal with Atlantic, which saw potential in him as a touring artist. "Idol" alum keeps his cool on long-awaited debut 2010-03-27T02:36:00Z

Hunters, a young indie rock band out of Brooklyn, sounds like most punk-flavored bands in Williamsburg: simple repetitive lyrics, frenetic drums, repeated guitar riffs that revolve around a single eighth-note motif, a pedaling bass. ArtsBeat Blog: Relationship Tension, Over Screeching Feedback 2011-10-19T05:46:55Z

He is starring in People, Places, Things, a thoughtful indie comedy directed by James C Strouse, which is playing in the US and about to open in Australia. Flight of the Conchords the musical is coming, says Jemaine Clements 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

“Listen Up Philip,” the second feature from New York indie filmmaker Alex Ross Perry, breaks free of so many cinematic conventions at once that the experience is disorienting. “Listen Up Philip”: Jason Schwartzman and Elisabeth Moss star in a brilliant, bristly Philip Roth knock-off 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z

He moved from revered Pacific Northwest indie label Kill Rock Stars to a major label, DreamWorks. How ‘Either/Or’ made Elliott Smith a star, and why a tragic glamour lingers many years after his death 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

In recent years in a relentless quest for young customers, ad agencies have begun trolling among buzzed-about indie rock groups for musical ideas to use in ads for, say, cars and restaurants. A British Volkswagen Ad Sounds Like Beach House 2012-06-07T22:20:38Z

Genre-wise we're talking indie pop, noise pop, dream pop, pretty much any of these newer terms that are suffixed with pop. Blog jam: sockformation 2012-06-12T11:32:32Z

Last month, Simon & Schuster began posting videos of its authors conducting bookshelf tours while plugging their favorite local indie stores. Perspective | There’s no replacement for the thrill of browsing in a bookstore 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

The former indie queen Parker Posey returns in a big role. Carpetbagger Blog: Spike Lee and Other Big Names Make Sundance's List 2011-12-05T21:00:31Z

All of the above films fall into “indie” or “prestige” genres, and the blockbuster category is still dominated by Hollywood’s old guard. Young composers challenge the Hollywood music establishment 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

Quicker bathing meant more sleep; more texting; more listening to indie bands with names unfathomably made up of punctuation. Running the perfect bath is an art – get it right and the day’s woes melt away | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

The online retailer sells books at prices lower than most indie stores are able to offer. Amazon opens its first East Coast bookstore — in Dedham, Mass. 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

A Foals gig is a chance for alt-rock kids to get down and sweaty to a band that produces highly danceable music, while preserving indie qualities such as angst and braininess. Foals 2010-07-06T21:31:00Z

Then the concert went back to the smooth, rich blend of borderline-cheesy yacht rock, disco and singer-songwriter indie fare Destroyer is known for now. Concert review: Destroyer creates new sounds at Showbox 2012-06-04T21:34:19Z

I was still making records," she recalls, "and I was with a very indie set, and they didn't like the TV presenting, they thought it was quite uncool. Lauren Laverne: 'Let's face it, TV's not brain surgery' 2010-07-01T19:30:00Z

Diverse heavyweights include Swedish pop star Robyn, Idaho indie rock icons Built to Spill and pioneering rap crew Freestyle Fellowship, from Los Angeles — touring with its original lineup for the first time in 10 years. Heineken City Arts Fest 2011 lineup: Robyn, Built to Spill, Freestyle Fellowship and more 2011-07-28T18:22:05Z

The indie festival winners of today become the major voices of tomorrow. Sundance 2018: what did we learn from this year's festival? 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Whatever her reservations about being the indie world's new favourite R&B starlet, this reinvention has at last enabled Solange to escape the shadow of her older sister. Solange – review 2013-01-17T17:48:30Z

Her Dad, a fan of Nirvana and singer-songwriters such as Aimee Mann and Tori Amos, "made really good mix tapes" and introduced her to the 90s' American indie rock band, Pavement. Cate Le Bon: Living for the music 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Back then, the lumpen output of Catatonia and Space killed indie; this time, the beige revolution of acts such as the View and Pigeon Detectives threw the doors wide open for a Lady Gaga-shaped superhero. Is rock'n'roll finally dead? 2011-01-11T22:15:00Z

Plus, the indie hit never moralizes on same-sex marriage, instead offering a humorous and heartfelt take on two mothers, two teenage kids and a cool biological father. Cheat sheet of leading Oscar contenders 2010-11-24T06:47:00Z

It's something of a staple in indie movies to show people living miserable lives, redeemed momentarily by a late moment of grace. 'Hesher': Well-acted drama drowns in misery 2011-05-12T19:25:11Z

Such is the legend of Belle and Sebastian's debut album, Tigermilk, which began life as a college project only to become one of indie's greatest collectibles. Love, Belle and Sebastian-style: Laura Barton interviews the indie heroes 2010-09-30T21:45:00Z

The figures were big even in the nano-world of indie cinema. Box Office: Pirates 4 Calm at Home, Full Speed Ahead Abroad 2011-05-22T05:35:00Z

The Supersonico festival, which is held in Los Angeles annually, tends to focus on indie and experimental acts. Latin music stars J. Balvin, Marco Antonio Solis and a hologram of Jenni Rivera in genre-mixing L Festival 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

It all went to further establish him as an underrated God of Pacific Northwest indie rock. Bazan / Jurado: God in the building 2012-12-16T18:56:57Z

Desperately trying to distract the world from his unusually privileged upbringing and his previous career as the frontman of an objectively terrible indie band. The X Factor: who deserves to win? 2010-12-08T15:25:00Z

They went the indie route and launched the comeback plan with "Tired" and then "Not My Daddy." Kelly Price releases first R&B album in eight years 2011-05-02T05:58:51Z

When this indie hit landed in 1995, its star and co-writer Ice Cube was still best known as a tough guy, both on film and on wax. Stream These 13 Titles Before They Leave Netflix in October 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

The indie label had already released influential albums by Teenage Fanclub and Pavement. Perspective | Liz Phair is back, and she’s setting the record — and the record business — straight 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

This month’s off-the-grid streaming suggestions are an even more eclectic mix than usual: a handful of indie dramas, genre treats for your late-night needs and thoughtful documentaries on movies and economics. ‘Goat,’ ‘Dope’ and More Streaming Gems 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

The album features his typically unclassifiable mix of alt electronics — which dips into R&B, indie, hip-hop beats and the just plain out-there. Helado Negro's 'Private Energy' is an experimental electronica album that quietly delves into the political 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

The world of indie is such a funny thing now. And Now for Someone Completely Indifferent: Terry Gilliam on Directing Arcade Fire 2010-08-05T13:46:00Z

Appearance: Looks a little like Matt Berninger from American art /gloom / indie rockers The National. TV survivalists: who's the hardest? 2011-07-26T11:43:28Z

We all deny being hipsters, but really, anyone punk rock, alternative, indie, etc., is a hipster — that is, we are the gentle form of the generations before us. What is punk? 2013-05-10T00:00:00Z

Some more festival indie that sounds exactly like Arcade Fire. This week's new singles 2011-08-12T23:07:56Z

Smith prints two shrewd pieces about Jordan Peele, one before and one after his success as the director of the indie horror movie “Get Out.” Two Generations on View in Essays by Martin Amis and Zadie Smith 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

At her house, Lewis dismissed the idea that she'd blazed some kind of trail for artists eager to move beyond indie rock's famously disheveled vibe. With 'The Voyager,' Jenny Lewis feels the album magic 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

She’s got that exact same snobbery as indie rock, the self-governing esoteric rules, the fierce defensiveness about her way of life, the wariness of latecomers.” Carrie Brownstein, Riot Grrrnup 2011-12-30T15:03:30Z

Of course, the song did come with the line about her ex hiding away with “some indie record that is much cooler than mine.” Taylor Swift Has a New Song—Ex-Boyfriends Beware 2012-08-15T12:00:45Z

But not to worry — we also have period dramas, a charming indie rom-com and a moving bio-documentary about a genuine legend. ‘Night Catches Us,’ ‘Ida’ and More Offbeat Streaming Options 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

Of course, as it is the indie world, that meant the money was going to the project, not them, and they had to spend months still working at the ad agency. Sundance 2015: Can an animated animal show change the way TV is made? 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Even for Soderbergh, Haywire is a twist: a formula caper pic with an indie vibe. Soderbergh's Haywire: Good Workout, Not So Good Movie 2012-01-19T15:39:42Z

He oversaw Nirvana’s ascent from indie act to the most famous band in the world, and Cobain once told a journalist he regarded the older man as a “second father.” Review | Remembering Kurt Cobain as a sweetly childlike, achingly opaque creative force 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

Music-themed walking tours in New York are nothing new, but Rifkin’s focus on indie rock signals a generational turning of the tide. A Walking Tour of Manhattan’s Rock ’n’ Roll Past: the 2000s 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

The filmmakers badly need to get out of the dwindling indie ghetto, and "Funny Story" might be one of those rare films that can please teenagers and their parents, date-night moviegoers and art-house film buffs. "It's Kind of a Funny Story": Zach Galifianakis' dramatic breakthrough 2010-10-09T14:20:00Z

The series stars Tatiana Maslany, the Emmy-winning actress best-known for the critics’ darling clone thriller “Orphan Black,” who has also starred in demanding stage roles and a handful of indie films. As She-Hulk, Tatiana Maslany Is Beautiful When She’s Angry 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z

"My husband works a lot more than I do," said Madigan, who has two indie films in the can. Amy Madigan, stage lover, directs an L.A. play 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

Their transformation from indie duckling to dance-rock swan has proved to be a masterstroke. This week's new live music 2012-12-15T00:05:21Z

Well, if you were in an indie band in the mid-90s chances are you were caught up in the convoluted web of sexual intrigue that was Camden. Russell Brand's rock star Aldous Snow is not based on him ? honest 2010-06-18T23:10:00Z

Mr. McConaughey in a shiny bronze suit, mentioned the $5 million budget for his movie, “Dallas Buyers Club,” comparing filmmaking to highways, with indies as the “feeder road,” sometimes even the dirt road. The Carpetbagger: At the Indie Spirits, Oscar Warm-Ups and Also-Ran Quips 2014-03-02T14:47:13Z

In one scene, Earn listens to the dreamy indie band Beach House on headphones. In ‘Atlanta,’ a Soundtrack That Subtly Whispers Its Locale 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

Besides being a singer, she is also a businesswoman and actress, appearing in the indie film Filly Brown, which was shown at the Sundance Film Festival, as the incarcerated mother of Filly Brown. Singer feared dead in Mexican plane crash 2012-12-10T10:16:04Z

The first event, in New York in June, featured indie bands like Interpol and exhibitions by emerging artists who use high tech to push aesthetic boundaries. Up Close: A Founder of Vice Magazine Branches Out 2010-08-16T21:02:00Z

Specifically, her role in a scrappy new comedy called Bad Therapy, an indie about a couple experiencing problems in their relationship who seek help from a manipulative therapist. Alicia Silverstone: 'I probably behaved not as well as I could have' 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z

No wonder the indie music industry loves Amazing. That was Amazing… the loss of a pioneering digital radio station 2012-06-02T23:05:36Z

This is a disquieting and ambiguous movie in a classic US indie style. The Guardian first film award 2013: the shortlist 2013-01-21T14:07:51Z

At 46, Baker looks young enough to make you think there must have been a misprint, with the shag of hair of a bassist in an indie band. The Florida Project’s Sean Baker: ‘I wanted the kids to be the kings and queens of their domain’ 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

I played drums in an indie band, one of Guy's favourite records is by Seal. UK dance music is back – and this time it's going pop 2013-06-20T17:20:06Z

Skarsgård has spent his life caught between different worlds: blockbusters and indies, Sweden and the States. Alexander Skarsgård: ‘I still wake up shivering in the foetal position’ 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

The hope, one imagines, is to channel modern R&B while retaining a semblance of indie "authenticity". This week's new live music 2012-06-01T23:05:57Z

Over the next decade, she seemed to be everywhere, from indie gems like Jim Jarmusch’s “Night on Earth” to Woody Allen’s “Celebrity” to Martin Scorsese’s 19th-century period drama “The Age of Innocence.” Winona Ryder, an Emblem of ’90s Cool, Grows Up 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

But two new indie horror films are generating buzz too, even though they were made for next to nothing and are driven by distorted audio, disorienting cuts and other defiantly experimentalist techniques. Two Experimental Horror Directors Discuss the Thoughts Behind the Frights 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z

“What I’ve found is that the indies are able to compete on several dimensions,” he said. Shakespeare and Company Is Coming Back to the West Side and the Village 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

But with indie films, there’s a lot more time for rehearsals and to talk about those issues. Maisie Williams on 'How Game of Thrones' Treats Women 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

They may be devoid of major designers, swanky press and an appearance from Anna Wintour, but free fashion shows have been on display at our local AMC, Regal and favorite indie theaters. From #GentleMinions to Barbiecore, here's why we should be dressing up for the movies more often 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

It is nowhere near as creepy as the recent indie horror V/H/S, but it is a full-bloodedly grisly and macabre film that zaps over a few scares. Evil Dead – review 2013-04-18T21:00:02Z

The embattled actor, who stars in British director Andrea Arnold's indie, "sustained minimal injuries" while filming, his rep said in a statement to The Times on Wednesday. Shia LaBeouf needs stitches after cutting his head, hand on 'American Honey' set 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

So we're actually watching a personal love story, but it's getting billed as this big action/indie film. Sitting down with "Bellflower's" creator 2011-08-02T20:03:00Z

We like it, but then we liked fey 80s indie boys the first time round. Oh Minnows (No 1,071) 2011-07-27T15:45:44Z

But maybe it is because of his indie credentials that the vibe on set seems so relaxed. Welcome to Skull Island: on set with Tom Hiddleston and the biggest King Kong ever 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

Having worked with Ms. DuVernay on her award-winning indie “Middle of Nowhere,” Mr. Oyelowo concluded that she was the one to direct. Golden Globes 2015: David Oyelowo and Ava DuVernay, Jumping for Joy 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Josh Radnor's Liberal Arts is an indie campus comedy that is sweet-natured and high-minded, as well as just romantic: a seductive drama of youth and age; innocence and experience; a poignant network of May-to-December relationships. Liberal Arts – review 2012-10-04T14:30:01Z

“To me, this really means the end of indie film as we once knew it,” Mr. Hope tweeted on Oct. James Schamus, a Hollywood Honcho, Takes on Directing 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

Anne Hathaway falls for one of those sensitive and scruffy guys with a guitar in the 2015 indie fable "Song One." TV This Week, June 21-27: 'True Detective' and more 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

The truth: There were two types of indie band in 1989-90 – the Stone Roses was one, and the Sundays the other. New band of the day ? No 873: Let's Buy Happiness 2010-09-22T16:24:00Z

The most likable guy in indie films — and Christopher Nolan's favorite movie mensch — becomes an action hero on two wheels in this far-fetched, fun adventure Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a scene from "Premium Rush." Premium Rush: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Pedals Furiously to Film Stardom 2012-08-23T12:00:00Z

Events: Regularly holds literature evenings and readings, as well as the occasional indie gig. Cine-files: Babylon, Berlin 2011-07-12T09:00:10Z

There has been a historic punk rock indie scene there, a very vibrant DIY supported music scene there. "Every Day in Kaimuki" filmmakers on questioning contentment: "Are you happy or is this just easy?" 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

IFC Films, the New York-based indie film distribution company, bought the bulk of his early work. Joe Swanberg: 'be prolific and people will lose the will to fight against you' 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

A freshly jilted fiance nurses his sorrows in this London indie. This week's new films 2011-01-15T00:05:55Z

The Brooklyn club offers an eclectic mix of performers, from emerging indie bands to old-time funk groups like the Meters. ArtsBeat: Brooklyn Bowl to Open Sister Clubs in London and Las Vegas 2013-08-22T18:28:59Z

Still, eager to prove he could make the leap from a $750,000 indie to a $150 million summer franchise with all the bells and whistles, he immediately set about trying to crack the code. 'Jurassic World': How a pair of Hollywood newbies finally cracked the dino code 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gainsbourg toured France and Japan before bringing his act to the United States in August, when he performed a tribute concert filled with indie acts at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Up Close: Lucien Gainsbourg’s Debut Album Is a Salute to His Father 2012-11-21T19:08:14Z

The substantial pleasures of the movie are supplemented by the gratification of seeing an emerging talent with concerns far outside the conventional indie realm asserting himself with such authority. Review: ‘A Stray’ and a Muslim in Search of Acceptance 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Another big week for the compilation album blocks indie rock band Modest Mouse, who have to settle for third place with their latest, Strangers to Ourselves, which manages to move just 77,000 units. Rapper Kendrick Lamar Is Number One On The Albums Chart (A Week Early) 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Hanks is currently shooting indie film A Hologram for the King, based on the novel of the same name by Dave Eggers. Tom Hanks and Spielberg to reunite 2014-04-22T11:07:07Z

The Seattle group hit the Main Stage in pastel dress shirts with a cellist, guitar players, and a drummer, apparently now an indie pop band after serving time in the rap scene. Capitol Hill Block Party day three notables: Flexions, Mad Rad, Blue Scholars, Truckasuaras 2010-07-26T22:01:00Z

Fine writes that, "… at Oberlin I got disgusted with lefty politics almost immediately," a flip dismissal that blinds him to what made the indie scene more than just another musical trend. 'Your Band Sucks,' but your book is a mixed bag 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Don't think however that this is like the "indie" take on these materials. This week's new live music 2011-08-19T23:08:14Z

In this, the band occupy a very modern space, a point somewhere between electronic noise, R&B and indie rock. This week's new live music 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z

The big indie news was Inside Job, Charles Ferguson's critically adored documentary about the financial collapse, which earned a bullish $42,000 in just two theaters. Box Office: Social Network Out-Races Heigl -- and Secretariat 2010-10-10T06:50:00Z

We didn’t have a lot of money for music back then, and it just happened to be indie rock that we were all listening to. 11 Things We Learned About The O.C. from Series Creator Josh Schwartz 2013-08-14T09:45:30Z

He hails from the indie/avant-garde music scene percolating around Montreal and Toronto in his native Canada, and has gone on to a difficult-to-pigeonhole career rooted in an ethos of staunch individualism. | Will Owen Pallett Win an Academy Award This Sunday? 2014-02-28T14:00:33Z

His latest film, the indie comedy “It’s a Disaster,” was released in April. ArtsBeat: David Cross on the Return of ‘Arrested Development’ 2013-05-23T18:41:11Z

Take a quick inventory of today’s indie rock, and you’ll find this three piece’s fingerprints everywhere. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

Looking back, I became addicted to making indie films when I first got started. Why Josh Hartnett became addicted to making indie films: "It just feels more honest" 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

"Six Dance Lessons," which was shot primarily in Budapest because of Hungarian financing for the indie, was directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman. 'Dance Lessons' helps Gena Rowlands kick up her heels 2014-12-13T05:00:00Z

Or indie with pop ambition but minus the vision to realise it? New band of the day – No 1,316: Bastille 2012-07-25T16:09:57Z

While they may have timed their arrival to miss the actual film festival, they brought enough drama with them to fill several fraught indie dramas. The Bachelor Watch: Fishing For Love 2012-01-24T13:18:02Z

Jason Long, on the other hand, plays a quick-to-laugh, ambitious young hipster who loves cool indie bands, "Shawshank Redemption" and playing old arcade games in bars. Review: Drew Barrymore's 'Going the Distance' 2010-09-01T22:49:00Z

Among them were US indie darlings Passion Pit, who invited the trio on their recent UK tour. BBC Sound of 2013: Chvrches 2012-12-31T07:14:44Z

At the independent movie level, you have a lot of straight, white men you work with on their first indie feature who have no idea what they’re doing. Natasha Lyonne and Judy Greer on Hollywood, Female Directors and Their New Movie 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Canadian indie rock band Wolf Parade remembers it, too — the members were kids when it happened — and named its third album after the event. Interview: Wolf Parade's Dan Boeckner explains "Yulia" from "Expo 86" 2010-07-20T01:31:00Z

So begins “Level Up,” a British indie that rearranges the bones of Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours” — man seeking woman endures a surreal urban odyssey — into a familiar vision of technology-fostered callousness. Review: In ‘Level Up,’ Yanked From a Video Game Stupor to a Real Mission 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

“The brothers were not musical visionaries; they were small-time ‘indie’ record men making a quick buck from the poorest, least respected people in America. Phil Chess, Whose Record Label Elevated Unknown Blues Musicians, Dies at 95 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

It’s like listening to an indie band that sounds so much like the Velvet Underground that you can’t stop hearing Lou Reed’s voice in your head. To Light Up a Dark Time, Effervescent Poems of New York City 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Each individual post is intended to be gently self-mocking, but read them all together and they add up to a kind of loss of faith in the whole indie project. Never apologize for carrying a Weezer lunch box! Amazing #IndieAmnesty confessions are nothing to be embarrassed about 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

Since then, his acting roles have run the gamut—from indie films to blockbusters—but 2012 may well be hailed as the year he officially arrived. Joseph Gordon-Levitt on Becoming Bruce Willis and Time-Traveling to Meet His Future Self 2012-09-26T12:00:47Z

Electro-pop royalty Metronomy top this year’s bill but, in its sixth year, Handmade remains a key platform for Leicester and Midlands talent, such as Spoort, art punks Anatomy and slick indie rockers Arcades. 10 of the best city music festivals in the UK 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

Or they may decide that, if they want to earn some short-term money and long-term esteem, they should renounce big budgets and go indie. Box Office: Green Hornet Buzzes Over a Dilapidated Dilemma 2011-01-16T14:25:00Z

The laid-back indie rockers hit the “Salon Stage” with some old hits and new music off their upcoming album “Location 13.” This Week on SalonTV: Daveed Diggs, Bo Burnham, Martin O’Malley and more 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z

AH: Japan has been working double time this year as the go-to destination for white indie girls who need a life change. ‘Girls’ Finale: Is It Just Us, or Did the Show Get Better? 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z

U.S. sales were also strong, even without a mainstream radio hit, and Sub Pop proved that it could position a folk album in the indie rock market. Fleet Foxes returns with new album, three Seattle shows 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

On the acting front, he’s had a busy year wrapping three indie features, including “Baked in Brooklyn,” set for release this month. ‘RJ Berger’ Actor Paul Iacono Moonlights as Party Promoter 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Years later, indie movies would be of great interest to me, but as a kid, I craved hits. That Time I Built My Own ‘Wonder Park’ 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z