Indie

Song of the Day: "Tonight I Have to Leave It," Shout Out Louds
Up there with Volvos and tennis players as Sweden's best exports.
Responses to "Did Gen X Kill the Rock Star?"
Readers mull the future of rock.
"The Mother"
Roger Michell's film about an affair between an older woman and a handyman with an artistic soul is a story of sexual awakening, yes, but that's only part of it.
Writing in the Margins
Our monthly roundup of indie publishing: DC Comics terrifies with Lovecraft; Lethem and Denis Johnson do avant-cabaret; a harrowing tale of the 1997 Red River flood.
Assimilating the Web
Like "Star Trek's" all-powerful Borg, AOL and Microsoft are determined to crush the spirit of online independence. Is resistance futile?
"Eureka"
Indie movies go global with a four-hour Japanese film that, like life, keeps going -- even if you sneak off to the bathroom.
Buy our movie. Please.
Does it take marching bands and a live tiger to get a distribution deal at Sundance?
"Crime and Punishment in Suburbia"
Even dressed up in tabloid lighting and cut with jagged edits, this pulp nihilism never goes beyond daytime TV banality.
Sharps & Flats
Modest Mouse builds a singles collection -- nothing out of something -- and all sorts of other contradictions.
Astonishing ourselves
Why most American independent films don't have a future -- and why that's a good thing.
Forget Sundance
Former Miramax exec Jack Lechner proclaims the death of the indie as we know it.
Lounge Axed
Good rock clubs die every month, but Chicago's finest was better than any of them.
"Julien Donkey-Boy"
Critical vertigo, a homely Chlok Sevigny and one jabbering schizophrenic -- this all means something to director Harmony Korine.
Sharps & flats
Low-fi electronic indie duo Sukpatch release the fall's best summer record.
Sharps & flats
On "Stars Forever," British cult singer Momus offered fans personalized, one-of-a-kind songs -- for $1,000 apiece.
Del Amitri

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