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.
  • Forget Sundance

    Former Miramax exec Jack Lechner proclaims the death of the indie as we know it.
  • Astonishing ourselves

    Why most American independent films don't have a future -- and why that's a good thing.
  • 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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