Down South, Singing the Indie Blues
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Twenty-seven years and 16 features after they began their mutual career, John Sayles and Maggie Renzi are still making movies.
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In the past year, projects by Alan  Jackson, the Del McCoury Band and Alabama are the most  high-profile examples of established country and bluegrass  artists doing exceptionally well with gospel albums.
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At this year's film festival, nonfiction films outshine the usual angst-ridden, quirky indies.
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Prairie View A&M Universityâs band offers a vernacular musical form that is not aiming at commercial success.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Students at Salem College, a small liberal arts school for women in Winston-Salem, N.C., have studied the songs of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.  Now they're delving into country singer Martina McBride's catalog.
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From Hawaii to the Philadelphia suburbs, community sings, or singalongs, draw together the average-voiced and bring old songs into common memory.
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Music is still a big force in pop culture, but the music businessâs own comeback attempt is falling flat.
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A well-made absorbing tale of two brothers in a small town.
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As a child, Oscar Torres fled the civil war in his homeland. Now he has brought his story home as a new film, "Innocent Voices," opened before enthusiastic crowds in the nation's capital.
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"Ballast," the Southern-set  drama by Lance Hammer that won two awards at the 2008 Sundance  Film Festival, has been picked up by IFC.
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The Beatles, Jesse James, Bob Dylan and an âAmerican Gangsterâ will all be hitting theaters this fall.
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The performers are not stars, but the price is competitive.
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Independent Artists Club launched to promote regional artists.
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There's more than one championship-caliber team in the Southeastern Conference. And Sylvia Fowles is showing the league has more than one star.
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As summer ends, the fourth quarter looms and the fragile hopes of record executives head south, to Nashville. This season is already off to a good start.
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The meek, mopey comedy âIn the Land of Womenâ is the film equivalent of a sensitive emo band with one foot in alternative rock and the other in the squishy pop mainstream.
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Indie darlings Arcade Fire return to the spotlight in their own quirky downbeat way.