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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Prairie View A&M Universityâs band offers a vernacular musical form that is not aiming at commercial success.
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Older amateur rockers are creating original albums as a viable sideline gig.
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The nation's low-budget films, imbued with the residue of communism, are wowing critics and audiences.
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Fred Thompsonâs style is playing well in rural South Carolina, where his poll numbers show a tease of life.
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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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A homegrown YouTube singing sensation isn't all organic ... but don't panic.
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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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A well-made absorbing tale of two brothers in a small town.
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âSteel Cityâ tells the story of a man and his sons, who struggle with personal and financial demons in a drab Midwestern town.
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The indie-pop duo of Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips certainly do not party like aged rock stars.
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Interesting documentary looking at the music business.
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African American Toni Manieson knows what it is like to sing the blues.
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At a time when much of the mainstream music business is desperately trying to connect with consumers and sell albums, the bluegrass music community has seen its fortunes rise.
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Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, producers of studio films like the âIndiana Jonesâ trilogy, are moving into more indie territory.
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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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The road-trip romp "Little Miss Sunshine" and the gritty classroom drama "Half Nelson" led contenders Tuesday for the Spirit Awards honoring independent films, each earning five nominations, including best picture.