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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A new documentary sets Toots Shorâs rise and long, sad decline against the backdrop of 20th-century American social history.
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This self-described Brooklyn bar band has toured the country and taken notes.
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The duo OutKast has tried to do something unique with "Idlewild," a musical drama set in the 1930s. It wildly blends genres and eras, featuring a high-class cast and heavy visual tricks.
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The hit road comedy "Little Miss  Sunshine" and the acclaimed drug-addiction drama "Half Nelson"  led the list of contenders on Tuesday for the Independent  Spirit Awards, the American art-house world's version of the  Oscars.
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Virtuosity is now a virtue in the indie world, and many of its most interesting proponents are women.
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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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Fred Thompsonâs style is playing well in rural South Carolina, where his poll numbers show a tease of life.
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New releases from Foo Fighters, Twista, Iron and Wine, Keyshia Cole and the Weakerthans.
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Sweet is probably the last word you'd expect to use in describing a film about an aging black man who chains a young white woman to a radiator to cure her of her demons. In the rural South, of all places.
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By Eric R. Danton, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 15--These are inspirational times for indie-rock bands, who are combining grass-roots efforts with technology to get their music heard without help from record labels.
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On a pair of CDs, minstrel of misery Conor Oberst (a.k.a. Bright Eyes) proves great--one out of two tries
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An eclectic array of collaborators has given new life to the lyrics a folk trailblazer left behind. A rare concert recording has surfaced too.
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The indie rockers celebrate snack culture with custom Wired ringtones. Download them now for free!
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Passages from a folk legendÂs latest album, ÂModern Times,Â echo a 19th-century ConfederateÂs verses.
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The low-key comedy âBroken Englishâ is a textbook example of an Indiewood film: a Hollywood fantasy wrapped in plain brown paper.
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At this year's film festival, nonfiction films outshine the usual angst-ridden, quirky indies.