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As Melissa Maerz notes in the introduction to Alright, Alright, Alright, her oral history of 1993's Dazed and Confused, 'Everyone who sees the film thinks it's about them' because 'the [...]

LOOKING AT NATHAN WILLIAMS, it's easy to think, Here comes trouble. Maybe it's just the way he's dressed: white Wayfarer-style shades with a Mickey Mouse decal over each lens--a gift [...]

Byline: MELISSA MAERZ The Three Best Pavement Songs of All Time After endless listening and hours of debate, we present the Pavement songs you should download if you have only [...]

WHENEVER Florence Welch stepped onstage this year, she noticed something strange in the front row. All dolled up in one of her favorite outfits--the feathered-blackbird getup, the white-fringed fl apper [...]

Japanese comics internationally known as manga is becoming the fastest growing sector of publishing industry with 2004 sales reportedly totaling more than $120 million which is 20% up from 2003. Julie Taylor, editor of the girls manga division at Tokyopop states that its refreshing for a girl to read a story written by another girl who knows her sensibility, knows what a girl is into and can tap into those feelings of a girl.

Three years ago Adam Wills was working as a motion graphics artist for a film company and wondering how to kick-start his music career. Looking for some kind of guidance, [...]

For Swedish siblings Johanna and Klara Soderberg, singing is in the blood. 'We love the Louvin Brothers and the Carter Family,' gushes Klara, 17, a wide-eyed beauty who's two years [...]

Every band hopes people will get off on their music. But the Joy Formidable found itself in the strange position of fans literally doing just that. Two years ago, an [...]

Best Coast singer-guitarist Bethany Cosentino might be the only indie rocker who had an epiphany on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. In 2005 her father, who drummed with '70s funk rockers [...]

FOR MANY KIDS with fingernails painted as black as their souls, it was the day the music died. They tore open the shrink-wrap on their hero's new album, Kiss Me, [...]

IF ZOOEY DESCHANEL didn't exist, indie rock would've invented her. A life-size Kewpie doll in a vintage granny dress who belted out Christmas carols in Elf, she is the living [...]

IF SPOON HAD been meant to ride a comet out of the collegiate airwaves into modern-rock radio ubiquity, they'd be kickin' it with Jack White by now. True, the Austin, [...]

London's hottest band XX has graduated from being Internet-famous to just plain-famous at the start of their European tour. Singer-bassist Oliver Sim was surprised when Michael Stipe dropped by to catch them performed at the Paris Point Ephemere. How the trio was formed is also discussed.

CALLING ALL CRAZY ex-girlfriends: If you're gonna keep up with Florence Welch, you might need stronger meds. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the U.K., where Lungs has become 2009's best-selling debut, this [...]

GRIZZLY BEAR ******** BROOKLYN, NEW YORK MAY 31, 2009 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THERE WERE OOOHS. And whoas. And eee-aaaay-aaaays. When Grizzly Bear played the Music Hall of Williamsburg, in their hometown [...]