A smirking attitude toward mainstream institutions means they frequent cool, often idiosyncratic restaurants, shops, and bars, the same kinds of venues that appeal to many travelers.
Ben Lear | Posted 04.10.2012
By providing eye care for bands, Tortoise and Blonde demonstrates the most important element in the band/brand relationship: common purpose.
Crane.tv | Posted 05.15.2012
"Working with Stephen was great, we just told him to make us sound like The Smiths," jokes guitarist Edward. By the sound of things to come, it looks like Life In Film should get used to living life in the spotlight.
Limari Colon | Posted 05.15.2012
The series aims to document the indie sounds in Puerto Rico, through studio sessions of some of the most promising and experienced performers, without enclosing itself in a particular genre.
Dan Persons | Posted 05.12.2012
With Mike Wallis directing, writing, and producing and Inge Rademeyer as star and fellow producer, Good for Nothing takes advantage of its much-vaunted New Zealand locales for some Sergio Leone/John Ford impact, and throws in some impertinent, Kiwi attitude for kicks.
Marc Ruxin | Posted 05.06.2012
It transports you back to great loves, crippling breakups, perfect summer nights, endless road trips, or the birth of a child. There is nothing in this world that even comes close to the associative power carried in song.
Alexandra Marvar | Posted 04.15.2012
While the music career of Gabe Levine -- frontman for Takka Takka -- has markedly evolved since his collegiate Krishna-core venture, music has been his constant.
Posted 02.18.2012
Miami synth-pop band ANR (formerly Awesome New Republic) released a new video this weekend, a cover of Kelis's 2003 hit, "Millionaire." While Bria...
Dan Persons | Posted 02.15.2012
Bless screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman their twisted, little hearts. Young Adult isn't season-specific, but it does serve as a healthy counterbalance to all that holiday growth and belonging.
Salvatore Bono | Posted 01.29.2012
Rooms Filled with Light is already looking to be one of 2012's most anticipated albums.
Amy Edelman | Posted 01.21.2012
This year, why not make it an indie Thanksgiving, with food prepared (and wine selected) with help from one of the gorgeous books below.
Posted 12.28.2011
It's not too often one gets the opportunity to attend an opening art reception where that artist is deejaying. Then again, what is commonplace about a...
Brad Balfour | Posted 12.17.2011
Having grown up enjoying Roger Corman's filmic retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's horror tales, his garish productions were lodged in my brain forever. So when I saw Corman's World, a flood of memories returned.
Dan Persons | Posted 12.07.2011
The tag line for Tom Six's new The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) is "100% Medically Inaccurate," tipping those who witnessed The Human Centipede (First Sequence) that the follow-up is going to be a further affront to everything pure, good, and sanitary.
Dan Persons | Posted 12.02.2011
Roland Emmerich's been making disaster films since time can remember, yet for all his besetting humans with floods, fires, and earthquakes, he's never managed to make something as resonant, affecting, and powerful as Take Shelter.
Faith Hope Consolo | Posted 11.29.2011
I've often said that New York is the retail capital of the world, and that no international shop or designer is truly global without a location here. But we also have a number of shops that are ONLY here.
Christopher R. Smit, Ph.D. | Posted 11.28.2011
REM's art is significant because its politics, visions and worldview became part of the social imaginary, part of our collective imagination. They helped millions of us see the world differently.
Dan Persons | Posted 10.25.2011
In the new documentary The Interrupters, director Steve James and producer Alex Kotlowitz follow several members of CeaseFire as they attempt to defuse conflicts before they occur.
Dan Persons | Posted 10.08.2011
Evan Glodell's Bellflower is the tale of two Southern Californians who fill their free time with speculations of the post-apocalyptic future and preparations for same that include the construction of Matilda, a bad-ass, black automobile.
Crane.tv | Posted 08.29.2011
Crane.tv meets owner of New York indie music store, Other Music's Josh Madell, who gives an insight into what it takes for an independent music store ...
Dan Persons | Posted 08.10.2011
Viva Riva! is the first film out of the Congo to get U.S. distribution, and director Djo Tunda Wa Munga has made it a hell of an introduction.
Dan Persons | Posted 08.03.2011
Shot on the proverbial shoestring over seven quick production days, Do Not Disturb is a curious little anthology film with some interesting names attached.
Jon Chattman | Posted 07.25.2011
The indie pop/rock group "fun." were never concerned that they wouldn't live up to their band name. "That's why the period works. It's so uneventful."
Alexandra Marvar | Posted 07.09.2011
Burst Apart is a soulful soundtrack to the aftermath: floating calmly and inevitably away from something, and, maybe, toward something else.
Salvatore Bono | Posted 07.01.2011
When you love what you do and have such a passion for it, you never work a day in your life. For folk artist, Holcombe Waller, performing and making m...
Travel + Leisure | Posted 04.20.2012