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  • Youth worker pens book to help parents be streetwise to teens 28 Aug 2008 22:30 GMT
    ... After dealing with troubled youth as a frontline policeman ... . In October, New Zealand's most successful rock act venture off the beaten track into ... to Boobs on Bikes participants. — Scottish indie rockers Franz Ferdinand will headline the three-day ...

  • The next big Tings 28 Aug 2008 22:07 GMT
    ... The Ting Tings all but gave up on success, writes ... De Martino, a veteran of several luckless indie acts, in a recording studio. The two ... the drums. They came up with three rock songs lasting 10 minutes each and loaded ...

  • TAPROOT: The Journey To 'Our Long Road Home' Part 2 - Aug. 28, 2008 28 Aug 2008 21:57 GMT
    ... Michigan-based hard rock quartet TAPROOT has posted the second in ... will be TAPROOT 's first as an indie band, and as Richards tells it, that ...

  • Gene Stout's Bumbershoot best bets 28 Aug 2008 21:31 GMT
    ... Neko Case is simply an amazing artist. Her voice is what ... dark whirlpool. Her blend of country, punk rock and heartbreaking balladry is no contrivance -- ... he might sound something like South Carolina indie-rock group Band of Horses. The group also ...

  • SeattleNoise: Throw Me the Statue 28 Aug 2008 21:31 GMT
    ... Last updated August 28, 2008 1:47 p.m. PT WHAT: A happy-go-lucky indie pop band that began in Scott Reitherman's ... and ambiguous enough to grow alongside the music as the songwriting would evolve and go ...

  • My Morning Jacket, Soft Targets and more in Music Week 28 Aug 2008 21:30 GMT
    ... It's Thursday afternoon. Time to make plans for the ... start in a few hours. Clearwater garage rock foursome  Très Bien kicks things off with ... Speaking of New World, highly recommended Tallahassee indie pop band Soft Targets headline a three-band ...

  • A&E Dispatch | Pitchfork enjoys Truckasaurus' "Tea Parties" 28 Aug 2008 19:57 GMT
    ... Seattle club band Truckasauras was nervous about the Pitchfork review ... on Sept. 17. The Los Angeles alternative rock band just released critically praised record "Raise ... on their festival, go to Aug. 19: Indie fave Fleet Foxes to play the Moore ...

  • Top Rock 'n' Roll Venues 28 Aug 2008 18:58 GMT
    ... "I love playing in bars," says Dean Ween, half of ... Dean Ween, half of the long-running, genre-busting indie band Ween, which he started with his ... music in the 20 century. The best rock 'n' roll venues are still those that ...

  • Hard-Core Gamers Unite at Penny Arcade Expo 28 Aug 2008 18:35 GMT
    ... A Penny Arcade Expo 2007 attendee dons full BioShock cosplay ... community than about business." PAX's rise from indie event to major player comes after the ... features the geekiest concerts ever, with videogame music cover bands and a show by , ...

  • The Splendour 28 Aug 2008 18:07 GMT
    ... A large disco ball is suspended from the ceiling and ... and people, but they seem determined to rock this little venue tonight. As soon as ... seems the public are fed up with Indie, The Splendour are bringing something new to ...

  • O.A.R. paddles through new waters in 'All Sides' 28 Aug 2008 17:59 GMT
    ... O.A.R. (short for " ... Of a Revolution") reaped ... more in line with the group's standard rock modulation. "Whatever Happened," "War Song" and "Try ... add a new spin to the group's alternative-indie repertoire. In "Something Coming Over," the group ...

  • A&R disasters 28 Aug 2008 17:55 GMT
    ... Ben Wardle is a writer, artist manager and music consultant. He writes the blog A&Rmchair at ... Happy Mondays on the map, helped invent indie-dance through the Hacienda, set the template for ...

  • Dan Black's Heartfelt Biggie Smalls Cover Gains Well-Deserved Traction 28 Aug 2008 17:37 GMT
    ... Love them or hate them, Biggie Smalls' "Hypnotize" and Rihanna's "Umbrella" ... His heartfelt presentation evades the usual ironic "indie guy covers rap hit" shtick by seeming ... our times. "I knew what kind of music I wanted make," said Black in a ...

  • Could Michael Jackson do justice to Robert Burns' poetry? 28 Aug 2008 17:36 GMT
    ... Could Michael Jackson do justice to Robert Burns' ... dull, dull, but Michael and the Gestmeister rocking out to Rabbie Burns: Yes, please. Just ...

  • Yangaroo's DMDS Delivers Latest Indie Music Releases 28 Aug 2008 17:32 GMT
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