Dan Bejar built his name as Destroyer but has become equally well known for his involvement in indie supergroups the New Pornographers and Swan Lake.
Bombadil has come a long way. And I don't mean from Bolivia, as their vivid use of charangos and zamponas might suggest.
Starting this weekend, students can partake in the generally-exclusive experience of viewing a collection of brand-new theater works.
Centered around the less-than-ideal lives of the intellectually superior Weatherhold family, Smart People will remind students and professors stuck in the world of straight A's and Ph.D's that...
In college, Sunday brunch serves an essential function-allowing students to openly exchange their walks of shame, drunken hook-ups and emergency room visits of the past weekend.
Jackie Chan. Jet Li. One screen. One big let down. The fight scenes were great-like all the new martial-arts movies coming out these days-but even the spectacle of a white-clad Jet Li sparring with...
The Brian Jonestown Massacre are dinosaurs, managing somehow to be relics of two long gone eras: the mid to late 1960s, which they hearken back to in their songs and band name, and the indie scene...
Venturing into the world of Man Man is an at-your-own-risk endeavor. Don't believe me? They even have their fans sign waivers before each concert that read, "Soul corruption and face melting both...
With the recent surge of retro-inspired Brit pop in the indie scene, innovative bands come as a refreshing change. Unfortunately, the Kooks are not one of them. They are, however, a successful...
When Peter Bretter (Jason Segel) is dumped by his girlfriend, TV star Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), he is devastated. After a few weeks of feeling miserable, Peter decides, on the urgings of his...
This weekend, the demographic of people who overlap in the Venn diagram of "those who like jazz vocalists" and "fans of renowned 20th century poetry" will have something to do.
If there's a Viagra for the ego, Mick Jagger's taking it.
Downtown Durham bustled with activity all weekend long as film fanatics swarmed the Bull City for the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.
Walk It Off, the sophomore album by the Minneapolis quartet Tapes 'n Tapes, might appropriately be considered the archetypical indie-rock album.
You can expect recent photojournalism focusing on places of conflict to be abruptly gory and viscerally violent with its unflinching portrayal of blood and destruction-but not usually calmingly...
If someone ever made a Mount Rushmore for early 1990s alternative rock music, R.E.M. would fit nicely next to the Counting Crows and Radiohead.
Rarely does one find a movie that knows exactly what it wants to be and successfully achieves its goal.
With the Full Frame Documentary Festival now over, it would seem Hollywood has shifted its eyes back to the west coast, but Durham is continuing to play host to some of the most unique film events...
Once upon a time there was a chick in this sort-of iconic band that you may have heard of.
Over the past decade, Spoon has entrenched itself as one of alternative music's consistent powerhouses.
