Mister Heavenly, the recently-signed-to-Sub-Pop supergroup, is Man Man's Honus Honus and Islands's Nick Thorburn (who met over their love of all-denim outfits aka "Canadian tuxedos"), and Modest…   Read Story »

Some things never change: On Hurley -- streaming in full at MySpace, so play along -- Rivers Cuomo still inhabits the mind and awkward body of a 14-year-old boy, alternately frustrated by, and in awe…   Read Story »

Michael Cera in a music video for the Islands directed by TV Carnage? Sounds like someone is getting all his ducks in a row before officially announcing his run for King of Bushwick! And that person…   Read Story »

Aimee Mann's second annual comedic Christmas video is out, and it's a Tim Heidecker-directed Dickens spoof. Aimee plays Ebenezer Scrooge; Grant-Lee Phillips is Bob Cratchit; Michael Penn is Jacob…   Read Story »

Given how much indie appropriating and Vampire Weekending Nick & Norah's has indulged, taking a spin through the iPods of the film's principals seems like a fine thing to do. So, nice work iTunes…   Read Story »

As mentioned in a surprisingly heated discussion on this site last month, the folks behind teenage music geek rom-com Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist have tapped the indie rock zeitgeist in a big…   Read Story »

Michael Cera, who Hollywood has already typecast as Boy Who Must Appear In Movie With Sensitive-Indie-Kid Appeal, is set to star as a funny-and-attractive-but-in-a-totally non-threatening-way love…   Read Story »

This weekend, amid the writer's strike, the SNL cast performed in Chelsea in the Upright Citizens Brigade theater to an audience of less than 200 peeps, though their numbers included Julian…   Read Story »