Hey Subterranean fans - not much blogging today because we’re bogged down with tasks to complete before the VMA frenzy kicks in. Your Subterranean blogger has been assigned as the talent handler for the Ting Tings this year so you can look forward to hearing about their every move over the course of this year’s [...]

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You know who loves Dr. Dog? Every single person who goes to see them live. And Band of Horses, who saw their video on Subterranean once and then told the New York Times about it (as did Wilco). And My Morning Jacket, who got their demo and then asked them to open for them on [...]

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Do any of you, by chance, remember a late 90s indie rock show on MTV called Indie Outing? It was often hosted by Janeane Garofalo and featured great interviews with indie artists plus a smattering of videos. This was circa the time 120 Minutes got not super awesome and people like Creed and Lit were [...]

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Let’s discuss. You remember the first Virgins video for “Private Affair”. Racy. This new one? Also a wowsa. We’re gonna guess The Virgins enjoy sexy and womens underwear. Let’s call it the “last night’s party-fication” of a video.
More importantly though is the continued low production value of their videos. It’s like if The Replacements made [...]

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Ok, so the Kings of Leon video for “Sex Is On Fire” is out (via Stereogum, via MySpace) and since certain people have been blasting this song in our ears lately we opted to watch it.
The only word is perplexed. Our hunch is this is a terrible video that makes us think of what extreme [...]

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