Ah, it’s a flashback to Bjork & PJ Harvey’s 1994 Brit Awards collaborative performance. It starts out as the most dour cover of “Satisfaction” imaginable and then denigrates into the kind of controlled musical chaos in which Bjork specializes. We feel that if Natalie Portman’s character in “Garden State” had listened to more Bjork her [...]

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We’ve had some intersting exchanges about emo leaning indie rock on this blog and with the posting of those Sunny Day Real Estate performances from 120 Minutes a few weeks back we expected someone somewhere to erupt into some sort emo-related rant. Finally we found him - one blog wrote an interesting (if wordy) thesis [...]

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MTV News dare to ask the question and so we dare to answer them with a great big WHATEVER.
It seems we at Subterranean have had this argument with MTV News’ James Montgomery (who we suspect is behind this piece) before. We say: congrats on enjoying drinking beer and listening to bar rock. Does that make [...]

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Embrace your inner darkness.

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Another day, another coup with MTV’s music licensing department. We’ve managed to clear Pavement’s three 120 Minutes performances from 1994. Embedded below is “Cut Your Hair” but if you head to the Pavement live performances collection on MTV.com you can also watch (and embed on your own blog!) “Unfair” and “Stop Breathing”.
We’ve got another one [...]

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