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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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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It’s a tale of woe and despair around Subterranean headquarters today, dear readers. Last night our entire block had a brown out because one of Con Ed’s thingies in the street blew. It was fire trucks galore and gossiping with the neighbors while the lights flickered off and on. Today we’re tired and grumpy.
We bring [...]

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This is an old one from 2006 but we don’t think we’d seen it before. Killer song, set up for the video puts us in the mind of Radiohead’s “Karma Police” video.

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