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Jon Brion at Largo at the Coronet It's easy for Angelenos to take for granted that Jon Brion is going to be performing at Largo.

MANITOWOC - A lull in the number of care packages being sent to U.S. troops overseas has sparked a summer Postal Service initiative called "Operation Season's Greetings - Without the Snow!" The Manitowoc Post Office received a supply of Mili-Kits and will be distributing them free to customers, groups and organizations.

314-535-0353. Subject : You'd never guess that Bad Veins hails from Cincinnati , Ohio.

Review by Lee Trewhela DESPITE 2009's first Session being an arms-in-the-air, all-out rock 'n' rolling delight, it will probably be remembered as the "beer queue" concert.

About midnight on May 29, 5-year-old Mario Cisneros and his brother David, 3, woke their grandparents in the converted-garage bedroom of their Rialto home to warn them it was on fire.

The Year : 1989 The Album : Galaxie 500 , On Fire Who It Influenced : Low, The Clientele, British Sea Power, Beach House, Xiu Xiu, Deerhunter/Atlas Sound This week, indie legends Galaxie 500 announced their three magnificent, magical albums -1988's Today , 1989's On Fire , and 1990's This Is Our Music - were being reissued at the newly-established ...

Last September, I wrote about dance music gaining credibility among high-minded indie aficionados, most notably with the critical praise given to the alt-disco bands Hercules and Love Affair , Cut Copy and LCD Soundsystem.

What do you get if you combine the talents of the theatre group Punchdrunk with documentary film-maker Adam Curtis and composer Damon Albarn? In the case of this piece, commissioned for the Manchester International Festival , a real dogs-dinner of a show: one that blends infantile scare tactics, serious politics and visual and aural mystery.

The Kooks reportedly cheated death when their plane was struck by lightning. The band were flying from Munich in Germany to Warsaw, Poland to perform at the country's Open'er Festival when their jet was hit by a bolt of lightening mid-flight. Frontman Luke Pritchard told the Sun: "There was a loud crash, like someone had smashed plates, and ...

The outer-space indie "Moon" puts the alien in alienation. Ever-interesting Sam Rockwell stars as Sam Bell, a contractor running a one-man mining operation.

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Indie rockers Editors have been announced as the Sunday headline act for this yeara TMs Bingley Music Live festival.

Athlete lead vocalist and guitarist Joel Pott reckons you can hear whether or not a song has that edge of genuineness which shows it actually means something to its writer/performer. That's certainly the aim a ' and will certainly be the case with the band's latest album, their fourth released in August, titled Black Swan featuring songs including ...

The head of the U.S. Secret Service on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding with the head of the Italian police and the chief executive officer of the Italian Postal Service to set up an international task force to combat cyber crime.

Dark Was The Night , the two-disc 31-track compilaton released back in February was produced by the Dessner brothers of The National and John Carlin.

After playing gangster John Dillinger in Public Enemies, opening Wednesday, Johnny Depp is planning for:Alice in Wonderland : Hes the Mad Hatter in Tim Burtons latest weirdness.

Eddie Argos says their lyrics are 'pointless' Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos used the band's Glastonbury set today to lay into Kings Of Leon and The Killers for having pointless lyrics.

Thanks in no small part to the name Owen Ashworth chose for his musical project, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, the indie rocker's reputation remains tied to his first charmingly low-rent recordings, even as he's spent the past 10 years broadening his scope and scrubbing up his sound.

The song's second verse goes like this: "You know they call them killer whales/But you seem surprised/When it pinned you down to the bottom of the tank/Where you can't turn around/It took half your leg and both your lungs.'' It's grisly stuff, the kind of violent, elemental imagery you might expect from a scratchy Appalachian recording crackling ...

Hometown: Welland, Ontario Official Site: www.myspace.com/attackinblack Sound: A dizzy mix of alt.country and punk that compares favourably to the workmanlike vibe of the Constantines.