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The End of Another Decade. Let Us Take a Moment to Look at the Top 10 Indie Songs of the Decade! As 2009 comes to a close, it's about the appropriate time to take a look back at the top 10 indie songs of the decade.

Someone needs to explain to Phoenix, a fancy pop band from France, the proper way to perform at a stateside radio station concert.

The end of the year is often regarded as a time for looking back. But it's also a time when we look forward to what lies ahead of us.

Something is immediately recognizable about Spoon's music. The construction of songs, the vocal approach and the arrangements are strikingly similar throughout their oeuvre.

For the past two years, I've made adamant assertions that Spoon is the Pavement of this decade.

Six weeks before the release of their seventh record Transference , Spoon opened a brief 2009 U.S. tour at the Midland Theater Thursday night in Kansas City.

What kind of spoon is Spoon? A long handled pot-stirrer used to thwap orphans in a fairytale? A dainty, functionless souvenir made to hang on a rack until it's pocketed by a klepto character in a Wes Anderson film? Is it a song by the German krautrock band Can? The battle cry of the Tick ? Or is it a verb -- the famous coupling maneuver invented by ...

Spoon's "Written in Reverse" is the first single off Transference, which drops Jan.

When the world ends in 2012 - as the Mayans and all of today's scientists have predicted it will - lists carefully compiling the best stuff will become increasingly important to the human race.

The Sun burned out not as a supernova, but with a slow, frustrated fizzle. At least they're ending with an album that's more bang than whimper.

"Chicago Netlabel" Rock Proper is offering Columbus trio The Sun 's new/last album, Don't Let Your Baby Have All the Fun , for free.

's new album, "Transference," will be released in the US on Jan. 26, according to a press release.

Merge Records has confirmed a Jan. 26 U.S. release of Spoon 's seventh-full length album, Transference .

Good news: new Spoon album! The band's typically terrific LP, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga , came out two years ago, which is a long time to wait for typically terrific LPs.

Austin/Portland-based indie rockers Spoon have announced that their seventh LP Transference will be released January 26th via Merge .

DIY icons Mac McCaughan and Laura Ballance of Superchunk dropped by New York City's Housing Works Bookstore Friday for a reading from Our Noise: The Story of Merge Records, the Indie Label that Got Big and Stayed Small , a new oral history about their revered 20-year-old label.

Killer grooves, catchy riffs, edgy vocals with oh-so-just-right layered harmonies, and a drive that will move even YOU out of your chair, Brother Love's initial release is what rock and roll should be Gimme Fiction 10 out of 10 Spoon Gimme Fiction by Spoon is a terrific album by an Austin band that I was lucky enough to catch on an Austin radio ...

These guys know how to put on a live show, and whomever recorded this knows how to capture one.

Gimme Fiction by Spoon is a terrific album by an Austin band that I was lucky enough to catch on an Austin radio station during a Christmas visit.

Gimme Fiction by Spoon is a terrific album by an Austin band that I was lucky enough to catch on an Austin radio station during a Christmas visit.