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(12/03/15 11:09pm)
Earthy smells of spices and garlic permeated the air in the kitchen at Middle Earth, a student cooperative living community on W Kirkwood Avenue. Most dishes had been moved to the front porch of the 19-bedroom house, where Bloomington Cooperative Living (BCL) held a potluck brunch and open house. But a chill persisted in the November air, so residents, visitors and a calico cat named Princess Aloe Vera flitted between the porch, living room and kitchen.
(11/13/15 4:38am)
The Music Industry Networking Club and Live from Bloomington will co-present the first Bloomington Music Summit at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Frangipani Room of the Indiana
Memorial Union.
(11/13/15 4:40am)
At the end of 2012, indie rock band Infinity Girl released an EP called “Just like Lovers.” The record’s reverb-heavy guitars and dreamy vocals placed it in the category of shoegaze, an indie rock subgenre that had its dominant period in the early 1990s.
(11/06/15 4:01am)
In early June, New York indie-folk project Florist posted a Facebook update about its in-the-works debut album. A small picture offered a title and a status update — “the birds outside mastered,” with a caption reading, “our album is done. stay tuned.”
(11/10/15 7:46pm)
When Alexander Zorn heard about the Sundance Ignite “What’s Next?” Challenge, he knew right away he wanted to participate. The short film competition, a collaboration between the Sundance Institute and Adobe’s film-focused Project 1324, will grant fellowships and trips to the 2016 Sundance Film Festival to the five
winners.
(11/03/15 5:05am)
In fall 2014, a Long Island musician named Ryan DeRobertis received a cease-and-desist notice from Pepsi.
(10/30/15 3:22am)
Nate Brenner usually doesn’t have to drive. The bassist tours often as one of the two core members of experimental indie-pop band Tune-Yards, but the band has reached a level of success that allows them to have drivers. When he’s not on the road, he lives close enough to the band’s Oakland, California, home studio to walk to work.
(10/29/15 3:24am)
Near Halloween weekend in Bloomington, a skim across Facebook’s “Events” section might imply some sort of music festival happening in town. Among the bands listed as playing some of those shows are Fleetwood Mac, the Pixies and AFI.
(11/04/15 10:18pm)
By Jack Evans
(10/23/15 3:39am)
Downtown Bloomington Inc. and local handmade goods retailer Gather: handmade shoppe & Co. will co-present a new, family-oriented Halloween weekend event in downtown Bloomington this year.
(10/22/15 1:22pm)
MUNCIE, Indiana — Micheal Keihn is surrounded by monsters.
(10/22/15 3:09am)
When he was writing lyrics for his indie folk-rock band Saintseneca’s third album, “Such Things,” frontman Zac Little had big ideas in mind — namely, the mind.
(10/16/15 2:54am)
The walls of the Velvet Onion, a house of artists on East Second Street, are covered in art. Paintings and tapestries hang on the walls in standard fashion, but the residents — as well as their friends and attendees of the shows they play host to in their basement — also use some of them as canvases.
(10/15/15 2:27am)
Before settling in New York City 2 1/2 years ago, Natalie Mering, who records music as Weyes Blood, spent time in various locales across the United States. She said aspects of her music have been shaped by how people view other places — geographical stereotypes, grass-is-always-greener attitudes. But her newest record, an EP called “Cardamom Times” released Oct. 9, has a sense of home.
(10/13/15 4:20am)
When Harriet Newman Leve sat down at the front of the Studio Theatre in the Lee Norvelle Theatre and Drama Center, the white lettering on her black tote bag said it all: “Tony Awards.”
(10/08/15 4:00am)
A few years ago, Chris Clavin found himself irritated, he said. The Bloomington punk mainstay — he founded Plan-It-X records and has played in a slew of bands — said he wanted to celebrate the Halloween season with friends, but many of them were in or on their way to Gainesville, Florida, for that city’s annual punk festival, the Fest.
(10/07/15 4:01am)
In February 2014, the Bloomington-based experimental arts organization Burroughs Century had a festival in celebration of what would have been author William S. Burroughs’ 100th birthday. The organizers decided to put on another festival this year as well.
(10/02/15 4:06am)
Carlotta Cosials had reason to be tired. By Wednesday afternoon, Hinds, the fast-rising Spanish garage-pop band in which Cosials sings and plays guitar, had played two shows nearly 2,000 miles apart in the previous day and a half.
(10/01/15 4:08am)
Kyle Adams thought it strange no one from the Jacobs School of Music ever had the idea to present a film series at IU Cinema.
(09/28/15 3:55am)
Under the overcast Saturday evening sky, a crowd of all ages gathered around magician Kristian Charles as he made a small produce stand’s worth of food — a kiwi, a pair of cantaloupes, a half-dozen limes — appear out of nowhere on
Kirkwood Avenue.