when the war came

The big "indie rock" news of the day is this Stephen Colbert VS The Decemberists story.

Someone buy the girl some underoos!

Safe to assume the folks at Stylus Mag aren't big fans of The Kooks!

The Manics and Stereophonics are backing an XFM station in South Wales. If you didn't already know, XFM is the best ever (if only for Lauren Laverne)!

Sloan are playing their rescheduled show at Kool Kaus tonight. If you're going... I hate you.

My favourite literary award of the year - Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction award, of course - has been handed out!