It’s a bit of a punchline now, but Garden State, the 2004 directorial debut from Zach Braff, represented a major moment in indie’s progression towards crossover status. The Shins weren’t just a song playing in the background; they were a plot point. Braff hasn’t directed another movie in the years since, b...

After “Hard Out Here” and “Air Balloon,” the Lily Allen comeback marches on. Along with people like Jenny Lewis, Cat Power, and Miguel, Allen has contributed a new song to the soundtrack of the third season of HBO’s Girls. Allen tells Rolling Stone that she had a simple reason for contributing th...

Some of the music on the new Girls soundtrack Girls Volume 2: All Adventurous Women Do is brand new (Jenny Lewis and Rostam Batmanglij’s “Completely Not Me” and Beck’s “Blue Moon,” for instance), and some of it is old (“Wonderwall”). Today we present something in bet...

Singer's festive cover soundtracks Apple's new TV commercial    

Collisions between indie rock and the advertising world are commonplace now, and today we get Chan Marshall singing “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” in an ad for Apple. It’s really effective, too, if you’re willing to let a TV commercial move you. Watch below. Here’s the full-length &...