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Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee plays her favorite vintage indie music as the latest guest host of “15 Years of SiriusXMU Old School” on SiriusXMU (Ch. 35). Check out the full episode featuring Katie’s favorites from East River Pipe, R.E.M., Vic Chesnutt, and more.

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“SiriusXMU Old School” with host Jenny Eliscu has been delivering vintage indie sounds for 15 years. Now, for the first time ever, Jenny invites some of the channel’s most influential artists — from Katie to Stephen Malkmus (Pavement) — to take over the show as guest hosts, sharing their favorite classic indie songs.

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“SiriusXMU Old School” with host Jenny Eliscu has been delivering vintage indie sounds for 15 years.

Now, for the first time ever, Jenny invites some of the channel’s most influential artists to take over the show as guest hosts, sharing their favorite classic indie songs.

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Celebrate the show’s milestone anniversary with hour-long, guest-hosted episodes from Stephen Malkmus (Pavement), Bethany Cosentino (Best Coast), Sasami, and Kurt Vile — available to stream now, exclusively on the SiriusXM app, with more to come.

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SiriusXM’s home for indie rock and beyond, SiriusXMU (Ch. 35) gets you closer to groundbreaking music and emerging artists with a mix of new songs from up-and-coming bands and producers paired with the indie classics that inspired them.

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Listen to an exclusive performance from Bright Eyes at SiriusXM Studios in NYC and a conversation between Conor Oberst and host Jenny Eliscu during a new “SiriusXMU Session.” The full session is available anytime on the SiriusXM app and rebroadcasts throughout the week on SiriusXMU (Ch. 35).

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“SiriusXMU Sessions” is an exclusive weekly show on SiriusXMU – a 24/7 channel dedicated to new and classic indie – featuring stripped-down performances and conversations with different groundbreaking indie artists. Watch full “SiriusXMU Sessions” anytime on the SiriusXM app here.

See the SiriusXMU schedule and the channel’s hosts here.

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Porches covered Kacey Musgraves’ “Slow Burn” during a new edition of “SiriusXMU Sessions.”

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Watch his stripped-down rendition below and check out the full set featuring three songs from his new album, “Shirt” – “Rag,” “Itch,” and “Joker” – and an interview with SiriusXMU (Ch. 35) host Jenny Eliscu on the SiriusXM app.

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“SiriusXMU Sessions” is an exclusive weekly show on SiriusXMU – a 24/7 channel dedicated to new and classic indie – featuring stripped-down performances and conversations with different groundbreaking indie artists. Watch recent sessions with St. Vincent, Waxahatchee, Vampire Weekend, and more anytime on the SiriusXM app here.

See the SiriusXMU schedule and the channel’s hosts here.

Tonight on SiriusXMU Sessions, @porches_hiii performs songs from his brand new album "Shirt," plus sits down to chat with @jennylsq! Catch it...

“Okay, who’s ready for a horrifying documentary?” asks director Erin Lee Carr at the Royal Alexandra Theatre Friday night. Her introduction to the world premiere of “Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan & Sara,” at the Toronto International Film Festival, is not hyperbole. Indeed, “Fanatical” is a horror and mystery rolled into one.

“If there’s one takeaway from the film, it’s to listen to your gut,” Tegan says later during the Q&a.

The film — out Oct. 18 on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ in Canada — is a painstaking investigation into what the Canadian indie-rock duo have endured behind the scenes for 16 years and counting. Carr and her team attempt to track down the identity of the person pretending via email and direct message to be Tegan Quin, otherwise referred to as “Fake Tegan” and “Fegan.”

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Hulu has ordered a documentary on a catfishing scheme that entrapped fans of a popular Canadian indie rock duo.

Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara, directed by true-crime specialist Erin Lee Carr, will debut October 18 on the streaming platform. The film revolves around Tegan and Sara Quin, gay twin sisters from Calgary, Alberta, who formed a rock band that attracted devoted followers, many of them from the LGBTQ+ community. But in 2011, Tegan’s personal computer files were hacked, setting off a calamitous chain of events.

“This is a sprawling yet intimate story of how Tegan’s identity was stolen and weaponized in a complex catfish scheme to ensnare members of this community,” states a release from Hulu, triggering a “severe ripple effect of mistrust, anxiety and self-doubt.”

The film, from Story Syndicate and Carr Lot Productions, attempts to identify whoever is responsible for concocting the scheme.

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Hulu has picked up the documentary “Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara,” which will launch Oct. 18 on the streamer. Produced by Story Syndicate and Erin Lee Carr’s Carr Lot Prods., the film focus on a long-running catfishing scheme that has impacted fans of Canadian indie rock band Tegan and Sara.

The doc follows what happened when Tegan Quin (who performs with sister Sara Quin) was hacked in 2011 and her personal files exposed. From there, her identity was stolen and used in a complex catfish scheme to defraud the band’s fans and the community that had developed around Tegan and Sara.

“Tegan and Sara ascended to global fame as one of the most influential queer indie rock bands of their generation,” the documentary’s synopsis noted. “They worked hard to cultivate an inclusive and passionate fanbase around the world. Listeners were drawn to the duo’s beautifully confessional lyrics,...

Hulu announced Tuesday it will release Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara, a new documentary investigating the 2011 file hacking of musical duo Tegan and Sara. The feature will hit the streamer in October.

“Tegan and Sara ascended to global fame as one of the most influential queer indie rock bands of their generation,” a release reads. The Canadian duo “worked hard to cultivate an inclusive and passionate fanbase around the world,” with many fans turning to the band’s community as “the only safe space to come out and be queer during a time when few bands would declare allyship, let alone celebrate their own queer identity.”

In 2011, Tegan’s personal files were hacked, and her identity was stolen in what became a complex catfishing scheme.

“The film is an examination of the severe ripple effect of mistrust, anxiety, and self-doubt that resulted from Fegan’s (Fake Tegan) actions,...

The nonprofit We Are Moving the Needle presented the Resonator Awards on Tuesday night, an inaugural celebration designed to spotlight women in the music business in a push for creating a more inclusive industry. Naturally, the biggest name in the game received a shout-out from the podium.

Two of Taylor Swift’s close collaborators — producer Jack Antonoff and mixer and recording engineer Laura Sisk — hit the stage inside Beauty & Essex in Hollywood. Antonoff had the honor of presenting the Exceptional Ears Award to Sisk, a three-time Grammy winner who has also worked with Lana Del Rey, Lorde, St. Vincent and Florence + the Machine.

Antonoff kicked off his tribute by detailing that he’s known Sisk for more than a decade. “She’s absolutely fucking incredible,” said Antonoff, one of two speakers from the podium who noted how loudly distracting the event’s kitchen staff was during the program. “I met Laura 12 or 13 years ago,...

Death Cab For Cutie has released a cover of Yoko Ono’s 1973 track, “Waiting for the Sunrise,” which is included on Ocean Child: Songs Of Yoko Ono, an upcoming tribute album honoring the groundbreaking artist curated by frontman Ben Gibbard. The album, scheduled for release Feb. 18, coincides with Ono’s 89th birthday.

“Waiting for the Sunrise” appeared on Ono’s album Approximately Infinite Universe. While Ono’s original is angular and upbeat, Gibbard and crew give the song a distinctly Death Cab emotive indie rock flair.

In January, two contributions...

C’mon C’mon Review — C’mon C’mon (2021) Film Review, a movie directed by Mike Mills and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Gaby Hoffmann, Woody Norman, Scoot McNairy, Molly Webster, Jaboukie Young-White, Deborah Strang, Jenny Eliscu, Mary Passeri, Brandon Rush, Artrial Clark and Keisuke Hoashi. Director Mike Mills has crafted a wonderfully shot new black and white film [...]

Continue reading: Film Review: C’Mon C’Mon (2021): Joaquin Phoenix Is Phenomenal In A Sentimental, Beautifully Made Film...

It was only a few days ago that audiences were last given a new documentary about Britney Spears, thanks to the continuation of the New York Times Presents series coverage of the pop star’s fraught situation. “Confronting Britney Spears” felt hastily put together in order to cut off this other feature, Netflix’s year-long expose of the pop star’s life, “Britney vs Spears.” Directed by Erin Lee Carr, whose previous work has included the “At the Heart of Gold,” about the USA Gymnastics sex assault scandal, “Britney vs Spears” attempts to remind of us of who Spears was before the conservatorship that kept her confined, and how our own desire to consume her ended up doing just as much damage.

Audiences who are expecting a shocking, lurid expose about Spears’ trauma won’t find one here. At 93 minutes, “Britney vs Spears” takes its time in getting to where we are today,...

Say this much for Netflix’s new documentary “Britney vs. Spears”: It certainly wasn’t made with the objective of pleasing her fans in mind.

The documentary, directed by Erin Lee Carr, is intended as an exploration of the pop star’s current struggle to escape the conservatorship, run by her father, that controls her life. On the way there, though, there’s no side of Spears’ story too uncomfortable or personal to depict. The doc spins its wheels rehashing Spears’ divorce from Kevin Federline and her time as an object of tabloid interest, complete with unflattering paparazzi video footage of Spears at a destabilized moment in 2007. The voices of figures from Spears’ past, including former manager Sam Lutfi and paparazzo ex Adnan Ghalib, are given precedence, and text messages from Spears, provided to the production by Ghalib, play onscreen. At one point, we hear a late-night voicemail message...

In the opening minutes of her new Netflix documentary, Britney vs Spears, filmmaker Erin Lee Carr reveals the initial intentions of the project. “Two years ago, I began making a movie about Britney Spears with Jenny Eliscu,” she states of her colleague, the journalist, radio host and onetime Rolling Stone contributing editor. “The movie was going to be about her artistry and her media portrayal, and can someone say wow to those dance moves? But the story was also about power and control, full of conspiracy and rumors. No one would talk. Until they did.”

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In the opening minutes of her new Netflix documentary, Britney vs Spears, filmmaker Erin Lee Carr reveals the initial intentions of the project. “Two years ago, I began making a movie about Britney Spears with Jenny Eliscu,” she states of her colleague, the journalist, radio host and onetime Rolling Stone contributing editor. “The movie was going to be about her artistry and her media portrayal, and can someone say wow to those dance moves? But the story was also about power and control, full of conspiracy and rumors. No one would talk. Until they did.”

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"I just want my life back." Netflix has launched a trailer for their documentary about Britney Spears, titled Britney vs Spears. It will be on Netflix next week - not long of a wait at all. The NY Times also released an investigative doc film earlier this year called Framing Britney Spears, examining the problematic story of Britney's conservatorship. No more secrets. No more silence. This documentary picks up where that left on to tell her story. Director Erin Lee Carr ("How To Fix a Drug Scandal") and journalist Jenny Eliscu work to delve deep into the tangled history of the conservatorship that has been in place for over 13 years. The film weaves a shocking timeline of old and new players, secret rendezvous and Britney's behind the scenes fight for her own autonomy. Text messages and a voicemail as well as new interviews with key players make clear what Britney...

Netflix has released the first trailer for its upcoming documentary “Britney vs Spears,” teasing pieces of the pop star’s fight to end her conservatorship dating all the way back to January of 2009.

The documentary is set to illuminate just how much distrust there was between the pop star and her family, and what it was that finally got people to start opening up about her conservatorship. You can watch the full trailer for the Netflix documentary in the video above.

The film is set to feature “years-long investigative work” along with “exclusive interviews and new documents” from people previously quiet on the subject, but “without utilizing the traumatic images that have previously defined her.”

Netflix’s documentary will be directed by Erin Lee Carr, who teamed up with journalist Jenny Eliscu to uncover more pieces of the story. Carr is known for previously directing the Netflix miniseries “How to Fix a Drug Scandal...

Netflix has released a new trailer for its upcoming documentary about Britney Spears and the fight to end her conservatorship, Britney vs. Spears.

The film was helmed by director Erin Lee Carr and journalist Jenny Eliscu (Eliscu has previously profiled Spears for Rolling Stone on multiple occasions). As a release for the film notes, Britney vs. Spears will delve into Spears’ rise to fame and the circumstances that led to her conservatorship with new interviews and new documents, but it will not include “the traumatic images that have previously defined her.

On April 22nd, 2019, around 50 Britney Spears fans wielding neon posters bearing the hashtag #FreeBritney gathered outside of West Hollywood City Hall. The collection gathered peacefully, wearing her merchandise, playing her hits and explaining to the news teams on site that they were collectively concerned, specifically about the state of her long-running conservatorship. Tess Barker and Barbara Gray, originators of the #FreeBritney movement, probably never had such a scene in mind when they launched their podcast Britney’s Gram in November 2017.

Barker and Gray gathered with fellow #FreeBritney supporters again shortly thereafter,...

[Note: The following contains music-based spoilers for Season 1 of “High Fidelity.”]

It would have been very easy for the Hulu adaptation of “High Fidelity” to stick to a narrow set of musical ideas to help tell its story. But at the end of the show’s opening season, not only did series co-creators Veronica West and Sarah Kucserka look back on a show that had stretched its musical taste in a number of different directions, it had done so on a global scale.

“These people sit in a record store all day every day. They’re listening to everything. To make it feel like there’s one genre of music or, or one time period of music that is all that we’ve listened to, would feel inauthentic,” West told IndieWire. “It was very cool that at the end of the season, we had a song from every single continent.”

The search for far-reaching songs spanning time zones around the world — “except Antarctica,...

As controversy builds around “Richard Jewell” and its depiction of female journalists, it’s nothing new for women music writers on the silver screen.

Although “Crazy Heart,” which premiered 10 years ago this month, was basically 2009’s equivalent of Bradley Cooper’s remake of “A Star Is Born,” it hasn’t had quite the staying power of some other archetypal music-based films. Jeff Bridges won his first Oscar for his portrayal of a washed-up, alcoholic country singer, and Maggie Gyllenhaal was nominated for her performance as the much younger love interest who tries to save him from self-destruction. The main difference in this film written and directed by Scott Cooper (no relation to Bradley) is that Gyllenhaal’s character is not a fellow singer-songwriter ripe for mentoring, but rather an aspiring journalist in search of a story.

Before long, however, business and pleasure intermingle and Bridges and Gyllenhaal wake up in...

Tonight in Los Angeles, U.S. Girls’ Meg Remy and Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus are taking part in a special Q&A on the role of art in the modern age. Presented by Rolling Stone and moderated by Rs contributor Jenny Eliscu, the conversation is happening at NeueHouse’s Hollywood location beginning at 9:30 P.M. Est / 6:30 P.M. Pst, and you can livestream it on Facebook Live. (Update: At the event, two men performed lines provided by Garbus and Remy, turning the Q&A into a surreal performance art...

U.S. Girls’ Meg Remy and Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus will take part in a wide-ranging Q&A next week at Los Angeles’ NeueHouse, presented by Rolling Stone and moderated by Rs contributor and SiriusXM host Jenny Eliscu. You can watch a livestream of their conversation at RollingStone.com, starting on October 16th at 9:15 P.M. Est / 6:15 P.M. Pst.

Tune-Yards and U.S. Girls are embarking on a joint tour this month, kicking off on October 18th in Los Angeles and running through November 2nd in Queens, New York.

With car dashboards eliminating CD inputs and relying more on smart displays and smartphones, podcasts — both music-related and others — are increasingly becoming big players for a captive mobile audience. In a recent Nielsen Podcasts Insight Report, the number of homes that considered themselves “avid podcast fans” went from 13 million in 2016 to 16 million in November 2017.

With more than 240 music-related podcasts available on iTunes alone, it can be hard to separate the wheat from the chaff, so we’ve done it for you: Below is a subjective selection of 10 of our favorite music podcasts, in no particular order.

“Song Exploder” (iTunes/SoundCloud) — Film and TV composer Hrishikesh Hirway hosts this bi-weekly, 20-minute deep dive into a single song, with musicians from Solange and Lorde to Grizzly Bear, St. Vincent and Phoenix offering both anecdotes and the thought process behind their creations. In an episode spotlighting Lorde’s “Sober,” she tells the story...