Awesome Indie

“Change my life just upon a whim, jump into the ocean and learn to swim.” The indie Indian duo’s bittersweet, yet fluffy sounds not only belong in a Wes Anderson movie, their music videos look the part. Don’t believe us?

“I’ll be your old broken TV, your stuttering baby, your puppy when nobody’s home.” Rising indie pop star Jay Som charms NPR Music. She played The Bus Song, Baybee, Lipstick Stains (all from her new album Everybody Works) and I Think You’re Alright.

“I move delicately, I slowly choose my words, and when my presence is felt, I’ll fly away just like a bird.” The latest album from Katie Crutchfield and her band drops the lo-fi, but it’s still indie rock through and through – quick, specific, and sincere.

A frustrated artist builds himself a maze out of cardboard boxes, and ends up with something that works much like a TARDIS – it’s much bigger on the inside. We’re getting a Being John Malkovich kind of vibe off of Bill Watterson’s offbeat comedy. Screening dates here.

La Blogotheque caught up with WU LYF bassist Tom McLung in Paris for a short outdoor set featuring songs from his indie folk alter ego, Francis Lung. He performed Back One Day and Where Life Come to Live, from his 2015 EP Vol. 1.

The E3 2014 trailer for No Man’s Sky shows off even more of the incredible procedurally-generated worlds from this survival and exploration title headed to PS4 (and possibly other platforms). We cannot wait to play this.

A first-person exploration game in which you navigate a perplexing and monotonous office space where small, non-obvious choices result in dramatic changes to the environment. Launched in October on PC, it’s now available for Mac.

Rooted in traditional Latin American storytelling, Papo & Yo is an indie gaming title from Minority Media that looks to reconnect players with their imaginations through a mix of fantasy and reality.

(NSFW: Language) Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky’s video game documentary has garnered favorable reviews after its Sundance debut. HBO now has plans to make a series based on the film.

Cindy Meehl’s Buck follows the life of Buck Brannaman, a true American cowboy and sage on horseback who travels the country for 9 months a year helping horses with people problems.

(slightly NSFW) Director Chris Marrs Piliero pays homage to B-movies, Robert Rodriguez, and then some for the music video of The Black Keys’ Howlin’ For You, from the album Brothers.

By day Griff is an office worker; by night he assumes his other identity, roaming the streets and protecting the vulnerable from dangers that lurk in the shadows, in Leon Ford’s Griff the Invisible.

We don’t get the whole little kids on the playground thing in this video, but we’re completely wild about the rockin’ sounds of The Black Keys, one of our favorite indie bands at this very moment.

This critical darling follows an enterprising novelty inventor through the backstreets of Shanghai as he tries to get his “humorous domestic hygiene product” made. Premieres on IFC Flims 6/16.

Inanis Aedes, or House of Emptiness, is a very zen 2 minute full CG video about a quiet place in which Movement has many faces, created by French students Meradi Omar and Roussel Beranger.

Indie Game: The Movie, coming in Spring 2011, is a feature documentary about the human side of video games, video game developers and the connections between game and game-maker.