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Indie Rock Recording Artists
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Albums: Good News for People Who Love Bad News, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About
Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band. The band was formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, USA by guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green and bassist Eric Judy. Since being signed to Sony's Epic Records in 2000, the band has attained significant popular success with songs such as Float...
- Sonic Youth
Albums: Daydream Nation, Goo, Dirty
Sonic Youth is an experimental rock group formed in New York City in 1981. The band consists of Thurston Moore (guitar, vocals, bass), Kim Gordon (bass, vocals, guitar), Lee Ranaldo (guitar, vocals, electric drill), Steve Shelley (drums) and Mark Ibold (bass).
- TV on the Radio
Albums: Nine Types of Light, Dear Science, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
TV on the Radio is a Brooklyn, New York, USA-based band that was formed in 2001. Their music is difficult to classify and is often described as art rock or post-punk, but is educated by a diverse spectrum of styles including freeform jazz and a cappella music, psychedelia and trip-hop, modern soul...
- Bright Eyes
Albums: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning, Cassadaga, Lifted or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
Bright Eyes is a band consisting mainly of American singer-songwriter/guitarist Conor Oberst. Bright Eyes also features multi-instrumentalist/producer Mike Mogis, keyboard player Nate Walcott and a rotating lineup of collaborators drawn primarily from Omaha, Nebraska's indie music scene.
- The National
Albums: High Violet, Boxer, Alligator
The National is a Brooklyn-based indie rock band formed in 1999, by friends from Cincinnati, Ohio. The band's lyrics are written and sung by Matt Berninger in a distinctive, deep baritone. The rest of the band is composed of two pairs of brothers: Aaron and Bryce Dessner and Scott and Bryan...
- Cold War Kids
Albums: Robbers And Cowards, Robbers & Cowards, Loyalty to Loyalty
Cold War Kids are an indie rock band from Fullerton, California, USA. Band members are Nathan Willett (lead vocals, piano, guitar), Jonnie Russell (guitar, vocals, percussion), Matt Maust (bass guitar) and Matt Aveiro (drums). The band started in historic downtown Fullerton in Jonnie's apartment...
- My Morning Jacket
Albums: Circuital, It Still Moves, Evil Urges
My Morning Jacket is an indie rock band which formed in 1998 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The band consists of singer/songwriter/guitarist Jim James (vocals, guitar), Carl Broemel (guitar), "Two Tone" Tommy Blankenship (bass), Bo Koster (keyboards) and Patrick Hallahan (drums). .
- Pavement
Albums: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Slanted & Enchanted, Brighten The Corners
Pavement was an American indie rock band from the 1990s. Although they experienced only moderate commercial success, they achieved a significant cult following, and their music has been a major influence on many bands of the late 1990s and beyond. They are largely considered as one of the first...
- The Replacements
Albums: Let It Be, Tim, Pleased to Meet Me
The Replacements, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, started off as a hardcore punk band who began to incorporate country, power-pop, and singer-songwriter influences in their sound to become one of the leaders of the early alt-country set and one of the flagship bands of the American 80's post-punk...
- Yo La Tengo
Albums: Fakebook, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, May I Sing With Me
Yo La Tengo is an American indie rock band formed in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1984. Since 1992, the lineup has consisted of Ira Kaplan (guitars, vocals), Georgia Hubley (drums, vocals), and James McNew (bass, vocals). Despite achieving limited mainstream success, Yo La Tengo has been called "the...
- Sunny Day Real Estate
Albums: Diary, The Rising Tide, How It Feels to Be Something On
Sunny Day Real Estate is an American rock band formed in Seattle, Washington in 1992. Widely considered one of the pioneers of the post-punk, post-hardcore indie movement, the band helped bring the emo sub-genre from an underground musical phenomenon to a wider audience.
- Built to Spill
Albums: Keep It Like a Secret, There's Nothing Wrong With Love, You in Reverse
Built to Spill is an indie rock band based in Boise, Idaho, United States. The band is best known for its catchy guitar hooks and the unique voice of frontman Doug Martsch. Former Treepeople frontman Doug Martsch formed Built to Spill in 1992 with Brett Netson and Ralf Youtz as the band's...
- The Magnetic Fields
Albums: 69 Love Songs (disc 1), Distortion, 69 Love Songs (disc 2)
The Magnetic Fields is a New York-based group fronted by Stephin Merritt. Recent albums released under the name "The Magnetic Fields" usually consist of synth-pop music in a 1980s style underlying clever lyrics which are often heavily ironic. The band was originally formed in Cambridge...
- Ben Kweller
Albums: Sha Sha, Ben Kweller, On My Way
Ben Kweller was born in San Francisco, CA in 1981. In 1982 his family relocated to Emory, TX where his father Howard Kweller became the town's first doctor. In 1986, The Kwellers moved to a much larger city, Greenville, TX. Ben was exposed to music at a very early age.
- Calexico
Albums: Feast of Wire, Garden Ruin, Carried To Dust
Calexico is an indie-rock band formed in Tucson, Arizona in 1996, known for playing an eclectic variety of music. The two main members are Joey Burns and John Convertino, who first played together in Los Angeles as part of the group Giant Sand. They have recorded a number of albums on Quarterstick...
- Daniel Johnston
Albums: Fun, Hi, How Are You, Yip/Jump music
Daniel Johnston (b. January 22, 1961 in Sacramento, California) is a prolific American singer-songwriter and artist. He has been classified as an outsider musician. His songs are typically painfully direct, and often display a disturbing blend of childlike naïvete with darker,
- Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Albums: An album
Will Oldham, a.k.a. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (born 24 December 1970 in Louisville, Kentucky), is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He has been described as an "Appalachian post-punk solipsist" and is notable for his unique voice, which has been described as "a fragile sort-of warble...
