This is a list of indie pop

Indie pop

Indie pop is a genre of alternative rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the mid 1980s, with its roots in the Scottish post-punk bands on the Postcard Records label in the early '80s, such as Orange Juice, Josef K and Aztec Camera, and the dominant UK independent band of the mid...

 artists who have either been important to the genre or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such as in the case of one that has been on a major label, but not limited to such). This list does not include little-known local bands. Bands are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"), and individuals are listed by last name.

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• Aberdeen
  Aberdeen (band)
  Aberdeen is an American rock band, who play twee pop.-History:The band formed in 1993 and by 1994 was signed to the seminal British label Sarah Records; they were one of the only American acts on Sarah. Aberdeen also released recordings through Sunday Records and the Tremolo Arm Users Club. After...
  
  
• Aberfeldy
  Aberfeldy (band)
  Aberfeldy are a band formed by the singer-songwriter Riley Briggs in Edinburgh, Scotland in 2002. The band is named after the Scottish town.-History:...
  
  
• Acid House Kings
  Acid House Kings
  Acid House Kings is a Swedish indie pop band. It was founded in 1991 by Joakim Ödlund and brothers Niklas and Johan Angergård .-History:...
  
  
• Agent Sparks
  Agent Sparks
  Agent Sparks was a band formed in early 2005 when two former band mates from Audiovent decided they wanted to continue making music. Members include Benjamin Einziger , Stephanie Eitel , Paul Fried , and George Purviance . They released their first EP entitled Not So Merry in September 2005...
  
  
• The Aislers Set
  The Aislers Set
  The Aislers Set is an indie pop band that formed in San Francisco in 1997 after the breakup of chief songwriter Amy Linton’s former band Henry's Dress...
  
  
• All Girl Summer Fun Band
  All Girl Summer Fun Band
  -Biography:All Girl Summer Fun Band, or AGSFB, is a Portland based twee-pop quartet made up of Kathy Foster, Jen Sbragia, Kim Baxter, and Ari Douangpanya. Baxter met Sbragia after a Softies show, when Baxter gave Sbragia a tape of her music...
  
  
• Aloha
  Aloha (band)
  Aloha is an american indie rock band currently signed to Polyvinyl Records. The four members of Aloha are scattered across the eastern half of the country, but spend most of their time making music together. Some Echoes is the second Aloha album since T.J...
  
  
• An Horse
  An Horse
  An Horse is a two-person indie rock band from Brisbane, Australia, comprising Kate Cooper of Iron On on vocals and guitar and Damon Cox of Intercooler on drums. In 2008 they toured the United States as an opening act for Tegan and Sara, prior to the release of their first album. In August 2008,...
  
  
• Anathallo
  Anathallo
  Anathallo was a band originally from Mt. Pleasant, Michigan and then based in Chicago, Illinois. The band started practicing in the fall of 2000 and played their first show soon afterward. Their name is derived from a Greek word meaning "to renew, refresh or bloom again."In 2006 Anathallo released...
  
  
• Anjulie
  Anjulie
  Anjulie is the stage of name of Anjulie Persaud, a Canadian singer/songwriter from Oakville, Ontario Canada, a suburb outside of Toronto. She was born and raised in Canada, and her parents are from Guyana of Indian descent. She is the youngest of four children. Anjulie is a self-described music...
  
  
• Annie
• Annuals
  Annuals
  Annuals is a six-piece indie-pop outfit from Raleigh and Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The band was started by Adam Baker in 2003 as a side project of the still active sister band Sunfold, formerly known as Sedona and headed up by lead guitarist Kenny Florence....
  
  
• Another Sunny Day
  Another Sunny Day
  Another Sunny Day were a London-based indie pop band on Sarah Records, best known for the somewhat Smiths-esque single "You Should All Be Murdered" and for the single whose title perhaps best epitomises the Sarah Records output "I'm in Love with a Girl Who Doesn't Know I Exist".-History:The band...
  
  
• Apostle of Hustle
  Apostle of Hustle
  Apostle of Hustle is a Canadian indie rock group, formed in 2001 by Andrew Whiteman.-History:The band is more or less the brainchild of Andrew Whiteman, who has been in such groups as Bourbon Tabernacle Choir and Que Vida. He released a solo effort titled Fear of Zen in 1995. He is also the lead...
  
  
• The Apples in Stereo
  The Apples in Stereo
  The Apples in Stereo, styled The Apples in stereo, is an American indie rock band associated with The Elephant Six Collective, a group of bands also including Neutral Milk Hotel and The Olivia Tremor Control. The band is largely a product of lead vocalist/guitarist Robert Schneider, who writes the...
  
  
• Aqueduct
  Aqueduct (band)
  Aqueduct is a Seattle, Washington-based indie pop band originally hailing from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Initially the band was a one-man act, created and produced by David Terry in his bedroom. Supporting members have more recently been added to the group. Aqueduct has played with Seattle bands United...
  
  
• Arcade Fire
• Architecture in Helsinki
  Architecture in Helsinki
  Architecture in Helsinki is an Australian indie pop band which consists of Cameron Bird, Gus Franklin, Jamie Mildren, Sam Perry, and Kellie Sutherland...
  
  
• Astrid
  Astrid (band)
  Astrid were a guitar-pop foursome from the Isle of Lewis in the Hebrides, Scotland.-History:In 2004, Astrid released their third album - One In Four...
  
  
• Astrud
  Astrud
  Astrud is a Spanish pop-rock group from the city of Barcelona which formed in the second of half of the 1990s. Composed of Manolo Martínez and Genís Segarra , they have met with a degree of critical and commercial success within the Spanish indie music scene...
  
  
• Aude
  Aude
  Aude is a department in south-central France named after the river Aude. The local council also calls the department "Cathar Country".Aude is also a frequent feminine French given name in Francophone countries, deriving initially from Aude or Oda, a wife of Bertrand, Duke of Aquitaine, and mother...
  
  
• Au Revoir Simone
  Au Revoir Simone
  Au Revoir Simone is an electronic dream pop band from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, formed in late 2003. The group is composed of Erika Forster , Annie Hart , and Heather D'Angelo...
  
  
• The Auteurs
  The Auteurs
  The Auteurs were a British alternative rock band of the 1990s, and a vehicle for the songwriting talents of Luke Haines .-Career:...
  
  
• The Awkward Stage
  The Awkward Stage
  The Awkward Stage is a Canadian indie pop band, based in Vancouver, British Columbia and fronted by singer-songwriter Shane Nelken. The band's supporting lineup currently consists of Tygh Runyan on lead guitar, Tony Koelwyn on drums and Chris Mitchell on trumpet and keyboards.Nelken, who works as a...
  
  
• Aztec Camera
  Aztec Camera
  Aztec Camera were a Scottish New Wave band from the Glasgow suburb of East Kilbride, formed in 1980 and centered around teenage singer-songwriter, Roddy Frame. Their album Love was among the nominations for Best British Album at the 1989 BRIT Awards....
  
  
• Mira Aroyo
  Mira Aroyo
  Mira Aroyo , born in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1977, and now living in London, is a member of the electropop band Ladytron. She is also keyboardist, songwriter and producer. She writes and sings her songs for Ladytron in her native Bulgarian as well as in English....
  
  

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• Baby Calendar
  Baby Calendar
  Baby Calendar is a three- piece indie pop band from Miami, Florida. In 2006, Baby Calendar was signed to Happy Happy Birthday To Me Records based in Athens, Georgia and known for releasing mostly indie pop and twee-pop bands, working with bands such as Of Montreal, Casper & the Cookies, and...
  
  
• The Bad Spellers
  The Bad Spellers
  The Bad Spellers are an indie-pop band from Tokyo, Japan consisting of husband/wife duo Tony Speller and Yasuko Speller ....
  
  
• Ballboy
• Bat For Lashes
  Bat for Lashes
  Natasha Khan , also known by her stage name Bat for Lashes, is an English musician. She sings and plays the piano, bass, guitar, harpsichord and the autoharp....
  
  
• The Bats
  The Bats
  The Bats are an influential New Zealand rock band formed in 1982 in Christchurch by Paul Kean , Malcolm Grant , Robert Scott and Kaye Woodward...
  
  
• Baustelle
  Baustelle
  Baustelle is an indie rock / Pop / Electronic music band from Siena, Italy.-Biography:Formed in the mid-'90s in the Tuscan town of Montepulciano, Italy, Baustelle didn't receive much mainstream attention for their first two albums, 2000's Sussidiario Illustrato della Giovinezza and 2003's La Moda...
  
  
• Beach House
  Beach House
  Beach House is a dream pop duo formed in 2004 in Baltimore, Maryland, consisting of French-born Victoria Legrand and Baltimore native Alex Scally. Their self-titled debut, Beach House, released in 2006, was critically acclaimed. This was followed by their second release, Devotion, in 2008...
  
  
• Beach Week
• Bearsuit
  Bearsuit
  Bearsuit are an art-rock/dance/punk band from Norwich, UK.-Biography:Bearsuit first came to public attention following their championing by Radio 1 DJ John Peel, and their debut single "Hey Charlie, Hey Chuck" was voted number four in the Peel programme's Festive Fifty of 2001...
  
  
• Beat Crusaders
  Beat Crusaders
  were a Japanese rock band. During all promotional appearances, their faces are masked by drawings resembling themselves as printed by a dot-matrix printer.-History:...
  
  
• Beat Happening
  Beat Happening
  Beat Happening is an American punk band formed in Olympia, Washington in 1982. Calvin Johnson, Heather Lewis and Bret Lunsford have been the band's continual members...
  
  
• Beehive
  Beehive (band)
  Beehive is a Pop and Electronica duo from Seattle, Washington. The band began as a studio project between two close friends, Alethea and David Miller. Beehive combines the new electronic music forms with classic pop hooks and rock attitude. Songs by Beehive have been licensed by MTV shows such as...
  
  
• Bella
  Bella (band)
  Bella is a Canadian indie pop band from Vancouver, who formed in 2003, and have released two full-length albums. The band signed to Vancouver's Mint Records in 2006 and released the full-length "No One will Know" featuring guest musicians Roddy Bottum , Will Schwartz , John Collins and Jason...
  
  
• Belle and Sebastian
• Beirut
  Beirut (band)
  Beirut is an American band which was originally the solo musical project of Santa Fe native Zachary Francis Condon, and later expanded into a band. The band's first performances were in Wollaston, United Kingdom, in May 2006, to support the release of their debut album, Gulag Orkestar...
  
  
• Brendan Benson
  Brendan Benson
  Brendan Benson is an American musician and songwriter. He sings and plays guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, and drums. He has released four solo albums and is a member of the band The Raconteurs....
  
  
• Beulah
  Beulah (band)
  Beulah was an indie rock band from San Francisco, California, often associated with The Elephant 6 Recording Company.-Early Years: 1996-1998:...
  
  
• Biff Bang Pow!
  Biff Bang Pow!
  Biff Bang Pow! were an indie pop band from London, England, active between 1983 and 1991, centering around Creation Records boss Alan McGee.-History:...
  
  
• The Big Pink
  The Big Pink
  The Big Pink is an English electro-rock duo comprising multi-instrumentalists Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell. The duo signed to the 4AD label in 2009, and won the prestigious NME Philip Hall Radar Award for best new act...
  
  
• Billie the Vision and the Dancers
  Billie the Vision and the Dancers
  Billie the Vision & the Dancers is a Swedish indie band with roots in Malmö, Blekinge, Dalarna and Argentina. The band recorded the first album I Was So Unpopular in School and Now They're Giving Me This Beautiful Bicycle in the spring of 2004. They produce their albums through the company Love...
  
  
• The Bird and the Bee
  The Bird and the Bee
  The Bird and the Bee is an American indie pop musical duo from Los Angeles, California, consisting of musicians Inara George and Greg Kurstin...
  
  
• Black Kids
  Black Kids
  Black Kids is an American indie pop band from Jacksonville, Florida. The band's debut EP, Wizard of Ahhhs, received favorable critical response in 2007, and was followed by the Partie Traumatic album, which debuted at #5 on the UK Albums Chart in July 2008.-History:Black Kids formed in Jacksonville...
  
  
• Black Tambourine
  Black Tambourine
  Black Tambourine was an influential twee pop band and one of the earliest Slumberland groups of the early 1990s. Formed in Silver Spring, Maryland, the band comprised singer Pam Berry, Brian Nelson, Archie Moore and Mike Schulman...
  
  
• Blind Pilot
  Blind Pilot
  Blind Pilot is an American indie folk band based in Portland, Oregon. Their debut album, 3 Rounds and a Sound, reached number 13 on the Billboard Top Digital Albums chart....
  
  
• The Bohemes
  The Bohemes
  The Bohemes are a Dutch band from The Hague who have been compared to British indie-bands such as The Libertines and The Arctic Monkeys, and The Who. The band name 'The Bohemes' derives from Arthur Rimbaud's poem 'Ma Bohème'.The current line-up has been in effect since September 2008...
  
  
• Blonde Redhead
  Blonde Redhead
  Blonde Redhead is an American alternative rock band composed of vocalist/rhythm guitarist Kazu Makino and twin brothers Simone and Amedeo Pace , which formed in New York City in 1993....
  
  
• Blueboy
  Blueboy (band)
  Blueboy were an indie pop band formed in Reading, Berkshire who were signed to Sarah Records and later Shinkansen Recordings. Core members Keith Girdler and Paul Stewart also recorded as Arabesque and Beaumont.-History:...
  
  
• BMX Bandits
  BMX Bandits (band)
  BMX Bandits are a Scottish 1960s-influenced guitar pop band who have been making music from 1986 to the present day. They have shared members with other Bellshill bands Teenage Fanclub and The Soup Dragons....
  
  
• The Boat People
  The Boat People (Australian band)
  The Boat People are an Australian four-piece indie pop band. The Brisbane based group consists of James O'Brien, Robin Waters, Charles Dugan and Tony Garret...
  
  
• Bob
  BOB (band)
  -History:The initial line-up was Richard Blackborow , Simon Armstrong . Jem Morris , joined the duo in 1986, and, augmented with a drum machine, they recorded the band's first release, a flexi disc, released in 1986 on their own House Of Teeth label, and containing three short songs: "Prune ",...
  
  
• The Bolts
  The Bolts
  The Bolts are an independent modern rock band from Irvine, California. Formed in 2007, the band consists of guitarist Heath Farmer, bassist Addam Farmer, guitarist and keyboardist Ryan Kilpatrick, keyboardist Austin Farmer, and drummer Matt Champagne...
  
  
• Bon Voyage
  Bon Voyage (band)
  Bon Voyage is a musical group consisting of the duo Jason Martin, of Starflyer 59, and his wife, Julie.-History:The duo first appeared in 1995 when they released Issue 1, a 7" recording on Jeff Cloud's record label Velvet Blue Music...
  
  
• Boy Kill Boy
  Boy Kill Boy
  Boy Kill Boy were an English rock band based in Leytonstone, East London. Perhaps Best known for their highest charting single "Suzie", the band produced two studio albums and six singles before splitting in 2008.- History :...
  
  
• The Boy Least Likely To
  The Boy Least Likely To
  The Boy Least Likely To is an English indie pop duo, composed of composer/multi-instrumentalist Pete Hobbs and lyricist/singer Jof Owen.Owen and Hobbs both grew up in the village of Wendover in Buckinghamshire. They met when they were still in school and started writing songs together. They began...
  
  
• The Breeders
  The Breeders
  The Breeders are an American alternative rock band formed in 1988 by Kim Deal of the Pixies and Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses. The band has experienced a number of line-up changes; the current line-up consists of Kim Deal , her twin sister Kelley Deal , Jose Medeles , Mando Lopez Todd the Fox...
  
  
• Bright Eyes
• British Sea Power
  British Sea Power
  British Sea Power are an indie rock band based in Brighton, England, although three of the band members originally come from Kendal in Cumbria. Critics have likened their sound to a variety of groups, from The Cure and Joy Division to the Pixies and Arcade Fire. The band are famed for their live...
  
  
• Broder Daniel
  Broder Daniel
  Broder Daniel was an alternative rock band from Gothenburg, Sweden. They formed in the late 1980s and then consisted of classmates Henrik Berggren and Daniel Gilbert...
  
  
• Broken Social Scene
  Broken Social Scene
  Broken Social Scene is a Canadian indie rock band, a musical collective including as few as six and as many as nineteen members, formed in 1999 by Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning. Most of its members currently play in various other groups and solo projects, mainly based around the city of Toronto...
  
  
• The Broken West
  The Broken West
  The Broken West was an American power pop band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 2004, and now signed to Merge Records. The members are Ross Flournoy , Dan Iead , Brian Whelan , Rob McCorkindale , and Scott Claassen...
  
  
• Brother Henry
  Brother Henry
  Brother Henry is a rock 'n' roll band from Nashville, Tennessee. As touring and recording sidemen, they have contributed to artists such as Ben Folds, Indigo Girls, Cowboy Junkies, Guster, Sixpence None the Richer, Steve Earle and R.E.M.....
  
  
• The Brunettes
  The Brunettes
  The Brunettes are an indie pop or twee pop group from New Zealand formed in 1998. The band consists of core members Jonathan Bree and Heather Mansfield with additional contributions from part-time band members including James Milne , Ryan McPhun , Harry Cundy, and most recently,...
  
  
• Bunnygrunt
  Bunnygrunt
  Bunnygrunt are an American indie pop band from St. Louis, Missouri composed of guitarist/vocalist Matt Harnish and drummer/vocalist Karen Ried.-1993 - 1998:...
  
  
• Butcher Boy
  Butcher Boy (band)
  Butcher Boy are an indie pop band from Glasgow, Scotland. Formed in 1998, they released their album Profit In Your Poetry in 2007. Their second album, released on 13 April 2009, is entitled React or Die.-History:...
  
  

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• Camera Obscura
  Camera Obscura (band)
  Camera Obscura are an indie pop band from Glasgow, Scotland. The band formed in 1996 and have released four albums to date.-History:Camera Obscura were formed in 1996 by Tracyanne Campbell, John Henderson, and Gavin Dunbar. Several other members performed with the band before David Skirving joined...
  
  
• The Candy Twins
  The Candy Twins
  The Candy Twins are an English indie pop band, who cite influences from a wide range of artists, including Neil Young, Orange Juice and The Wedding Present....
  
  
• The Capstan Shafts
  The Capstan Shafts
  The Capstan Shafts is the musical project of American lo-fi artist Dean Wells. He has been releasing material under the Capstan Shafts name since 1999, through various indie labels such as Yellow Mica, Asaurus and Abandoned Love Records...
  
  
• The Cardigans
  The Cardigans
  The Cardigans are a Swedish rock band formed in the town of Jönköping in October 1992.Their debut album Emmerdale gave them a solid base in their home country and enjoyed some success abroad, especially in Japan. It was not until their second album Life that an international reputation was secured...
  
  
• Caribou
  Caribou (musician)
  Daniel Victor Snaith is a composer, musician and recording artist under stage names Caribou, Manitoba and Daphni. Under the supervision of Kevin Buzzard, he obtained a PhD in mathematics at Imperial College London.- Career:...
  
  
• The Car Is On Fire
  The Car Is On Fire
  The Car Is on Fire is a three-piece pop outfit from Warsaw, Poland. The band was formed in early 2002 and took its name from the first words on Godspeed You! Black Emperor's album f♯a♯∞....
  
  
• Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
  Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
  Casiotone for the Painfully Alone was the musical solo-project of musician Owen Ashworth of Redwood City, California.-History:Ashworth started CFTPA after he dropped out of film school in 1997...
  
  
• Casper And The Cookies
• Catchers
  Catchers
  Catchers was an Irish indie pop band formed in 1993 and led by singer-songwriter Dale Grundle. The band consisted of Dale Grundle , Alice Lemon , Peter Kelly , Ger FitzGerald , Craig Carpenter and Jonathan Lord...
  
  
• The Cavemen Go
  The Cavemen Go
  The Cavemen Go are an American indie rock quartet, active since 2003. The group is composed of songwriter Jeremy Sage , Bob Breychak , Emily McMinn and Joe Clark . Initially a product of the New Haven, CT...
  
  
• The Chesterfields
  The Chesterfields
  The Chesterfields were an English indie pop band from Yeovil in Somerset. Hardcore fans tended to refer to them as 'The Chesterf!elds', with an exclamation mark replacing the 'i', following the example of the band's logo....
  
  
• The Chills
  The Chills
  The Chills are a guitar and keyboard-based rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand. In the 1980s and 1990s, they were one of the proponents of the Dunedin Sound.- History :...
  
  
• City & Colour
• The Choir Practice
  The Choir Practice
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• Circulatory System
  Circulatory System
  Circulatory System is a psychedelic rock musical ensemble formed by musician/painter Will Cullen Hart, and featuring Derek Almstead, Suzanne Allison, Peter Erchick, John Fernandes, Charlie Johnston, and Heather McIntosh....
  
  
• Allen Clapp
  Allen Clapp
  Allen Gordon Clapp is the singer, guitarist and principal songwriter for the California rock band The Orange Peels. Since 1990, he has also periodically released material under his own name and under the moniker "Allen Clapp and his Orchestra."Though Clapp's music is largely considered part of the...
  
  
• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
  Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
  Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is an American indie rock group based in Brooklyn, New York and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Their debut album, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, was self-released in 2005.-History:...
  
  
• The Clean
  The Clean
  The Clean are an influential Indie rock band that formed in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1978. Led through a number of early rotating line-ups by brothers Hamish and David Kilgour, the band settled down to their well-known and current line-up with bassist Robert Scott...
  
  
• The Clientele
  The Clientele
  The Clientele are a London-based British band with Alasdair MacLean on vocals and guitar, Mark Keen on drums, James Hornsey on bass and Mel Draisey on violin, keyboards, backing vocals and percussion....
  
  
• Close Lobsters
  Close Lobsters
  Close Lobsters are a Scottish indie pop/rock band. They first came to wider prominence with the track "Firestation Towers" on the NME's C86 compilation, they signed to Fire Records and released their debut single "Going To Heaven To See If It Rains" in October 1986...
  
  
• Club 8
  Club 8
  Club 8 is a Swedish musical group consisting of Karolina Komstedt and Johan Angergård .-History:Formed in 1995, Club 8 were signed to the Spanish record label Siesta...
  
  
• Cheer Chen
• Chris Garneau
  Chris Garneau
  Chris Garneau is an American singer and songwriter and musician. Garneau's sound combines elements of folk, Americana, pop, baroque, and carnival music. Since releasing his debut album, Garneau has toured throughout the United States, Canada, Brazil, Europe, and Asia.Garneau cites Jeff Buckley,...
  
  
• Jason Collett
  Jason Collett
  Jason Collett is a Toronto based singer-songwriter. He has released four solo albums, and is a member of Broken Social Scene. His latest album, Rat a Tat Tat, was released in March, 2010.-Early life:...
  
  
• Comet Gain
  Comet Gain
  Comet Gain are a British indie pop band, formed by singer-songwriter and guitarist David Bower in 1992, with influences including punk, post-punk and northern soul...
  
  
• The Concretes
  The Concretes
  The Concretes are a popular Swedish indie pop band from Stockholm, currently composed of eight members.-History:The Concretes began with Victoria Bergsman, Maria Eriksson, and Lisa Milberg. Since their formation in 1995, they have gradually acquired new members, growing into an eight piece band...
  
  
• The Corn Dollies
  The Corn Dollies
  The Corn Dollies were a United Kingdom indie band from London, active between 1987 and 1991.Comprising Steve Musham , Tim Sales , Steve Ridder , Jack Hoser , and Jono Podmore , the band met in King's Cross although they all hailed from Dalston, aside from native Californian Ridder...
  
  
• Crayon
  Crayon (band)
  Crayon was an indiepop band from Washington State featuring Brad Roberts , Sean Tollefson and Jeff Fell .-History:...
  
  
• The Crayon Fields
  The Crayon Fields
  Crayon Fields are a four-piece Melbourne based band signed to the labels Chapter Music and Rallye. They have been described as having an artful naïve-pop aesthetic and as lo-fi....
  
  
• Cub
  Cub (band)
  Cub was an indie rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia that formed in 1992 and disbanded in 1997. They played a melodic, jangly form of pop punk that was dubbed "cuddlecore" by some music critics...
  
  
• Cut Off Your Hands
  Cut Off Your Hands
  Cut Off Your Hands are an indie pop band from New Zealand influenced largely by post punk and indie pop groups such as The Smiths, Gang of Four, Orange Juice, Talking Heads, as well as NZ post-punk of The Mint Chicks and This Night Creeps...
  
  
• The Cribs
  The Cribs
  The Cribs are an English three-piece indie rock band from Wakefield, West Yorkshire. The band consists of twins Gary and Ryan Jarman and their younger brother Ross Jarman. They were subsequently joined by ex-The Smiths and Modest Mouse guitarist Johnny Marr who was made a formal member of the group...
  
  

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• Danielson Famile
  Danielson Famile
  Danielson is an American Rock band from Clarksboro, New Jersey that plays indie pop gospel music. The group consists of frontman Daniel Smith and a number of various artists with whom he collaborates...
  
  
• Dappled Cities Fly
  Dappled Cities Fly
  Dappled Cities are a five-piece indie rock band from Sydney, Australia.-History:The band, originally called Periwinkle, first came together in the leafy, northern Sydney suburb of Pymble in 1997. Dave Rennick and original drummer Hugh Boyce were soon joined by Alex Moore on bass and Tim Derricourt...
  
  
• Dash and Will
  Dash and Will
  Dash & Will are an Australian indie pop/pop rock duo formed in 2006, from Melbourne.-Career history:Dash and Will first met in early 1999, at age nine. The pair both started grade four on the same day at the same new school, Preshil: The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School...
  
  
• Dealership
  Dealership (band)
  Dealership is an American indie rock band based in Berkeley, California. Since their inception in 1995, the band features all their original members.-History:...
  
  
• The Delgados
  The Delgados
  The Delgados were a Scottish indie rock band from Motherwell, North Lanarkshire. The band was composed of Alun Woodward , Stewart Henderson , Paul Savage and Emma Pollock .-Biography:...
  
  
• The Dentists
  The Dentists
  The Dentists were an indie/pop band from the Medway towns in England who were active from 1984 to 1995. The band's permanent members were Mick Murphy , Bob Collins and Mark Matthews . The band also had three different drummers: Ian Smith , Alun Jones and Rob Grigg...
  
  
• Diana Vickers
  Diana Vickers
  Diana Vickers is an English singer-songwriter, stage actress and fashion designer who initially came to public attention as a semi-finalist on the fifth series of British talent show The X Factor in 2008...
  
  
• The Ditty Bops
  The Ditty Bops
  The Ditty Bops is an American band from Los Angeles, California. Though previously with Warner Brothers, they now self-produce. They are noted for their tight vocal harmonies and playful style. They are headed by Abby DeWald and Amanda Barrett...
  
  
• The Divine Comedy
  The Divine Comedy (band)
  The Divine Comedy are a chamber pop band from Ireland, fronted by Neil Hannon. Formed in 1989, Hannon has been the only constant member of the group, playing, in some instances, all of the non-orchestral instrumentation bar drums. To date, ten studio albums have been released under the Divine...
  
  
• The Dø
  The Dø
  The Dø is a French/Finnish indie pop band founded in Paris in 2005. The band is Olivia Merilahti and Dan Levy . The duo has been backed on stage by three different drummers...
  
  
• The Dodos
  The Dodos
  The Dodos are an American indie rock band consisting of Meric Long and Logan Kroeber.- History :The Dodos began playing music together in 2005, when musician Meric Long, who had been gigging steadily in San Francisco as a solo singer-songwriter, was introduced to Logan Kroeber through a mutual...
  
  
• Dogs Die In Hot Cars
  Dogs Die in Hot Cars
  Dogs Die in Hot Cars is a Scottish band from St. Andrews consisting of members Craig Macintosh , Gary Smith Ruth Quigley , Lee Worrall and Laurence Davey .-History:Macintosh, Smith, Worrall and Davey all met at Madras College and began playing together in 1993 at the age of...
  
  
• Dolly Mixture
  Dolly Mixture
  Dolly Mixture were a British post-punk/new wave band formed in 1978 by bassist and vocalist Debsey Wykes , guitarist and vocalist Rachel Bor , and drummer Hester Smith...
  
  
• Dolour
  Dolour
  Dolour was a musical alias of songwriter/producer Shane Tutmarc of Seattle, Washington. The band's name means "sorrow" or "grief." Musicians including Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes, members of The Divorce, United State of Electronica, The Lashes, and Vendetta Red contributed to the...
  
  
• Don Lennon
  Don Lennon
  - Biography :Little personal information is known about Don Lennon. Several interviewers have implied that the musician's name is a pseudonym. His style is often compared to that of Beat Happening, The Magnetic Fields and most notably fellow New Englander Jonathan Richman.Lennon was the guitarist...
  
  
• Dressy Bessy
  Dressy Bessy
  Dressy Bessy is an indie rock band from Denver, Colorado, associated with the Elephant Six Collective. Guitarist John Hill also plays with The Apples in Stereo. Lead vocalist/guitarist Tammy Ealom formed the band with drummer Darren Albert and guitarist turned bassist Rob Greene in 1996. The name...
  
  
• The Drums
  The Drums
  The Drums are an American indie pop band from Brooklyn, NY with members stemming from the shortlived band Elkland . The band is currently on the Moshi Moshi/Island , Universal and Frenchkiss labels.-Formation:...
  
  
• Dublin Duck Dispensary
  Dublin Duck Dispensary
  Dublin Duck Dispensary was the indie pop solo project of Irishman Bobby Aherne.He released two albums and two EPs on Netherlands-based netlabel Rack and Ruin Records...
  
  
• Dum Dum Girls
  Dum Dum Girls
  Dum Dum Girls are an American indie pop band from California that formed in 2008. Their name comes from both The Vaselines' album Dum Dum and the Iggy Pop song "Dum Dum Boys"...
  
  

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• East River Pipe
  East River Pipe
  East River Pipe is the name under which Fred Cornog records. Cornog was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and raised in Summit, New Jersey. After high school, Cornog worked a series of menial jobs before succumbing to alcoholism, depression, drug abuse and eventual homelessness, ending up in the...
  
  
• Echo Orbiter
  Echo Orbiter
  Echo Orbiter is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, based indie rock band founded by brothers Justin Emerle and Colin Emerle, described by Philadelphia Weekly as being "Widely considered two of the most inventive songwriters on the [Philadelphia] scene."...
  
  
• Eisley
  Eisley
  Eisley is a rock band from Tyler, Texas, consisting of four siblings and their cousin , all of whom were born and live in Texas. Although the band's name translates to ice island in several Germanic languages, it was actually selected by the bandmates because of its link to the Star Wars saga...
  
  
• El Guincho
  El Guincho
  El Guincho is the recording alias of Spanish musician Pablo Díaz-Reixa. Also a member of Coconot, Díaz-Reixa rose to prominence with his 2008 album, Alegranza!. His musical style relies heavily on the use of sampling and incorporates elements of Afrobeat, dub, Tropicália and rock and roll...
  
  
• Electrelane
  Electrelane
  Electrelane are a British all-female indie rock band, formed in Brighton in 1998 by Verity Susman and Emma Gaze. The band comprised Susman, Gaze, Mia Clarke, and Ros Murray. Their music draws from wide range of influences including Neu!, Stereolab, Sonic Youth, and The Velvet Underground...
  
  
• Electric President
  Electric President
  Electric President is a Jacksonville, Florida musical duo started in 2003 by Ben Cooper and Alex Kane. Both were in Helicopter Project prior to its breakup though no music from this group was ever released. Afterwards the pair decided to continue to make music together. They subsequently completed...
  
  
• Elf Power
  Elf Power
  Elf Power is an indie rock band that originated in Athens, Georgia. Currently, the line-up consists of guitarist/vocalist Andrew Rieger, keyboardist Laura Carter, guitarist Jimmy Hughes, bassist Derek Almstead, and drummer Eric Harris...
  
  
• Empire of the Sun
  Empire of the Sun (band)
  Empire of the Sun is an Australian electronic music duo that formed in 2008. The duo is composed of Luke Steele of The Sleepy Jackson and Nick Littlemore of Pnau. The two met in 2000 after both being signed to the same record label. Luke and Nick knew that they instantly had a chemistry like no other...
  
  
• The Essex Green
  The Essex Green
  The Essex Green are an indie rock band from Brooklyn, NY. The band is primarily composed of songwriters Jeff Baron, Sasha Bell and Chris Ziter, and specialize in a classic sound inspired by 1960s–1970s pop and folk in the tradition of bands like The Left Banke and Fairport Convention.-History:The...
  
  
• Ellie Goulding
  Ellie Goulding
  Elena Jane "Ellie" Goulding is an English singer-songwriter. In 2010 she became only the second artist to both top the BBC's annual Sound of... poll, and win the Critics' Choice Award at the BRIT Awards in the same year, following Adele's win of both in 2008...
  
  
• Ellington
  Ellington (band)
  Ellington is an Australian indie pop band from Brisbane, formed in 2007. The band is fronted and was started by singer/songwriter Jake Bosci when he was in high school. Later joined by Michael Beatson and in 2008 by Lloyd Budd...
  
  

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• Fanfarlo
  Fanfarlo
  Fanfarlo are a London-based indie pop band formed in 2006 by Swedish musician Simon Balthazar, and Giles J Davis...
  
  
• The Farmer's Boys
  The Farmer's Boys
  The Farmer's Boys were a British band from Norwich, England. They formed in the early 1980s and were briefly called 'Bang Goes My Stereo' before changing their name to The Farmer’s Boys.-History:...
  
  
• Farrah
• Fat Tulips
  Fat Tulips
  Fat Tulips were an indie pop band from Nottingham, England who released one album, on the Vinyl Japan label, and over 10 singles on the band's own Heaven Records and others.-History:...
  
  
• The Field Mice
  The Field Mice
  The Field Mice were an indie pop band on the indie label Sarah Records. Initially a duo from South London suburb of Mitcham comprising Robert Wratten and Michael Hiscock, their first EP, Emma's House, was released in November 1988, and reached number 20 in the UK Independent Chart...
  
  
• Final Fantasy
  Owen Pallett
  Michael James Owen Pallett is a Canadian composer, violinist, keyboardist, and vocalist from Toronto, Ontario. He won the 2006 Polaris Music Prize for the album He Poos Clouds....
  
  
• Liam Finn
  Liam Finn
  Liam Mullane Finn is a New Zealand musician and songwriter. Born in Australia, he moved to New Zealand as a child...
  
  
• A Fine Frenzy
  A Fine Frenzy
  Alison Sudol , known professionally as A Fine Frenzy , is a US alternative singer and songwriter and pianist. Her debut album, One Cell in the Sea, was released on July 17, 2007, and peaked at number 91 on the Billboard 200 chart...
  
  
• Fire Through the Window
  Fire Through The Window
  Fire Through the Window is an indie pop rock group hailing from Durban, South Africa. The band was originally formed in late 2006 by couple Marc De La Querra and Sinéad Dennis, however since 2007 Fire Through The Window has performed as a full five piece band...
  
  
• Fire Zuave
  Fire Zuave
  Fire Zuave is an American indie rock band formed in 2007 in West Palm Beach, Florida.-History:Chuck Andrews, formerly of Cleveland-based Americana band Qwasi Qwa, relocated to South Florida in 2004. There, he began performing as a solo artist. Soon thereafter, Chuck met Chris Cartrett, formerly of...
  
  
• Fishboy
  Fishboy (band)
  Fishboy is a four-piece indie pop band from Denton, Texas that began as the solo project of Eric Michener. He was given the nickname on a middle-school field trip after a dare to pluck and swallow a fish at the Dallas World Aquarium...
  
  
• Foster The People
  Foster the People
  Foster the People is an American indie pop band formed in Los Angeles, California in 2009. The group is composed of Mark Foster , Mark Pontius , and Cubbie Fink...
  
  
• The Flatmates
  The Flatmates
  The Flatmates, part of the mid 1980s British indie pop boom, were part of The Subway Organization, a Bristol record label formed by Martin Whitehead, who was also guitarist and main songwriter for the band....
  
  
• The Frank and Walters
  The Frank and Walters
  The Frank and Walters are an alternative rock band from Cork city in Ireland. The band was founded in 1990 by Paul Linehan , his brother Niall Linehan , who was replaced by Kevin Pedreschi in 2004, and Ashley Keating . They took the band name in honour of two eccentric Cork characters...
  
  
• Fred
  Fred (band)
  Fred are a five-piece Irish alternative band from Cork. They have released four albums, the latest of which, Leaving My Empire, was released in Ireland in 2011.- Career :...
  
  
• Free Energy
  Free Energy (band)
  Free Energy is an American rock band based out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The members include Scott Wells, Paul Sprangers, Evan Wells, and Nicholas Shuminsky.-History:...
  
  
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• Geographer
  Geographer (Band)
  Geographer are an American Indie Rock band based in San Francisco, California. The band formed in 2008 and consists of Michael Deni , Nathan Blaz and Brian Ostreicher ....
  
  
• The Grenadiers
  The Grenadiers
  The Grenadiers are an infantry regiment of the Indian Army, formerly part of the Bombay Army and later the pre-independence Indian Army, when the regiment was known as the 4th Bombay Grenadiers. It has distinguished itself during the two world wars and also since the Independence of India...
  
  
• Gentleman Reg
  Gentleman Reg
  Reg Vermue is a Canadian indie rock singer from Guelph, Ontario. Born in Trenton, Ontario, he records as Gentleman Reg. His musical style has been compared to Elliott Smith, Aimee Mann, The Smiths and Cat Power...
  
  
• The Gentle Waves
• Georgie James
  Georgie James
  Georgie James was an indie pop/rock group from Washington D.C. composed of John Davis and Laura Burhenn.When Q and Not U called it quits in 2005 after releasing three albums, the band split into three different projects: Ris Paul Ric, a folk/electronic solo effort from Chris Richards; Harris Klahr...
  
  
• GIVERS
  GIVERS
  Givers are an indie pop group from Lafayette, Louisiana. The band is made up of vocalist and percussionist Tiffany Lamson, vocalist and guitarist Taylor Guarisco, drummer and vocalist Kirby Campbell, bassist and guitarist Josh LeBlanc, and flautist, saxophonist, and keyboardist Nick...
  
  
• The Gloria Record
  The Gloria Record
  The Gloria Record, a rock band from Austin, Texas, was a project of former Mineral vocalist Chris Simpson and bassist Jeremy Gomez, formed in 1997 along with Brian Hubbard , and Matt Hammon ....
  
  
• The Go-Betweens
  The Go-Betweens
  The Go-Betweens were an indie rock band formed in Brisbane, Australia in 1977 by singer-songwriters and guitarists, Robert Forster and Grant McLennan. They were later joined by Lindy Morrison on drums, Robert Vickers on bass guitar and Amanda Brown on violin, oboe, guitar, and backing vocals,...
  
  
• Gold Motel
  Gold Motel
  Gold Motel is the Chicago-based solo project of singer-songwriter Greta Morgan, formerly of The Hush Sound. The band consists of Morgan , Eric Hehr , Dan Duszynski , Matt Minx , Adam Coldhouse .-History:After The Hush Sound went on hiatus, Morgan moved from Chicago to Los Angeles looking for...
  
  
• Go Sailor
  Go Sailor
  Go Sailor was a short-lived Berkeley based twee pop band. Its members included Rose Melberg of Tiger Trap and the Softies , Paul Curran of Crimpshrine and Amy Linton of Henry's Dress...
  
  
• The Go! Team
  The Go! Team
  The Go! Team are a six-piece band from Brighton, England. They combine indie rock and garage rock with a mixture of blaxploitation and Bollywood soundtracks, double dutch chants, old school hip hop and distorted guitars similar to the style of Sonic Youth. Their songs are a mix of live...
  
  
• The Good Life
  The Good Life (band)
  The Good Life is an indie rock band on Saddle Creek records.Started as a solo project of Cursive's frontman Tim Kasher, The Good Life quickly grew to become its own established group. The original intent of The Good Life was to provide Tim Kasher with a vehicle to perform songs that did not fit...
  
  
• Good Shoes
  Good Shoes
  Good Shoes are a four-piece English indie pop band, hailing from Morden, London.-Biography:Good Shoes was formed by lead singer Rhys Jones and guitarist Steve Leach who often wrote and played music together as a hobby. Rhys and Steve appeared as a two piece under the Good Shoes name for a friend's...
  
  
• Gotye
  Gotye
  Wouter "Wally" De Backer , also known professionally by his stage name Gotye , is a Belgian-Australian multi-instrumental musician and singer-songwriter. He has released three studio albums independently and one remix album featuring remixes of tracks from his first two albums...
  
  
• Great Aunt Ida
• Great Lake Swimmers
  Great Lake Swimmers
  Great Lake Swimmers is a Canadian band built around the melodic folk rock songs of singer-songwriter Tony Dekker. Originally from Wainfleet, Ontario, the band is currently based in Toronto....
  
  
• Great Lakes
  Great Lakes (band)
  Great Lakes is an American rock band originally from Athens, Georgia, loosely affiliated historically with the Elephant 6 Recording Company.The group is centered around the songwriting partnership of Dan Donahue and Ben Crum...
  
  
• Grizzly Bear
  Grizzly Bear (band)
  Grizzly Bear is a Brooklyn-based indie rock band, composed of Edward Droste , Daniel Rossen , Chris Taylor and Christopher Bear . The band employs traditional and electronic instruments...
  
  

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• Luke Haines
  Luke Haines
  Luke Haines is an English musician, songwriter and author, who has recorded music under various names and with various bands, including The Auteurs, Baader Meinhof and Black Box Recorder.-'New Wave':...
  
  
• Emily Haines
  Emily Haines
  Emily Haines is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter. She is the lead singer and keyboardist of the band Metric and a member of Broken Social Scene. As a solo artist, she performed with her own name and under the alias Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton...
  
  
• Half-Handed Cloud
  Half-handed Cloud
  Half-handed Cloud is a band from Berkeley, California. It was started as a one man band by John Ringhofer, who created the band name based on an occurrence in the Old Testament. Half-handed Cloud is under Asthmatic Kitty Records. His previous band was Wookieback with Matthew Vollmer and Brandon...
  
  
• Half Man Half Biscuit
  Half Man Half Biscuit
  Half Man Half Biscuit, often "HMHB", are an English rock band from Birkenhead, Merseyside, active since the mid-1980s, known for satirical, sardonic, and sometimes surreal songs. The group comprises Nigel Blackwell , Neil Crossley , Ken Hancock , and Carl Henry...
  
  
• Hayden
  Hayden (musician)
  Paul Hayden Desser who records as Hayden, is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Thornhill, Ontario.His early works are a largely eclectic mix of genres from grunge rock to alt country, as demonstrated by his first full album, Everything I Long For, released in 1995. Since then his work has become...
  
  
• Headlights
  Headlights (band)
  Headlights is an American indie rock band from Champaign, Illinois on Polyvinyl Records. The band was formed following the dissolution of Absinthe Blind, when members Erin Fein, Seth Fein and Brett Sanderson formed a band named Orphans...
  
  
• Heavenly
  Heavenly (British band)
  Heavenly were a 1990s twee pop band, originally forming in Oxford, England in 1989. Amelia Fletcher , Mathew Fletcher , Peter Momtchiloff and Robert Pursey had all been members of Talulah Gosh, a key member of the C86 scene.-History:Heavenly debuted with the 7" single "I Fell in Love Last...
  
  
• The Helio Sequence
  The Helio Sequence
  The Helio Sequence is an American alternative rock band. They are a duo from Beaverton, OR, a suburb of Portland, OR signed to label Sub Pop. Their music environments are optimistic and uplifting with a dash of psychedelic...
  
  
• Hello Operator
  Hello Operator (band)
  Hello Operator is a band from Toronto, Canada. Mike Condo and Evan Huson started the band in 2006 while living in California...
  
  
• Hello Saferide
  Hello Saferide
  Hello Saferide is a Swedish twee pop band fronted by songwriter Annika Norlin. According to Norlin's MySpace, the stage name "Hello Saferide" was "inspired by an intelligent bus driver in a drug-addicted small town, don't ask." The Swedish-language version of the band's biography identifies the...
  
  
• He Is We
  He Is We
  He Is We is an indie pop band from Tacoma, Washington. The band is made up of Trevor Kelly and Rachel Taylor. They met while working at Ted Brown Music Company, a music store in their home town of Tacoma, Washington. They each realized that the other had talent and began to play small gigs...
  
  
• Håkan Hellström
  Håkan Hellström
  Håkan Hellström is a Swedish musician. He got his Swedish breakthrough in the year 2000 with the song "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg"...
  
  
• Hellogoodbye
  Hellogoodbye
  Hellogoodbye is a power pop band that was formed in Huntington Beach, California in 2001 by singer Forrest Kline. They were signed to Drive-Thru Records and released their first full-length album Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! in 2006, in addition to their previously released EP Hellogoodbye...
  
  
• Hidden Cameras
• Hidrogenesse
  Hidrogenesse
  Hidrogenesse is a Spanish pop band whose members are Carlos Ballesteros and Genís Segarra . Although they have been together since 1997, they didn't release anything until 2000, with "Así se baila el siglo XX", a smart, cynical approach to the new millennium through the inventions of the 20th...
  
  
• Missy Higgins
  Missy Higgins
  Melissa "Missy" Morrison Higgins is an Australian pop singer-songwriter, musician and actor. Her No. 1 albums in Australia are The Sound of White and On a Clear Night , and her Top Ten singles are "Scar", "The Special Two", "Steer" and "Where I Stood". From a musical family in...
  
  
• Holiday Flyer
  Holiday Flyer
  Holiday Flyer were a Roseville, California-based indie pop band formed in June 1993 by siblings John and Katie Conley. In this incarnation, Holiday Flyer released their debut long-player, Try Not to Worry, in 1995...
  
  
• The Honey Buzzards
  The Honey Buzzards
  The Honey Buzzards were a Norwich, England based band who achieved significant Independent Music success in the early 1990s.They were formed by Ian Thompson , Simon Shaw and Matthew Wayne at Norwich School in 1988, and shortly recruited Nathan Moore and John Evans as guitarists...
  
  
• The Housemartins
  The Housemartins
  The Housemartins were an English indie pop band that was active in the 1980s. Many of the Housemartins' lyrics were a mixture of Marxist politics and Christianity, reflecting singer Paul Heaton's beliefs at the time .-Formation:The band was formed in late 1983 by Paul Heaton and...
  
  
• The Hush Sound
  The Hush Sound
  The Hush Sound was an indie quartet originating in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. Initially named "The Hush," the band later changed their name to "The Hush Sound" due to the discovery of a rapper with the same name...
  
  

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• Ida Maria
  Ida Maria
  Ida Maria Børli Sivertsen is a Norwegian rock musician known primarily by the stage name Ida Maria. Her first album; Fortress Round My Heart was released in 2008...
  
  
• Il Genio
  Il Genio
  Il Genio are an Italian electropop duo, consisting of Gianluca De Rubertis and Alessandra Contini, best known for their hit Pop Porno....
  
  
• Immaculate Machine
  Immaculate Machine
  Immaculate Machine was a Canadian indie pop band from Victoria, British Columbia, active from 2003 to 2011.The band's name is taken from the lyrics of "One-Trick Pony" from the album One-Trick Pony by Paul Simon.-History:...
  
  
• I'm From Barcelona
  I'm from Barcelona
  I'm from Barcelona is a pop group from Jönköping, Sweden, best known for its 29 band members and eclectic mix of instruments such as clarinets, saxophones, flutes, trumpets, banjos, accordions, kazoos, guitars, drums, and keyboards among others...
  
  
• Ingrid Michaelson
  Ingrid Michaelson
  Ingrid Ellen Egbert Michaelson is a New York-based indie-pop singer-songwriter. Her music has been featured in episodes of several popular television shows, including Scrubs, Bones, Grey's Anatomy The Big C and One Tree Hill, as well as in Old Navy's Fall 2007 Fair Isle and Opel's/Vauxhall's...
  
  
• Islands
  Islands (band)
  Islands is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 2005 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and currently based in Brooklyn, New York.-Return to the Sea:In mid-2005 Islands recorded a debut album titled Return to the Sea, which was released in April 2006...
  
  
• Ivan & Alyosha
  Ivan & Alyosha
  Ivan & Alyosha is a folk-pop, indie, rock band from Seattle, Washington. Formed in 2007 with the current members, Tim Wilson and Ryan Carbary. They were later joined by Pete Wilson and Tim Kim. In 2009 the band was recognized nationally by NPR during their coverage of SXSW.-History:Ivan &...
  
  
• Ivy
  Ivy (band)
  Ivy is a New York City band composed of a trio of musicians, Adam Schlesinger, Dominique Durand, and Andy Chase.-Lately and Realistic:...
  
  

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• Japancakes
  Japancakes
  -History:Rhythm guitarist Eric Berg formed the band with the idea of putting ten musicians in a band without any rehearsal, and performing a D chord for 45 minutes . He continued performances with numerous instrumentalists before releasing their first recording If I Could See Dallas on Kindercore...
  
  
• The Jesus and Mary Chain
  The Jesus and Mary Chain
  The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in East Kilbride, Glasgow in 1983. The band revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid...
  
  
• Jets Overhead
  Jets Overhead
  Jets Overhead are a Canadian alternative rock band formed in 2003 and based in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.-Formation and debut:Singer Adam Kittredge conceived of the name Jets Overhead while observing air traffic patterns in London, England...
  
  
• Joan Of Arc
  Joan of Arc (band)
  Joan of Arc are an American indie rock band from Chicago, Illinois. They formed in 1995, following the breakup of Cap'n Jazz.Singer Tim Kinsella has been the only permanent member of the group; he has also recorded as a solo artist....
  
  
• Johnny Boy
  Johnny Boy
  Johnny Boy are an indie pop band from Liverpool, England which consists of two members; the London born Lolly Hayes and the Liverpool resident Davo...
  
  
• The June Brides
  The June Brides
  The June Brides were an English indie pop group, formed in London in 1983, by Phil Wilson and Simon Beesley of International Rescue. Influenced by Postcard-label bands such as Josef K and punk-era bands such as Buzzcocks, The Desperate Bicycles and The Television Personalities, their mix of guitar...
  
  
• Juan Son
  Juan Son
  Juan Carlos Pereda is a Mexican singer and composer of experimental music. He was the vocals of the alternative rock band Porter and is now a solo singer under the pseudonym Juan Son.-Biography:...
  
  

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• Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground
  Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground
  Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground is an indie band started by Kirk Huffman and Kyle O'Quin of Gatsbys American Dream. Like Gatsbys, the band draws influence from a wide variety of musical genres...
  
  
• Karkwa
  Karkwa
  -History:Formed in 1998, the group consists of vocalist and guitarist Louis-Jean Cormier, keyboardist François Lafontaine, bass guitarist Martin Lamontagne, percussionist Julien Sagot, and drummer Stéphane Bergeron...
  
  
• Kerli
• Kid Canaveral
  Kid Canaveral
  Kid Canaveral is an indie pop band that formed in St Andrews in Fife, Scotland, but are now based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Since 2007 the band have released a number of well received singles, an E.P. and an album on their own label, Straight to Video Records, and in 2011 they signed with Scottish...
  
  
• Kings of Convenience
  Kings of Convenience
  Kings of Convenience are an indie folk-pop duo from Bergen, Norway. Consisting of Erlend Øye and Eirik Glambek Bøe, the musical group is known for their delicate tunes, calming voices, and intricate and subtle guitar melodies...
  
  
• Komeda
  Komeda
  Komeda is a Swedish pop/indie band from Umeå. The group is named in honour of the late jazz musician Krzysztof Komeda. The band started in 1991 as a pit band for a Buster Keaton festival. Forming as a quartet, Komeda consisted of vocalist Lena Karlsson, guitarist Henrik Andersson , bassist Marcus...
  
  
• Ben Kweller
  Ben Kweller
  Ben Kweller is an American singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.-Early life:Ben Kweller was born in San Francisco, CA in 1981. In 1982, his family relocated to Emory, Texas, where his father, Howard Kweller, became the town's first doctor. In 1986, the Kwellers moved to a much larger city,...
  
  
• The Kabeedies
  The Kabeedies
  The Kabeedies are an indie, afrobeat/rock'n'roll band from Norwich/Woodbridge, England. The band is composed of Evan Jones , Rory Hill , Katie Allard and Fab Bell ....
  
  

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• Labrador
  Labrador (band)
  Labrador is a band who was formed in 1998 by Danish legend Flemming Borby from the remains of the band Greene. Labrador combines vocals with electronica and an indie sensibility.The music of Labrador draws inspiration from the classic age of pop.-Albums:...
  
  
• Ladybug Transistor
• Ladyhawke
• Ladytron
  Ladytron
  Ladytron are an English electronic band formed in 1999 in Liverpool, Merseyside. The group consists of Helen Marnie , Mira Aroyo , Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu .Their sound blends electropop with New Wave and shoegazing elements. Ladytron described their sound as "electronic pop"...
  
  
• Language of Flowers
  Language of Flowers (band)
  Language of Flowers are a five piece indie-pop band originally from Belfast in Northern Ireland signed to San Francisco indie label Shelflife Records. As of 2006 its members are located in London, Manchester and Belfast...
  
  
• Jens Lekman
  Jens Lekman
  Jens Martin Lekman is a Swedish musician. His music is guitar-based pop with heavy use of samples and strings, with lyrics that are often witty, romantic, and melancholic. The English lyrics reflect an advanced knowledge of the language and its idioms...
  
  
• Sondre Lerche
  Sondre Lerche
  -Career:Sondre Lerche was born in Bergen, Norway. Growing up, Lerche was heavily influenced by the '80s pop that emanated from his older siblings' rooms. Compelled by a defining fascination for bands such as The Beatles, A-ha, the Beach Boys, and Prefab Sprout, Lerche began formal guitar...
  
  
• Let's Go Sailing
  Let's Go Sailing (band)
  Let’s Go Sailing are an American indie band founded by Shana Levy in 2002. After several years of work, the group completed their first album in 2006 and released it nationally in 2007...
  
  
• Lights
  Lights (singer)
  Lights Valerie Poxleitner is a Canadian electronic musician, signed to her own personal label, Lights Music. Her most notable singles include "Ice", "Second Go" and "Toes". In 2009, she was awarded the Juno Award for "Best New Artist".-Early life:Lights was born in Timmins, Ontario. Her parents...
  
  
• Lightspeed Champion
  Lightspeed Champion
  Devonté Hynes , better known as Lightspeed Champion or Blood Orange, is a British composer, songwriter, producer and author, who has written for artists such as Florence and the Machine, Diana Vickers and The Chemical Brothers on their 2007 Grammy award winning album We Are The Night...
  
  
• The Like
  The Like
  The Like is an alternative rock band from Los Angeles, California. The current members are Elizabeth "Z" Berg , Tennessee Thomas , Laena Geronimo , and Annie Monroe...
  
  
• Liquid Blue
  Liquid Blue
  Liquid Blue is an American indie pop rock band formed in San Diego, California in 1996 by Scott Stephens & Michael Vangerov. The group holds the official world record as “the most traveled band”, having performed in 100 countries on six continents”, and are more popular in parts of Asia and Europe...
  
  
• The Little Ones
  The Little Ones (band)
  The Little Ones is an indie pop band based in Los Angeles, California. They were previously signed to Astralwerks Records and released one EP on that label, titled Sing Song. In 2006, Matt Costa invited them to open for him at the Bowery Ballroom in New York City, which has brought them in a rise...
  
  
• The Lodger
  The Lodger (band)
  For other groups with similar names, see Lodger.The Lodger are an indie pop band from Leeds, England, formed in 2004.-History:The Lodger formed in 2004, after Leeds label Dance to the Radio offered to put out a single on the basis of demos that Ben Siddall recorded in his bedsit, the band name...
  
  
• Lois
  Lois Maffeo
  Courtney Love is an American musician and writer who lives in Olympia, Washington. Although never achieving mainstream success, she has been closely involved with and influenced many independent musicians, especially in the 90s Olympia, Seattle and DC based musician.-as Lois Maffeo:albums*The...
  
  
• Lola Dutronic
  Lola Dutronic
  Lola Dutronic is a Canadian electronica duo, consisting of remixer/producer Richard Citroen and vocalist Frankie Hart. The band adapts songs from the French and British sixties with modern electronic arrangements...
  
  
• Loney, Dear
  Loney, Dear
  Loney, Dear is the pseudonym of Swedish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Emil Svanängen. He has self-released four albums of music in his native Sweden. His first major release came in February, 2007 in the U.S. when Sub Pop re-issued his album Loney, Noir.-History:Emil Svanängen...
  
  
• The Long Winters
  The Long Winters
  The Long Winters is an American indie rock band based in Seattle, Washington.-Early history:Singer-songwriter John Roderick was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. He later returned to Seattle, formed the Bun Family Players and the The Western State Hurricanes...
  
  
• Look Blue Go Purple
  Look Blue Go Purple
  Look Blue Go Purple was an alternative pop/rock band from Dunedin, New Zealand, together from 1983 to 1987, recognised as part of the Dunedin Sound.-Members:* Kathy Bull — bass* Norma O'Malley — keyboards, flute* Lesley Paris — drums...
  
  
• Look See Proof
  Look See Proof
  Look See Proof were a five-piece indie pop-rock band from Hertfordshire.Founded in 2006, Look See Proof played in venues across the UK supporting bands like The Fratellis, The Rifles, Foals, The Dykeenies, Breaks Co-Op, Good Shoes, The Twang, and The Holloways.High profile appearances include...
  
  
• Los Campesinos!
  Los Campesinos!
  Los Campesinos! are a seven piece indie pop band from Cardiff, Wales, formed in early 2006 at Cardiff University. Although the band formed in Wales, none of its members are Welsh. They released their debut album, Hold on Now, Youngster..., in February 2008 and followed this up by releasing a record...
  
  
• Love Is All
  Love is All
  Love Is All is a five-piece indie pop band from Gothenburg, Sweden. It releases songs in English. Paste Magazine has stated that it makes "infectiously lo-fi punk rock laced with saxophone and melodic vocals".-Biography:...
  
  
• The Lovely Feathers
  The Lovely Feathers
  The Lovely Feathers are a Canadian indie rock band formed in 2004 from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The band toured with Metric in late 2005. Their first release was an independent release titled My Best Friend Daniel. Their second album , Hind Hind Legs, was released on April 18, 2006 by Equator...
  
  
• The Love Language
  The Love Language
  The Love Language is an indie rock band from Raleigh, North Carolina headed by Stuart McLamb.-Origin:The Love Language began amidst a torrent of quarter-life crises and angst. Following a split with his band, The Capulets, Stuart McLamb and his girlfriend broke up and he fell into a serious...
  
  
• The Lovely Sparrows
  The Lovely Sparrows
  "The Lovely Sparrows" is an Austin, Texas based indie rock band currently on Abandoned Love Records and founded by Shawn Jones. Their sound is categorized as indie rock, folk rock, experimental rock, alternative rock, or just rock, blending lush, complex arrangements with sing-along choruses that...
  
  
• The Lucksmiths
  The Lucksmiths
  The Lucksmiths were an indie pop band from Melbourne, Australia known for witty, intelligent lyrics, a strong melodic sense and a jangly pop sound harkening back to early-80's bands such as The Smiths and The Go-Betweens.-History:...
  
  
• Lucky Soul
  Lucky Soul
  Lucky Soul are a British six-piece pop band based in South East London. Formed in 2005, the band consists of Ali Howard on vocals, Andrew Laidlaw and Ivor Sims on guitars, Russell Grooms on bass and Paul Atkins on drums, with the recent addition of Art Terry on keys.The band have performed numerous...
  
  
• Lush
  Lush (band)
  Lush were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1987 and disbanded in 1998. They were one of the first bands to attract the "shoegazing" label...
  
  
• Luzer
  Luzer
  LUZER is a four-piece power pop band from Hamilton Township, a suburb of Trenton, New Jersey.-Background:LUZER was formed by four students--Singer/guitarist/songwriter "Timmy Sean" Mahoney, drummer Dan Seeth, lead guitarist R. Dan Salyerds , and Bassist Chris Volk--at Steinert High School in 1999...
  
  

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• M83
  M83 (band)
  M83 is a musical act by French musician Anthony Gonzalez. It is named after a spiral galaxy, Messier 83. The band was founded in 2001 by Gonzalez and former member Nicolas Fromageau in Antibes, France...
  
  
• Mae
  Mae
  Mae was an American alternative/indie band that formed in Norfolk, Virginia in 2001. The band's name is an acronym for "Multi-sensory Aesthetic Experience," based on a course taken by drummer Jacob Marshall while a student at Old Dominion University....
  
  
• Magneta Lane
  Magneta Lane
  Magneta Lane are a Canadian indie band hailing from Toronto, Ontario. The all-female line-up consists of family members Lexi Valentine and Nadia King and French . The band has received critical acclaim for their debut EP The Constant Lover...
  
  
• The Magnetic Fields
  The Magnetic Fields
  The Magnetic Fields is the principal creative outlet of singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt...
  
  
• The Main Drag
  The Main Drag
  The Main Drag is an indie pop/indie rock band local to Boston, Massachusetts. The group incorporates elements as diverse as folk-pop to orchestrated electronica together with their occasionally oblique lyrics...
  
  
• Malajube
  Malajube
  Malajube is a francophone indie rock band based in Montreal. The band has three albums out on Dare to Care Records.-History:Formed by a group of friends in Montreal, the band made itself known in 2004 with the release of its first album, Le Compte complet. Critics welcomed the disc with positive...
  
  
• Meiko
• *Mañana
• The Margarets
  The Margarets
  The Margarets is a Norwegian pop band hailing from the island Giske near Ålesund. The band was founded in 1991 by Rune Berg and Alex Rinde . The band was named after their local postwoman, Margaret...
  
  
• Marina and the Diamonds
• Maow
  Maow
  Maow was a Canadian indie rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A pop punk combo, the band was part of the "cuddlecore" scene led by cub.Maow consisted of guitarist Tobey Black, bassist Corrina Hammond and drummer Neko Case...
  
  
• Mazzy Star
  Mazzy Star
  Mazzy Star is an American alternative rock band formed in Santa Monica, California, in 1989 from the group Opal, a collaboration of guitarist David Roback and bassist Kendra Smith...
  
  
• April March
  April March
  April March is an American indie pop singer/songwriter who sings in English and French...
  
  
• Marine Research
  Marine Research
  Marine Research was an indie rock/twee pop band, based in Oxford/London , formed in 1997 by four of the five members of Heavenly , following the suicide of Heavenly drummer Mathew Fletcher...
  
  
• Helen Marnie
  Helen Marnie
  Helen Marnie is a member of the electronic music band Ladytron. She sings the majority of Ladytron's songs, with Mira Aroyo providing vocals on some songs or singing simultaneously with Helen on others.Helen also plays keyboards during Ladytron's live shows Helen Marnie (born in 1978 in Glasgow,...
  
  
• Math and Physics Club
  Math and Physics Club
  Math and Physics Club are an indie pop band based in Seattle, Washington. The members are Charles Bert , Ethan Jones and James Werle . This lineup coalesced in 2004, and has released three EPs and two full length albums on Santa Barbara-based Matinee Recordings...
  
  
• Matt and Kim
  Matt and Kim
  Matt & Kim are a dance punk duo residing in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. The group was formed in 2005 and is composed of Matt Johnson and Kim Schifino...
  
  
• Mates of State
  Mates of State
  Mates of State are an American indie pop duo, active since 1997. The group is composed of the husband-and-wife team of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel .Over the course of the band's fourteen year career, they've released three EPs and six full-length, studio...
  
  
• McCarthy
  McCarthy (band)
  McCarthy were a British indie pop band, formed in Barking, Essex, England in 1984 by schoolmates Malcolm Eden and Tim Gane with John Williamson and Gary Baker...
  
  
• Myracle Brah
  Myracle Brah
  Myracle Brah is an American indie pop/power pop band primarily centered around singer-songwriter Andy Bopp. It is based out of Baltimore, Maryland. The group consists of Bopp, Paul Krysiak , Marty Canelli , Joe Parsons , and Greg Schroeder...
  
  
• Nellie McKay
  Nellie McKay
  Nellie McKay , is an American singer-songwriter, actor, and former stand-up comedienne, noted for her critically acclaimed albums, and for her Broadway debut in The Threepenny Opera , for which she won a Theatre World Award...
  
  
• Mean Red Spiders
  Mean Red Spiders
  Mean Red Spiders are a Canadian alternative rock band formed in Toronto, Canada in September 1993. Mean Red Spiders' music is largely guitar-based indie rock influenced by psychedelic music. Their music makes extensive use of distortion, digital keyboard loops, recorded voice samples, and effects...
  
  
• Meg and Dia
• Rose Melberg
  Rose Melberg
  Rose Melberg is a musician and songwriter from Sacramento, California who has sung and played guitar as a member of Tiger Trap, The Softies and Go Sailor as well as on her own material. She also played drums and made some songwriting contributions with the band Gaze...
  
  
• Memphis
  Memphis (band)
  Memphis is a musical duo consisting of long-time friends Torquil Campbell and Chris Dumont.Dumont, originally from North Carolina, first met Campbell in New York City in the early 1990s. With Campbell's childhood friends Chris Seligman, James Shaw, and Adam Marvy, the pair played together in a band...
  
  
• Metric
  Metric (band)
  Metric is a Canadian indie rock and New Wave band founded in 1998 in Toronto. The band has also at various times been based in Montreal, London, New York City and Los Angeles...
  
  
• MGMT
  MGMT
  MGMT is an American alternative rock band founded by Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden. After the release of their first album, the members of their live band, Matthew Asti, James Richardson and Will Berman, joined the core band in the studio...
  
  
• Malcolm Middleton
  Malcolm Middleton
  Malcolm Bruce Middleton is a Scottish musician best known for his work with Aidan Moffat in post-folk indie band Arab Strap as well as his solo career writing and producing...
  
  
• Mighty Mighty
  Mighty Mighty
  Mighty Mighty were an indie band formed in Birmingham, England in the mid 1980s. Showing influences from Postcard Records bands such as Orange Juice, they came to prominence when featured on the NME's C86 compilation, at around the same time that they released their debut single "Everybody Knows...
  
  
• Amy Millan
  Amy Millan
  Amy Millan is a Canadian indie rock singer and guitarist. She records and performs with the bands Stars and Broken Social Scene as well as having a successful solo career. Her second solo album, Masters of the Burial, was released by Arts & Crafts Records in September 2009.- Early life :Amy Millan...
  
  
• Miike Snow
  Miike Snow
  Miike Snow is a Swedish indie pop band formed in 2007. The band consists of producing team Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg and Andrew Wyatt.-Early years:Miike Snow was formed in 2007 in Stockholm, Sweden....
  
  
• Milton and the Devils Party
  Milton and the Devils Party
  - Overview :Milton and the Devils Party is an American Indie rock band from Philadelphia, PA. It was formed in 2001 by singer-songwriter-bassist Daniel Robinson and guitarist Mark Graybill. Drummer Bob Falgie joined in 2006....
  
  
• Miou Miou
  Miou Miou
  Miou Miou is an East Bohemia indie pop band formed in the spring of 2003. Miou Miou’s music is characterized by girlish vocals in French, catchy lyrics, playfulness, repetitive elements, dynamic contrasts and searching for new sounds...
  
  
• Mirah
  Mirah
  Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn , is an American musician based in San Francisco California. She has released five albums under the K Records label.- Background :...
  
  
• Modest Mouse
  Modest Mouse
  Modest Mouse is an American indie rock band formed in 1993 in Issaquah, Washington, by singer/lyricist/guitarist Isaac Brock, drummer Jeremiah Green, and bassist Eric Judy. They are based in Portland, Oregon. Since their 1996 debut album, This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think...
  
  
• Monkey Swallows the Universe
  Monkey Swallows the Universe
  Monkey Swallows the Universe was an acoustic/indie band from Sheffield, England. MSTU is centred around its founders, Nat Johnson and Kevin Gori, who formed the band in 2003 after meeting at the University of Sheffield. In the band's first incarnation they both sang and played acoustic guitars...
  
  
• The Mood
  The Mood
  The Mood were a British pop band from 1981 to 1984, based in York. It consisted of members John Moore, Mark James and Eric James .-Career:...
  
  
• The Most Serene Republic
  The Most Serene Republic
  The Most Serene Republic is a Canadian indie rock band based in Milton, Ontario. It takes its name from the sobriquet of formerly independent Venice under the Doges, which was regarded as "The Most Serene Republic of Venice".-Members:...
  
  
• Mother Mother
  Mother Mother
  Mother Mother is a five-piece Canadian indie rock band originally from Quadra Island, now based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Mother Mother consists of Ryan Guldemond on guitar and vocals, Molly Guldemond on vocals and keyboard, Jasmin Parkin on keyboard and vocals, Ali Siadat on drums, and...
  
  
• The Motorcycle Boy
  The Motorcycle Boy
  The Motorcycle Boy were an indie pop band formed in East Kilbride, Scotland, in 1987 by former members of Meat Whiplash and The Shop Assistants....
  
  
• my little airport
  My Little Airport
  my little airport is a Hong Kong-based indie pop band. Their lyrics are marked by spelling, grammar, and rhythm inflected by Hong Kong English. Ah P writes the lyrics and the music, which he also plays, while Nicole sings...
  
  
• My Teenage Stride
  My Teenage Stride
  My Teenage Stride is band from Brooklyn, New York, with influences including The Smiths and The Jesus and Mary Chain. They have released four albums since 2004.-History:...
  
  

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• Nada Surf
  Nada Surf
  Nada Surf is an American alternative rock band. Formed in 1992, the New York band consists of Matthew Caws , Ira Elliot and Daniel Lorca .-Early years:...
  
  
• The National
  The National (band)
  The National is an indie rock band formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1999 and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. The band's lyrics are written and sung by Matt Berninger, a baritone...
  
  
• Kate Nash
  Kate Nash
  Kate Marie Nash is an English singer, songwriter, and musician. She had a UK no. 2 hit "Foundations" in 2007, followed by the platinum selling UK number 1 album Made of Bricks. She was named Best Female Artist at the 2008 BRIT Awards....
  
  
• Neon Indian
  Neon Indian
  Neon Indian is an indie electronic band from Denton, Texas. The music is composed by Mexican-born Alan Palomo , also known for his work with the band Ghosthustler and as the artist VEGA. The band's debut, Psychic Chasms, has received many favorable reviews, including the designation of Best New...
  
  
• The New Pornographers
  The New Pornographers
  The New Pornographers is a Canadian indie rock band formed in 1997 in Vancouver, British Columbia.-History:The band's first four albums each ranked in the top 40 on The Village Voices Pazz & Jop year-end poll of hundreds of music reviewers. From 2000 to 2006, either a New Pornographers' album or a...
  
  
• New Young Pony Club
  New Young Pony Club
  New Young Pony Club are an English electronic band from London, consisting of members from London, Hereford, Cambridge and Bromley. Their influences are prominently from post-punk and New Wave....
  
  
• A.C. Newman
• Neutral Milk Hotel
  Neutral Milk Hotel
  Neutral Milk Hotel was an American indie rock band formed by singer, guitarist and songwriter Jeff Mangum in the early 1990s. The band was noted for its experimental sound, obscure lyrics and eclectic instrumentation....
  
  
• Neva Dinova
  Neva Dinova
  Neva Dinova is an indie band from Omaha, Nebraska. Neva Dinova is named after the grandmother of lead singer Jake Bellows. They have been on crank! a record company , and have recorded a split-release with Bright Eyes entitled "One Jug Of Wine, Two Vessels" that was also released on crank! a...
  
  
• NeverShoutNever!
  NeverShoutNever!
  Never Shout Never is an American pop rock band, formed in Joplin, Missouri in 2007. The band has released three albums and six extended plays. Their third album, Time Travel, was released on September 20, 2011.-Career:...
  
  
• Noah And The Whale
  Noah and the Whale
  Noah and the Whale are an English indie folk band from Twickenham, London, England formed in 2006. The band consists of Charlie Fink , Tom Hobden , Matt "Urby Whale" Owens , Fred Abbott , and Michael Petulla .-Early years and Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down...
  
  
• Jim Noir
  Jim Noir
  Jim Noir is the stage name of Alan Roberts, an English singer-songwriter from Davyhulme, Manchester. Noir's stage moniker is in homage to Vic Reeves, whose real name is Jim Moir. He has released two albums to date, 2005's Tower of Love and 2008's self titled LP...
  
  
• The Notwist
  The Notwist
  The Notwist are a German indie rock band. Formed in 1989, the band moved through several musical incarnations despite maintaining a relatively stable lineup...
  
  
• Nouvelle Vague
  Nouvelle Vague (band)
  Nouvelle Vague is a French musical collective led by musicians Marc Collin and Olivier Libaux. Their name is a play on words, meaning "new wave" in French, and "bossa nova" in Portuguese...
  
  
• Novillero
  Novillero
  Novillero is a Canadian indie pop band formed in 1999 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Their musical style has been dubbed "mod-pop".Novillero formed in 1999 out of the ashes of Winnipeg lounge pop darlings Transonic, picking up Rod Slaughter , Dave Berthiaume , and Rusty Matyas along the way...
  
  
• Now It's Overhead
  Now It's Overhead
  Now It's Overhead were an indie rock band fronted by singer/songwriter Andy LeMaster and based in Athens, Georgia. Their first album, a self-titled collection of songs LeMaster wrote over a period of two years in the late 90s, quickly rose from a studio project to a full-time band with the...
  
  

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• of Montreal
  Of Montreal
  Of Montreal is an American rock band from Athens, Georgia. It was founded by frontman Kevin Barnes in 1996, named after a failed romance with a woman "of Montreal." The band is one of the bands of the Elephant 6 collective...
  
  
• Ohbijou
  Ohbijou
  -Biography:Ohbijou began as the solo project of Brantford singer-songwriter Casey Mecija . Through the process of songwriting and composition, Casey discovered a need for the musical support of her sister Jennifer Mecija , whom Casey invited to assist with her early performances...
  
  
• The Ocean Blue
  The Ocean Blue
  The Ocean Blue, formed in Hershey, Pennsylvania in 1986, is an American indie pop band that combines melodic guitars and synthesizers. Its core original members included David Schelzel on lead vocals/guitar, Steve Lau on keyboards/saxophone, Bobby Mittan on bass guitar and Rob Minnig on drums and...
  
  
• Oh No! Oh My!
  Oh No! Oh My!
  -Biography:Oh No Oh My consists of multi-instrumentalists Daniel Hoxmeier, Joel Calvin, Greg Barkley, and Tim Regan. The members of Oh No Oh My started playing music when they were fourteen years old, and all of them play at least three different instruments...
  
  
• The Olivia Tremor Control
  The Olivia Tremor Control
  The Olivia Tremor Control is an indie rock band prominent in the mid to late 1990s which, along with The Apples in Stereo and Neutral Milk Hotel, was one of the three original Elephant 6 projects...
  
  
• The Orchids
  The Orchids
  The Orchids are a Scottish twee pop band that achieved success with Sarah Records. Formed near Glasgow in 1986, the Orchids released a series of underground singles on the influential Sarah Records . The group's line-up comprised James Hackett , John Scally , Chris Quinn , Matthew Drummond and...
  
  
• The Organ
  The Organ
  The Organ was a Canadian indie pop band formed in 2001 in Vancouver, British Columbia. They officially broke up on December 7, 2006, due to illness and personal conflicts in the band.-Early years:...
  
  
• One Night Only
  One Night Only (band)
  One Night Only is a British Indie rock band from Helmsley, North Yorkshire formed in 2003.-History:One Night Only formed in summer 2003, consisting initially of Mark Hayton, Daniel “Pob” Parkin, Sam “Gunner” Ford and Kai "Kai" Smith. The band did not have a vocalist until George Craig, a friend of...
  
  
• Oppenheimer
  Oppenheimer (band)
  Oppenheimer were an indie pop band from Belfast, Northern Ireland. The band was made up of musicians Shaun Robinson and Rocky O'Reilly. Robinson and O'Reilly were previously members of the now disbanded Belfast group, Torgas Valley Reds....
  
  

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• The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
  The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
  The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are an indie pop band from New York City. Their first album was a self-released EP which came out in 2007 through the Painbow label. Their debut self-titled full length album was released on February 3, 2009 via Slumberland Records. The band name comes from an...
  
  
• Papas Fritas
  Papas Fritas
  Papas Fritas is an American indie-rock band that formed in 1992 and released three studio albums before quietly breaking up around 2001. The band's name is Spanish for "French fries" but is also a pun on the phrase "Pop has freed us," which they used as both the name of their music publishing...
  
  
• PAS/CAL
  PAS/CAL
  PAS/CAL are an indie pop band from Detroit, Michigan who formed in 2002 and released three EPs and two 12" inch split singles over the next four years...
  
  
• Passion Pit
  Passion Pit
  Passion Pit is an American electropop band from Cambridge, Massachusetts. The group, which formed in 2007, consists of Michael Angelakos , Ian Hultquist , Ayad Al Adhamy , Jeff Apruzzese and Nate Donmoyer...
  
  
• The Pastels
  The Pastels
  The Pastels are a group from Glasgow, Scotland, UK.Their early records for labels like Whaam!, Creation, Rough Trade, and Glass Records, had a raw and immediate sound, melodic and amateur, which seemed at odds with the time...
  
  
• Peachcake
  Peachcake
  Peachcake is an American indie pop group from Carefree, Arizona, formed in December 2003. Peachcake are known for their high energy live shows along with their heavy interaction and crowd participation with their audiences...
  
  
• Pedro The Lion
  Pedro the Lion
  Pedro the Lion was an indie rock band from Seattle, Washington. Singer-songwriter David Bazan formed the band in 1995 and represented its main creative force, backed by a varying rotation of collaborating musicians. T. W. Walsh is considered to be the sole official band member besides Bazan. In...
  
  
• Pernice Brothers
• Peter, Bjorn and John
• Phoenix
  Phoenix (band)
  Phoenix is a Grammy Award winning French indie rock band from Versailles, founded by Thomas Mars, Deck d'Arcy, Christian Mazzalai and Laurent Brancowitz.-Formation and early years:...
  
  
• The Pillbugs
  The Pillbugs
  The Pillbugs was an American neo-psychedelia power pop/indie pop group that emerged on the indie music scene in the late 1990s.Based in Toledo, Ohio, the band consisted of Mark Mikel , David Murnen , Mark Kelley , Scott Tabner , Dan Chalmers...
  
  
• The Pipettes
  The Pipettes
  The Pipettes are a British indie pop girl group formed in 2003 in Brighton by "svengali" Robert "Monster Bobby" Barry. The group has released two albums, We Are the Pipettes, and Earth vs...
  
  
• Los Planetas
  Los Planetas
  Los Planetas is a Spanish indie group from the city of Granada which started out in the second half of the 1990s and continue now through the 2000s...
  
  
• Playradioplay!
• Pogo
  Pogo (electronic musician)
  Pogo is an electronic music artist living in Perth, Western Australia. His work consists of recording small sounds from a film or a specific scene, and sequencing the sounds together to form a new piece of music.-Music:...
  
  
• Pony Club
  Pony Club
  Pony Club is an international youth organization devoted to the educating youths about horses and riding. Pony Club organizations exist in over 30 countries worldwide...
  
  
• Pony Up!
  Pony Up!
  - Early years :Pony Up! formed on New Year's Eve 2002 and, upon developing a relationship with singer Ben Lee, released their debut, self-titled EP, Pony Up! in 2005 on his friend Steve Aoki's label, Dim Mak.- 2006-2007 :...
  
  
• The Pooh Sticks
• The Postal Service
  The Postal Service
  The Postal Service is an American electronic indie pop band composed of vocalist Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel and Headset.-Background:...
  
  
• The Postmarks
  The Postmarks
  The Postmarks are a pop band from Pompano Beach, Florida. Their self-titled LP was released in February 2007 and has been met with critical acclaim from Rolling Stone and Spin, as well as Pitchfork Media and a host of other music blogs. The group was discovered by Andy Chase of Ivy and...
  
  
• Primal Scream
  Primal Scream
  Primal Scream are a Scottish alternative rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie and Jim Beattie and now based in London. The current lineup consists of Gillespie, Andrew Innes , Martin Duffy , and Darrin Mooney...
  
  
• The Primary 5
  The Primary 5
  The Primary 5 was a pop band from Glasgow, Scotland formed in 2003 by former Teenage Fanclub and Soup Dragons drummer Paul Quinn. The name referred to the band being the fifth that Quinn has played in. The band's first album North Pole was self-released on Quinn's Bellbeat Music label. They signed...
  
  
• The Promise Ring
  The Promise Ring
  The Promise Ring is an American emo band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In their early years, their music was usually classified as emo, but their later albums could be described more accurately as indie pop. They split up in 2002 and temporarily reunited in 2005...
  
  
• Pulp
  Pulp (band)
  Pulp are an English alternative rock band formed in Sheffield in 1978. Their lineup consists of Jarvis Cocker , Russell Senior , Candida Doyle , Mark Webber , Steve Mackey and Nick Banks ....
  
  

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• The Radio Dept.
  The Radio Dept.
  The Radio Dept. is a dream pop band from Lund, Sweden signed to Labrador Records.-History:The band was conceived in 1995 by schoolmates Elin Almered and Johan Duncanson, who named the group after a gas-station-turned-radio-repair-shop called "Radioavdelningen"...
  
  
• The Rain
  The Rain (band)
  The Rain were an indie pop band from Basingstoke, England, active between 1986 and the early 1990s. They later changed their name to Clark Springs.-History:...
  
  
• Razorcuts
  Razorcuts
  Razorcuts were an indie pop band formed in 1984 in London. The group centred around Gregory Webster and Tim Vass , with various musicians including Peter Momtchiloff of Heavenly. Early releases on the Subway Organisation label, including the debut Big Pink Cake led to a deal with Creation Records...
  
  
• Res
• The Remains of Brian Borcherdt
• Reverie Sound Revue
  Reverie Sound Revue
  Reverie Sound Revue is a Canadian indie pop group based out of three major Canadian cities. The group originally formed in Calgary in January 2002 and they disbanded in January 2004 but reformed in September 2005.-History:...
  
  
• Ride
  Ride (band)
  Ride were a British alternative rock band that formed in 1988 in Oxford, England, consisting of Andy Bell, Mark Gardener, Laurence "Loz" Colbert, and Steve Queralt. The band were initially part of the "shoegazing" scene. Following the break-up of the band in 1996, members moved on to various other...
  
  
• Rilo Kiley
  Rilo Kiley
  Rilo Kiley was an American indie rock band based in Los Angeles. Formed in 1998, the band consisted of Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennett, Pierre de Reeder, and Jason Boesel....
  
  
• Rogue Wave
  Rogue Wave (band)
  Rogue Wave is an indie rock band from Oakland, California, , and headed by Zach Schwartz who created the band after losing his job in the dot-com bust. Their first album was Out of the Shadow which was released privately in 2003 and re-released in 2004...
  
  
• The Rocketboys
  The Rocketboys
  The Rocketboys is an indie rock band from Austin, Texas. The band was previously known as Homer Hiccolm & the Rocketboys. Since their formation, they have gained popularity from playing such festivals as Austin City Limits Music Festival, Next Big Nashville, CMJ, and South by...
  
  
• The Rosebuds
  The Rosebuds
  The Rosebuds are an indie rock band from Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Its current members are Ivan Howard and Kelly Crisp...
  
  
• The Ruby Suns
  The Ruby Suns
  The Ruby Suns are an indie/pop group from New Zealand. They formed in 2004 when Californian Ryan McPhun moved to Auckland and started playing in several bands such as The Brunettes and The Tokey Tones.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Russian Futurists
  The Russian Futurists
  The Russian Futurists are a Canadian indie pop band based in Toronto. Their music can be described as lo-fi, indie-electronica fused with a twee-pop temperament...
  
  
• The Ready Set
  The Ready Set
  The Ready Set was formed on November 17, 2007. Jordan Witzigreuter is the vocalist and sole member of the act. Witzigreuter generally writes and records on his own, using a backup band when on tour...
  
  

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• Saint Etienne
  Saint Etienne (band)
  Saint Etienne are an English Pop group comprising Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs. They are named after the French football team AS Saint-Étienne.-History:Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs were childhood friends and former music journalists...
  
  
• Sambassadeur
  Sambassadeur
  Sambassadeur are a Swedish pop band formed in 2003 in Gothenburg. They are named after the Serge Gainsbourg song "Les Sambassadeurs." The band are signed to the Labrador label, and to date, they have released three studio albums and a handful of EPs and singles...
  
  
• Santigold
• Saturday Looks Good to Me
  Saturday Looks Good to Me
  Saturday Looks Good to Me was an experimental indie pop band. The group was led by singer-songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Fred Thomas...
  
  
• Bryan Scary
  Bryan Scary
  Bryan Scary is a pop musician currently based out of Brooklyn, New York. His debut album, The Shredding Tears, was released by Black and Greene Records on October 31, 2006. Scary played all instruments on the album save for the drums, which were played by Jeremy Black of Apollo Sunshine...
  
  
• The Scene Aesthetic
  The Scene Aesthetic
  The Scene Aesthetic is an American two-piece acoustic/indie pop band based in Seattle, Washington, featuring Andrew de Torres of Danger Radio and Eric Bowley.-History:...
  
  
• The School
  The School (UK)
  The School are an indiepop group, based in Cardiff, Wales.Formed in 2007, the band signed with Spanish label Elefant Records, after playing only 4 live shows, supporting Saturday Looks Good to Me....
  
  
• Scrabbel
  Scrabbel
  Scrabbel was formed in 1999 by two old high school friends Dan Lee and Becky Barron. On the strength of their debut show in 2000 at a sold out event for the San Francisco Intl' Asian American Film Festival, they were approached by a label to record a record. They released their first full length in...
  
  
• The Sea Urchins
  The Sea Urchins
  The Sea Urchins were an indie pop band from West Bromwich, England formed in 1986. They were the first band to release a single on Sarah Records.-History:...
  
  
• The Servants
  The Servants
  The Servants was an indie band formed in 1985 in Hayes, Middlesex, England by singer and songwriter David Westlake. The Servants were on 1986’s NME-associated C86 compilation, and the greatly expanded 48-song reissue version in 2006. The Servants was the original home of Luke Haines...
  
  
• Seventeen Evergreen
  Seventeen Evergreen
  Seventeen Evergreen is a San Francisco based duo, composed of Caleb Pate and Nephi Evans, which stylistically weaves psychedelic rock with electronic experimentation. They record on their own Pacific Radio Fire imprint and license material to UK label, Lucky Number Music—also home to Sebastien...
  
  
• She & Him
  She & Him
  She & Him is an American indie pop duo consisting of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward . The band's first album, Volume One, was released on Merge Records in March 2008...
  
  
• Shonen knife
  Shonen Knife
  Shonen Knife, written in Japanese characters as 少年ナイフ, which transliterates as Shōnen Naifu, literally "Boy Knife," is an all-female Japanese pop-punk band formed in Osaka, Japan, in 1981...
  
  
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• Shout Out Louds
  Shout Out Louds
  Shout Out Louds are an indie rock band from Stockholm, Sweden.The group has toured with bands such as The Strokes, Kings of Leon, The Magic Numbers, The Rosebuds, The Essex Green, and Johnossi...
  
  
• The Shins
  The Shins
  The Shins are an American indie rock band comprising singer, songwriter, and guitarist James Mercer, guitarist/bassist Dave Hernandez, Eric Johnson of Fruit Bats, drummer Joe Plummer and bassist Ron Lewis. Their sound draws on several musical genres, including pop, alternative rock, indie rock,...
  
  
• Sia
  Sia Furler
  Sia Kate Isobelle Furler or simply Sia, is an Australian pop, downtempo, and jazz singer and songwriter. In 2000, her single, "Taken for Granted" was a top 10 hit in the United Kingdom. Her 2008 album, Some People Have Real Problems peaked in the top 30 on the Billboard 200...
  
  
• The Siddeleys
  The Siddeleys
  The Siddeleys were a London-based indie pop band, active during the late 1980s. Although they were relatively short-lived, they were influential....
  
  
• The Silly Pillows
  The Silly Pillows
  The Silly Pillows are an American indie pop band formed by Jonathan Caws-Elwitt. They began as a home-recorded duo of Jonathan and his wife Hilary, sharing tapes through the cassette underground. In the 1990s the band evolved into a studio-recorded full lineup, which dissolved in 2000...
  
  
• Sing Sing
  Sing Sing
  Sing Sing Correctional Facility is a maximum security prison operated by the New York State Department of Correctional Services in the town of Ossining, New York...
  
  
• Sissy Bar
  Sissy Bar
  Sissy Bar is an American indie pop band. They formed in Los Angeles, California in 1994 after Joy Ray and Courtney Holt became obsessed with Snoop Dogg's then-hit Gin and Juice and recorded their own version on a friend's 6-track recorder, along with " Happy Pet"...
  
  
• Sleepy Township
  Sleepy Township
  Sleepy Township was an indie pop band which was formed in Perth in 1994 as a side project by Guy Blackman , Mia Schoen , and Paul Williams . The band moved the following year to Melbourne, Australia, with Gorman replacing Williams. Alison Bolger joined the group on bass in 1998...
  
  
• Small Factory
  Small Factory
  Small Factory was an American indie rock band formed in 1991 and based in Providence, R.I.. The group was well regarded as an exemplar of 1990s indie rock although they never achieved great success or influence. The band broke up in 1995, and Dave Auchenbach formed Flora Street, while the other two...
  
  
• The Smiths
  The Smiths
  The Smiths were an English alternative rock band, formed in Manchester in 1982. Based on the song writing partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr , the band also included Andy Rourke and Mike Joyce...
  
  
• Smoosh
  Smoosh
  Smoosh is an American indie pop band from Seattle, Washington. They have released three albums, She Like Electric, Free to Stay and Withershins, all of which were written and performed by singer/keyboardist Asya and her sister, drummer Chloe...
  
  
• Smudge
  Smudge
  Smudge is an Australian rock band. Its frontman Tom Morgan is better known outside Australia as a songwriting collaborator of Evan Dando and his band The Lemonheads.-History:...
  
  
• The Sneetches
  The Sneetches (band)
  The Sneetches was an indie pop/power pop band formed in San Francisco, California in 1985, who released several albums before splitting up in the mid-1990s...
  
  
• Sodagreen
  Sodagreen
  Sodagreen is a Taiwanese independent folk-rock-pop band formed in 2001. Its lineup has been unchanged since 2003. Sodagreen emerged in the Taiwanese indie music scene after receiving the Grand Jury Award in the Hohaiyan Gongliau Rock Festival in 2004, after which it signed a contract with Willlin...
  
  
• The Softies
  The Softies
  The Softies were a musical duo consisting of Rose Melberg and Jen Sbragia, whose genre was love songs using only their two voices and electric guitars....
  
  
• SoKo
  SOKO
  SOKO was an aircraft factory situated in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It gained prominence in Yugoslavia.-Products:* Soko 522* Soko S-55-5 Mk...
  
  
• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
  Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
  Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin is an indie pop band from Springfield, Missouri. Their first full-length album Broom, independently released in 2005, received good reviews from Spin Magazine and they are now signed with Polyvinyl Record Co....
  
  
• The Sounds
  The Sounds
  The Sounds are a Swedish Indie Rock band. Formed in Helsingborg in 1999, the group's musical style has been compared to New Wave acts such as Blondie, The Cars, the Epoxies and Missing Persons....
  
  
• Spectacle
  Spectacle (band)
  Spectacle was an alternative indie pop rock band from California during the 1990s fronted by Blake Miller . Their sound was characterized as "sunny, melodic, jangling folk-rock." Other Spectacle members included Alex Crain, Brad Laner , and Brent Rademaker...
  
  
• Starflyer 59
  Starflyer 59
  Starflyer 59 is an alternative rock band from Riverside, California that was founded in 1993 by Jason Martin, brother of Ronnie Martin of Joy Electric. While Jason Martin has written nearly all of Starflyer 59's songs, the band has included a number of different musicians over the years, including...
  
  
• Starlight Mints
  Starlight Mints
  Starlight Mints are an indie pop band from Norman, Oklahoma. The band was formed in the '90s and has varied in size between four and seven members. The current lineup consists of Allan Vest , Andy Nunez , Marian Love Nunez , Ryan Lindsey and Javier Gonzales...
  
  
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• St. Christopher
  St. Christopher (band)
  St. Christopher are a British indie pop band formed in York in 1984, who released several records on Sarah Records in the late 1980s, and have continued to release records since.-History:...
  
  
• The Stills
  The Stills
  The Stills were a Canadian rock band from Montreal, Quebec, formed in 2000. The band consists of Tim Fletcher , Dave Hamelin , Olivier Corbeil , and Liam O'Neil , Gregory Paquet .-History:The band members have known each other since the age of...
  
  
• The Submarines
  The Submarines
  -Band history:Working as solo artists in Boston, the two members of the band, John Dragonetti and Blake Hazard, were introduced through a mutual friend, Joe Klompus. Dragonetti and Hazard became partners and soon toured Europe together as members of the band. The relationship lasted for four...
  
  
• Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
  Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
  Suburban Kids with Biblical Names is a Swedish twee pop band consisting of Johan Hedberg and Peter Gunnarson. The band was formed in December 2003, in Haninge. Their name comes from a lyric in the song "People" by the Silver Jews.-History:...
  
  
• Sufjan Stevens
  Sufjan Stevens
  Sufjan Stevens is an American singer-songwriter and musician born in Detroit, Michigan. Stevens first began releasing his music on Asthmatic Kitty, a label co-founded with his stepfather, beginning with the 1999 release, A Sun Came...
  
  
• Summer Hymns
  Summer Hymns
  Summer Hymns is a band based in Athens, Georgia.Summer Hymns was formed in 1997 by singer/guitarist Zachary Gresham and drummer Philip Brown, both formerly of mid-90's Athens favorites, Joe Christmas...
  
  
• Supercute!
  Supercute!
  SUPERCUTE! is an American indie pop band from Brooklyn, New York composed of members Rachel Trachtenburg, Julia Cumming, Olivia Ferrer and Delilah Brierley . The band has toured twice with English singer-songwriter Kate Nash in 2010, released a self-titled EP and two non-album songs...
  
  
• Swimclub
  Swimclub
  Swimclub is a New York based indie pop band formed in Brooklyn, NY in 2007. The group is composed of Greg Adams , Gene Davenport , Jim Davenport and Kevin Bryant...
  
  

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• Tahiti 80
  Tahiti 80
  Tahiti 80 are a French indie pop band from Rouen and Paris. The group was founded in 1993 by Xavier Boyer, Pedro Resende, Médéric Gontier and Sylvain Marchand....
  
  
• Talulah Gosh
  Talulah Gosh
  Talulah Gosh were a guitar-pop group from Oxford, England and one of the leading bands of the twee pop movement, taking their name from the headline of an NME interview with Clare Grogan. They supposedly formed when Amelia Fletcher and Elizabeth Price, both wearing Pastels badges, met at a club in...
  
  
• The Tartans
  The Tartans
  The Tartans were a rocksteady group who came together in 1967 in Kingston, Jamaica. The members were initially Prince Lincoln Thompson, Cedric Myton, Devon Russell and Lindberg Lewis....
  
  
• Maria Taylor
  Maria Taylor
  Maria Diane Taylor is an American singer/songwriter from Birmingham, Alabama. She is also a member of the duo Azure Ray with Orenda Fink, as well as the band Now It's Overhead, both of which are signed with Saddle Creek Records...
  
  
• teamAWESOME!
  TeamAWESOME!
  teamAWESOME! is an electro pop band with twee sensibilities based in Boulder, Colorado. They are known for their energetic stage presence, which involves props, lightly choreographed dances and audience participation...
  
  
• Television Personalities
  Television Personalities (band)
  The Television Personalities are an English group with a varying line-up. The only constant member is singer–songwriter Dan Treacy , who uses the band as a vehicle for his music...
  
  
• Tegan and Sara
  Tegan and Sara
  Tegan and Sara are a Canadian indie band composed of identical twin sisters Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Keirsten Quin . Both Tegan and Sara play guitar and keyboard and write songs.-History:...
  
  
• Tender Trap
  Tender Trap
  Tender Trap is an indie rock/twee pop band, based in London , formed in 2001 by three of the five members of Marine Research - Amelia Fletcher, Rob Pursey, and John Downfall....
  
  
• The Tidy Ups
  The Tidy Ups
  The Tidy Ups are a Swedish twee pop/rock band. They were originally from Skellefteå, but most of the members now live in Stockholm. The band's members are Jenny Westerlund, Maria Stäck, Matilda Norberg, Olov Antonsson and Emma Andersson....
  
  
• This Is Ivy League
  This Is Ivy League
  This Is Ivy League is an indie band formed in 2005 by friends Ryland Blackinton and Alex Suarez .-Formation of This Is Ivy League:...
  
  
• This Providence
  This Providence
  This Providence is a four-piece Alternative Rock band from Seattle, Washington. The band consists of Dan Young , David Blaise , Gavin Phillips , and Andy Horst .-Formation and early history:...
  
  
• Thomas Tantrum
  Thomas Tantrum
  Thomas Tantrum are an indie pop band from Southampton, England.- Biography :Thomas Tantrum consists of Megan Thomas , Dave Wade Brown , David Miatt , and Jim Shivers ....
  
  
• Those Dancing Days
  Those Dancing Days
  Those Dancing Days are an indie pop band from Nacka, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden. Most frequently compared to Northern Soul and 1960s era girl-groups, the band formed in 2005 while the members were all still in school. They are currently signed to Wichita Recordings. The band consists of five...
  
  
• Throw Me the Statue
  Throw Me the Statue
  -Biography:Throw Me the Statue was formed by Scott Reitherman after he began self-releasing CDs of buzzy, lo-fi indie pop in 2004. Friends, including Pedro the Lion member Casey Foubert, pitched in to help as Reitherman added instruments including drum machines and glockenspiels to round out his...
  
  
• Thriving Ivory
  Thriving ivory
  Thriving Ivory is an American rock band who originated in the San Francisco Bay area. They released their self-titled Wind-up Records debut album on June 24, 2008. The debut album reached #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart on the strength of the charting single "Angels on the Moon"...
  
  
• Tiga
  Tiga (musician)
  Tiga is the stage name of Montreal-born DJ/producer Tiga James Sontag . His album Sexor won the 2007 Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year.-Career:He graduated from Selwyn House School, a prestigious school in Westmount...
  
  
• Tiger Trap
  Tiger Trap
  Tiger Trap was an all-female twee-pop foursome composed of high school friends Angela Loy and Rose Melberg, with Heather Dunn and Jen Braun. The group recorded for K Records. The name "Tiger Trap" comes from the very first Calvin and Hobbes cartoon. Formed in Sacramento, California in 1992, they...
  
  
• Tilly and the Wall
  Tilly and the Wall
  Tilly and the Wall is an indie pop group from Omaha, Nebraska. Their name originated from a children's book called Tillie and the Wall, written by Leo Lionni...
  
  
• Tim & Jean
  Tim & Jean
  Tim & Jean is the name of an indie-pop duo from Mandurah, Australia. The group consists of Tim Ayre and Jean Capotorto.-Biography:The band began by recording demo tapes in Capotorto's bedroom studio in Mandurah...
  
  
• Times New Viking
  Times New Viking
  Times New Viking is a lo-fi indie rock band from Columbus, Ohio. The lineup consists of guitarist Jared Phillips, drummer Adam Elliott, and Beth Murphy on keyboards. Murphy and Elliott share vocal duties....
  
  
• The Ting Tings
  The Ting Tings
  The Ting Tings are an English music duo comprising Jules de Martino and Katie White . They formed in December 2007 while based at Islington Mill Studios in Salford...
  
  
• The Vaccines
  The Vaccines
  The Vaccines are an English indie rock band who formed in West London in 2010. The band's debut album, What Did You Expect from the Vaccines?, was released through Columbia Records on 14 March 2011 and reached number 4 in the UK Album Chart. They are currently the biggest selling new band of 2011....
  
  
• Tiny Dancers
  Tiny Dancers
  Tiny Dancers were an English band from South Elmsall, West Yorkshire. They are David William Kay , Chris Etherington , Dale Wathey , Duncan Morrison and David Glover...
  
  
• Toro Y Moi
  Toro Y Moi
  Chazwick Bundick better known by his stage name Toro Y Moi, is an American recording artist and producer. His music has taken on many forms since he began recording, but he is often identified with the chillwave movement of summer 2010...
  
  
• Travis
  Travis (band)
  Travis are a post-Britpop band from Glasgow, Scotland, comprising Fran Healy , Dougie Payne , Andy Dunlop and Neil Primrose...
  
  
• Trembling Blue Stars
  Trembling Blue Stars
  Trembling Blue Stars is a London-based band that currently includes members Robert Wratten and Beth Arzy . Begun as a side project of Wratten's previous band Northern Picture Library, Trembling Blue Stars became Wratten's main band when Northern Picture Library broke up in 1995...
  
  
• Trixie's Big Red Motorbike
  Trixie's Big Red Motorbike
  Trixie's Big Red Motorbike were an indiepop band formed in the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom, in 1981.They released two singles, one e.p. and one flexidisc...
  
  
• The Trolleyvox
  The Trolleyvox
  The Trolleyvox is an American Indie pop band from Philadelphia, PA. It was formed in 1996 by Andrew Chalfen and Beth Filla.The band's style drew comparisons to The New Pornographers, while a YouTube video for "Just You Wait" turned it into an anthem against George W...
  
  
• Tullycraft
  Tullycraft
  Tullycraft is an indie pop band from Seattle, Washington who formed in 1995. They have been associated with the genre of twee, in fact, they are considered to be one of the forefathers of the American twee pop movement alongside Black Tambourine, Tiger Trap, Lois, Honeybunch, and Beat Happening...
  
  
• Two Door Cinema Club
  Two Door Cinema Club
  Two Door Cinema Club are an indie rock band from Bangor and Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland. Formed in 2007, the band is composed of band members: Sam Halliday , Alex Trimble and Kevin Baird...
  
  
• Two Spot Gobi
  Two Spot Gobi
  Two Spot Gobi are an alternative organic pop band from Brighton, UK.Current members of the band are lead singer James Robinson, cellist Rob Lewis, guitarist Dino Randhawa, bassist Ben Daniel, trumpeter Matt Ellis and drummer Ben Matthews....
  
  

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• The Vaselines
  The Vaselines
  The Vaselines are an alternative rock band from Glasgow, Scotland. Formed in 1986, the band was originally a duo between its songwriters Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee, but later added James Seenan and Eugene's brother Charlie Kelly on bass and drums respectively from the band Secession. McKee had...
  
  
• Velocity Girl
  Velocity Girl
  Velocity Girl was an American indie rock band formed in 1989 in College Park, Maryland, although it was generally known as a Washington, DC-area band...
  
  
• Verdena
  Verdena
  Verdena are an Italian alternative rock band originating from Albino, Bergamo. As of February 2011, they have released five full-length albums on Universal music.-History:...
  
  
• The Virgins
  The Virgins
  The Virgins are an American band formed in 2006 in New York, consisting of Donald Cumming , Wade Oates , and Nick Ackerman .Their first outing on the road was a 7-week American tour in direct support for the Australian band Jet...
  
  
• Voxtrot
  Voxtrot
  Voxtrot was an indie pop band from Austin, Texas, USA. Their first recordings were released in 2003 and their final shows were in June 2010.-Biography:Voxtrot was formed in Austin, Texas by singer/songwriter Ramesh Srivastava in the early 2000s...
  
  
• VV Brown
  VV Brown
  Vanessa Brown , also known as VV Brown, is an English singer, songwriter, model, and producer signed to Island Records in the United Kingdom and to Universal Republic Records and Capitol Records in the United States...
  
  

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• Chris Walla
  Chris Walla
  Christopher Walla is an American musician and music producer, most notable for being the guitarist for the band Death Cab for Cutie. He is also a former DJ of KCWU, 88.1 The Burg...
  
  
• Wavves
  Wavves
  Wavves is an American surf pop/noise punk band based out of San Diego, California.-History:Wavves started in 2008 as the recording project of Nathan Williams. Wavves released several 7"s as well as a cassette leading up to the first two releases 'Wavves' and 'Wavvves'...
  
  
• We Are Scientists
  We Are Scientists
  We Are Scientists is a New York-based indie rock band that formed in Berkeley, California in 2000. Originally formed of Keith Murray on drums, Chris Cain playing bass guitar and Scott Lamb providing vocals and guitar, before Michael Tapper became drummer and Keith became vocalist and guitarist...
  
  
• A Weather
  A Weather
  A Weather is an indie band from Portland, Oregon, fronted by Aaron Gerber and Sarah Winchester. Other members include Zach Boyle, Aaron Krenkel and Louis Thomas...
  
  
• The Weather Prophets
  The Weather Prophets
  The Weather Prophets were a British indie band formed in London in 1986 after the break-up of The Loft. After two studio albums, the band split up, with singer Peter Astor going on to a solo career.- History :...
  
  
• The Wedding Present
  The Wedding Present
  The Wedding Present are a British indie rock group based in Leeds, England, formed in 1985 from the ashes of the Lost Pandas. The band's music has evolved from fast-paced indie rock in the vein of their most obvious influences The Fall, Buzzcocks and Gang of Four to more varied forms...
  
  
• The Weepies
  The Weepies
  The Weepies are an indie pop-folk duo of married singer-songwriters Deb Talan and Steve Tannen. Their music has been described as "subtly intoxicating folk-pop".-Formation and early years :...
  
  
• What Made Milwaukee Famous
  What Made Milwaukee Famous
  What Made Milwaukee Famous is an indie rock band from Austin, Texas.In 2005, WMMF performed for Austin City Limits with Franz Ferdinand, making them one of the only unsigned bands to play for the show in its -year history. In 2006, the band signed with Barsuk Records, which re-released their 2004...
  
  
• White Rabbits
  White Rabbits (band)
  White Rabbits is an American six-piece indie rock band based in Brooklyn, NY, originally from Columbia, Missouri. The band released its debut studio album, Fort Nightly, on May 22, 2007. They currently record for TBD Records.-History:...
  
  
• The Whitlams
  The Whitlams
  The discography of The Whitlams consists of six studio albums, two live albums, one compilation album, and eighteen singles.-Studio albums:-Live albums:-Compilation albums:-Singles:-Videos:-Music videos:-Awards:...
  
  
• Brooke White
  Brooke White
  Brooke Elizabeth White is an American indie pop/folk-pop singer-songwriter and actress from Mesa, Arizona who was the fifth place finalist on the seventh season of American Idol. In 2005, White released her first studio album, called Songs from the Attic.White's first post-Idol album High Hopes &...
  
  
• A Witness
  A Witness
  A Witness were an alternative rock band formed in 1982 in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, by Rick Aitken , Vince Hunt and a drum machine, in 1986 replaced by Alan Brown...
  
  
• The Wombats
  The Wombats
  The Wombats are an indie rock band formed in Liverpool, England. The band comprises native Liverpudlians Matthew Murphy and Dan Haggis , alongside Norwegian-born Tord Øverland-Knudsen...
  
  
• World Domination Enterprises
  World Domination Enterprises
  World Domination Enterprises were an English indie rock band, who were active in the 1980s. The band mixed elements of indie rock, post-hardcore , and dub.World Domination Enterprises' sound was defined by their atonal guitar...
  
  
• Would-be-goods
  Would-be-goods
  Would-be-goods are a British indie pop band fronted by singer Jessica Griffin, noted for her precise received pronunciation accent when singing . Their name was inspired by the 1899 adventure story by children's author E...
  
  

See also

• List of indie rock artists
• List of alternative rock artists