* Aberdeen City ( band ), Boston based indie / alternative rock band.

Category: Scottish indie rock groups

Love initially gained notoriety in the Los Angeles indie rock scene as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for alternative rock band Hole, which she formed in 1989 with lead guitarist Eric Erlandson.

* Conductor ( album ), an album by indie rock band The Comas

* Constantines, indie rock band

A flourishing independent rock music culture brought forth Chicago indie.

* CAMP ( band ), a Swiss indie rock band

Hudson is a folk indie rock band with two narrative concept albums released to date.

* The indie rock band The Essex Green recorded a song titled " Elsinore " for their 2006 album Cannibal Sea.

* The Enemy ( UK band ), an indie rock band from Coventry, England

Fredericton is also known for its indie rock scene and the record label Forward Music Group.

* Germans ( band ), a Canadian indie rock band

Internationally-recognised musicians such as metal acts Striborg and Psycroptic, indie-electro bands The Paradise Motel and The Scientists of Modern Music, singer / songwriters Sacha Lucashenko ( of The Morning After Girls ), Michael Noga ( of The Drones ), and Monique Brumby, two-thirds of indie rock band Love of Diagrams, post punk band Sea Scouts, blues guitarist Phil Manning ( of blues-rock band Chain ), power-pop group The Innocents are all successful expatriates.

He was one of the first broadcasters to play psychedelic rock and progressive rock records on British radio, and he is widely acknowledged for promoting artists working in various genres, including pop, reggae, indie pop, indie rock, alternative rock, punk, hardcore punk, breakcore, grindcore, death metal, British hip hop, electronic music and dance music.

Juliana Hatfield ( born July 27, 1967 in Wiscasset, Maine, United States ), is an American guitarist / singer-songwriter and author from the Boston area, formerly of the indie rock bands Blake Babies and Some Girls.

Hatfield and Strohm shared songwriting credits and often sang together in harmony or octaves, creating a memorable " boy-girl " sound rarely encountered in rock ( except in the work of X and a few later indie bands such as Velocity Girl, Hazel, Quasi, Low, Mates of State, and Rainer Maria ).

Category: American indie rock musicians

Belle and Sebastian are an indie pop band formed in Glasgow in January 1996.

* Cone Five, an indie noise-pop band from Winnipeg, Manitoba, active from 1999 to 2006

On the 2008 album In Ear Park by the indie / pop band Department of Eagles, a bowed upright bass is featured quite prominently on the songs Teenagers and In Ear Park.

* Monika Fikerle, drummer of indie band Love of Diagrams

* Meg and Dia, American indie rock band

* Metric ( band ), a Canadian indie rock band

Singer-guitarists Corin Tucker of Heavens to Betsy and Carrie Brownstein of Excuse 17, bands active in both the queercore and riot grrrl scenes, cofounded the celebrated indie / punk band Sleater-Kinney in 1994.

* Princeton ( band ), the indie pop band from Los Angeles, CA

A highly experimental indie rock scene that emerged during the 2000s has seen such bands as Liars, Black Dice, Le Tigre, Parts & Labor and These Are Powers take influences from a variety of sources, including dance-punk, synth punk, electroclash, noise rock, psychedelic rock and no wave.

* Cardinal ( album ), a 1994 album by indie pop duo, Cardinal

David Horvitz played the instrument in a contemporary indie rock scene setting on Xiu Xiu's album, The Air Force.

First Ranken then Hunt left the band, the latter going on to become singer / songwriter in an indie band called Bish, whose self-titled debut album was released in 2001.

* " Grey ", a song from the album Fantastic Playroom album by indie / electronica band New Young Pony Club

* Mines ( album ), a 2010 album by indie rock band Menomena

* Transmissions ( Cold War Kids EP ), an album by indie rock band Cold War Kids

Northampton, MA-based indie rock band Winterpills have a song on their 2005 debut album Winterpills called Threshing Machine.

As the first indie outsiders to achieve mainstream success on their own terms ( their second album proper, 1985's Meat Is Murder, made Number 1 in the UK ), they elevated rock's standard four-piece formula to new heights of magic and poetry.

Motorcade was named one of the best indie releases of 1994 by Pulse !, and after a concert at the Great American Music Hall Bonnie Simmons agreed to manage the band, leading to them signing a deal with Capricorn Records, who re-released the album in 1995.

* The 2005 album Illinoise from indie musician Sufjan Stevens features a track entitled " The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts.

Their next album, 1993's Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements, was their first American release under Elektra, and became an underground hit in both the U. S. and the U. K. Mark Jenkins commented in The Washington Post that with this album, Stereolab " continues the glorious drones of indie work, giving celestial sweep to garage-rock organ pumping and rhythm-guitar strumming ".

Existing indie bands that were now able to enter the mainstream included more musically and emotionally complex bands including Modest Mouse ( whose 2004 album Good News for People Who Love Bad News reached the US top 40 and was nominated for a Grammy Award ), Bright Eyes ( who in 2004 had two singles at the top of the Billboard magazine Hot 100 Single Sales ) and Death Cab for Cutie ( whose 2005 album Plans debuted at number four in the US, remaining on the Billboard charts for nearly one year and achieving platinum status and a Grammy nomination ).

The second single from the album, " Slide Away ", topped the UK indie rock charts.

The band released its first nationally-distributed album Deluxe in 1993 on its own indie label, Swell Records, which caught the attention of major record labels and radio.

* LP ( Ambulance LTD album ), a 2004 indie rock album by Ambulance LTD