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.

" Signing to indie label Rough Trade Records, they released their first single, " Hand in Glove ", in May 1983.

The European Music Office's report on Music in Europe claimed that Switzerland's hip hop scene is " particularly innovative and advanced ", featuring Unik Records ( the first European indie rap label ).

A group that formed after Stang and Drummond began mailing their first pamphlet to publishers, using such pseudonyms as " Puzzling Evidence ", " Dr. Howl ", " Susie the Floozie ", " Palmer Vreedeez ", and " Pope Sternodox ", helped forward the literature to a number of underground pop-culture figures such as R. Crumb, Paul Mavrides, Harry S. Robins, the New Wave rock group Devo, and Erik Lindgren ( producer and president of indie label Arf!

The city has also produced many other musicians, including singer and songwriter John Waite, who first became known as lead singer of The Babys in the 1970s ; Paul James, better known as The Rev, former guitarist of English punk band Towers Of London who is now in the band Day 21 and plays guitar live on tour for The Prodigy, Chris Acland, drummer of the early 1990s shoegaze band Lush ; Tom English, drummer of North East indie band Maxïmo Park and Steve Kemp, drummer of the indie band Hard-Fi.

Following the runaway success of The Beautiful Letdown, a compilation titled The Early Years: 1997-2000 was released, which featured Switchfoot's first three indie albums released under Re: think records including the original artwork for all the albums.

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 ".

Interest began to be revived in the indie electronic and electroclash movements in the late 1990s and, in the first decade of the 21st century, it enjoyed a widespread revival with commercial success for acts including La Roux, Kesha and Owl City.

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.

Among the first acts to be signed were Slayer ( which followed Rubin from Def Jam ), Danzig, The Four Horsemen, Masters of Reality, and Wolfsbane, as well as indie rockers The Jesus and Mary Chain and controversial stand-up comedian Andrew Dice Clay.

The first stirrings of recognition came when indie writer Steve Lamacq referred to Ride in a review for the NME as " The House of Love with chainsaws ".

In 1990, the band's first album Ichabod and I was released on a small British indie label, Action Records.

But it was with their second single " Sensitive " that they first received significant critical attention, giving them a top-20 indie hit and with a subsequent placing in John Peel's 1989 Festive 50.

Playing With Fire was Spacemen 3's first record to chart and one of the breakthrough indie albums of the year.

In 2004 the band released The Dwarves Must Die, its first LP for the indie label Sympathy for the Record Industry, which featured guest appearances from Dexter Holland ( The Offspring ), Nick Oliveri ( Queens of the Stone Age ), Nash Kato ( Urge Overkill ), and voice actor Gary Owens.

The Yellow Tape did very well, becoming the first indie tape to achieve platinum status in Canada.

Every Day and Every Night is the third record and the first EP by Nebraskan indie rock band Bright Eyes.

It was also in the 90s that the first seeds of what would grow into being the Brazilian indie scene were planted, with the creation of indie festivals such as Abril Pro Rock and, later in the decade, Porão do Rock.

Common Market will be the first official new release of Mass Line, a co-op indie record label run by Common Market, Blue Scholars and Gabriel Teodros.

Tortoise was among the first American indie rock bands to incorporate styles closer to Krautrock, dub, minimalism, electronica and various jazz styles, rather than the standard rock and roll and punk that had dominated indie rock for years.

Patchen's musicians are outsiders in established jazz circles, and Patchen himself has remained outside the San Francisco poetry group, maintaining a self-imposed isolation, even though his conversion to poetry-and-jazz is not as extreme or as sudden as it may first appear.

At first he tries to fit in, then his contact with other downtrodden outsiders renews his old idealism.

Ali bin Abdullah was at first reluctant to share power, which had centered in his household, with an infant bureaucracy run and staffed mainly by outsiders.

The first revolution was the overthrow of colonialism, the second the defeat of division and false frontiers created by outsiders in society, and the third to create honorable living for every person.

The name Rohirrim is Sindarin for People of the Horse-lords ( sometimes translated simply as Horse-lords ) and was mostly used by outsiders: the name they had for themselves was Eorlingas, after their king Eorl the Young who had first brought them to Rohan.

This caused the people of Pierre Part and the rest of the Cajun community to be labeled as " backwards " or " ignorant " by outsiders, and in many cases from the 1910s to the 1970s, students whose first language was French were punished corporally in school for speaking it.

The area was in the domain of the Seneca tribe and was first settled by outsiders around 1818.

The town was first settled by outsiders after 1827.

The first settlers were occasionally asked to leave due to disputes with the tribal members, but eventually the population of outsiders grew.

The town was first settled by outsiders around 1791 and was previously known as West Cicero, NY.

It was first settled by outsiders around 1797.

The town was first settled by outsiders around 1798, but permanent settlement began around 1801.

The town was first settled by outsiders around 1789, as Yankees from New England and other migrants moved into western New York.

European traders first appeared in the area prior to 1700, and the Native Americans peacefully traded with these outsiders, although some minor skirmishes did occur.

Some Georgetown residents concerned about outsiders entering their wealthy neighborhood wrote letters against a station, but no serious plans for a station were ever drafted in the first place.

It was first settled by outsiders around 1794.

The first threatened to inundate traditional villages, the second gave outsiders control over vast forest lands.

With the guidance of Hopi Indians, Cárdenas and his men became the first outsiders to see the Grand Canyon.

When the first outsiders visited Eyam a year later, they found that fewer than a quarter of the village had survived the plague.

The first newspaper published by a Native American tribe gave a “ voice to the American insiders ” who had been forced to become “ outsiders ".

One of the first outsiders to arrive was Clara Barton ( 1821-1912 ), nurse and president of the American Red Cross.

Its first series was Bray's Colonel Heeza Liar, but from the beginning the studio brought in outsiders to direct promising new series.

They were eventually beaten by heavy underdog outsiders Greece 1 – 0, credited to striker Angelos Charisteas, marking the first time in the history of the competition that the final featured the same two teams as the opening match.

The first outsiders to settle on the island were Russian explorers under Grigory Shelekhov, who founded a Russian settlement on Kodiak Island at Three Saints Bay near the present-day village of Old Harbor in 1784.