Indie Pop Archive

  • Broken Bells

    Broken Bells

    If you haven't yet acquired the Broken Bells album, stop what you're doing right now and get it.

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    Amazon’s Essential Indie Albums of 2009

    I found a Listmania list on Amazon for the Essential Indie Albums of 2009. Lot of good choices on there (Passion Pit, Dark Was The Night Compilation, Andrew Bird), but also a few that are kind of “meh” in my mind. Check out the list,...

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    Video – Blind Pilot on CNN

    Indie band Blind Pilot plays a song on CNN Live, and then speaks briefly about touring the West Coast on bicycle.

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  • Owl City

    Owl City

    If you like what Ben Gibbard, Jimmy Tamborello, and Jenny Lewis did with Postal Service, you will LOVE Owl City.

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    What Is Indie Music?

    In popular music, independent music, often generally abbreviated as “indie”, is a term used to describe independence from major commercial record labels and an autonomous, Do-It-Yourself approach to recording and publishing. – Wikipedia I was having a conversation the other day about where exactly the...

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  • Holy Fiction

    Holy Fiction

    Combining the drone and delay of 90's shoegaze with jangly guitars, soaring strings, and falsetto-inflected vocals, Holy Fiction's music is impossible to call anything but rock.

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  • The Boy Who Knew Too Much – Mika

    The Boy Who Knew Too Much – Mika

    If Freddie Mercury and Barry Gibb had a love child, it would be Mika.

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  • Stockholm Syndrome – Derek Webb

    Stockholm Syndrome – Derek Webb

    Derek Webb's latest album, Stockholm Syndrome, is a new direction for the traditionally singer-songwriter styled artist.

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  • Sleeping At Last

    Sleeping At Last

    "Sleeping at Last [has] been noted for their potential, but rarely for their achievements." - Stereo Subversion

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  • Paper Route

    Paper Route

    The golden boys of the new Nashville indie rock circle, Paper Route's new album, Absence, is an impassioned collection of modern music.

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