China, the world's top exporter of laptop computers, T-shirts and toys is now trying to export indie rock.
Close by is Vaudeville Mews, a performance space for indie rock shows.
Indie rock group The Black Keys enjoyed the most success overall, receiving four of the six awards for which they had been shortlisted.
Just across the street is Maison, where the jazz line up is supplemented by plenty of local dance DJs and indie rock talent.
Since then, they've grown into an influential indie rock collective that's made three albums and done at least as many international tours.
His innovation was to take indie rock quietly toward melody, a space that had been left surprisingly wide open by his peers.
Steve Wynn is celebrated for his ground-breaking work with The Dream Syndicate, a band that helped invent the American indie rock scene of the 1980s.
That's an indie rock band led by the songwriter Stephin Merritt.
"It occurred to me that something that seems to be kind of lacking in so-called indie rock these days is an element of sex and danger, " Everett says.
The music on Hombre Lobo is full of emotional longing and delicate sentiments, but also a more primal element something Everett says is missing from much of indie rock.
Dispensed with a warm, wry warble he's like indie rock's Kermit the Frog, in the absolute best possible way Barzelay's lyrics have a way of hiding humor in melancholy, and vice versa.
Indie rock used to be synonymous with independence.
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He traveled to China four years ago and discovered an indie rock scene in Wuhan, a grimy industrial city of more than 8 million people, where he now owns a club with a Chinese partner.
Two, I wanted to introduce American indie rock lovers to Yanka's music in hopes that they will seek out the original recordings and go on to learn more about Russian music and perhaps even, Russian culture.
And when Blur later made a decent record that aped American indie rock, I still didn't care, except maybe for that little woohoo on their shameless hit "Song 2, " now best known as a TV commercial thing.
For example, when he gets into an obscure indie rock band, he shares an album with his friend, who likes it so much that he recommends it to his cousin, who spreads the word to her friends.
One hopeful sign: Thursday night's showcase at the Belmont in the Warehouse district featured a dream lineup including Alt-J, Atlas Genius, Frightened Rabbit, Guards and the Joy Formidable the kind of groups that might be associated with indie rock.
Catherine Moore, director of the Music Business graduate program at New York University's Steinhardt School, says in the world of crossover music the difficulty is in genres, such as indie rock, that are more songwriter-based and where the lyrics are very important.
The genres represented span music mixes by electronic dance music heavyweights such as Swedish House Mafia, Tiesto, Skrillex to Indie rock curated by artists like Cobra Starship, Pete Wentz, RAC, Dragonette to notables like Open-Format and hip hop celebrity DJs such as Oprah and Barack Obama's DJ Cassidy.
Rare vinyl covers the walls and a DJ spins every night with an emphasis on indie-rock.
Work is a lovely collection of streamlined indie-rock, delicate orchestral pop and intimate fireside balladry.
Newman, the Canadian band New Pornographers is virtually peerless in the world of power-pop and indie-rock.
Movie actress Zooey Deschanel has expanded her ambitions recently, moving from the big screen to the indie-rock stage.
Though Ms. Haden was well known in indie-rock circles, "Petra Haden Sings the Who Sell Out" raised her profile.
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Those dancing fans include a significant number of females, which sets the group apart from many of its indie-rock peers.
Indie-rock style music plays throughout the spot, which opens with a garage door lifting to reveal a silver LS inside.
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Inara George is known to pop audiences as the lilting voice behind the indie-rock duo The Bird and the Bee.
While critical reaction to the first record was mixed, 1998's Letting Off The Happiness put Oberst's name on the indie-rock radar.
Having originally grown out of the Austin indie-rock band Okkervil River, Shearwater completes its final transformation into a distinct unit with Rook.
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