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.
An indie-rock up-and-comer with five full-length albums, the married duo of Kori Gardner Hammel and Jason Hammel performs as Mates of State.
When the Montreal rock group The Arcade Fire released its first album, 2004's near-universally loved Funeral, the band became an overnight indie-rock titan.
The Minneapolis-based indie-rock band Tapes n Tapes recently joined host David Dye on World Cafe with songs from its second full-length release, Walk It Off.
On the cusp of recording Let It Die, Feist joined the Canadian indie-rock supergroup Broken Social Scene for their wildly successful You Forgot It in People.
With its unapologetically simple lyrics and pleasant pop melodies, "Oh Girl, " for instance, comes off like an early Beatles song with more of an indie-rock kick.
Liturgy, whose members live in Brooklyn, records for the respected indie-rock label Thrill Jockey, which made its name in the mid-nineties releasing avant-garde but civilized rock.
The Superchunk fan of 1993 would have no trouble recognizing the song as the product of the group that helped define the indie-rock scene of the post- Nirvana era.
Formed in 1999 as a recording project for two members of the more traditional indie-rock band Raccoon, Dr. Dog became a full-time gig when Raccoon ended in the early '00s.
Formed in 1999 as a recording project for two members of the more traditional indie-rock band Raccoon, Dr. Dog became a full-time gig when Raccoon folded in the early '00s.
But where other bands often fail to inject their own personality into the indie-rock canon, The Broken West (until recently known as The Brokedown) pulls its influences together smartly and cohesively.
Her previous album, Let It Die, helped solidify her as a darling of the indie-rock scene, but her major label debut is an album that both the critics and the broader public seem to love.
Electronica rules at more Design District and Downtown clubs, lovely jazz spots are not hard to find, and a cosy but strong indie-rock scene centres around Sweat Records (5505 NE Second Ave) and Churchill's (5501 NE Second Avenue).
They seemed to have stepped out of a Mickey Spillane novel as much as indie-rock, but on records they made after their respective bands dissolved, both men toned down both their pose and their music.
Throughout his career, the work of singer-songwriter Eric Bachmann hasn't exactly radiated warmth, whether he was unfurling surly screeds as lead singer of Archers of Loaf or re-creating himself as a crooning indie-rock Neil Diamond with Crooked Fingers.
Its dystopian sensibility, international range of sounds, and smart, chic nod to the some of most respected innovators of '80s new wave and post-punk music results in a memorably stirring entry into the budding genre of indie-rock world music.
According to Triton Digital, which tracks Web traffic, Pandora, which streams a full spectrum of music 24 hours a day, generates the biggest numbers. (NPR.org, the network's overall website, ranks sixth, with NPR Music accounting for 15% of its audience.) Sites like Pitchfork, which appeals largely to indie-rock fans who appreciate not just music and videos but at-times-scalding reviews, are also playing the game.
"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 lineup includes Lollapalooza's well-known mix of indie bands, singer-songwriters and country, hip-hop, rock and electronic acts.
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.
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