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Entertainment Weekly’s editors feature the 'Indie Rock 25', profiling albums from 1984 (apparently the ‘beginning of indie’) to present, including classics from The Hold Steady, The Replacements, Yo La Tengo, The Pixies, Spoon, Pavement, Built to Spill, and The White Stripes to name a few.
Afterall, Radiohead's In Rainbows has been out less than six months, the band pissed off a lot of fans back in October for what was considered a dubious 'first release' and there are many other albums on this list that are well-oiled classics - truly landmark albums that have etched themselves in to the history of 'indie rock' - and beyond - to a greater degree than In Rainbows has or ever can.
Lastly, Radiohead has become so commercialized as an entity in the past year that I would argue they no longer fit into the 'indie rock' genre to begin with.
Nevertheless, there are still some good choices on this list, just their position on the list is highly question, even head-scratching.
1 - Radiohead – In Rainbows (2007) Stream: Radiohead's MySpace page
2 – Spoon – Ga Ga Ga (2007) – MP3: Eddie’s Ragga
3 – The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America (2006) MP3: Stuck Between Stations (Live)
4 – Bright Eyes – I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (2005) MP3: Lua 
5 – Arcade Fire – Funeral (2004) MP3: Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
6 – The White Stripes – Elephant (2003) Stream White Stripes
7 – Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights (2003) MP3: Obstacle 1
8 – The Shins – Oh, Inverted World (2001) MySpace: Turn Me On
9 – Yo La Tengo - And then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (2000) MP3: None from this album, but there are eight free MP3s from Yo La Tengo
10 – Sleater-Kinney – The Hot Rock (1990) MP3: Get Up
Here's the entire 'Top 25 indie albums' list from EW's website.
Check back to the site later today or tomorrow (3/31) for a zip file of the MP3s above, including some bonus tracks.
Labels: Best Indie Albums, Best Indie Artists, Classic Indie Releases, Interpol, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Sleater-Kinney, Spoon, Top 25 Indie Albums, Yo La Tengo
Did you miss Coachella? Well, there’s good news for alternative and indie rock fans in the San Francisco Bay Area and elsewhere who did. There's a "mini-Cochella" (what's Coachella?) without the searing heat of the central southern California desert.
On Saturday, June 9, San Francisco rock station 105 Live FM is hosting an impressive line-up of artists from the indie rock scene, including Bloc Party, Interpol, Social Distortion, Kaiser Chiefs, Cold War Kids, CSS, Shiny Toy Guns and many more (full listing below).
The all-day festival begins at 11:30 am at the famous Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mt. View, California, approximately 30 miles south of San Francisco. The Shoreline has both enclosed and lawn seating (see below for ticket information) - Official website
- Bloc Party mp3s
Interpol
- Official website
- Interpol mp3s
- Interpol videos
Queens of the Stone Age
- Official website
- Queens of the Stone Age mp3s
–Official website
-Social Distortion mp3s
The Faint
–Official website
-The Faint mp3s
The Bravery
-Official website
-The Bravery mp3s
Kaiser Chiefs
-Official website
-Kaiser Chiefs mp3s
Silversun Pickups
-Official website
-Silversun Pickups mp3s
Cold War Kids
-Official website
Cold War Kids mp3s
Shiny Toy Guns
-Official website_
-Shiny Toy Guns: Le Disko(mp3)
Sum 41
-Official website
-Sum 41 mp3s
CSS
-Official website
(mp3)
The Lovemakers
-Official website
-The Lovemakers mp3s
Street to Nowhere
-Official website
-Street to Nowhere mp3s
Scissors for Lefty
-Official website
-Scissors for Lefty mp3s
The Matches
-Official website
-The Matches mp3s
Every Move A Picture
official website
Tiger Army
official website
Honeycut
official website
Minipop
official website
Audrye Sessions
official website
Immigrant
official website
Poor Bailey
official website
- Live 105 Bloc Party page
- Review of last year’s Live 105 BDF – Spin.com
Labels: Alternative Rock Festivals, Cold War Kids, CSS, Indie Rock Festivals, Interpol, Kaiser Chiefs, Live 105 BDF Bloc Party, Queens of the Stone Age, Shiny Toy Gun, Social Distortion, Sum 41, The Bravery








