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Arcade Fire
Canadian indie rock band
Neutral Milk Hotel
American indie rock band
Dinosaur Jr.
American rock band formed in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1984
Esperanza Spalding
American jazz bassist and singer (born 1984)

Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band formed by singer-songwriter and guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto in Bolton in 1976. They achieved commercial success with singles that fuse pop with rapid-fire punk energy, inspiring the power pop and pop punk movements; these singles were later collected on Singles Going Steady, an acclaimed compilation album music journalist and critic Ned Raggett described as a "punk masterpiece".
She & Him
American musical duo
The Magnetic Fields
American band
Teenage Fanclub
British band
Conor Oberst
American musician
Tracey Thorn
British singer (born 1962)
Spoon
American rock band
Bob Mould
American musician
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
American alternative rock band
Dawn Richard
American singer (born 1983)
M. Ward
American musician
The Mountain Goats
American musical group
Lou Barlow
American musician (born 1966)
Dan Snaith
Canadian mathematician and composer who has performed as Manitoba, Daphni and Caribou
Camera Obscura
Scottish indie pop band

Robert Pollard
American singer and songwriter
William Butler
American multi-instrumentalist and composer; member of the band Arcade Fire
Shout Out Louds
Swedish indie pop/rock band
Lambchop
American musical group
Fucked Up
Canadian hardcore punk band
Archers of Loaf
American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Stephin Merritt
American musician
Polvo
Polvo is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The band formed in 1990 and is fronted by guitarists/vocalists Ash Bowie and Dave Brylawski, with Steve Popson playing bass guitar and Brian Quast playing drums. Eddie Watkins was the band's original drummer, but did not rejoin the band upon its reunion in 2008, after breaking up in 1998.

Drive Like Jehu
post-hardcore band from San Diego, California
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Superchunk
Superchunk is an American indie rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Formed in 1989, they were one of the bands that helped define the Chapel Hill music scene of the 1990s and were at the forefront of the indie rock scene at the time. The band's lineup consists of singer-guitarist Mac McCaughan, guitarist Jim Wilbur, bassist Laura Ballance, and drummer Laura King. They are known for their energetic, high-velocity style and strong DIY ethic.

Waxahatchee
Waxahatchee is an American indie music project, formed in 2010 by American singer-songwriter Kathryn Crutchfield (born January 4, 1989), known professionally as Katie Crutchfield, following the breakup of her previous band P.S. Eliot. The band is named after Waxahatchee Creek in Alabama, where Crutchfield grew up. Originally an acoustic solo project, her recordings now tend to involve a full backing band.
Sugar
American alternative rock band
Redd Kross
American alternative rock band
Titus Andronicus
American musical group; indie rock band
Torres
American singer-songwriter
Dan Bejar
Canadian musician
Destroyer
Canadian indie rock band
Mary Timony
American musician and songwriter
American Music Club
American indie rock band
Eleanor Friedberger
American musician
Tom Scharpling
American comedian
Wye Oak
American indie rock band
Pram
English band
Richard Buckner
American singer songwriter
The Clean
New Zealand musical group; indie rock band
Benji Hughes
American singer
Ought
post-punk band from Montreal, Quebec
Wild Flag
American band
Mark Eitzel
American singer
Times New Viking
American band
Hamish Kilgour
New Zealand musician (1957–2022)
Seaweed
American band