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List Of Indie Pop Artists
This is a list of notable indie pop artists. Bands are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"), and individuals are listed by last name. 0-9 * +/- * 14 Iced Bears *The 1975 A {{columns-list, colwidth=15em, *A Witness *A.R. Kane *Aberdeen * Aberfeldy *The ACBs * The Aces *Acid House Kings * Adrianne Lenker *Agent Sparks * AgesandAges *Lydia Ainsworth *The Aislers Set *AJR * Alex G *All Girl Summer Fun Band *Allie X *Allo Darlin' * Aloha * Alt-J *AlunaGeorge *Alvvays *Amber Run *American Authors *Anathallo * Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness *Michael Angelakos *Animal Liberation Orchestra *Anjulie *Annie * Annuals * Another Sunny Day *Jack Antonoff *Apostle of Hustle * Fiona Apple *The Apples in Stereo * April Lawlor * Aqueduct *Architecture in Helsinki *Arlissa *Mira Aroyo *As Tall As Lions *Astrid *Astrud *Au Revoir Simone * Aude *The Auteurs * The Awkward Stage * Awolnation *Aztec Camera B {{columns-list, colwidth=15em, * Baby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Notability In The English Wikipedia
In the English version of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, notability is a criterion to determine whether a topic merits a separate Wikipedia article. It is described in the guideline "Wikipedia:Notability". In general, notability is an attempt to assess whether the topic has "gained sufficiently significant attention by the world at large and over a period of time as evidenced by significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic". The notability guideline was introduced in 2006 and has since been subject to various controversies. History The language of the criterion was modified and adapted to produce notability guidance in specific subject areas, before being introduced into the proposed notability guideline in September 2006. In response to growing concerns in 2006 about issues specifically affecting biographies of living persons, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales introduced a notability criterion via the core policy of "." Wales commented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex G
Alexander Giannascoli (born February 3, 1993), better known by his stage names Alex G or, formerly, (Sandy) Alex G, is an American musician, producer, and singer-songwriter. He started his career with DIY self-releases on Bandcamp and began building up an audience with his label debut, '' DSU'' (2014), released on Orchid Tapes to critical acclaim from various publications. He later signed with Lucky Number, who reissued his earlier releases, ''Rules'' and ''Trick'' (2012). In 2015, he signed with Domino Recording Company and released his sixth studio album, ''Beach Music''. He followed it in 2017 with ''Rocket'', which received further acclaim and recognition. Giannascoli's eighth studio album, ''House of Sugar'', was released in 2019, and his ninth album '' God Save the Animals'' was released on September 23, 2022. Early life and career Giannascoli was born in 1993 in Havertown, Pennsylvania. At age 11, when his parents bought an Apple computer, he learned how to play his brother ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal Liberation Orchestra
Animal Liberation Orchestra (also known casually as ALO) is a California rock band currently signed to Jack Johnson's Brushfire Records label. They have released four full-length albums for Brushfire, as well as a number of prior independent releases including a film soundtrack. ALO consists of Zach Gill (Keys/Vocals), Steve Adams (Bass/Vocals), Dan "Lebo" Lebowitz (Guitar/Vocals) and Ezra Lipp (Drums/Vocals). Biography Forming the band (1989) Childhood friends Lebowitz, Adams and Gill (aka, LAG) formed their first band in junior high school in 1989 with drummer Matt West. Originally called Django, they recorded their first album entitled "Contact" the summer before their senior year in high school, and then moved to Santa Barbara together to attend college. When West returned home after a couple years, music mentor Brogan filled in. In the summer of 1996, the band moved to Augusta, Georgia, to tour the South and meet James Brown, achieving both. Upon their return to Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Angelakos
Michael John Angelakos (born May 19, 1987) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the frontman of the indietronica band Passion Pit. Career Passion Pit (2008–present) The first Passion Pit songs, which would later become the ''Chunk of Change'' EP, were written by Angelakos at Emerson College as a belated Valentine's Day gift to his then-girlfriend. At first, he wrote and performed all his material alone using a laptop. After one of his solo shows in the Boston area, Ian Hultquist, who was attending Berklee at the time, approached Angelakos and expressed interest in creating and playing music collaboratively. They formed a group that consisted of Angelakos, Hultquist, Ayad Al Adhamy, Thom Plasse (bass), and Adam Lavinsky (drums). The band spent a considerable amount of time trying to flesh out a collaborative format and structure that would work best for them. Jeff Apruzzese and Nate Donmoyer joined the band shortly after they signe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness
Andrew Ross McMahon (born September 3, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter. He was the vocalist, pianist and primary lyricist for the bands Something Corporate and main songwriter for Jack's Mannequin and performs solo both under his own name as well as his moniker, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness. On April 30, 2013, he debuted his first solo work, an EP titled ''The Pop Underground'', which was followed by his debut album '' Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness'', released on October 14, 2014. His second album, ''Zombies on Broadway'', was released on February 10, 2017. He released his third album, '' Upside Down Flowers'', on November 16, 2018. His memoirThree Pianos was published by Princeton Architectural Press on October 26, 2021. Early life McMahon was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He briefly lived in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey until 1991, when his family moved to Bexley, Ohio where he attended Cassingham Elementary School. McMahon's family relocated frequently due to his fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anathallo
Anathallo was a band originally from Mt. Pleasant, Michigan and then based in Chicago, Illinois. The band started practicing in the fall of 2000 and played their first show soon afterward. Their name is derived from a Greek word meaning "to renew, refresh or bloom again." Anathallo released '' Floating World'', their first nationally distributed record, in 2006 through Sony/BMG. The band released a follow-up, entitled ''Canopy Glow'', on Anticon in 2008. History Anathallo was formed in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, in 2000. The band, led by singer and guitarist Matt Joynt, often consisting of seven or eight members, operated in a relentlessly DIY manner for the first six years of its existence, releasing three EPs (one independently, and two on Selah Records) one full-length album (Sparrows originally on Selah Records) and independently booking eighteen national tours between the years 2000 and 2006. In 2006 the band independently released '' Floating World'', a concept album based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Authors
American Authors (formerly known as The Blue Pages) is an American rock band based in New York City, currently signed to Island Records. The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Zac Barnett, bassist Dave Rublin, and drummer Matt Sanchez. Former member includes guitarist and banjoist James Adam Shelley. They are best known for their hit singles " Believer" and "Best Day of My Life", from their debut album, '' Oh, What a Life'', as well as their top 20 hit "Go Big or Go Home", from their second album, ''What We Live For''. History 2006–2011: Early years The members of American Authors met while attending Berklee College of Music in 2006. The quartet spent their first years in Boston recording and performing music under the name The Blue Pages. In May 2010, the band opened for Cash Cash on the Robots in High-Tops tour. In 2010, they relocated to Brooklyn. On December 1, 2010, the Blue Pages independently released their single "Run Back Home" on iTunes. 2012–2014: Nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amber Run
Amber Run is a British indie rock band from Nottingham, UK composed of Joshua "Joe" Keogh, Tom Sperring, and Henry Wyeth. The band have released three full-length albums. three mini-albums and five EPs. Initially called Amber, they later changed their name to avoid conflict with the German dance-pop singer of same name. History Formation Joshua Keogh, Tom Sperring and Will Jones were originally friends from Buckinghamshire at Dr Challoner's Grammar School where they played in an alt rock band. With Felix Archer from the same area and Wyeth from Kent, they met while studying at University of Nottingham. They all studied for degrees in Humanities and Law, but abandoned their studies in second year to focus on the band. Keogh initially performed under his own name and started to get 'a bit of momentum owe sat down and jammed out one day and there was something about it. It was so much better than what I was doing solo, so we started a band'. Thanks to local BBC presenter Dean Jac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alvvays
Alvvays (pronounced "always") is a Canadian indie pop band formed in 2011, originating from Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, and currently based in Toronto, Ontario. It consists of Molly Rankin (vocals and guitar), Kerri MacLellan (keyboards), Alec O'Hanley (guitars), Abbey Blackwell (bass), and Sheridan Riley (drums). Their self-titled debut album, released in 2014, topped the US college charts. Their second studio album, ''Antisocialites'', was released on September 8, 2017, and won the Juno Award for Alternative Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018. Both albums were short-listed for the Polaris Music Prize. Their third album, ''Blue Rev'', was released on October 7, 2022. History Formation and early years (2011–2015) Molly Rankin, the group's singer-songwriter, is the daughter of John Morris Rankin, a fiddler with the Celtic folk family collective the Rankin Family, who enjoyed international success in the 1990s. Rankin grew up in Judique, Nova Scotia, writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AlunaGeorge
AlunaGeorge are an English electronic music duo from London, consisting of singer-songwriter Aluna Francis and producer George Reid. Career 2009: Formation The duo first met in June 2009, when Reid remixed Francis' band My Toys Like Me's track "Sweetheart". 2012–2015: Breakthrough and ''Body Music'' AlunaGeorge released the single "You Know You Like It" as a digital download on 20 April 2012, followed by a vinyl release on 11 June 2012. The duo's first commercial single, "Your Drums, Your Love", was released on 10 September 2012, debuting at number 50 on the UK Singles Chart.Peak chart positions in the United Kingdom: * All except noted: * "You Know You Like It" (with DJ Snake): * "After Light": * "I Remember": During a visit to BBC Radio 1 on 3 January 2013, AlunaGeorge announced that their debut album would be titled ''Body Music'' and released in June 2013, along with the premiere of the full-length version of the song "Diver". On 4 June 2013, the duo unveiled the cov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alt-J
Alt-J (stylised as alt-J, real name Δ) are an English indie rock band formed in 2007 in Leeds. Their lineup includes Joe Newman (guitar/lead vocals), Thom Sonny Green (drums), Gus Unger-Hamilton (keyboards/vocals), and formerly Gwilym Sainsbury (guitar/bass). Their debut album ''An Awesome Wave'' was released in May 2012 in Europe, and in September 2012 in the United States, and won the 2012 British Mercury Prize. Sainsbury left the band in early 2014. Their second album, ''This Is All Yours'', was released on 22 September 2014 and went straight to number one in the United Kingdom.Listing for Alt-J at the Official Charts Company (UK), (retrieved 29 May 2015). In February 2022 the band released their fourth studio album '' The Dream ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aloha (band)
Aloha is an American indie rock band currently signed to Polyvinyl Records. It features Cale Parks, Matthew Gengler, Tony Cavallario and T.J. Lipple. History Aloha began with Tony and Matthew in the summer of 1997 in Bowling Green, Ohio. One of the few bands to ever actually get a record deal based on a demo tape, the band spent time based out of Cleveland. In recent years, Aloha has operated from a number of bases, doing their writing, rehearsing and living in Chicago, Washington D.C., Cleveland, Cincinnati, Rochester, Pittsburgh and Altoona. They have shared the stage with the likes of Q and Not U, Ted Leo, Clinic, as well as Cex and Joan of Arc, two bands in which Cale Parks has been a member. In 2002, ''New Music'' said of their album ''Sugar'', "In the wake of ''That's Your Fire'', Aloha's breathtaking and complex collection of jazz-based, vibraphone-enhanced lullabies, the band's sophomore release hits like a hurricane." Tony and T.J. began playing together during a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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