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indie rock
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Indie rock emerged in the 1980s as guitar-driven music produced outside major record labels, emphasizing creative independence over commercial appeal. The genre blends raw, melodic rock with diverse influences from punk to folk, often featuring introspective lyrics and unconventional song structures. Its DIY ethos and artistic authenticity helped shape alternative music culture from underground scenes to mainstream recognition.
100 chronological releases
| Place | Cover | Date | Artist | Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 |  |
1996-03-26 | Neutral Milk Hotel | On Avery Island |
| 88 | 1998-02-10 | Neutral Milk Hotel | In the Aeroplane Over the Sea | |
| 12 |  |
2000-06-13 | Modest Mouse | The Moon & Antarctica |
| 68 |  |
2000-06-18 | Panchiko | D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L |
| 97 |  |
2001-01-27 | The Strokes | Is This It |
| 65 | 2001-06-19 | The Shins | Oh, Inverted World | |
| 75 | 2002-08-19 | Interpol | Turn on the Bright Lights | |
| 24 | 2002-10-15 | Broken Social Scene | You Forgot It In People | |
| 54 |  |
2003-04-28 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Fever To Tell |
| 63 |  |
2003-09-01 | Death Cab for Cutie | Transatlanticism |
| 95 |  |
2003-10-16 | The Strokes | Room on Fire |
| 23 | 2003-10-21 | The Shins | Chutes Too Narrow | |
| 91 |  |
2004-02-09 | Franz Ferdinand | Franz Ferdinand |
| 80 |  |
2004-04-05 | Modest Mouse | Good News For People Who Love Bad News |
| 35 |  |
2004-07-23 | Kasabian | Kasabian |
| 4 |  |
2004-08-30 | The Libertines | The Libertines |
| 9 |  |
2004-09-14 | Tegan and Sara | So Jealous |
| 90 | 2004-09-14 | Arcade Fire | Funeral | |
| 76 |  |
2004-09-24 | Interpol | Antics |
| 32 |  |
2005-01-01 | Editors | The Back Room |
| 78 |  |
2005-02-02 | Bloc Party | Silent Alarm |
| 38 |  |
2005-03-07 | Kaiser Chiefs | Employment |
| 83 |  |
2005-08-29 | Death Cab for Cutie | Plans |
| 62 |  |
2005-09-28 | Franz Ferdinand | You Could Have It So Much Better |
| 79 |  |
2005-12-30 | The Strokes | First Impressions of Earth |
| 44 |  |
2006-01-01 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Show Your Bones |
| 71 |  |
2006-01-12 | The Kooks | Inside In/Inside Out |
| 5 |  |
2006-01-23 | The Kooks | Inside In / Inside Out |
| 99 |  |
2006-01-23 | Arctic Monkeys | Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not |
| 48 | 2006-03-21 | Band of Horses | Everything All the Time | |
| 14 |  |
2006-08-25 | Kasabian | Empire |
| 58 |  |
2006-09-11 | The Fratellis | Costello Music |
| 11 |  |
2007 | Cold War Kids | Robbers And Cowards |
| 64 | 2007-01-22 | The Shins | Wincing the Night Away | |
| 31 |  |
2007-02-23 | Kaiser Chiefs | Yours Truly, Angry Mob |
| 74 |  |
2007-03-02 | Arcade Fire | Neon Bible |
| 10 |  |
2007-03-20 | Modest Mouse | We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank |
| 18 |  |
2007-04-11 | Editors | An End Has A Start |
| 98 |  |
2007-04-18 | Arctic Monkeys | Favourite Worst Nightmare |
| 87 | 2007-04 | Vampire Weekend | Vampire Weekend | |
| 33 | 2007-05-21 | The National | Boxer | |
| 39 |  |
2007-07-08 | Arctic Monkeys | Fluorescent Adolescent |
| 66 | 2007-07-09 | Interpol | Our Love to Admire | |
| 25 |  |
2007-10-09 | Band of Horses | Cease to Begin |
| 22 |  |
2008-01-01 | Cage the Elephant | Cage the Elephant |
| 55 |  |
2008-04-09 | The Kooks | Konk |
| 43 |  |
2008-04-16 | The Last Shadow Puppets | The Age of the Understatement |
| 21 |  |
2008-05-13 | Death Cab for Cutie | Narrow Stairs |
| 42 |  |
2008-09-19 | Kings of Leon | Only by the Night |
| 2 |  |
2009-01-21 | Franz Ferdinand | Tonight: Franz Ferdinand |
| 60 |  |
2009-03-31 | Metric | Fantasies |
| 46 | 2009-05-22 | Grizzly Bear | Veckatimest | |
| 94 |  |
2009-05-22 | Phoenix | Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix |
| 53 | 2009-06-19 | The Temper Trap | Conditions | |
| 59 |  |
2009-08-19 | Arctic Monkeys | Humbug |
| 40 |  |
2009-11-03 | Say Anything | Say Anything |
| 41 |  |
2010-01-08 | Vampire Weekend | Contra |
| 89 |  |
2010-02-17 | Two Door Cinema Club | Tourist History |
| 77 | 2010-03-14 | ROAR | I Can't Handle Change | |
| 3 | 2010-05-07 | Foals | Total Life Forever | |
| 36 |  |
2010-05-10 | The National | High Violet |
| 45 | 2010-06-07 | The Naked and Famous | Young Blood | |
| 49 |  |
2010-08-02 | Arcade Fire | The Suburbs |
| 20 |  |
2011-03-11 | The Vaccines | What Did You Expect from The Vaccines? |
| 69 | 2011-03-18 | The Strokes | Angles | |
| 28 | 2011-09-02 | Grouplove | Never Trust A Happy Song | |
| 61 |  |
2011-10-31 | Arctic Monkeys | Suck It and See |
| 56 | 2011-11-02 | Car Seat Headrest | Twin Fantasy | |
| 26 |  |
2012 | Twenty One Pilots | overcompensATE |
| 82 |  |
2012-09-04 | Imagine Dragons | Night Visions |
| 8 |  |
2013-01-31 | Foals | Holy Fire |
| 50 |  |
2013-03-22 | The Strokes | Comedown Machine |
| 100 | 2013-08-01 | Arctic Monkeys | AM | |
| 16 | 2013-08-30 | The 1975 | The 1975 | |
| 70 |  |
2013-10-04 | Cage the Elephant | Melophobia |
| 57 | 2014-04-01 | Mac DeMarco | Salad Days | |
| 92 | 2014-11-11 | Mitski | Bury Me at Makeout Creek | |
| 85 |  |
2015-10-30 | The Neighbourhood | Wiped Out! |
| 1 |  |
2015-11-09 | Cavetown | Cavetown |
| 27 |  |
2016-02-26 | The 1975 | I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It |
| 47 |  |
2016-04-01 | Ricky Montgomery | Montgomery Ricky |
| 81 |  |
2016-06-17 | Mitski | Puberty 2 |
| 6 |  |
2016-07-08 | Car Seat Headrest | Teens Of Denial |
| 37 |  |
2017-07-21 | Declan Mckenna | What Do You Think About The Car? |
| 15 |  |
2017-09-09 | Peach Pit | Being so Normal |
| 51 |  |
2017-10-21 | Yungblud | 11 Minutes (with Halsey feat. Travis Barker) |
| 86 |  |
2018-08-17 | Mitski | Be the Cowboy |
| 19 |  |
2018-11-09 | Boygenius | BoyGenius |
| 73 |  |
2019-03-22 | Wallows | Nothing Happens |
| 93 |  |
2019-03-29 | Dominic Fike | Don't Forget About Me, Demos |
| 84 |  |
2020-04-10 | The Strokes | The New Abnormal |
| 30 |  |
2020-06-18 | Phoebe Bridgers | Punisher |
| 34 |  |
2020-08-04 | wave to earth | summer flows 0.02 |
| 67 |  |
2023-03-31 | Boygenius | The Record |
| 17 |  |
2023-05-26 | d4vd | Petals to Thorns |
| 13 |  |
2023-09-08 | Olivia Rodrigo | GUTS |
| 29 |  |
Editors | An End Has a Start | |
| 52 |  |
Grouplove | Never Trust a Happy Song | |
| 72 |  |
The Killers | Day & Age | |
| 96 |  |
The Killers | Sam's Town |