Artist	Song
Superchunk	Slack Motherfucker
from Superchunk (1999)
Pavement	Cut Your Hair
from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain: LA’s Desert Origins (2004)
Yo La Tengo	Autumn Sweater
from I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One (1997)
Cat Power	Cross Bones Style
from Moon Pix (1998)
Neutral Milk Hotel	In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
Pixies	Velouria
from Wave of Mutilation - Best of Pixies (2004)
Liz Phair	Fuck and Run
from Exile In Guyville (Deluxe Edition) (2008)
Elliott Smith	Angeles
from Either/Or (1997)
Guided By Voices	I Am a Scientist
from Bee Thousand (1994)
Sebadoh	Got It
from Bakesale (Deluxe Edition) [Remastered] (2011)
Uncle Tupelo	Acuff-Rose
from Anodyne (2008)
Belle and Sebastian	The Boy With the Arab Strap
from The Boy With the Arab Strap (1998)
The Flaming Lips	Turn It On
from Transmissions from the Satellite Heart (2008)
Built to Spill	Car
from There's Nothing Wrong With Love (1994)
The Magnetic Fields	The Book of Love
from 69 Love Songs (1999)
Fugazi	Long Division
from Steady Diet of Nothing (1991)
Tortoise	Glass Museum
from Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996)
Calexico	The Ride, Pt. 2
from The Black Light (1998)
Stereolab	Peng! 33
from ABC Music (2003)
Bikini Kill	Rebel Girl
from Pussy Whipped (1993)
Modest Mouse	Dramamine
from This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About (1996)
The White Stripes	Screwdriver
from The White Stripes (2002)
Ween	Birthday Boy
from God Ween Satan - The Onenes (2006)
Death Cab for Cutie	Your Bruise
from Something About Airplanes (2003)
Sleater-Kinney	Words and Guitar
from Dig Me Out (1997)
Sigur Rós	Staralfur
from Agaetis Byrjun (2010)
Melvins	Boris
from Bullhead (1999)
Red House Painters	Grace Cathedral Park
from Retrospective (1999)
Slint	Carol
from Tweez (1993)
The Mountain Goats	Going to Georgia
from Zopilote Machine (2005)
Sunny Day Real Estate	Seven
from Diary (1994)
The Jesus Lizard	Nub
from Goat ((Remaster / Reissue)) (1991)
The Sea and Cake	Jacking the Ball
from The Sea and Cake (1994)
Smog	Bathysphere
from Wild Love (1995)
Low	Words
from I Could Live In Hope (2006)
The Brian Jonestown Massacre	Anenome
from Tepid Peppermint Wonderland: A Retrospective (2008)
The Dandy Warhols	Not If You Were the Last Junkie On Earth
from ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down (1997)
The Spinanes	Winter on Ice
from Strand (1996)
Unrest	Yes She Is My Skinhead Girl
from International Hip Swing (2007)
Blonde Redhead	Luv Machine
from In an Expression of the Inexpressible (1998)
Beat Happening	Fortune Cookie Prize
from Dreamy (2007)
Pansy Division	Bunnies
from The Essential Pansy Division (2006)
American Music Club	Why Won't You Stay
from Everclear (1991)
Drive Like Jehu	Bullet Train to Vegas
from (Don't Forget To) Breathe (1997)
Rocket from the Crypt	Ditch Digger
from Circa: Now! (1993)
Archers of Loaf	Lowest Part Is Free!
from Vs. the Greatest of All Time - EP (1994)
Spiritualized	Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
from Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (2009)
Mogwai	Tracy
from Young Team (2008)
The Apples In Stereo	Tidal Wave
from #1 Hits Explosion (2009)
Palace Brothers	I Am a Cinematographer
from Days In the Wake (2004)
Lambchop	For Which We Are Truly Thankful
from How I Quit Smoking (1996)
Girls Against Boys	In Like Flynn
from Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby (1993)
The Olivia Tremor Control	Jumping Fences
from Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Dusk At Cubist Castle (2004)
Portastatic	The Angels of Sleep
from Slow Note from a Sinking Ship (1995)
Luscious Jackson	Citysong
from Luscious Jackson: Greatest Hits (2007)
Morphine	Buena
from Cure for Pain (2006)
Velocity Girl	Sorry Again
from ¡Simpatico! (1994)
The Beta Band	Dry the Rain
from Music - The Best of the Beta Band (2005)
Fastbacks	Gone to the Moon
from Zücker (1993)
Sloan	Everything You've Done Wrong
from One Chord to Another (1996)
Tsunami	Water's Edge
from Deep End (1993)
Spacemen 3	Hypnotized
from Recurring (2004)
Supersuckers	Born With a Tail
from The Sacrilicious Sounds of the Supersuckers (1995)
Jawbreaker	Boxcar
from 24 Hour Revenge Therapy (1994)
The Pernice Brothers	Clear Spot
from Overcome by Happiness (1998)
Polvo	Tragic Carpet Ride
from Celebrate the New Dark Age (1994)
Gastr Del Sol	A Watery Kentucky
from The Serpentine Similar (2007)
Quasi	Our Happiness Is Guaranteed
from Featuring "Birds" (1998)
Versus	Blade of Grass
from The Stars Are Insane (1994)
Labradford	S
from Mi Media Naranja (1998)
Jets to Brazil	Sweet Avenue
from Orange Rhyming Dictionary (1998)
Bettie Serveert	Palomine
from Palomine - EP (1994)
Cub	Magic 8 Ball
from Box of Hair (Extended Version) (1996)
Seaweed	Losing Skin
from Four (1993)

Comment:

Whether it was merely irony or what Tom Robbins called "[i]zeitgeist frappe[/i]," the '90s spawned an alt-rock schism, with the pop press (as well as the genuinely hip) decrying the very word [i]alternative[/i] as [i]so[/i] mainstream that it needed a substitute. And just like that, [i]indie[/i] suddenly became alternative's alternative. In the post-grunge major-label land grab, many pioneer indie imprints got swallowed up (or co-opted), while others clung to the D.I.Y. ethic and thrived like never before. The artists who made the indie-to-major transition — including American Music Club, the Flaming Lips, Modest Mouse, and Uncle Tupelo — strove to retain not only their indie attitude, but also their all-important indie [i]cred[/i]. And those bands who, for aesthetic, political, or salability reasons, stayed in the indie world (including Sebadoh, the Sea and Cake, and Bikini Kill), changed the rules — and the sound — for everyone. Literally dozens of scene-ettes made up the birth of indie, and from riot grrrl to space rock, we've got 'em all.

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