200 of the Year’s Hottest Bands

A.C. Newman
Power Pop

A.C. Newman, “Submarines of Stockholm”

The Airborne Toxic Event
Alternative/Indie Rock

The Airborne Toxic Event, “Sometime Around Midnight”

Akron/Family
Psychedelic Indie Folk Rock

Akron/Family, “Phenomena (Live)”

…And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Indie Noise Rock

Andrew Bird
Indie Folk Rock/Baroque Pop

Animal Collective
Experimental Psychedelic Indie Rock

Anni Rossi
Singer-Songwriter/Violist

Anni Rossi, “Ecology”

The Antlers
Indie Folk Rock

The Antlers, “Two”

Antony and the Johnsons
Dark Chamber Pop

Arctic Monkeys
Indie Rock/Post-Punk

Art Brut
English/German Indie Rock

Asher Roth
Hip-Hop

Asobi Seksu
Indie Noise Dream Pop

The Avett Brothers
Bluegrass/Folk Rock

Bat for Lashes
Alternative/Indie Rock/Synthpop

Beirut
Balkan Indie Folk/World Music

Bell X1
Indie Rock

Ben Harper and Relentless7
Alternative/Blues/Hard Rock

The Bird and the Bee
Indie/Synthpop

Bishop Allen
Indie Folk

Bishop Allen, “Dimmer”

Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears
Blues/Soul

Black Kids
Indie/Synthpop

Black Moth Super Rainbow
Psychedelic Electro Pop

Blitzen Trapper
Experimental Indie Rock

The Bloodsugars
Garage Rock/Indie/Synthpop

The Bloodsugars, “The Light at the End of the Tunnel”

Bon Iver
Indie Folk Rock

Bon Iver, “Blood Bank”

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
Country/Folk

Bowerbirds
Indie Folk

The Boy Least Likely To
English Indie Pop

Brendan Benson
Alternative Rock/Power Pop

Brian Olive
Psychedelic Garage Rock

The Builders & the Butchers
Indie Folk

The Builders & the Butchers, “Vampire Lake”

Built to Spill
Indie Rock

Cage the Elephant
Alternative/Funk Rock

Camera Obscura
Scottish Indie Pop

Camera Obscura, “Teenager”

Caspian
Experimental/Post-Rock

Cass McCombs
AltCountry/Folk Rock

Chairlift
Electronica/Indie Pop

Coheed and Cambria
Alternative/Prog Rock

Cold War Kids
Indie Rock

Conor Oberst
Indie Folk Rock

The Cribs
English Indie Rock

Cymbals Eat Guitars
Indie Rock

Cursive
Indie Rock/Post-Hardcore

Cursive, “From the Hips”

Dan Auerbach
Blues/Garage Rock

Dan Deacon
Electronica

The Daredevil Christopher Wright
Indie Folk Pop Rock

The Daredevil Christopher Wright, “The East Coast”

David Bazan
Indie Rock

David Bazan, “Bless This Mess”

The Dead Weather
Alternative/Garage Rock

Deadmau5
Electronica/Techno/Trance

Dear and the Headlights
Indie Rock

Deastro
Indie/Synthpop

Death Cab for Cutie
Indie Pop Rock

The Decemberists
Indie/Baroque Pop

Deer Tick
AltCountry/Indie Folk Rock

Deer Tick, “These Old Shoes”

Delta Spirit
Americana/Indie Rock

Depeche Mode
Alternative/New Wave/Synthpop

Devendra Banhart
Freak Folk

Dinosaur Jr.
Alternative/Indie Rock

The Dirty Projectors
Experimental Indie Rock

The Dirty Projectors featuring David Byrne, “Knotty Pine”

The Do
French Folk/Indie Pop

The Dodos
Psychedelic Indie Folk Pop

The Dodos, “Fools”

Doves
Indie Rock/New Prog

Dr. Dog
Psychedelic Indie Rock

Drew Danburry
Indie Folk Pop

Drew Danburry, “Billboards”

The Duke and the King
Americana/Indie Folk Rock/Soul

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Experimental Psychedelic Indie Folk Rock

eels
Experimental Alternative Rock

Elvis Perkins in Dearland
Folk Rock

Elvis Perkins in Dearland, “Shampoo”

Erin McCarley
Alternative/Singer-Songwriter

Extra Golden
Indie Rock/World Music

Extra Golden, “Anyango”

The Felice Brothers
Americana/Folk/Roots Rock

Fever Ray
Swedish Electro RockLead vocalist of The Knife

Fiction Family
Acoustic/Indie Rock

The Fiery Furnaces
Psychedelic Indie Pop Rock

The Flaming Lips
Alternative/Experimental/Psychedelic Rock

Fleet Foxes
Indie Folk

Florence and the Machine
British Alternative Pop Rock

Franz Ferdinand
Scottish Indie Dance Rock

Fruit Bats
Folk Rock

Fuck Buttons
English Electronica and Experimental

Future of the Left
Welsh Alternative Rock

The Gaslight Anthem
Indie/Punk Rock

Girls
Indie/Psychedelic Rock

Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Canadian Post-Rock

Great Lake Swimmers
Indie Folk Rock

Gringo Star
Indie/Psychedelic Rock

Grizzly Bear
Indie Folk/Psychedelic Rock

Handsome Furs
Indie Synth Punk Rock

Handsome Furs, “I’m Confused”

Harlem Shakes
Alternative/Indie Rock

Harlem Shakes, “Strictly Game”

Heartless Bastards
Blues/Garage/Indie Rock

Heartless Bastards, “The Mountain”

The Henry Clay People
Americana/Rock

The Henry Clay People, “Working Part Time”

Hockey
Indie Dance Punk Rock

The Horrors
English Garage/Psychedelic Rock

Horse Feathers
Indie Folk

Imogen Heap
English Singer-Songwriter/Electro Pop

Iron & Wine
Indie Folk Rock

Isis
Prog/Metal

Isis, “20 Minutes/40 Years”

Islands
Indie Pop Rock

Japandroids
Canadian Garage Rock

Jay Reatard
Garage Rock/Synth Punk

Jukebox the Ghost
Indie Pop Rock

Justin Townes Earle
Americana/Country

Kaki King
Instrumental/Experimental Rock

Karen O and the Kids
Indie Punk Rock

Kasabian
Indie/Electro/Psychedelic Rock

Kid Cudi
Alternative/Hip-Hop

The Killers
Alternative/Indie Rock

The Kills
Alternative/Post-Punk

Kinetic Stereokids
Indie/Experimental/Hip-Hop

K’NAAN
Canadian Hip-Hop/World Music

The Knux
Alternative/Hip-Hop

Langhorne Slim
Folk Rock

Lily Allen
English Pop Rock

Lisa Hannigan
Indie Folk Rock

Little Boots
English Electro Pop

Loney, Dear
Swedish Indie Pop

Loney, Dear, “Airport Surroundings”

The Low Anthem
Indie Folk Rock

The Low Anthem, “Charlie Darwin”

M83
French Electro/New Wave

M. Ward
Indie Folk

M. Ward, “Never Had No One Like You”

The Maccabees
Indie Punk Rock

The Magnetic Fields
Indie Pop

Manchester Orchestra
Indie Rock

Maps & Atlases
Indie Rock

The Mars Volta
Experimental/Prog Rock/Jazz Fusion

Mastodon
Prog/Metal

Matt & Kim
Indie Pop

Matt Pond PA
Indie

Metric
Canadian Indie Rock/New Wave

Mew
Danish Alternative Rock/Dream Pop

MGMT
Dance Punk/Psychedelic Rock

Micachu and the Shapes
English Alternative Pop/Experimental

Mishka
Reggae/Singer-Songwriter

Monsters of Folk
Indie Folk Rock

Morrissey
English Alt Rock

Mum
Icelandic Experimental Electronica

Murder By Death
Indie Rock/Post-Punk

Muse
Alternative/Symphonic Rock

Mute Math
Alternative/Post-Rock

My Brightest Diamond
Indie Folk

Neko Case
AltCountry/Singer-Songwriter

No Age
Indie Noise Rock

Noah and the Whale
British Indie Folk Rock

Obits
Indie Rock/Garage/Punk

of Montreal
Indie Psychedelic Synth Pop Rock

Os Mutantes
Psychedelic Hard Rock

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Indie Noise Pop

Passion Pit
Electro Indie Synth Dance Pop

Passion Pit, “Moth’s Wings”

Pearl Jam
Alternative Rock/Grunge

Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson
Rock

Peter, Bjorn and John
Swedish Electro Pop Rock

Phish
Psychedelic Jamband

Phoenix
Indie French Pop

PJ Harvey and John Parish
Alternative/Indie Rock

Placebo
Alternative/Post-Punk

Polvo
Indie Noise Rock

Portugal. the Man
Alternative/Experimental Rock

The Prodigy
English Electropunk/Dance

Ra Ra Riot
Indie Chamber Pop Rock

Rain Machine
Experimental/Indie

The Raveonettes
Danish Indie Noise Pop Post-Punk Rock

The Raveonettes, “The Chosen One”

Regina Spektor
Russian Indie Folk Blues Rock

Riceboy Sleeps
Ambient

Rilo Kiley
Indie Pop Rock

Robert Pollard
Indie Rock

Royksopp
Norwegian Electro Synthpop

Russian Circles
Instrumental/Post-Rock/Metal

Rye Rye
Rap

RX Bandits
Progressive Punk Rock

Sara Watkins
Bluegrass/Country/Folk

School of Seven Bells
Electro Indie Pop

Silversun Pickups
Alternative/Indie Pop Rock

Sonic Youth
Alternative/Experimental Post-Punk Rock

The Sounds
Swedish Indie Rock

The Soundtrack of Our Lives
Psychedelic Swedish Alternative Rock

St. Vincent
Experimental Indie Pop

The Swell Season
Indie Folk

Tegan and Sara
Indie Pop Rock/New Wave

These United States
Psychedelic Indie Rock

These United States, “Honor Amongst Thieves”

Those Darlins
Americana/Country/Folk

Titus Andronicus
Indie Punk Rock

Umphrey’s McGee
Progressive Jamband

Viva Voce
Indie Pop Rock

Viva Voce, “Octavio”

Volcano Choir
Experimental Indie Folk Rock

The Von Bondies
Indie/Garage Rock

The Von Bondies, “Pale Bride”

The Walkmen
Indie Post-Punk Rock

The Walkmen, “In the New Year”

Wavves
Indie Noise Pop Rock

Wheat
Indie Pop Rock

White Lies
British Indie Rock/Post-Punk

White Rabbits
Indie Pop Rock

White Rabbits, “Percussion Gun”

Why?
Indie Rock/Experimental/Hip-Hop

Wilco
Alternative Rock/AltCountry

William Elliott Whitmore
AltCountry/Americana/Blues/Folk

Wolf Parade
Canadian Indie Rock

Wolfmother
Australian Hard Rock

Wye Oak
Indie Folk Pop Rock

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Indie Rock

Yeasayer
Experimental/Indie Folk/Psychedelic Rock

Yeasayer, “Ambling Alp”

The Young Republic
Indie Folk Rock/Blues/Orchestra Pop

The xx
British Electronica Dance Punk