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French indie rock band Stuck in the Sound got their name from the fact that when the group formed, the four band members locked themselves in a basement with their music.

the music recording project Gigi involves indie rock musicians singing new 1950s- and 60s-style pop songs.

when playing at the 2008 NME Awards in support of their triple-nominated single "Flux", indie rock band Bloc Party were stunned by the scale of the gig.

while the British indie rock band Bombay Bicycle Club were recording their debut EP, The Boy I Used to Be, they were in the same school year as Cajun Dance Party.

San Francisco indie rock band LoveLikeFire formed as a result of a Craigslist classified advertisement.

Filipino indie rock band Taken by Cars had two singles that reached the top of Manila's local radio charts before getting signed in a major record label.

Half Japanese's Greatest Hits was included in Blender's top 100 indie rock albums.

indie rock band Klaxons were forced to re-record parts of second album Surfing the Void, after record label Polydor deemed it "too experimental for release".

indie rock band Fang Island took its name from a fictional location described in an Onion article as a secret hideaway of then U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Irish indie rock band Ham Sandwich were encouraged by U2 frontman Bono to change their name in 2006.

"Albino Ballerina", the final single by indie rock band Sweet Jesus, gained extensive critical acclaim before the band's commercial success dwindled and they soon disbanded.

Exploring Indie Rock: A Quiz on Its Origins and Influential Bands

1 These include Washington, DC's Dischord Records in 1980, Seattle's Sub Pop Records in 1986, and New York City's Matador Records and ________, North Carolina's Merge Records in 1989.

2 In the United States, the term "indie rock" was particularly associated with the abrasive, distortion-heavy sounds of Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, Meat Puppets, ________, The Replacements, and Pixies.

3 Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the ________ and the United States in the 1980s and earlier.

4 Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock and Slint's ________, provided the catalyst for the development of post rock and math rock.

5 ________ shares similar experimental aesthetics, but is generally denser and more abrasive.

6 ________, The Promise Ring, The Get Up Kids and others brought a more melodic sound to the genre.

7 The ________ movement, which had grown out of the hardcore punk scene in the 1980s with bands like Rites of Spring, gained popularity as the 1990s progressed.

8 The Beach Boys' 1966 album ________ is also commonly listed as a highly influential starting point.

9 The Decade in Indie by Nitsuh Abebe for ________ September 16, 2009

10 ________, Chavez and others contributed to its rise in popularity during the 1990s.

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