Indie folk is a music genre that arose in the 1990s from singer/songwriters in the indie rock community showing heavy influences from folk music scenes of the 50s, 60s and early 70s, country music, and indie rock.
A few early artists included Lou Barlow, Beck, Jeff Buckley and Elliott Smith. The genre is commonly related to: freak folk, psych folk, Baroque pop and New Weird America.[1] The genre saw a significant growth from the early 2000s to present, beginning with bands such as Neutral Milk Hotel, Bright Eyes, Iron & Wine, Beirut, The Avett Brothers, Arthur & Yu, The Decemberists, Okkervil River, Manel, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Mumford & Sons, and others.
Other Notable Artists include: Band Of Horses, Bon Iver, The Head and the Heart, Frank Turner, Fleet Foxes, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Blitzen Trapper, Bison, Dawes, Delta Spirit, Deer Tick, Middle Brother, Boy & Bear, Adam Green, Alexi Murdoch, Alina Orlova, Andrew Bird, Basia Bulat, Bishop Allen, Damien Jurado, Paleface, Gary Jules, Graham Coxon, Devendra Banhart, Fanfarlo, Feist, First Aid Kit, Fink, Jinja Safari, Joanna Newsom, José González, Kings of Convenience, Lisa Hannigan, Little Wings, M. Ward, Neutral Milk Hotel, Hayden, Robin Pecknold, Sea Wolf, The Low Anthem, The Shins, Vetiver, The Tallest Man on Earth, The Cave Singers, Bowerbirds, The Middle East, Sufjan Stevens, Horse Feathers, Great Lake Swimmers, Blind Pilot, Radical Face, Loch Lomond, Fruit Bats, Other Lives, Emmy The Great, Noah And The Whale, Or, The Whale, Wye Oak, Ben Howard, Andrew Jackson Jihad, The Civil Wars, Two Gallants, Johnny Flynn, The Acorn, Freelance Whales, Woods, Dog Is Dead, Seabear, Bombay Bicycle Club, Dry The River, and Mindy Gledhill
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