Indie Rock Songs

Studying this site's traffic statistics reveals that many of you are looking for information about songs on television commercials.

Most notably in the past six months or so have been questions about the song playing on a widely-viewed AT&T commercial for Cingular. The commercial briefly shows two performers on a stage with colored lights and enthusiastic fans crowded around the stage as the music duo pump out a feel-good, danceable pop tune.

Well after some time researching, the song is by one of the most popular indie pop couples - Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner - around today, and it's called interestingly enough "For The Actor".

Here are the two performing "For The Actor" live at Amoeba Records in San Francisco on August 18, 2006:



It seems everyone nowadays wants a piece of the wildly popular "indie music scene," from music producers to concert promoters.

We can debate about what is and isn't indie, but the fact of the matter is that many rock and pop artists from independent and smaller record labels are increasingly gaining audience share as the youth music market turns away from entertainers like Britney Spears and gangsta rap.

Wait a minute! This indie is for us - the ones who really understand and love indie and alternative music for what it is - not what it becomes when the millions of screaming girls start lining up at arenas to see a group like Muse or Blue October. Ugh.

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Here's another popular YouTube Music Video from Mates of States called "Fraud in 80s".

Labels: Amoeba Records, For The Actor, Jason Hammel, Kori Gardner, Mates of State, Popular Indie Pop, San Francisco, YouTube Music Videos