Tops

At long last, the Indiecator's top 8 indie and alternative albums from 2024.

With most bands, I try to get all of their albums. Here are 7 bands that made me go "You know what? I'm good."

I thought 2023 was a pretty weak year for music. Regardless, here are some of my favorite albums from these past 365 days.

Some indie bands cause a sensation with their debut, and some are only recognized several years and albums later, like these 10 acts.

After two years without a proper top 10, here are the Indiecator's top 10 albums of 2022 (plus some honorable mentions).

Here are five things that bands and labels do to their albums that make the listening experience that much less enjoyable.

I didn't think 2021 was all that great a year for music. Here are a few good indie albums and songs from the year.

The Indiecator's top albums of 2020, in a slightly different format for this terrible year for music

Here it is, the Indiecator's top 10 albums of 2019. Make sure to check out the Spotify playlist at the bottom.

Since not every album can be a winner, here are ten great songs from 2019 from albums that didn't make the "Top 10 Albums of 2019."

From the funny to innovative to meta, here are the Indiecator's top 10 music videos of 2019.

Instead of trying to determine the best album of the 2010s, this is a ranking of each year of the 2010s by the quality of music released.

Some indie and alternative artists never really change their sound. Here are ten who have to the point that they're now unrecognizable from their debuts.

Here it is, the Indiecator's top 10 albums of 2018. You can find a Spotify link to a "best of 2018" playlist at the bottom.

Here are ten standout tracks from albums that you won’t find on the Indiecator’s “top of 2018” list.

A selection of some of the best indie music videos that came out in 2018. The indiecator watched close to 100 so you don't have to.

From studio albums to remix albums to EPs to singles, here's how the Indiecator ranks the types of musical releases you can buy.

Somehow, given the boundless opportunities indie bands have for names, they have fallen into identifiable patterns over the years.

While 2017 was an eventful year for me personally (I moved across the country, hence the lack of posts in recent months), it was a much less eventful year for

Getting into indie music can seem overwhelming at first. The umbrella term “indie” seems to encompass an endless supply of bands, and trying to find the scene’s critically acclaimed heavyweights

Alright, we all know 2016 was a pretty terrible year, so I’m not going to beat a dead horse here. Instead, I’d like to focus on some of the great

While 2016 has been generally considered a terrible year for humanity, it at least gave it us some great albums that we will remember for years to come, and hopefully

Pitchfork recently released their “Best Music Videos of 2016” countdown, and I couldn’t help but feel the list will be strongly correlated with their top albums and top songs lists,

Indie music is frequently mocked for its pretentiousness. After all, what other vaguely-defined genre seemingly awards points based on obscurity and is full of songs that sound like they were

2015 was an all-around amazing year for music. There were some astounding debuts, great surprises by bands that hadn’t been heard from in years, and high-quality albums by artists that

Indie music fans had a lot to be thankful for in 2015, with some amazing albums released this year. This is not the list for those albums. Instead, this list

When Halloween rolls around, there are very few songs that seem appropriate for the holiday. It’s not like Christmas, where every other band has released a song or album for