Tag: 2010s Indie

Live Indie And Alternative Rock Albums From The 2010s

I’ve decided to group indie rock and alternative rock live albums together to reduce the problems distinguishing between the two related categories.

Wikipedia defines Indie Rock as

“Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Indie rock was extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include indie pop, jangle pop, C86, and lo-fi, among others. Originally used to describe record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. As grunge and punk revival bands in the US, and then Britpop bands in the UK, broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground perspective.”

Wikipedia defines Alternative Rock as

“Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a genre of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s. The “alternative” definition refers to the genre’s distinction from mainstream rock music, expressed primarily in a distorted guitar sound, subversive and/or transgressive lyrics and generally a nonchalant, defiant attitude. The term’s original meaning was broader, referring to a generation of musicians unified by their collective debt to either the musical style, or simply the independent, D.I.Y. ethos of punk rock, which in the late 1970s laid the groundwork for alternative music.[4] At times, “alternative” has been used as a catch-all description for music from underground rock artists that receives mainstream recognition, or for any music, whether rock or not, that is seen to be descended from punk rock (including some examples of punk itself, as well as new wave, and post-punk).”

There is an issue of where indie rock and alternative rock emerged from punk rock and new wave so I’ve provided links below to the punk and new wave live albums by decade.

Alternative Rock and Indie Rock Live Albums Recorded In The 2010s

The B52’s With The Wild Crowd Live in Athens, GA 2011
The B52’s Live In London 2013
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live From KCRW 2013
Dodgy Live 2013
Imagine Dragons Night Visions Live 2013
The Pogues In Paris 30th Anniversary Concert At The Olympia 2012
Primal Scream Screamadelica Live 2010
The Prodigy Worlds On Fire 2010
Simple Minds Celebrate Live From The SSE Hydro Glasgow 2013
Suede Royal Albert Hall 24 March 2010
Suede 2013 European Tour
They Might Be Giants First Album Live 2013
They Might Be Giants Flood Live In Australia

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The All Time Best Indie & Alternative Rock Live Albums

I don’t have a readers poll for this decade but I do have a poll to find the all time best indie and alternative rock live albums:

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Indie & Alternative Rock Live Albums By Decade – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s

Punk Rock & New Wave Live Albums By Decade – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s