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Greatest Indie Labels!

Emily Pilbeam celebrates indie's greatest labels including Sub Pop, Rough Trade & Domino. With music from Franz Ferdinand, The White Stripes and Jockstrap.

Produced by We Are Grape for BBC Radio 6 Music.

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Music Played

  • The Libertines

    Time for Heroes

    • Rough Trade Records.

  • The Strokes

    The Modern Age

    • Rough Trade Records.

  • The Smiths

    I Started Something I Couldn't Finish

    • The Sound Of The Smiths.
    • Rhino.
    • 22.

  • Jockstrap

    Greatest Hits

    • Rough Trade.

  • Nirvana

    Love Buzz

    • Geffen.

  • La Luz

    Sure As Spring

    • Hardly Art.

  • Yo La Tengo

    Sugarcube

    • Prisoners of Love: A Smattering of Scintillating Senescent Songs 1985–2003.
    • Matador Records.
    • 102.

  • Car Seat Headrest

    Destroyed By Hippie Powers

    • Matador.

  • Franz Ferdinand

    Darts Of Pleasure

    • Domino.

  • Arctic Monkeys

    The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala

    • DOMINO.

  • beabadoobee

    Talk

    • Dirty Hit.

  • The 1975

    The Sound

    • I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It.
    • Dirty Hit/Polydor.
    • 13.

  • The White Stripes

    Blue Orchid

    • XL.

  • tUnE-yArDs

    Water Fountain (6 Music Session, 12 May 2014)

  • Deerhunter

    Nothing Ever Happened

    • Microcastle / Weird Era Cont..
    • 4AD.
    • 109.

  • Teenage Fanclub

    Sparky's Dream

  • My Bloody Valentine

    Soon

    • Creation Records.

  • Metronomy

    Everything Goes My Way

    • The English Riviera.
    • Because Music.

  • Langham Research Centre

    Accarezzo

    • Nonclassical.

Broadcast

  • Friday22:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music

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