[low.pfile]

Yesterday I listened countless Indie Rock bands on Amazon samples and did not understand this style, except that many bands do not use reverb on the recording.

So I wonder what characterizes the Indie Rock ??

FRM,
It's certainly a wide genre. Take a look at allmusic.com's Indie Rock definition #1 and definition #2

[Art_Chicago]

Guys,

This is exactly the kind pointers I was hoping to get. Being off the Radio and TV grid I am somewhat out of touch with this stuff, if these artists even get some air time at all. NPR is the only thing I listen to with any regularity on the commute. Sometime ago, I purchased Middle Brother based on their recommendations. It was fantastic... if u havent already... do check it out.

Please keep them coming guys....

you can also stream stations like this Chicago XRT

http://wxrt.radio.com/

they play about half of the groups listed in the post; some free downloads, too 

[FullRangeMan]

FRM,
It's certainly a wide genre. Take a look at allmusic.com's Indie Rock definition #1 and definition #2

Thanks for clear friend, I thought It had something to do with Indians. 

[nocrapman]

With so many excellent recommendations, I decided to compile them in this post and add the same to the initial post for others to refer to. I can obviously buy or even check all of them out right away. Please feel free to point out more/corrections or redundancies.

Thanks to everyone who have chimed in till now.

The Artist's list:

Jeans Wilder
Doves
Elbow
Smiths
Hall and Oats
She and Him
The Decemberists
Death Cab for Cutie
My Morning Jacket
Arcade Fire
Regine Spektor
Feist
St. Vincent
Ingrid Michaelson
Fine Frenzy
Sia
Taken By Trees
Morrissey of course
Editors
Beirut
Black Lips
Misfits
Keane
Muse
The Temper Trap
Carla Bruni
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Keren Ann
Vanessa Paradis
Jose Gonzalez
Whitley
Iron and Wine
Band of Horses
Vetiver
The Antlers
The National
Phoenix
Animal Collective
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, Yo La Tengo, Build to Spill
Sufjan Stevens
Fleet Foxes
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Wilco
Bon Iver
Alexi Murdoch
Frank Turner
Bernard Fanning
Pete Murray
Bright Eyes
Colin Meloy (Decemberists)
Damien Rice
Jakob Dylan
Joe Purdy
Sean Hayes
Newton Faulkner
The Head and the Heart
William Fitzsimmons
The Swell Season
TV On The Radio

Resources:
- Chicago XRT http://wxrt.radio.com/
- PASTE http://www.pastemagazine.com/

[Diamond Dog]

If I may, one more addition to your list - a band from New York called TV On The Radio. They defy categorization and are the kind of band that doesn't come along very often so check them out and you may like what you hear. Fans of this band include David Bowie ( who is also a big Arcade Fire fan ). A really unique sound - can't say enough good things about these guys.

D.D. 

[gorb]

I'm just going to recommend a bunch of indie record labels with indie meaning independent:
Tympanik Audio
Ant-Zen
Hymen Records
Hands Productions
n5MD
War Office Propaganda / Rage in Eden
Cold Meat Industry
Equilibrium Music
Sending Orbs
Midi Creative / Noble
Kompakt
City Centre Offices
4AD
Brume Records
Ad Noiseam
Leaf

[Demarche]

Here's another resource for you http://opbmusic.org/ Their playlist mainly consists of up & coming indie bands.

Their In Studio series is always good, the most recent is Dolorean - check out Black Hills Gold.

Some more for your list;
Archers
The Besnard Lakes
Blitzen Trapper
Blind Pilot
DeVotchka
Dolorean (of course)
Helio Sequence
John Vanderslice
Matt Pond PA
Menomena
Mountain Goats
Neko Case
The New Pornographers
Point Juncture, WA
Richmond Fontaine
Super XX Man
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down
The Thermals
Viva Voce
Weinland
The Wooden Birds