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I won't lament how this music is more accessible through the internet, etc. Lately, I've gotten into Vampire Weekend--and I'm happy I can hear their songs online. But, I do think about that effort (and reward ) of finding great music: my sister sending me riot grrl zines from her college I'd never know about, going to shows of unknown bands based on the promise of their record label, buying great (and not so great) records from the local place (in Chicago or N. Carolina) having no idea if it was a hit or miss. Seriously, does any adolescent buy a bad record without hearing it first anymore?
And don't get me started on missing mix tapes.

Right on, Mike! Wowee Zowee's where it's at!

The Ramones picture in the slideshow is backwards. Unless they used Llahsram amps that night and played left-handed.

Also, the #4 album, by REM, is Murmur...not Mumu. That is a type of clothing favored by Mama Cass.

Other than that, the list is interesting if objectively incomplete.

I'm with Mike. Wowee Zowee is Pavement's (or the genre's) greatest achievement.

Totally agree, Ben. Arcade Fire's Funeral is a lovely record, as is Feist's Reminder. But influential? Ask me in 10 years.

#6: Arcade Fire (???????????????). Please. I can see more argument about numbers 100 to 10, but the top ten shouldn't include something that came out just a few years ago. How has this impacted more people than Unknown Pleasures or Spiderland?!?! Pure silliness.

you can't really differentiate "alternative" from "indie" Indie is what's now, but NEVER would have existed if not for those "alternative" bands. Interpol = Joy Division. How can you differentiate and pay homage to only one?

arcade fire should in no way be that high on the list (unless your 16 and just started listening to tis music). where the hell is the rock in this indie rock list anyway?

ESG?

ditto neutral milk hotel

This list makes me want to throw up.
No Radiohead or Cure?!
Arcade Fire is higher than Velvet Underground? Come on!
And since when is Velvet Underground and Nick Drake Indie rock any way?

And choosing Gish over Siamese Dream or Bleech over Nevermind is just being pretentious. We wouldn't remember those bands if it wasn't for their second albums.

Who actually contributed to this list, I'd like to know. I can't believe you would put Stereolab and Arcade Fire(deservedly) on the list, yet not consider their predecessors and superiors, The Cocteau Twins.

Yeah, Wowee Zowee is the best Pavement album, but it's not as iconic an indie album as S+E - "a dagger in classic rock's bloated belly"

Look at Modest Mouse - around since '94, not noticed til 2004 (Good News) then We Were Dead was #1 Billboard the week it came out - over Daughtry.

Royal Trux - Cats and Dogs.

I didn't see PJ Harvey anywhere - her early stuff has got to deserve a spot on this list. As usual - women largely absent from the list.

Slanted & Enchanted is right where it should eb on that list, as an indie rock album, and as a Pavement album.

fugazi embodies indie ethic. they should be MUCH higher on the list.

MIA and De La Soul shouldn't be on the list. If you were going to put indie-hip-hop on you should've done a lot more: Company Flow, MF Doom, Aesop Rock, etc.

Yo, to heck with S+E and Crooked Rain. Wowee Zowee!!!

Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

This is a perfect example of a fluff segment. It's a given that all magazine lists are moronic, so it's pointless to be annoyed by them, pointless to argue about them. But Blender is smart, they know how much bloggerel is generated by them, so they put one in every magazine to help sell dead trees and rack up the online advertising dollars. And c'mon, no pre-WB Flaming Lips???

Where's Radiohead on the list? Okay, they're mainstream as can be today but weren't "OK Computer" or "Kid A" indie-rock albums?

Pavement's "Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain"

What is indie rock anyway these days? Is Radiohead still there? can a band be an indie rock band and then not? is it popularity or being on a label that is X big? Radiohead is probably the epitome of indie rock with the way they sold their last album.

However, the band i like most these days is Arcade Fire. They are Canadian so that makes them something .... different. And the put on the rockenest concerts.