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Greatest Indie Labels!

Emily Pilbeam celebrates indie's greatest labels including Sub Pop, Rough Trade and 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

    • Rhino.

  • Jockstrap

    Greatest Hits

    • Rough Trade.

  • Nirvana

    Love Buzz

    • Geffen.

  • La Luz

    Sure As Spring

    • Hardly Art.

  • Yo La Tengo

    Sugarcube

    • Matador Records.

  • 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

    • Dirty Hit/Polydor.

  • The White Stripes

    Blue Orchid

    • XL.

  • tUnE-yArDs

    Water Fountain (6 Music Session, 12 May 2014)

  • Deerhunter

    Nothing Ever Happened

    • 4AD.

  • Teenage Fanclub

    Sparky's Dream

  • My Bloody Valentine

    Soon

    • Creation Records.

  • Metronomy

    Everything Goes My Way

    • Because Music.

  • Langham Research Centre

    Accarezzo

    • Nonclassical.

Broadcasts

  • Fri 17 Apr 2026 22:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music
  • Wednesday 00:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music