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I’m obsessed with Indie Rock, and I just think there is nothing better than a good guitar riff. Whether its in the intro, at the bridge, or throughout the song, I just love something that really sticks in your head and sounds fantastic. I’m looking for some good indie songs that have that sort of thing. I’ll give you some examples;

The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army (the best guitar riff of all time hands down.)
Muse – Plug In Baby, Time Is Running Out, Map of the Problematique, Supermassive Black Hole, Knights of Cydonia, Uprising, The Resistance, Undisclosed Desires, New Born, Feeling Good, Hysteria
Arctic Monkeys – If You Were There, Beware (My favourite band, and there are countless fantastic riffs by them, but this is probably my favourite)
Bloc Party – Helicopter, Banquet, Flux
Green Day – Holiday
Kasabian – Underdog, Club Foot, Fast Fuse, LSF, Fire, Shoot The Runner
The Libertines – Don’t Look Back Into The Sun
Morning Runner – Gone Up In Flames ( The Inbetweeners Theme Tune )
Nickelback – Gotta Be Somebody
Oasis – The Importance of Being Idle, Don’t Look Back In Anger
The Prodigy – Invaders Must Die, Omen, Smack My Bitch Up, Warrior’s Dance
Radiohead – Street Spirit (Beatiful riff), Just
The Strokes – 12:51, Alone Together, Someday, Hard To Explain, Last Nite
The Temper Trap – Soldier On
Two Door Cinema Club – What You Know, Undercover Martyn, I Can Talk, Cigarettes In The Theatre, Come Back Home, Something Good Can Work
Vampire Weekend – A Punk ( amazing riff )
The xx – Intro (and all their other songs <3)
30 Seconds To Mars – Too many good riffs to count

So if you could reccomend any other good riffs or intros that i havent mentioned there, that would be really helpful. Thanks:D
i said INDIE ROCK, i can’t stand metal or anything screamo or hardcore. Just some really good, catchy riffs from the same genre of what i’ve already said!
@RastafaRay: If you’re gonna be really picky then fine.

Green Day perhaps are mainstream now, but they didn’t use to be. And I don’t really like Nickelback that much I just like that song. Fair enough about The Prodigy because it is more electronic but I just love the beat in ‘Invaders Must Die’
And when I said ‘riff’ i just meant a good tune on a guitar. Maybe I should have said ‘bassline’ but by the examples i gave i would expect you’d be able to work out what I was talking about.
And how can you say that most of them are on major record labels?
Two Door Cinema Club are signed to
The xx are signed to Young Turks
The Strokes are signes to Rough Trade
Vampire Weekend are signed to XL
The Temper Trap are signed to Infectious Records
Bloc Party are signed to Dim Mak
Arctic Monkeys are signed to Domino Records

All of these are independant record labels, and they are all rock bands, therefore they are all indie rock, like I said. So you sir, can shove your complaints up your wanabee rast