Best Indie Rock Halloween Songs
IRC has collected, organized and published the largest, accessible collection of Halloween indie rock songs on the web. There were so many potential songs that we had to focus on picking only the best of the best. Each playlist – there are 13 in all – contain 13 awesome songs from some of the best indie (and classic rock as well) artists and bands of the past two decades.
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. I: The Arctic Monkeys, Spoon, The Kissaway Trail, The Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Beach House, Cat Power, The Kinks, Beck, Friendly Fires, Starlight Mints and Ryan Adams.
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. II: The Dead Weather, The Flaming Lips, Sufjan Stevens, The Kinks, Radiohead, Chad VanGaalen, The Arcade Fire, Cut Copy, Dan Deacon, British Sea Power, Matt Pond PA, Deer Tick and Evangelicals.
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. III: Deastro, Pavement, Band of Horses, Tegan and Sara, The Fratellis, Nirvana, Rodrigo Y Gabriella, Explosions in the Sky, Bon Iver, Sonic Youth, Ra Ra Riot, Modest Mouse, Jarvis Cocker and Colin James.
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. IV: Evangelicals, Franz Ferdinand, Interpol, Islands, Manchester Orchestra, Animal Collective, Beck, Git, Rainbow Arabia, The Ramones, REM, The Low Anthem, The Clientele and The Misfits.
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. V: Bright Eyes, Mojave 3, Wilco, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Hexes and Ohs, Franz Ferdinand, Sufjan Stevens, Fire on Fire, Neon Blonde, Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper, Elliott Smith, Passion Pit and Say Hi To Your Mom!
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. VI: Akron/Family, Clues, Arctic Monkeys, Modest Mouse, The Black Lips, Wintersleep, The Mountain Goats, Godsmack, Pepi Ginsbert, Belle & Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, TV on the Radio and Benji Hughes.
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. VII: Altas Sound, Rocky Votolato, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, My Teenage Stride, The Klopeks, Blitzen Trapper, Band of Horses, The Fratellis, Peter Hammill, Amy Millian, Au Revioir Simone, Tu Fawning, Thievery Corporation and The Beatles.
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. VIII:: Bat For Lashes, CANT, The Crocodiles, Beirut, Sunset Rubdown, No Age, Alkaline Trio, The Clientele, Fields, Kurt Vile, Palomar, Tom Waits, Herself and Scarlett Johansson with Pete Yorn.
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. IX:: Them Crooked Vultures, Queens of the Stone Age, Sean Bones, The Mae Shi, M83, Marilyn Manson, The Cave Singers, Cheekyboy, The Kinks, Franz Ferdinand, The Magnetic Fields, Man Man, Ministry and Logan Lynn.
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. X:: Jay Reatard, Clues, MGMT, Spoon, The Kinks Iron & Wine, Headlights, Motion Turns It On, Black Lips, Conor Oberst and the Mystic River Valley Band, My Teenage Stride, The Rattles, Pete Doherty and Lemonwilde.
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. XI:: The Flaming Lips, Mr. Gnome, Margot and The Nuclear So & So’s, Steve Malkmus, My Chemical Romance, High Court, Dark Mean, Avenged Sevenfold, The Crocodiles, Arcade Fire, The Mob, Witch Hats and The Misfits.
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. XII:: Bat for Lashes, Tom Waits, Wolf Parade, The Red Bow, Pink Mountaintops, Maps and Atlases, Dead Kennedys, Godsmack, Elf Power, Donovan, Ryan Adams, Electric President, Martin Bisi and Rodrigo Y Gabriella.
Halloween Indie Rock Songs, Vol. XIII – The Finale:: Radiohead, Of Montreal, Animal Collective, Frightened Rabbit, Sonic Youth, Band of Horses, Evangelicals, Goh Nakamura, Low Water, No Kids, Pete and the Pirates, Cononut and the Duke, Sea Wolf, The Bower Birds, Donovan Quinn, Dirtblonde, Miniature Tigers, King Kahn, PF Sloan, Melpo Mene, Hexes and Ohs, The Depreciation Guild, Badly Drawn Boy, The Whigs, Devil’s Eyes, Lou Reed and dozens more.
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