Blog rock is born

August 2000: Number 42 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicThe noughties phenomenon of blog-rock wasn't born with a bang – for certain, no Strokes-style changing of the guard took place. Yet it was unquestionably one of the decade's biggest indie trends, especially to those for whom "indie" didn't just mean "guitars" but rather a vaguely outsider/underground music made predominantly by skinny white men. Animal Collective, who released their first album in August...

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