Garage rock and the revival of the new wave: The Von Bondies, The Electric Six, The Dirtbombs and The Detroit Cobras; Radio 4, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Electric Frankenstein, The Rapture; Billy Childish and The Buff Medways, The (International) Noise Conspiracy and The 5.6.7.8’s. With the Delta blues-influenced rock ‘n’ roll sound of the 1960s, we find artists such as The White Stripes, The Strokes, The Von Bondies, Eagles of Death Metal, The Vines, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Hives and The Black Keys.
Post-punk revival movement: influenced by the new wave, 1970s punk and 1980s post-punk of The Clash, Gang Of Four, Television, Wire, it became popular thanks to bands such as Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, The Libertines, Dirty Pretty Things, Babyshambles, Razorlight, Editors, Bloc Party and The View.
Indietronic: In the early 1990s, Stereolab and Disco Inferno inspired a genre that would evolve through technological innovation in the new millennium, with bands like Broadcast, Justice, Lali Puna, The Postal Service, Ratatat and the BOBBY Project. In the UK, this mixture has become known as new rave, a genre that includes bands such as Klaxons, Trash Fashion, New Young Pony Club, Hadouken!, Late of the Pier, Test Icicles and Shitdisco.
Baroque pop, inspired by the folk music of the 1960s, and the Pet Shop Boys record Pet Sounds. This subgenre includes quiet vocals and orchestral arrangements in bands such as Arcade Fire, Danielson Famile, Sufjan Stevens, The Decemberists, Broken Social Scene, Islands and Stars.
A new program, a complex, experimental, sophisticated style of rock music with bands such as Mew, Muse and Porcupine Tree.
New Weird America or Freak Folk, a more experimental version of New Folk with quirky folk songs and ballads filled with psychology, featuring artists such as Devendra Benhart, Joanna Newsom, Animal Collective and Six Organs of Admittance.
Psych-Folk, a psychedelic New Folk movement that includes avant-garde noise, drones, dissonance and natural field recordings with artists such as No-Neck Blues Band, Brightblack Morning Light, Wooden Wand and Vanishing Voice.
Psychedelic pop, a revival of 1970s psychedelic pop with artists such as The Shins, Of Montreal and The Flaming Lips.
Disco-punk/dance-punk, a combination of new wave music and punk rock aesthetics with LCD Soundsystem, The Rapture, !!!, Out Hud, Liars, Radio 4, Death from Above 1979, Lost Sounds and The Stiletto Formal.
Twee pop with simple sweet melodies and lyrics and jangly guitars with bands like The Boy Least Likely To, Architecture in Helsinki, Belle & Sebastian, Tullycraft, Camera Obscura and Girls in Hawaii.
Bands such as Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, Arcade Fire, The Polyphonic Spree, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, dEUS, The Hidden Cameras and Islands.