Brooklyn Indie
Brooklyn indie is the indie rock and art-pop scene based in the New York borough of Brooklyn, most prominent in the 2000s and early 2010s.
In the early 2000s the Williamsburg neighborhood became a center for indie rock, and a wave of bands formed or settled in the borough. Their music was varied but often ambitious: layered vocal harmonies, unusual rhythms, electronics and nods to post-punk and folk. On Spotify the name works as a place tag for artists tied to the borough.
Artists it is known for: TV on the Radio, Grizzly Bear, The National, LCD Soundsystem.
- Family
- Alternative & Indie
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A scene
- From
- Brooklyn, New York, early 2000s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 8%
About 6,600 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have brooklyn indie among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Brooklyn Indie artists
Mitski
Big Thief
Cafuné
The Drums
DIIVThe brooklyn indie artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.