Late Nite Howl
Late Nite Howl plays beautiful and cool Americana folk with English lyrics. The melodies are well structured and picking of the acoustic guitar is done skilfully. They also use glockenspiel's for that endearing pop indie sound.
Ocean's Acoustic
This band sounds like the Mexican version of the band Beirut. I guess it's the result of the sound made by an accordion and latin style guitars along with interesting rhythms from the drums. The vocals are also quite good.
Los Reyna
Los Reyna plays melodic and warm indie pop with some folk influences. There are also some brass instruments used in the background. The guitars and pianos remind me of bands like Belle & Sebastian or The Smiths.
León Larregui
This musician makes melancholic and echoey indie folk-pop with interesting melody structures. There's also some great use of organs in the background. The style of singing is very laid-back. This is like modern version of 60's hippy music.
Aldo García
Aldo García plays hypnotic folk music with some strange whistles and beautiful slide guitars. The guitars take the main stage as there isn't that much singing in this music. This is good music to just relax to.
Kafka Jones
Kafka Jones plays easygoing folk music with English lyrics. Two acoustic guitars battle each other with rhythmic harmonies. There are also very subtle drums in the background, but mainly the music is just carried by the acoustic guitars.
Zoé
This folk band plays beautiful and enchanting melodies with piano, guitar and violin. The airy female vocals are quite magical. Even though the sounds resemble just any American or English folk band, for some reason the vocals are particularly latin sounding.
Control Machete
This band is known for the big audiences through the film Amores Perros. They rap quite aggressive sounding rhythms in Spanish over hauntingly menacing yet beautiful acoustic guitars. The real drums give this hip hop band excellent background beats.
Molotov
Molotov plays dream-like and beautiful indie tunes with some hip-hop rhymes on top of it all. it kind of reminds me of trip-hop bands like Tricky, but it's definitely more hip-hop than trip-hop. It's basically like early Radiohead mixed with some rapping.
Zurdok
This band plays melancholic indie rock with sharp electric guitars and wailing vocals. The melodies are quite interesting and the rhythms roll with interesting organ sounds. This is one of the best indie rock bands on this list.
The Seamus
The Seamus plays old-school melancholic indie music with haunting guitars and strange melodies. There are also some influences from 70's prog-rock and 60's baroque pop, but it's just a bit simpler. Still very interesting hooks.
Sour Soul
Sour Soul plays modern indie rock with some funk elements. The melodies take their influences from melodic indie pop, but the bass lines are pure funk. The vocals are quite good and even the accent is not as Spanish as with most bands from Mexico.
Canseco
Canseco plays interesting indie pop-rock with simple, yet catchy melodies. The sounds are very professional, but there's still the sense of indie in the sounds. The backing vocals especially bring that feel of an indie band.
Los Daniels
Los Daniels use influences from more traditional latino music, but the sounds, along with some surf rock guitars, are more familiar from early-2000's indie pop rock. The melodies are a bit cheesy, but the sounds make up for that.
Austin TV
Austin TV plays slightly lo-fi indie rock with simple electric guitars and stripped raw sounds. There are some elements that remind me of post-rock, even though the big guitar walls are absent and the rhythms are not entirely in tempo.
Bengala
Bengals plays cool and well produced indie pop-rock with some electronic influences. Surprisingly, there are similarities to melodies of many Nordic bands. Same kind of melancholy with catchy choruses can be found in these songs.
Café Tacvba
This indie rock bands uses echoey and a bit lo-fi guitars on top of simple vocal melodies and bass with overdrive. The melodies are not always that cool, but the sounds are very good for someone who likes a bit of indie.
La Barranca
La Barranca is an indie rock band that sounds a lot like many bands from Spain. The same kind of dark melancholy with ambitious sound world can be found in these songs. The electric guitars and piano play well together since the guitars are muffled while the pianos ring out with lots of echo.
Perros Celestes
This band kind of sounds like the Mexican version of early Blur. The rough electric guitars play simple riffs and the melodies are quite happy. The sounds are a bit lo-fi sometimes, but it's still very pleasant to listen to.
Vesspa
This band is very cool. Their sound is definitely the sound of 2010's. It's more based on rhythms than on melodies, but it still gives some attention to melodies as well. The sounds in the electric guitars along with interesting rhythms makes this band sound very cool.
Dirty Karma
Dirty Karma is a great example of a Mexican guitar indie band. The guitar riffs sound just like any American or British band, but when the singing starts, you see immediately that you're dealing with a latin indie band. It's not just the lyrics, but the loud way of singing.
Enjambre
This guitar-indie band has some similarities to early The Strokes. The riffs and drums are very similar. The choruses, however, point to later indie bands with their strange and cheap organ sounds. Great melodies and upbeat feel.
La Butcherettes
This rough sounding guitar indie band plays garage indie with attitude. The female vocals go from cool and laconic sound to full-on attitude in the choruses that sometimes resemble 90's college rock bands like Weezer.
The June Junes
This band sounds quite commercial and definitely very American. The accent reveals immediately that we're not dealing with native English speakers. The melodies are quite interesting, even if they are very simple.
Fobia
This guitar-indie band has excellent overdriven riffs and pulsing bass lines. This is great music for starting a night out. The sounds are a lot cooler than those of many other Mexican bands. Some of the riffs remind me of Arctic Monkeys.
Comisario Pantera
This indie rock band plays sunny and fast songs with uplifting melodies. The sounds are very authentic and that's probably why I like the sounds so much. The guitar solos are very simple but fun in their own way.
Los Romantics de Zacatecas
This guitar driven indie rock band puts together all that was great in late-90's indie. Sunny and interesting melodies, upbeat rhythms and chiming, sharp electric guitars. The vocals are not that impressive, but they fit right in with the music.
The John Band
The John Band sounds a lot like American indie bands of the early 2000's. Despite their name, the songs are actually in Spanish. But this doesn't matter a bit, because the band is playing really well and the sounds and melodies are enough to keep you interested.
O'Malley
Just based on the name alone, you probably wouldn't think that this band is Mexican. And when you hear the music, it doesn't help either, because the sound is quite Latin American with some characteristic indie rock guitars in the background.
Liquits
This guitar indie band knows how to make excellent riffs. the bass lines are also very well constructed. the only thing that I'm not that keen on is the singing. The vocals do not have interesting melodies and vocal sound is not particularly good either.
Turbina
Turbine plays fairly aggressive guitar-driven indie. The sounds are big and you can hear that they have some expertise in studio recording. The vocals have that indie echo, but the guitars are very well in tempo and the sounds are just right.
Simplifires
This indie rock band uses lots of strange electronic sounds and effects in their music. It's really difficult to place this band on the genre map, because they're quite aggressive with their sound, they use electronic instruments, but they also have that disco indie rhythm.
Rey Pila
These people have definitely listened their fair share of Kraftwerk and other early electronic music pioneers. Their synthesiser sounds are great. The problem is that they move from those synthesiser sounds to more boring guitar indie. Still pretty good stuff and the lyrics are in English.
Childs
Childs play minimalistic electronic music that can maybe be described as ambient. They make beautiful sounds and subtle melodies using a variety of different instruments. This band reminds me of the Icelandic band Múm.
Ambiente
As the name might suggest, this band plays quiet music that's definitely good for relaxing, but I still wouldn't necessarily call it ambient. I think there are more apparent post-rock influences. Also the instrumentation is more traditional band stuff, containing electric guitars, bass and drums.
Fake Designers
Fake Designers are a post-rock band that plays that kind of big sounding post-rock that was in style in the mid 00's. If you like bands like Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky, this should be right up your alley.
La Castañeda
This indie rock band has some grunge influences and some electronic drum sounds. The vocals kind of remind me of Nick Cave, even though it's difficult to confirm that connection with Spanish lyrics. Their melodies are quite dark.
Vaquero
This college rock band plays quite rough electric guitars along with treble filled bass lines and some electronic instruments. The sounds is a bit of a cliche and the sound is a bit too commercial for my taste, but this band is still well worth mentioning in this list.
Los Weeds
Los Weeds play aggressive post punk with attitude. The sounds are more modern than the post-punk of the 80's, but it definitely still draws some influences from that period. There are more modern psychedelic rock influences there as well.
Los Blenders
This band lives off ripping of different styles from old bands, but it still manages to be quite modern in a retro kind of way. There's some punk, some surf guitar and some rock n' roll in there. It kind of sounds like a Spanish singing version of the Ramones.
O Tortuga
This surf rock band has excellent and sharp electric guitar riffs in their fast tempo music. The melodies are not necessarily that interesting, but the sound expresses youth in a powerful way. It's retro, but at the same time quite modern.
Descartes A Kant
This indie rock band is all about strange rhythms and surf guitars. They also use some excellently strange synthesiser sounds and change from wild jams to syrupy 60's pop grooves. it's very difficult to put this music into any specific genre.
Nortec Collective
Norte Collective plays funky and modern music with emphasis on the rhythms. They also use brass instruments. I get a feeling of bands like Fatboy Slim or Chemical Brothers, but with strange Mexican vibes.
Panteon Rococo
This band mixes gipsy style melodies with ska rhythms and more traditional Mexican tunes. They use brass instruments over steadily beating rhythms. There's a really latin sound here, but it's still very pleasant to listen to.
Circulos de Nada
This latin American sounding band has a strong emphasis on rhythms, but it's not like it's melodies are boring either. They have very interesting saxophone lines and a variety of other instruments. The rhythms remind me of 70's prog-rock.
Cabezas de Cera
This band sounds truly original. I don't think I've ever heard a band that would sound quite like this. They use some kinds of traditional instruments, but the sound is still quite modern. There's a great haunting feel to the sounds.
Los Jaigüey
This interesting band combines funk bass lines and beating rhythms with fast hip hop style rhyming. I wouldn't necessarily call it rap music, but it's some kind of fast speech singing anyway. The bass comes slapped.
Porter
Porter is an indie rock band that uses disco rhythms and innovative electric guitars with interesting melodies. Even though this band clearly has some influences in the Anglo-American indie scene, it manages to sound original.
Little Jesus
This electro/disco indie band plays upbeat rhythms with great sunny melodies. This must be great music to dance to. The album cover looks like some deranged version of Miami Vice, which actually makes sense when you hear the music.
Chetes
Cheats sounds like singer-songwriter music with a good band effort. They use some brass instruments on top of more traditional indie instruments. The melodies are simple but interesting and catchy. This makes you nod your head along.
Ximena Sariñana
This indie pop artist uses wild disco beats with melodic song structures. This is the kind of music that gets people on the dance floor in indie discos. The songs are in English and the accent isn't that good to be honest, but I don't care.
The Plastics Revolution
This electro indie band uses interesting and quite naive synth sounds along with electric guitars, bass and drums. The sound is very modern and you can almost hear 2010's in this music. The melodies are quite conventional.
Hello Seahorse!
This electro indie band uses steady disco beats and on top of that they layer airy melodies and dreamy vocals. There's nothing that unique in this sound, but they do everything right so it's good music to enjoy.
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This post-rock band relies on typical post-rock elements such as chiming electric guitars, but they leave the big growling overdriven guitar walls out and replace them with interesting electronic sounds.
Suave as Hell
Suave as Hell is an indie band with nice bluesy groove. It kind of reminds me of some more commercial songs by The Doors, even though the sound is definitely more modern and not as earthy. Still, great melodies.
Quiero Club
This electro band has 80's style synth riffs and airy female vocals. The overall sound is airy and very modern. i would like to hear a bit more innovative take on melodies, but I guess that's not the main thing in this kind of music.
Camilo Séptimo
This singer-songwriter has some funky disco beats in his music. There are also some excellent dreamy electric guitars that soar above it all. I'm sort of reminded of War on Drugs while listening to this even though this is probably not as interesting.
Siddhartha
Siddhartha is a mixture of disco beats and electronic sounds. We're still talking about indie music where the vocals are very smooth and pleasant. This combo makes this music quite interesting. It's kind of commercial but not in a cheesy kind of way.
Pastilla
This indie pop group plays disco rhythms with interesting bass lines and airy and clean electric guitar licks. The melodies are very simple, but catchy. Some of the riffs remind me of the first album of The Magic Numbers.
Chikita Violenta
This indie rock band plays big guitar walls and interesting rhythms. The verses are more tuned down and there's a similarity to shoegaze bands like Ride or The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Very ambitious indie rock.
Luke Castillo
Luke Castillo is a singer-songwriter with interesting melodies. His songs are quite commercial, combining acoustic guitars and full-band efforts in the choruses. The sounds are a bit cheesy, but the songwriting is pretty good.
Lbasi
This band uses strange sounds in their otherwise quite traditional rock music. The beginning of the song on this list actually sounds like Animal Collective, while the song itself is just classic punk rock with commercial melodies.
Furland
This indie band plays quite commercial and simple rock music. They do have some interesting synth sounds on top of their guitars, but it's mainly still all very simple guitars, drums and bass music. The choruses are catchy and fun to nod your head along to.
Vicente Gayo
This post-punk/new wave band sounds a lot like the most alternative bands in the 80's Manchester, but at the same time the sound is a bit more modern and they are more experimental in the sounds than some of the similar bands elsewhere.
Juan Son
Juan Son plays easygoing and quiet electro music with heavy synth sounds. The vocals are not trained at all which gives this music a very indie feel. They also go from electronic and full sounds to simplistic and quiet bits every once in a while.
Neon Indian
This band has certainly listened to their fair share of shoegaze bands like My Bloody Valentine and Jesus and Mary Chain. They have a bit more modern sounds than those bands, including some electronic sounds, but the basic idea is the same: huge guitar walls that hide endearing melodies.
I Can Chase Dragons!
This shoegaze band uses echoey sounds with industrial instrumentation. There's something incredibly 80's in this sound, but at the same time it's much more modern. Somehow this 80's shoegaze sound mixes together with Peter, Blörn and John in my mind.
Caifanes
Caifanes is an 80's style new wave band. the sounds are echoey and industrial and the guys in the band even look like the people from The Cure. It's interesting to find that 80's was 80's everywhere in the world.
Madame Récamier
This singer-songwriter makes seductive and endearing indie pop-rock with mainly just normal indie instruments: electric guitar, bass and drums. The vocals are cute and skilful. I kind of wish I would understand Spanish though.
Thalisz Mente
This singer-songwriter has a huge voice that sounds great just by itself, but is even enhanced by the big orchestrated band sounds that accompany her. This sounds a bit like the Mexican version of Regina Spektor.
Hefema Bull
Hefema Bull plays easygoing indie pop with slight bossa nova influences. There's some relaxed and unhurried quality to this music that makes me think of sunny summer days of my childhood when you could just stay outside all day.
Magos Herrera
This is probably the only jazz artist on this list. It was really difficult to find jazz artists from Mexico. There are latin style guitars on the background, but the female vocals are cool and jazzy and they alone make this music interesting to listen to.
Torreblanca
Torreblanca is a strange band that plays funny and upbeat indie music with almost too happy melodies. The male and female vocals go well together. This kind of music can only come from somewhere where it's sunny outside.
Ventilader
This band is a bit too commercial to be for my taste. I still added it on the list, because at least the melodies are quite interesting. There's nothing really wrong with the songwriting, but the sounds are quite awful.
Kar Accidents
This band sounds a bit cheesy, but at the same time, there's a certain kind of warmth in the sounds that makes this very pleasant band to listen to. Acoustic guitars and pounding bass lines along with high pitched male vocals sound quite good.
Buffalo Blanco
This indie pop band has drawn lots of influences from Americana indie. There are definite country influences even though the main sound is just simple indie pop-rock. The sounds are actually better than the songwriting.
Jefes Del Desierto
This band combines latin acoustic guitars with funky jazz tunes. It almost reminds me of songs like Soul Bossa Nova but in a more latin groove. The melodies are truly inventive. They also use harmonica quite skilfully.
Jaguares
Jaguars plays moody Americana music with excellent raspy vocals and playful harmonica. There are some strong latin influences in this music that is not necessarily to my liking that much, but especially the instrumental parts are cool.
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