List of Australian indie rock bands - Definition and Overview

This is a list of bands and musicians from Australia who released recordings independently between 1976 and 1992. The criterion for this page is at least one record not distributed by one of the six Australian majors (EMI, CBS/Sony, WEA/Warner, Festival, RCA/BMG, PolyGram) — distribution through other than these six companies having been the generally-accepted definition of an "independent" release in Australia at the time.

The time period starts with punk, carries through the 1980s explosion in the market for Australian indie rock and ends in 1992 with the rise of grunge and the mainstreaming of alternative rock. Several of the independent record labels shut down (e.g. Greasy Pop) or went dormant (e.g. Waterfront) around this time.

The city each band is listed under is generally the city the band formed in.

See also: List of Australian musicians (all genres), Music of Australia

Adelaide

• The Acid Drops
• The Artisans
• The Assassins
• Bloodloss
• Coneheads
• Contrapunctus
• The Dagoes
• Del Webb Explosion
• Dust Collection
• The Every Brothers
• Exploding White Mice
• Fear And Loathing
• Fools Apart
• The Garden Path
• Grong Grong
• Handmedowns
• Iron Sheiks
• The -Ists
• July 14th
• Just Kidding
• Lizard Train
• Mad Turks from Istanbul
• The Mark of Cain
• Morning Glory
• Philisteins
• Play Loud
• Primevils
• Psycho Zombies
• The Purple Gang
• Screaming Believers
• The Spikes
• The Twenty Second Sect
• UV's
• Where's The Pope
• Greg Williams
• Young Modern

Brisbane

• The Apartments
• The Colours
• The Go-Betweens
• JFK and the Cuban Crisis
• The Pinups
• Players Please Twist
• The Saints
• Screaming Tribesmen
• The Toy Watches
• Ups And Downs
• Xero
• Pineapples from the Dawn of Time
• Mystery of Sixes

Canberra

• Chancres
• Club Of Rome
• Cough Cough
• Falling Joys
• Guthega Pipeline
• Manshead
• Moral Majority
• Myxo
• Phalidamide
• Tactics
• The Framed
• Quintrex Bop
• Young Docteurs

Geelong

• Bored!
• Magic Dirt

Melbourne

• 5.15
• AEIOU
• The Arctic Circles
• The Birthday Party
• The Brady Bunch Lawnmower Massacre
• Breaknecks
• Candy Harlots
• Champagne Edge
• Cosmic Psychos
• Crackerjacks
• Crown Of Thorns
• Dance Set
• Dorian Grey
• Frontier Scouts
• Fungus Brains
• God
• Guttersnipes
• A Happy Family
• Harem Scarem
• Hollowmen
• Hoss
• Hugo Klang
• Informatics
• Jacksworld
• Killer Sheep
• Little Murders
• Macho Clowns
• Marching Girls
• Meanies
• The Moodists
• Mr Floppy
• The Naked Remain
• News
• No
• No Man's Land
• Nursery Crimes
• Patterson's Curse
• People With Chairs Up Their Noses
• Plays With Marionettes
• Poppin' Mommas
• Powder Monkeys
• Pray TV
• The Puritans
• Sacred Cowboys
• Scapa Flow
• Slaughtermen
• Slush Puppies
• Clint Small
• Spectre's Revenge
• Spiderbait
• Sunset Strip
• Throwaways
• Tiddas
• Tuff Monks
• Two Way Garden
• Venom P. Stinger
• Vicious Circle
• The Volcanoes
• Whirlywirld
• White Cross
• Wrecked Jets
• The Wreckery
• X
• Z-Cars
• The Zimmermen
• The Zorros

Perth

• And An A
• James Baker
• Bamboos
• The Blackeyed Susans
• Chad's Tree
• Charlotte's Web
• The Chevelles
• Cremator
• German Humour
• Greg Dear and the Beautiful Losers
• Helicopters
• The Holy Rollers
• King Pig
• Kryptonics
• The Marigolds
• Martha's Vineyard
• Neptunes
• Palisades
• Quick And The Dead
• Rabbits Wedding
• Russians
• Kim Salmon and the Surrealists
• The Scientists
• The Someloves/Orange
• The Stems
• Stolen Picassos
• Stonefish
• Stray Tapes
• Summer Suns
• Swamp Monsters
• Steve Tallis
• Errol H. Tout
• The Triffids
• The Victims
• The Waltons

Sydney

• Addictive
• The Aints
• Asylum
• Meera Atkinson
• Bam Balams
• The Barbarellas
• The Barons
• The Beasts of Bourbon
• The Benders
• The Benedicts
• The Bhagavad Guitars
• Big Home Orchestra
• Box Of Fish
• The Butcher Shop
• The Cannanes
• Catch Cry
• Celibate Rifles
• Club Hoy
• The Cockroaches
• Conspirators
• Crent
• Crow
• The Crystal Set
• Curious (Yellow)
• The Deadly Hume
• Decline of the Reptiles
• Def FX
• Died Pretty
• Doppelgangers
• Dubrovniks
• The Eastern Dark
• Even As We Speak
• Examplehead
• Exserts
• Fast Cars
• Fear Of Falling
• Feedtime
• Fiction Romance
• Fishermen
• Fixed Up
• Flaming Hands
• The Godbotherers
• The Gondwanaland Project
• Grooveyard
• Gulf Klub
• Happy Hate Me Nots
• The Hard-Ons
• Headstones
• Hellmenn
• Hexbreakers
• The Hitmen
• The Honeys
• Hoodoo Gurus
• Horny Toads
• Howard I Know
• Howling Commandos
• Humdingers
• Hummingbirds
• Inner Sleeves
• The Interstellar Villains
• Introverts
• The Jackson Code
• Johnny Teen & The Brokenhearts
• The Kelpies
• John Kennedy
• John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong
• Steve Kilbey
• King Snake Roost
• The Klerks
• Ed Kuepper
• Labradogs
• The Laughing Clowns
• The Leftovers
• Let's Go Naked
• The Lighthouse Keepers
• Lime Spiders
• Lipstick Killers
• Love Minus Zero
• Lubricated Goat
• Machinations
• Massappeal
• Matt Finish
• Melting Skyscrapers
• The Mexican Spitfires
• Minuteman
• The Moffs
• The Mothers
• Mushroom Planet
• The Mustard Club
• Naked Lunch
• New Christs
• New Race
• Nunbait
• One Million Pieces
• Other Voices
• Pam and the Passions
• Passengers
• Angie Pepper
• The Personnel
• Peso Kim
• Tuesday Piranha
• The Plunderers
• Popular Mechanics
• Porcelain Bus
• Positive Hatred
• Pranksters
• The Primal Scene
• The Products
• Progression Cult
• Proton Energy Pills
• Psychosurgeons
• Psychotic Turnbuckles
• Radio Birdman
• RatCat
• Rattlesnake Shake
• The Reasons Why
• Rejex
• Rocks
• Salamander Jim
• Sardine v
• The Scientists
• Seems Twice
• Sekret Sekret
• Shikira
• Shindiggers
• The Shrinking Violets
• Shy Imposters
• The Singles
• The Skeletones
• The Skolars
• Smelly Tongues
• Steven Smith
• The Snorkels
• Snow Leopards
• Soggy Porridge
• Some Kind Of Justice
• The Sparklers
• Splash
• Splatterheads
• Spunkbubbles
• Stone Puppets
• Stig Can't Clap
• Suicide Squad
• The Sunnyboys
• Super K
• Surfside Six
• Surprise Surprise
• Systematics
• Tactics
• The Tall Shirts
• Thought Criminals
• Thug
• Louis Tillett
• Toys Went Berserk
• Trench Gashes
• Trilobites
• Tripps
• Tumbleweed
• The Undertakers
• Vanilla Chainsaws
• Vindaloonies
• The Visitors
• Vitabeats
• The Vultees
• A.T. Wells
• Wet Taxis
• Whippersnappers
• Whole World
• Widdershins
• World War XXIV
• X
• Ya Ya Choral
• Young Docteurs

External links

• Australian discographies (http://www.nkvdrecords.com/discogs.htm) (NKVD Records)
  • Aberrant Records discography (http://www.nkvdrecords.com/aberdisc.htm)
  • Au Go Go Records discography (http://www.nkvdrecords.com/augodisc.htm)
  • Citadel Records discography (http://www.nkvdrecords.com/citadisc.htm)
  • Doublethink Records discography (http://www.nkvdrecords.com/dtdtdisc.htm)
  • Greasy Pop Records discography (http://www.nkvdrecords.com/greasy.htm)
  • Hot Records discography (http://www.nkvdrecords.com/hotdisc.htm)
  • Method Records discography (http://www.nkvdrecords.com/methdisc.htm)
  • Mr Spaceman Records discography (http://www.nkvdrecords.com/mrsmdisc.htm)
  • Phantom Records discography (http://www.nkvdrecords.com/phandisc.htm)
  • Red Eye Records (pre-PolyGram) discography (http://www.nkvdrecords.com/redydisc.htm)
  • Vi-Nil Records discography (http://www.nkvdrecords.com/vinldisc.htm)
  • Waterfront Records discography (http://nkvdrecords.com/watrdisc.htm)
• Inner City Sound (http://www.innercitysound.com.au/)
• Australian Post-Punk 1976 To 1981 Discography (http://members.ol.com.au/rgriffin/postpunk/index.html) (Phil Turnbull)
• NoNightSweats Sydney Post-Punk MP3 Collection (http://nonightsweats.sevcom.com/) (Phil Turnbull)