Music Clearance

2004 traces indie rock’s path from college-radio obscurity to the mainstream: the rise of the New York scene in the shadow of 9/11, the Pacific Northwest and Canadian bands building their own sounds in parallel, the record-industry collapse that pushed bands toward commercials and TV syncs, the rise of the iPod and the launch of the iTunes Store, and the blogs and early internet culture that decided, sometimes literally overnight, which bands were cool — and which were not.

Working with former Music and TV execs at Nevermind Media on this podcast, we cleared some of the most iconic songs from the decade of indie rock including Death Cab for Cutie, The Shins and Modest Mouse.