Indie Rock
The Black Keys originate in Akron. Karen O and Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs met at Oberlin College. The indie-rock band Cloud Nothings was formed in Cleveland, Ohio. Bitch Magnet met while attending Oberlin College. Indie folk rock singer Kramies is from Cleveland, Ohio. Mark Eitzel of American Music Club fame founded his first bands, most prominently The Naked Skinnies while living in Columbus, Ohio. Many critically acclaimed bands were stalwarts of the 1980s/1990s indie punk scene in Columbus, Ohio: Great Plains, RC Mob, Scrawl, New Bomb Turks, and Gaunt, to name a few. At the moment Columbus is seeing a renaissance in DIY/lo-fi bands, such as Times New Viking. There was also an indie rock movement in Dayton in the early 1990s with bands such as Guided by Voices, The Breeders, Kilgore Trout and Brainiac. Cincinnati's indie rock scene produced much-admired groups, such as the Ass Ponys, Quiet Tree, Wolverton Brothers, the Afghan Whigs, and Over the Rhine, all active in the 1980s/1990s as well as current indie rock bands Heartless Bastards and The National. Why? was formed in Cincinnati by the Wolf brothers Jonathan 'Yoni' and Josiah Wolf along with Doug McDiarmid. The indie rock scene also produced Plastic Inevitables, The Yugos, Come Here Watson and the Bad Veins of Cincinnati who are currently active in the area.
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