Originally Posted by Expletive Deleted

The two countries are evenly matched, what's the problem with that? I'm not "escaping" the argument, I thought about it for a while and decided that there are a lot of things I like about both countries. But if you really want me to choose, I'll pick the US.

And the two bands I mentioned are boring, derivative, and generic.

Urban, besides completely ignoring some of the US' best and most experimental bands, all genres can be just as easily simplified as you just did so that really says nothing about American Indie at all. Most of those were hardly Indie "movements," anyways.