good indie

[nofx]

what are some good indie bands outthere
for me its hard to find good indie bands i try listening to shoutcast radio stations but usually the indie bands i hear have like one song thats good and the rest is blargh... im really digging belle and sebastian i doint know if youd call them indie though.

 

[DeusExMachina]

Yes, they're indie. You should probably start with the basic stuff, like saddle creek bands. Cursive, Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley and such. If your into that, try some more old school stuff like Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., hell, even Pink Floyd (though they're more classic rock, but they definetly influenced much of indie rock today). Then, move on to bands like Wilco, The Unicorns, Modest Mouse, Frog Eyes, Iron and Wine, stuff like that.

 

[J_Tweedy]

Explosions in the Sky, Neutral Milk Hotel, Manitoba/Caribou, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Calla, The Walkmen.
And then you cant go past:
Sonice Youth, Fugazi, The Doves
Hell, im just listing my Cd collection here, what have you liked in the past?- get more specific, then i can give better recommendations.

 

[Bohonkie]

The Arcade Fire, AC Newman, Aqualung, Black Keys, Blackalicious, Bloc Party,Blonde Redhead...

I mean, how many do you want? There are a TON of awesome indie bands out there. I totally second that vote for Neutral Milk Hotel. They're incredible.

Oh yeah, not indie, but I'm totally plugging Radiohead here. They're awesome stuff.

 

[dmgak]

www.littlegirlscreaming.com

this is my uncles girlfriends band, i think they are quite good, but they need to add some solos into their songs to give it a bit more. try it out!

 

[nofx]

i dont really enjoy the acoustic stuff it just seems like the rest of the band is missing and i usually listen to it thinking where is zee bass zee drums?!!

but i enjoy like le tigre belle and sebastians acoustic stuff kind of puts me in a daze. i like the semi electronic sounding like organish stuff like the anniversary maybe sometimes dark vocals. the magnetic fields vocals are what i looking for but sometimes the vocals and ambience dont mixup quite well.

 

[Pulse]

You should come over to the UK, it's practically all indy bands these days, it's like a sudden influx of indy... so much INDY!!!! BLERGHHH!!!

 

[Evo]

If ya want some indie style check out Gui!'s band, whokilledfrank

 

[Gui!]

At the mo, its indie all the way in UK, indoe is multipling like flies

 

[-Psy-]

You should come over to the UK, it's practically all indy bands these days, it's like a sudden influx of indy... so much INDY!!!! BLERGHHH!!!

Hopefully I will find a band who need a guitarist who is influenced by anything BUT Indie.

Indie is just meh. It's not exactly interesting musically.

 

[IonizeMyAtoms]

Hopefully I will find a band who need a guitarist who is influenced by anything BUT Indie.

Indie is just meh. It's not exactly interesting musically.

You obviously haven't heard much indie.
Indie can range from hip-hop (Ninja High School) to folk (John Rae Fletcher) to dance (Controller.Controller). It's impossible to classify all of indie because indie isn't a specific genre (although for the most part it does all have a certain quality about it).
Here is a list of my favourite bands.
Check out any of these and you will be a happy camper.

A Northern Chorus
The Adam Brown
Against Me!
Andrew Bird
Apostle of Hustle
The Arcade Fire
At The Drive-In
The Bicycles
Bright Eyes
Broken Social Scene
The Burdocks
By Divine Right
Camera Obscura
Cap'n Jazz
Castanets
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
The Constantines
Contrived
Controller.Controller
The creeping nobodies
Cuff The DUke
Cursive
Death From Above 1979
The Decemberists
Desaparecidos
Devendra Banhart
Devotchka
The Diableros
Elliott Smith
Faraquet
FemBots
Femme Generation
FInal Fantasy
The Flaming Lips
Frog Eyes
Gentleman Reg
The Go! Team
The Good Life
Grandaddy
Hayden
The hidden Cameras
Holopaw
Iron And Wine
Jim Guthrie
John-Rae Fletcher
John-Rae Fletcher and the River
Les Mouches
Les Savy Fav
Lightning Bolt
M. Ward
M83
Man Man
Manitoba
Mates of State
Mclusky
Meligrove Band
The Microphones
Mirah
Modest Mouse
The moldy Peaches
The Most Serene Republic
My Morning Jacket
Neutral Milk Hotel
Ninja High School
Norfolk & Western
North Of America
Of Montreal
The paper Chase
Patrick Wolf
Pedro The Lion
Pixies
The postal Service
Q And not U
Raising The Fawn
Ryan Stanley
The Shins
SLeep Station
Songs: Ohia
The Sourkeys
Spoon
SS Cardiacs
Sufjan Stevens
Tarkio
Ted Leo/Pharmacists
Thunderbirds Are now!
TV On The Radio
Ugly Casanova
The Unicorns
The Vermicious Knid
Vulcan Dub Squad
Wilco
Wintersleep
Wolf Parade
The Woolly Leaves
Young And Sexy

 

[nofx]

thanks youre awesome ^^

 

[DeusExMachina]

You obviously haven't heard much indie.
Indie can range from hip-hop (Ninja High School) to folk (John Rae Fletcher) to dance (Controller.Controller). It's impossible to classify all of indie because indie isn't a specific genre (although for the most part it does all have a certain quality about it).
Here is a list of my favourite bands.
Check out any of these and you will be a happy camper.

A Northern Chorus
The Adam Brown
Against Me!
Andrew Bird
Apostle of Hustle
The Arcade Fire
At The Drive-In
The Bicycles
Bright Eyes
Broken Social Scene
The Burdocks
By Divine Right
Camera Obscura
Cap'n Jazz
Castanets
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
The Constantines
Contrived
Controller.Controller
The creeping nobodies
Cuff The DUke
Cursive
Death From Above 1979
The Decemberists
Desaparecidos
Devendra Banhart
Devotchka
The Diableros
Elliott Smith
Faraquet
FemBots
Femme Generation
FInal Fantasy
The Flaming Lips
Frog Eyes
Gentleman Reg
The Go! Team
The Good Life
Grandaddy
Hayden
The hidden Cameras
Holopaw
Iron And Wine
Jim Guthrie
John-Rae Fletcher
John-Rae Fletcher and the River
Les Mouches
Les Savy Fav
Lightning Bolt
M. Ward
M83
Man Man
Manitoba
Mates of State
Mclusky
Meligrove Band
The Microphones
Mirah
Modest Mouse
The moldy Peaches
The Most Serene Republic
My Morning Jacket
Neutral Milk Hotel
Ninja High School
Norfolk & Western
North Of America
Of Montreal
The paper Chase
Patrick Wolf
Pedro The Lion
Pixies
The postal Service
Q And not U
Raising The Fawn
Ryan Stanley
The Shins
SLeep Station
Songs: Ohia
The Sourkeys
Spoon
SS Cardiacs
Sufjan Stevens
Tarkio
Ted Leo/Pharmacists
Thunderbirds Are now!
TV On The Radio
Ugly Casanova
The Unicorns
The Vermicious Knid
Vulcan Dub Squad
Wilco
Wintersleep
Wolf Parade
The Woolly Leaves
Young And Sexy

I love this man.

 

[Bohonkie]

Ok, here are some indie bands that I love, even though Ionize covered quite a few. I'm sure a lot of these will be double's, but I'll post 'em anyways.

...And you will know us by the trail of dead
Air
The Album Leaf
All Time Quarterback (Ben Gibbard's, death cab's lead singer, older band)
Animal Collective
Apostle of Hustle
Aqualung
Arcade Fire
At the Drive In
Atmosphere
The Avalanches
Belle and Sebastian
Ben Harper
Ben Kweller
Beulah
Black Keys
Blackalicious
Blonde Redhead
Bloc Party
Blue Scholars (awesome seattle rap duo)
The Books
Bright Eyes
Broken Social Scene
The Brunettes
Built to Spill
Cannibal Ox
Caribou
Carissa's Weird
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone (just a guy and a casiotone, but surprisingly listenable)
Cat Power (this woman's voice puts me in a trance, super emotional stuff)
Catheters
Chromeo
The City on Film
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!
Clearlake
Clinic
Clogs
Crooked Fingers
Cursive
Dance Disaster Movement
DangerDoom
Death Cab for Cutie
The Decemberists
Destroyer
Dinosaur Jr.
Dolour
Dorkweed
Doves
Edie Sedgwick
Egg
Elliot Smith
Exploding Hearts
Eyes of Autumn
The Faint
The Fall of Troy
The Fall
Faultline
Feist
Fela Kuti
The Field Mice
The Fiery Furnaces
Film School
Fingers Cut Megamachine
The Fitness
The Flaming Lips
Flat Earth Society
The Format
Frog Eyes
Fugazi
Futureheads
Get Dressed
The Go! Team
The Gossip
Grandaddy
Harvey Danger
Haywood
Head of Femur
The Headphones
The Helio Sequence
Hieroglyphics
Holopaw
Home Movies
The Honorary Title
Hot Hot Heat
Hot Rod Circuit
Howling Hex
Hurtbird
Idiot Pilot
Iron and Wine
Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel lead singer, all just live stuff)
Jets to Brazil
The Kallikak Family
Kind of Like Spitting
The Kinison
Lack
LCD Soundsystem (Get these guys for sure, so much fun)
Lemon Jelly
Little Wings
The Long Winters
Love as Laughter
Lovers
Low
Luke Temple
M. Ward
M.I.A.
M83
The Mae Shi
Magnolia Electric Co.
Malady
Menomena (saw these guys live, unique band)
The Microphones
Minus the Bear
Mirah
The Moaners
Mobius Band
Modest Mouse (ok, they used to be signed to an indie lable)
Mogwai
the Moools
Mos Def
The Most Serene Republic
Mount Eerie
The Mountain Goats
The Murder City Devils
My Bloody Valentine
Nada Surf
Need New Body
Neutral Milk Hotel
The New Pornographers
Nick Drake
Noise for Pretend
the Notwist
Okkervil River
Old Time Relijun
Onelinedrawing
The Orange Peels
Palace
Part Chimp
Pavement
Pedro the Lion
Pelican
Phantom Planet
Pinback
Pixies (Saw them live...haha)
Placebo
The Postal Service
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Psapp
Raising the Fawn
The Rapture
Ratatat
Ray LaMontagne
Red House Painters
Rilo Kiley
Sage Francis
Saturday Looks Good To Me
Schooyard Heroes
Scissor Sisters
Scout Niblett
The Sea and Cake
The Shins
Sigur Ros
Sleater-Kinney (I actually live 5 minutes away from the overpass this band is named after)
Snow Patrol
The Softies
Sole
Spirtualized
Spoon
Stars
The Streets
Sufjan Stevens
Sun Kil Moon
Talib Kweli
Talking Heads
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Television
Thanksgiving
Thee More Shallows
Thunderbirds are Now!
Time to Fly
Tujiko Noriko
Tunng
Turin Brakes
TV on the Radio
U.S.E.
Ugly Casanova (Isaac Brock's, Modest Mouse lead singer, side project)
The Unicorns
The Velvet Teen
The Veltet Underground
VHS or Beta
Violent Femmes
The Von Bondies
The Walkmen
The Weakerthans
Wilco
White Stripes (earlier stuff, even though I love the newer stuff as well)
Wolf Parade
Woven Hand
Yo la Tengo
Youth Group
Zero 7

That should be more than enough to keep you busy.

 

[Gui!]

You mentioned youth group, their awesome, my band supported them recently

 

[Javes]

I'm an avid music fan of music variable but of alot of what Bohonkie and IonizeMyAtoms have named. However they missed:
Ryan Adams
Mew
Forward Russia!
etc i'm lazy

 

[nofx]

im loving the girl bands
like
the blonde redhead
rainer maria
tsunami bomb ( not really indie)
le tigre
mates of state
the anniversary


anymore that i missed btw i hate the acousticy stuff, i prefer the poppy sounding dance punkish stuff like thunderbids are now

 

[evil^milk]

that's a lot of indie. i don't really know many bands, but you should try listening to the strokes, the pixies, modest mouse, (is the killers indie? they have a lot of synths and stuff, worth checking out if you like stuff like that)

 

[Direwolf]

I gave up trying to figure out whats "Indie" and whats not a long time ago. I'm actually surprised how many bands on that list I'm into though.

 

[nofx]

indy just defined to me by a pure record label thats not so big and not too too small

 

[IonizeMyAtoms]

I disagree. Look at Modest Mouse: on a Sony label, definitely still considered indie. or the Flaming Lips. Or countless others
It's such a hard genre to define, because it actually spans multiple genres
In the end though, who cares. Indie is just indie

 

[DeusExMachina]

Yeah, indie used to mean just independant rock but now...it sort of...got its own sound to it now.

 

[kaf11]

ionize and bohonkie pretty much covered everyhting i would be able to think of off the top of my head.

towards the end of the month ill be seeing the mountain goats with a bunch of my friends at the andy warhol museum. i cant wait, it should be a good show.

 

[Direwolf]

Its gotten even harder recently because so many Indy bands have hit it big. When Death Cab for Cutie is on MTV, its really hard to figure out whos putting on who.

 

[stemot]

Arctic Monkeys, thet are awesome, (only have a single out at the mo, looking like a surefire no.1 according to midweeks) but there are shitloads of demo`s out there on the net.

Listening to "Bigger Boys And Stolen Sweethearts" now from the single, they really do seem like they could be the real deal.