Any indie music fans?

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  • sashanicole88
    sashanicole88 Posts: 180 Member
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    everyone already said everything I love! ;)
  • WaterBunnie
    WaterBunnie Posts: 1,370 Member
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    Thanks all for sharing :)

    I have been big into the music festival/electronic scene but I'm getting a bit tired of that so I am starting to explore indie bands more, so I appreciate everyones suggestions. I have a friend named Carlos who used to share his indie stuff with me, but he moved to AZ.

    Gogol Bordello (weird gypsy? music) and Big Gigantic are bands I like a lot having seen at festivals this summer. :)

    I'm missing Gogol play in NJ on the 2nd. :(:(:(:(



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    Where in NJ!?!? North Jersey, right? I'm Jersey.... soooo..... very.... jersey.... haha.

    I'm not sure where in Jersey. My friend tried to get me to go, but I'm CT and reopening my non-profit next month.


    I once fell asleep at a Gogol Bordello gig. I've no idea how with the sound levels as loud as they were, no criticism of their music, I'd just been burning the candle at both ends for too long I guess!
  • SRH7
    SRH7 Posts: 2,037 Member
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    The Eels, My Brightest Diamond, Lykke Li, Balmorhea, of course Broken Social Scene, the Beta Band and the Be Good Tanyas.

    My friend, Jamie Kent!

    www.jamiekent.com

    Jarvis Cocker and these... have you stolen my record collection?!!

    Definitely coming back to this thread to find new bands to discover.
  • paint_it_black
    paint_it_black Posts: 208 Member
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    I <3 music

    Biffy Clyro, Mumford & sons, Twin Atlantic and Frank Turner are some of my current faves.... roll on festival season
  • AJ_Pete
    AJ_Pete Posts: 863 Member
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    I <3 music

    Biffy Clyro, Mumford & sons, Twin Atlantic and Frank Turner are some of my current faves.... roll on festival season

    Biffy Clyro is great, but their music makes me sad.... well what I've heard... I like Many of Horror.... good song! Twin Atlantic is who my daughter loves too!!! They're good!
  • AJ_Pete
    AJ_Pete Posts: 863 Member
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    OOOOH! I forgot about Ballpark Music..... "It's Nice To Be Alive" is my jam right now! HAPPY MUSIC!
  • AJ_Pete
    AJ_Pete Posts: 863 Member
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    Also... if you like poppier music... ROD KIM.... he's a buddy of mine.... and The Paper Janes (more indie).... Jessica Latshaw has such an amazing voice!!!
  • jmilian825
    jmilian825 Posts: 193 Member
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    Me.
    Some favourite bands include Animal Collective, Neutral Milk Hotel, Beirut, Broken Social Scene, TV On The Radio, Bon Iver, Dirty Projectors, The Walkmen and Interpol to name a few.

    I love TV On The Radio, NMH, LOVE LOVE LOVE Beirut.... Interpol is another good one..... I'll have to look into the others.... I've heard some on Bon Iver, but not enough to really make up my mind....
    Interpol I like them too!
  • jmilian825
    jmilian825 Posts: 193 Member
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    I'm so excited because the weather is getting warmer and we can pull out our summer favorites (Beirut, Beach House, XX, Florence + Machine, New Pornographers)!

    Lately I've been listening to a lot of Beats Antique. They are a little more heavy bass-belly-dancing-electronica than traditional indie- but it's really good workout music! I would start with the album 'Collide' if you are interested. For a while they were giving away a whole album for free on their website...
    Florence & the machine fan yay!!!
  • sweetbeckymarie
    sweetbeckymarie Posts: 144
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    A majority of the bands mentioned are amazing in my opinion.

    Beach House, First Aid Kit, Explosions in the Sky, Cat Power, Sharon Van Etten, Fiona Apple, Jack White's new album is good! (as are The White Stripes), Iron & Wine, Grizzly Bear, The Naked and Famous, Interpol, La Sera, Chairlift, Beach Fossils, Sufjan Stevens, Magnetic Fields, Margot & The Nuclear So & So's, Frank Turner, The Kooks, Dead Man's Bones (it's Ryan Gosling, come on), Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, TV On the Radio, Modest Mouse, Arctic Monkeys, Dum Dum Girls, Wilco, Animal Collective, The Smiths, Neutral Milk Hotel, Arcade Fire, Band of Horses, Girls, City and Colour, The Antlers, and above all else: The National.
  • numberscolors
    numberscolors Posts: 254
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    Me.
    Some favourite bands include Animal Collective, Neutral Milk Hotel, Beirut, Broken Social Scene, TV On The Radio, Bon Iver, Dirty Projectors, The Walkmen and Interpol to name a few.

    yes to ALL of these. neutral milk hotel is one of my all-time favorites :3
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,041 Member
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    I've been listening to Bright Eyes, Death Cab For Cutie, The Postal Service, Modest Mouse, Airborne Toxic Event, Florence + The Machine, The Black Keys

    I consider myself more to be a punk rocker over an indie rocker though.
  • ValerieMartini2Olives
    ValerieMartini2Olives Posts: 3,041 Member
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    Gogol Bordello (weird gypsy? music) and Big Gigantic are bands I like a lot having seen at festivals this summer. :)

    I set up a Gogol Bordello station on Pandora. It's freakin' awesome.
  • numberscolors
    numberscolors Posts: 254
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    some of my favorites (may not be considered "indie" or signed to an independent label currently... but whatever):

    against me!
    album leaf
    arcade fire
    asobi seksu
    bat for lashes
    beirut
    beach house
    best coast
    bikini kill
    black heart procession
    blonde redhead
    blue scholars
    bonde do role
    bon iver
    the books
    braid
    broken social scene
    crystal castles
    cursive
    dead prez
    dinosaur jr.
    dirty projectors
    fleet foxes
    fugazi
    girl talk
    glasser
    godspeed you! black emperor
    the good life
    the gossip
    guided by voices
    husker du
    jawbreaker
    jenny lewis and the watson twins
    jets to brazil
    joanna newsom
    lush
    macklemore
    major lazer
    mariee sioux
    melt banana
    mirah
    mum
    my bloody valentine
    the national
    neko case
    neutral milk hotel
    new pornographers
    the promise ring
    red house painters
    rilo kiley
    robyn
    royksopp
    rye rye
    sbtrkt
    shapes and sizes
    sleater-kinney
    sonic youth
    sparklehorse
    st. vincent
    stars
    stars of the lid
    sunny day real estate
    twin sister
    weakerthans
    wu-tang clan (ain't nothin' to *kitten* with)

    yup. i think that about covers it! :3
  • numberscolors
    numberscolors Posts: 254
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    ^oh god, i guess i should have realized this list would take up a whole page, basically... ooops!
  • JoniBologna
    JoniBologna Posts: 653 Member
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    Gogol Bordello (weird gypsy? music) and Big Gigantic are bands I like a lot having seen at festivals this summer. :)

    Big G is from Colorado. I've liked them for awhile. They are pretty popular here and are blowin up! I wouldn't call them indie, but they are definitely original.

    Checking out Grouplove now. Pretty good stuff. This is easily the best MFP thread I've seen in months. :bigsmile:
  • lovethemgorillaz
    lovethemgorillaz Posts: 17 Member
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    Some of my favorite bands are Beirut, Bright Eyes, The Horrors, Neutral Milk Hotel, Page France, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Beck, Elliott Smith, Sonic Youth, Belle and Sebastian, Flaming Lips, The Mountain Goats, Death Cab for Cutie, Slowdive, Pale Saints, Of Montreal, Fleet Foxes, The Avett Brothers, Electric President... not all of those are "indie" bands though.
  • IokiOcto
    IokiOcto Posts: 123 Member
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    AltNation on Sirius, my radio never leaves that station!
  • catfish9
    catfish9 Posts: 138
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    My favorite band of all time is definitely The Hush Sound. I've heard them called a lot of different things, but Indie is usually among them. It looks like I have a ton of new bands to check out. :D
  • Elohvey
    Elohvey Posts: 65 Member
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    Thanks all for sharing :)

    I have been big into the music festival/electronic scene but I'm getting a bit tired of that so I am starting to explore indie bands more, so I appreciate everyones suggestions. I have a friend named Carlos who used to share his indie stuff with me, but he moved to AZ.

    Gogol Bordello (weird gypsy? music) and Big Gigantic are bands I like a lot having seen at festivals this summer. :)

    I'm missing Gogol play in NJ on the 2nd. :(:(:(:(

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