Any indie music fans?

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  • Ian_McC
    Ian_McC Posts: 19
    Of Montreal are amazing, especially Hissing Fauna are you the Destroyer, Sunlandic Twins, and Paralytic Stalks. Not so into their earlier whimsical/folky stuff though.

    I love TV on the Radio too. Young Liars is fantastic; their cover of Mr. Grieves and that version of Staring at the Sun are chilling. Nine Types of Light and to a lesser extent Dear Science are a little overproduced compared to how passionate and raw Young Liars/Desperate Youth and Bloodthirsty Babes/Return to Cookie Mountain are, but they're still pretty decent too.
  • tiffykborr
    tiffykborr Posts: 4 Member
    Now, this isn't exactly "good news", but it was actually the bassist that died. In fact, he died the day I was scheduled to see them in Detroit! However, they made a return trip, and put on one of the most spectacular shows I'd ever witnessed.

    So an amazing TV on the Radio concert may still be in your future. :)
  • missoularocks
    missoularocks Posts: 294 Member
    <3 ME! I'd could list bands all day. Bloc Party, Hot Chip, The Postal Service, The Decemberists ... are just a few that really tug at my heart strings! <3
  • rebeccap13
    rebeccap13 Posts: 754 Member
    Dead Man's Bones (it's Ryan Gosling, come on)

    and above all else: The National.

    Yessssssss.
  • numberscolors
    numberscolors Posts: 254
    <3 ME! I'd could list bands all day. Bloc Party, Hot Chip, The Postal Service, The Decemberists ... are just a few that really tug at my heart strings! <3

    "red right ankle" makes me cry like a baby... so good!
  • gatecityradio
    gatecityradio Posts: 401
    The Avett Brothers, Trampled By Turtles....that's all I have right now.
  • limbopanto
    limbopanto Posts: 25
    Wild Beasts and The Mountain Goats :)
  • melbot24
    melbot24 Posts: 347 Member
    I'm a fan of experimental pop, dream pop, indie pop.

    What I'm spinnin';

    Tennis
    Widowspeak
    Toro y Moi
    Electric Guest
    Beach House
    Grimes
    M83
    James Pants
    Dirty Beaches
    Cults
  • mixedfeelings
    mixedfeelings Posts: 904 Member
    Lot's of the ones that have already mentioned more towards heavier side/punk side of independent music, Sonic Youth, Husker Du, Mudhoney, The Adicts, Dead Kennedys, MDC, The Cramps, The Meteors, Demented Are Go, Killdozer, Halo Benders, Lightning Bolt, Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Devo, Pulp, Camera Obscura, Belle & Sebastian, Mansun, MGMT, Shonen Knife, Guitar Wolf, Wilco, Kings of Convenience, B*tthole surfers, The Antlers, Primus, Unicorns, Don Caballero, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Le Tigre, Raincoats, Styrenes, Henry's Dress, Ex Models, The Slits, Wire, Gun Club, Breeders, Joy Division, The Smiths, The Minutemen, Fugazi, Dinosaur JR, Big Black.

    Of the top of my head, I'm sure I've missed many. okay so I'm not very hip and with it, these bands span generations and genres but these are all great bands.
  • saracatherine89
    saracatherine89 Posts: 291 Member
    omo, looove neon trees. love some of the flaming lips songs.
    i would marry lily allen. just wonderful music and lyrics all around~
    Florence + the Machine is also ♥
    Regina Spektor I loove too, her voice is so beatiful and soulful (same with florence).
    Sleigh Bells are a new favorite of mine~ I love their lyrics.
    I'd so **** Lykke Li .... I get lost in her songs. This thread is just puuure awesome!

    LOVE LILY ALLEN.... and Sleigh Bells is just perfection.

    Oh how I love Lily Allen too! I liked her when she was first kind of popular and just recently I started getting back into her. She's so funny.

    As for Sleigh Bells...I would rather shoot myself in the head. I saw them on SNL and thought maybe they just had bad sound equipment and sounded bad live...then I looked up their music and saw it was even worse recorded. That girl has the most awful voice I've ever heard, its so weak and boring!
  • AJ_Pete
    AJ_Pete Posts: 863 Member
    I'm a fan of experimental pop, dream pop, indie pop.

    What I'm spinnin';

    Tennis
    Widowspeak
    Toro y Moi
    Electric Guest
    Beach House
    Grimes
    M83
    James Pants
    Dirty Beaches
    Cults

    I saw Electric Guest like 2 weeks ago in Philly.... their energy is AMAZING live..... amazing.
  • funsteps
    funsteps Posts: 74 Member
    love love love best coast, beach fossils, and tennis, although they're all a little more lo-fi beach pop/rock. this thread is great! i just discovered a million new bands thanks to this... i usually listen to stuff that falls under folk punk, pop punk, etc. the gaslight anthem, lucero, the horrible crowes, the lawrence arms, alkaline trio, iron chic, limbeck, and the weakerthans are some of my favorites.
  • mrZISS0U
    mrZISS0U Posts: 10
    Lot's of the ones that have already mentioned more towards heavier side/punk side of independent music, Sonic Youth, Husker Du, Mudhoney, The Adicts, Dead Kennedys, MDC, The Cramps, The Meteors, Demented Are Go, Killdozer, Halo Benders, Lightning Bolt, Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney, Devo, Pulp, Camera Obscura, Belle & Sebastian, Mansun, MGMT, Shonen Knife, Guitar Wolf, Wilco, Kings of Convenience, B*tthole surfers, The Antlers, Primus, Unicorns, Don Caballero, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Le Tigre, Raincoats, Styrenes, Henry's Dress, Ex Models, The Slits, Wire, Gun Club, Breeders, Joy Division, The Smiths, The Minutemen, Fugazi, Dinosaur JR, Big Black.

    Of the top of my head, I'm sure I've missed many. okay so I'm not very hip and with it, these bands span generations and genres but these are all great bands.

    Very nice list, quite a few of these bands were signed to Touch and Go at some point, can't get more indie than that!
  • AJ_Pete
    AJ_Pete Posts: 863 Member
    love love love best coast, beach fossils, and tennis, although they're all a little more lo-fi beach pop/rock. this thread is great! i just discovered a million new bands thanks to this... i usually listen to stuff that falls under folk punk, pop punk, etc. the gaslight anthem, lucero, the horrible crowes, the lawrence arms, alkaline trio, iron chic, limbeck, and the weakerthans are some of my favorites.

    BEST COAST!!!! Love the Gaslight Anthem too!
  • linochka1969
    linochka1969 Posts: 136 Member
    I went to see Gogol last weekend, and actually have a pic with him
    Danced like crazy, burned a whole bunch of callories.
    Immigraniada specially :-)
  • Southernb3lle
    Southernb3lle Posts: 862 Member
    I love me some Indie. Band of Horses, Death Cab for Cutie, Beirut, Menomena, Atlas Sound, Deertick, MGMT, The Shins, Tennis, Other Lives, Clinic, Dr. Dog, Delta Spirit, City and Colour, Elbow, Santigold, Choir of Young Believers, Ray Lamontagne, The Good The Bad and The Queen, Electric Guest, ..etc etc.
  • SRH7
    SRH7 Posts: 2,037 Member
    OOOOH! I forgot about Ballpark Music..... "It's Nice To Be Alive" is my jam right now! HAPPY MUSIC!


    Oooooh, saw Ballpark Music while on holiday in Melbourne last year - long way to go from the UK but worth it ;)
  • Southernb3lle
    Southernb3lle Posts: 862 Member
    I forgot Blitzen Trapper. Andrew Bird, Midlake, Lay Low, Sufjan Stevens, Patrick Watson, Tame impala...
  • xiaopi
    xiaopi Posts: 3 Member
    I make a compilation each year of my +-20 songs that I enjoyed listening to the most during that year. My 2012 compilation is as follows:

    Metronomy - A Thing For Me
    Miike Snow - Bavarian #1 (Say You Will)
    Apparatjik - Datascroller
    Santigold - Disparate Youth
    Alt-J (∆) - Breezeblocks
    Metronomy - Heartbreaker
    Half Moon Run - 21 Gun Salute
    Youth Lagoon - Seventeen
    Purity Ring - Ungirthed
    Little Dragon - Little Man
    Kimbra - Settle down (Guilty pleasure!!)
    Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook
    Miike Snow - The Wave
    Passion Pit - Mirrored Sea
    Animal Collective - Today's Supernatural
    Crystal Castles - Kerosene
    Grimes - Vanessa
    Peter Peter - Le Monde N'y Peut Rien
    Woods - Something Surreal
    James Vincent McMorrow - From the Woods!!
    Alt-J (∆) - Matilda

    You can listen to it here:
    http://grooveshark.com/#!/playlist/KD2012/78288430
  • 00sarah
    00sarah Posts: 621 Member
    Father John Misty is the ****. Passion Pit. Kid koala... I'll have to grab my iPod
  • SRH7
    SRH7 Posts: 2,037 Member
    I make a compilation each year of my +-20 songs that I enjoyed listening to the most during that year. My 2012 compilation is as follows:

    Metronomy - A Thing For Me
    Miike Snow - Bavarian #1 (Say You Will)
    Apparatjik - Datascroller
    Santigold - Disparate Youth
    Alt-J (∆) - Breezeblocks
    Metronomy - Heartbreaker
    Half Moon Run - 21 Gun Salute
    Youth Lagoon - Seventeen
    Purity Ring - Ungirthed
    Little Dragon - Little Man
    Kimbra - Settle down (Guilty pleasure!!)
    Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook
    Miike Snow - The Wave
    Passion Pit - Mirrored Sea
    Animal Collective - Today's Supernatural
    Crystal Castles - Kerosene
    Grimes - Vanessa
    Peter Peter - Le Monde N'y Peut Rien
    Woods - Something Surreal
    James Vincent McMorrow - From the Woods!!
    Alt-J (∆) - Matilda

    You can listen to it here:
    http://grooveshark.com/#!/playlist/KD2012/78288430

    Will have a listen to these - thanks :)
  • CollegiateGrief
    CollegiateGrief Posts: 552 Member
    I forgot Blitzen Trapper. Andrew Bird, Midlake, Lay Low, Sufjan Stevens, Patrick Watson, Tame impala...

    Midlake! They are my favorite. I adore them beyond words. Also, Tame Impala is playing in my city this spring, I'm excited to go!

    I just saw Jeff Mangum this weekend in Oklahoma City. My life is complete.

    Anyone else love Johnny Flynn? Back a few years ago I thought he would hit it big, then effing Mumford and Sons did instead. And back before Noah and the Whale made their first two albums, wich were good, unlike that latest piece.
  • Honeytips
    Honeytips Posts: 337 Member
    Absolutely love Avalanche City, you should definitely check out some of their tunes!!!
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