Any indie music fans?

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  • Elohvey
    Elohvey Posts: 65 Member
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    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!
  • JoniBologna
    JoniBologna Posts: 653 Member
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    I can't believe no one else has mentioned Portugal. The Man. Seriously amazing people. I saw them live a few weeks ago, and it solidified it even more for me. Check them out. :happy:
  • AJ_Pete
    AJ_Pete Posts: 863 Member
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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

    I think I'm in love with you!
  • AJ_Pete
    AJ_Pete Posts: 863 Member
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    I can't believe no one else has mentioned Portugal. The Man. Seriously amazing people. I saw them live a few weeks ago, and it solidified it even more for me. Check them out. :happy:

    I agree, they're pretty great.
  • AJ_Pete
    AJ_Pete Posts: 863 Member
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    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.
  • AJ_Pete
    AJ_Pete Posts: 863 Member
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    AltNation on Sirius, my radio never leaves that station!

    YES!! Though I'm over on XMU when Jake Fogelnest is on over there!!! I'm such a snob now!!!
  • IokiOcto
    IokiOcto Posts: 123 Member
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    AltNation on Sirius, my radio never leaves that station!

    YES!! Though I'm over on XMU when Jake Fogelnest is on over there!!! I'm such a snob now!!!

    XMU is # 2 for me on my presets! Fogelnest is on both...
  • hannz33
    hannz33 Posts: 82 Member
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    I've really been into Grouplove for the past year or so (they're just starting to break now though).... I'm in love with Electric Guest, Emily and the Woods, The Coathangers..... anything Jenny Lewis (duh)..... Animal Kingdom..... Cloud Nothings... MONA.... The Shins.... Bombay Bicycle Club.... god, I could go on and on.....

    LOVE bombay bicycle club! you should look up splashh :) it's a friends band in the uk - they are my new obsession
  • shelbym87
    shelbym87 Posts: 122 Member
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    Bump 4 later. Wish I could read/talk now
  • 10acity
    10acity Posts: 798 Member
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    Like who? I used to be a real indie kid.. back when I lived in Phoenix (a stop on everyone's tour) and shows were $7. My faves back then were Rainer Maria, Ida, Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, etc. I will still listen to most of it, but sometimes Conor Oberst's voice makes me want to stab myself in the eardrums. His later stuff is a lot better.

    I've gotten into a lot more "mainstream" stuff in the last few years. I always say my favourite genre is Sad Guys With Guitars, though.

    Aw no I love Conor Obersts voice. I prefer their earlier stuff, Cassadaga was terrible IMO haha.
    Liked but didn't love Cassadaga.. his self-titled was his best, if you ask me.
    White Rabbits, Interpol, Cold War Kids, Death Cab for Cutie, Band of Horses, The Editors, Lucero to name a few
    Freakin' love Lucero. Cross your fingers nothing wrecks my plan to see them again next month, yeah? ;)

    Love working out to Lykke Li. Any Dr. Dog fans? Pretty hooked on their latest album. Beta Radio are another favourite (listen to "Brother, Sister") ... The Pastels, The Van Pelt... my brain is fried and it's only Tuesday!
  • Ian_McC
    Ian_McC Posts: 19
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    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
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    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: 372 Member
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    <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
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    Dead Man's Bones (it's Ryan Gosling, come on)

    and above all else: The National.

    Yessssssss.
  • numberscolors
    numberscolors Posts: 254
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    <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
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    The Avett Brothers, Trampled By Turtles....that's all I have right now.
  • limbopanto
    limbopanto Posts: 25
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    Wild Beasts and The Mountain Goats :)
  • melbot24
    melbot24 Posts: 347 Member
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    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
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    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
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    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!

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