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Rene Lopez The Ike Reilly Assassination mrnorth The Division Group
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MAB and REDBoth are all girl groups based in the UK and starting to get a good following around the London venues.
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how about Built to Spill Sophia Lambchop Flaming Lips The Earlies
PS: I enjoy Interpol myself but I wouldn't call em indie..(clips on every tv channel, etc.)
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appleseed cast clap your hands say yeah darling at sea
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Top indie bands for me as of now: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah The Shins Pedro the Lion Young People The Essex Green Neutral Milk Hotel The Sunshine Fix Belle and Sebastian Yeah Yeah Yeahs Ted Leo ___Lots more, but I dont feel like listing them all  . CYHSY is just, beyond amazing. I love Alecs voice. At first I despised it, but it grew on me like crazy.
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| Posts: 50 | Location: New York | Registered: 21 April 2005 |    |
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my favorites.......
Arcade Fire Built to Spill Flaming Lips Pavement Guided by Voices Death Cab Modest Mouse My Bloody Valentine Dinosaur Jr. Neutral Milk Hotel Pixies Radiohead Replacements New Pornographers
Yea pretty standard (mainstream indie) stuff i'm still kind of exploring the genre. But anyway i'd have to disagree with the arguement that being classified as "indie" means the band is on an independent label. To me I hear a distinct sound in indie bands thats pretty unique from all the other modern rock. These bands seem to put more emotion and layers of sound into their music that just makes it seem "more" than anything else out there, and also the singers generally have that whiny/cracking/angry voice that just conveys more meaning with the music.
by the way has anyone heard of umphrey's mcgee? i know they're classified as a jam band but their cd anchor drops has some not jam stuff and more alternative/indie sounding music
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pixies arcade fire the shins pavement spoon yeah yeah yeahs decemberists elliott smith white stripes franz ferdinand
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1.6 Band Apples in Stereo Molasses Money Terror Class New Niblett Three Berry Icecream Sufjan Stevens Shack Matt the Witches I Am Spoonbender Gorky's Zygotic Formula DMS Julie Doiron The Deathray Davies The Beatings Na Na Seaworthy Secadora The Silent League Radio 4 Rah Chik Chik Chik China A-Set A-Z The Breeders The Raveonette P.E.E. Current Cursive D+ Red Shirt Brigade
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| Posts: 2 | Location: Los angeles | Registered: 20 January 2007 |    |
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There are so many great bands, I know I'll forget a few. Of course there's always the "Are they really indie?" debate, but come on. Rilo Kiley Metric Andrew Bird Editors Guillemots José González Josh Ritter Spoon Decemberists Sigur Rós Ryan Adams Wilco
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| Posts: 22 | Location: New York City | Registered: 20 January 2007 |    |
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Know thy music genres people. For bands mentioned in this thread; alt rock: Wilco, Secret Machines, TV on the Radio, pavement, Ambulance LTD, Dinosaur Jr, Ted Leo/Pharm. Sonic Youth - alt/post punk Metric - new wave/indie rock Indie rock: The Walkmen, Modest Mouse, Pedro the Lion, New Pornographers, Yo La Tengo, Autolux, Grandaddy, Guided By Voices, Sebadoh, The Fiery Furnaces Pixies - college rock Buffalo Tom - college rock indie pop: Death Cab, Rilo Kiley, The Shins The Decemberists, Stars, The Lemonheads Sufjan Stevens - folk/indie-pop Iron & Wine - indie folk Postal Service - electro pop GooGoo Dolls - pop Lambchop - alt-country Magnetic Fields - Synth-pop/rock Sigur Ros - post rock Low - slowcore Fugazi - post-punk Wire - post-punk post-punk revival: white stripes, The Stills, The Killers, Futureheads Interpol, The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand
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| Posts: 63 | Location: Perth | Registered: 13 November 2006 |    |
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My top ten: bluebottle kiss easyworld aloha neutral milk hotel idaho puressence the wrens seafood built to spill electric soft parade
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| Posts: 63 | Location: Perth | Registered: 13 November 2006 |    |
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margot & nuclear so and so's clap your hands say yeah tilly and the wall rocky votolato pedro the lion the soft boys yo la tengo buffalo tom jump little children broken social scene spoon idk, off the top of my head thats all that i can think of. there are probably abouit a zillion more great 'indie rock bands' but those are my favorites..
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| Posts: 3 | Location: atlanta, georgia | Registered: 31 January 2007 |    |
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quote: Originally posted by Rubberchicken: Know thy music genres people. For bands mentioned in this thread;
alt rock: Wilco, Secret Machines, TV on the Radio, pavement, Ambulance LTD, Dinosaur Jr, Ted Leo/Pharm.
Sonic Youth - alt/post punk
Metric - new wave/indie rock
Indie rock: The Walkmen, Modest Mouse, Pedro the Lion, New Pornographers, Yo La Tengo, Autolux, Grandaddy, Guided By Voices, Sebadoh, The Fiery Furnaces
Pixies - college rock Buffalo Tom - college rock
indie pop: Death Cab, Rilo Kiley, The Shins The Decemberists, Stars, The Lemonheads
Sufjan Stevens - folk/indie-pop Iron & Wine - indie folk Postal Service - electro pop GooGoo Dolls - pop Lambchop - alt-country Magnetic Fields - Synth-pop/rock
Sigur Ros - post rock Low - slowcore
Fugazi - post-punk Wire - post-punk
post-punk revival: white stripes, The Stills, The Killers, Futureheads Interpol, The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand
Um yeah except for alternative rock, most of those styles are considered sub-genres of what today is considered indie. I mean indie as a term didn't really come into prominence until the 90's but still I don't think anyone would deny that Dinosaur Jr. or Sonic Youth is "indie" at heart at least. And TV on the Radio is not alternative rock, even if they are signed to a major label. And College Rock just means bands that were played on College Radio in the 80s. And the Pixies are sorta in the middle although I would place them firmly in the indie category. But these distinctions are ridiculous anyway.
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Hahahahahahaha. Rubber Chicken, that's ridiculous. What's the point of dividing all of these bands into millions of sub-groups? Part of what makes "indie" so great is that it encompasses all sorts of rock/pop music. It's the loosest of genres and there's no reason to call Metric "new wave" or Ted Leo "alt rock". It sheds no light on anything.
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Lets not get "indie" mixed up with "indie rock" shall we. SO easy to do.
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| Posts: 63 | Location: Perth | Registered: 13 November 2006 |    |
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Sadly, I think that the term "indie" is undergoing a change reflected in this thread. Indie per se originally meant "signed to an independent label." When I was a DJ on college radio in the 80's we didn't know from indie, but we tended to look for the stuff from small labels like SST and SubPop. We thought that stuff was somehow more authentic. That changed to grunge and alternative in the 90's. I'm afraid that "indie" is becoming a marketable label like all the others did. When "indie" bands shill for commercial advertisers, and pitchfork is featured in multipage articles in the New York Times, I think the gig is up. My current "indie" faves feature some commercially viable acts: The Decemberists Death Cab for Cutie The New Pornographers The Fiery Furnaces Mew Of Montreal The Shins and my all time favorite "indie" band: NMH. I love em!
--------------- My basic objection to religion is not that it isn't true; I like plenty of things that aren't true. It's that religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. -Philip Pullman
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| Posts: 1468 | Location: State of Disarray | Registered: 10 January 2007 |    |
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THE TITLE OF THIS THREAD IS: "BEST INDIE ROCK BANDS" not indie, !indie rock!. There is a difference. I can't make it any more simple for you. and no on the butterfly collection, maybe when Im older.
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| Posts: 63 | Location: Perth | Registered: 13 November 2006 |    |
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