Rene Lopez
The Ike Reilly Assassination
mrnorth
The Division Group

MAB and RED

Both are all girl groups based in the UK and starting to get a good following around the London venues.

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.)

appleseed cast
clap your hands say yeah
darling at sea

There not the best, but they're damn good- La Pieta. But of course, since I'm in that band it's blatent self promotion and should therefor be ignored. At this point, I would have to say the best new indie band is Wolf Parade. Their album is amazing.

Damn, ten thousand views!

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.

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

pixies
arcade fire
the shins
pavement
spoon
yeah yeah yeahs
decemberists
elliott smith
white stripes
franz ferdinand

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

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

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

My top ten:
bluebottle kiss
easyworld
aloha
neutral milk hotel
idaho
puressence
the wrens
seafood
built to spill
electric soft parade

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..

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.

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.

Lets not get "indie" mixed up with "indie rock" shall we. SO easy to do.

Out of curiousity - do you have a butterfly collection Rubberchicken?

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!

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.