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Rye Coalition - On Top

If we're gonna bring up Rye Coalition, you've gotta go with The Lipstick Game or Hee Saw Dhuh Kaet. They rock much harder and sound less like an AC/DC ripoff on those records.

The Wrens- Meadowlands
Interpol- Turn on the Bright Lights and Antics (I would avoid the new one)

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Originally posted by Vypa:
The gentleman asks for indie rock and you offer up Mastodon? Hmmmm......

Blah blah blah Indie Rock blah blah
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I'm talking about albums that have awesome guitar riffs and songs that make you pull out an air guitar!

I would say Mastodon fill both of those requirements. Also, what pretentious indie kid doesn't love Mastodon? They may be metal, but come on...

What you are looking for is a band called "Cheeseburger." (The very name suggests that you're in for some good ol fashioned Merkin rock music). Go get their eponymous debut NOW.

The Ike Reilly Assassination - "We Belong to the Staggering Evening"

I also second The Hold Steady and Dinosaur Jr. recommendations.

In My opinion the best "Rock" band out there right now is Kings of Leon. All 3 albums are great.

Somebody for the love of god listen to rose hill drive.

as out of fashion as it is today, emo-pop was the last genre i remember that routinely focused on rocking out.

any Get-Up Kids album from the 90s or their live album are hot, so many guitar slides. for me, there's really nothing that has been able to hold a candle to their flame.

most of Jimmy Eat World's Clarity and Static Prevals indulges itself in classic rock tendencies, and if you can find anything from the Stereo, they are H O TT. i also like coheed & cambria, taking back sunday's first two lps, texas is the reason(!!!), hot rod circuit (i've been told they're still coming out with new albums). my friend always used to refer to saves the day as "rock Gods", but i never got into them, so i don't know if if it was a big joke or not

as for the newer stuff: in terms of rocking-out, i feel they are vastly inferior to the emo-pop/emocore/emo-popcore/emo-popcornandidon'tcare movement of the latter-half of the 90s. i haven't found very many real rockers in the double-0's, none of which rock as hard as the before-mentioned. though it's probably more because i haven't been actively looking for that kind of music. it's becuase i generally feel more comfortable rocking out/air guitaring and pretty much acting like a 15-year old boy with the music that i listened to when i was that age (if that makes sense). regardless, here's some of newer hotness that i can imagine myself getting waaay into when i was younger:

yeah yeah yeah's fever to tell and any of their eps before that

i'll second turn on the bright lights, wonderful album.

marnie stern's debut is very very hard, and ther are a couple songs that are ridiculous with the guitar, but sometimes it seems like it's too much, like it's meant to be listened to and taken in, as opposed to making the listener feel like an active part in the rocking out process. but it's still wonderful stuff, a lot like the yyy's without worrying about karen putting the microphone into her mouth and screaming some note for like, 10 seconds or so.

guilty pleasure: sorry about dresden's let it rest. it's a little uneven - every other song seems to fall flat - but the songs that rock really encourage air guitars and the like.

the format's dog problems always feels like a bit of a throwback to that emo-pop sound. i don't know if it's a real old-fashioned rocker, but damned if i don't spend an hour on sunday mornings fronting the band and performing the album in its entirety (THE FORMAT - LIVE FROM MY HOUSE).

holy crap, thanks for listening if you did; sorry i rambled, is there an unspoken word cap on posts? oh well, it's late, i don't even know why i'm still up, gotta talk about music, wahtever!

also, i liked boys and girls in america, i rocked out hard to it when it came out...but it's been six months since i've given that baby a spin, am i crazy or is it, in the LCD Soundsystem/Arcade Fire era, getting hard to make an album that harkens back to classic rock and make it relevant and timely?

Has anyone mentioned My Morning Jacket?

...Also, check out Pop Levi.

If you're looking for some crunchy guitar-driven psychedelic rock with massive hooks and thunderous drums, try s/t from Darker My Love. Drawing comparisons to Velvet Underground and My Bloody Valentine, I also hear some early Stooges in there. Awesome stuff.

Oh, speaking of psychedelia, Comets On Fire is heavier than pretty much anything else these days.

Try The Lonesome Crowded West by Modest Mouse

Arctic Monkeys- "whatever people say I am.." and their new one "favourite worst nightmare".

Both albums are amazing and absolutely rip!

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"favourite worst nightmare".

I totally back this one up... good call

Hot Hot Heat - Talk to Me, Dance with Me
Bloc Party - Helicopter
The Dandy Warhols - We Used to be Friends

The Ike Reilly Assassination - "We Belong to the Staggering Evening"

Just bluesy rock riffs with Dyalnesque vocals and awesome lyrics. If you like The Hold Steady you will probably like these guys as well.

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The Ike Reilly Assassination - "We Belong to the Staggering Evening"

Just bluesy rock riffs with Dyalnesque vocals and awesome lyrics. If you like The Hold Steady you will probably like these guys as well.

So that's why...

I guess I'll parrot most of the reccomendations that have already come up:

Definitely the Hold Steady - they're about as balls-to-the-wall rock and roll as any indie band has ever been. Booze soaked, overdriven-guitars, guttural vocals and lots of raw power.

Death From Above 1979 is a bit of an odd choice, but also could work. For the most part, they're only drum/bass/keyboard, but they pull off a really heavy hard-rock sound nonetheless.

Part of me also wants to suggest Spoon, although that's not the most immediate answer that comes to mind. Sure, they use lots of effects, studio trickery, and esoteric rhythm and melody, but one of the things that I really like about them is that when you strip away all that shiny gloss, you still have a brilliant hard-rocking, guitar-driven alt-rock band underneath.

recent rock albums that rocks:

White Stripes - Icky thump (rock/blues)
Converge - No heroes (Metal/hardcore)
Mclusky - Mcluskism (compilation/garage punk rock)
Future of the left - curses (rock/noise)
Primus - singles (compilation/progressive,funky, psychedelic rock)
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Some good replies, I have a real thirst for truly loud, powerful, mean music sometimes. To agree with many and expand somewhat

Hot Snakes - Audit in Progress, Automatic Midnight, Suicide Invoice (ALL OF 'EM)

Fugazi - The Argument, End Hits, Repeater etc.

Mclusky - Do Dallas

Future of the Left - Curses (McLusky with Keyboards)

Thermals - The Body the Blood the Machine - vastly underrated. Deadly simple, infinite force. Even their other two lesser records are no joke.

Chavez - Better Days Will Haunt You - comprehensive compilation - angry guitar nerd heaven.

Giddy Motors - Do Easy - a bit more sinister here. Pretty inconsistent, but there are so few places to go for really great examples of this kind of music. The first track on this album is brutal.

Helmet - Aftertaste - Good. They got old, but this is pretty strong stuff.

Spoon - the grittier, older stuff (not necessarily better but fits the bad-ass theme more aptly) - no one who digs into their back catalogue will be disappointed. So, so good.

The Icarus Line - Penance Soiree - "classic rock" flavor, but still nasty.

Fucked Up - Hidden World some people find them intimidating. It's pretty tuneful stuff, really.

The Drones - Gala Mill and their other one - anybody who likes the harder-edged Constantines tracks, this is the place to go.

Check all this stuff out tune-lovers! There are tunes on all these records, some people seem to think they're all meant to attack and torture listeners. This ain't Wolf Eyes.