Anyone into Indie music?

[CookieS]

Anyone into indie music here? Cold War Kids? Silvesun Pickups? Lily Allen? Anything else?

[Stuckey]

I've never even heard of those bands, but Cold War Kids sound like it could either be really good or awful.

[RD!]

Check out: Andrew Bird, Arcade Fire, Band of Horses, The Books, Boy Least Likely To, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Built to Spill, Califone, Cat Power, Chin Up Chin Up, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Cloud Cult, Cursive, the Dears, Death Cab for Cutie, the Decemberists, Deerhoof, Destroyer, Doves, Elliot Smith, Fiery Furnaces, Final Fantasy (violin rock, not the game) Fine Print, Flotation Toy Warning, Frog Eyes, the Futureheads, Guided By Voices, The Hold Steady, Iron & Wine, Islands, Les Savy Fav, M. Ward, Magic Numbers, Menomena, Microphones, Mirah, Mock Orange, Modest Mouse, Most Serene Republic, Mountain Goats, the National, Nada Surf, Neutral Milk Hotel, Of Montreal, Oh No! Oh My!, Okkervil River, Olivia Tremor Control, Pavement, Radiohead, Rogue Wave, Sebadoh, Shins, Shout Out Louds, Sigur Ros, Silver Jews, Six Organs of Admittance, Smiths, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Stars, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon, Sunset Rubdown, Swan Lake, Tapes 'n Tapes, Tullycraft, TV on the Radio, The Unicorns, The Weakerthans, Wilco, Wrens, Wolf Parade, Xiu Xiu, Yo La Tengo.

Thanks itunes!

[The Wolverine]

The Apples in stereo
Sufjan Stevens
Blindside

Yeah, I'm pathetic.

[Stuckey]

If WILCO is indie then I'd say I'm a fan. Sufjan's last album was pretty good.

[RD!]

If WILCO is indie then I'd say I'm a fan. Sufjan's last album was pretty good.

*shrug* I just hit indie on my itunes playlist.

Indie is a fake genre anyway. Super melodic and qualm Sufjan Stevens is indie, chaotic and loud and scary Deerhoof too.

[MEGA TON]

Dig indie music, mostly DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE but I recently downloaded THE DECEMBERISTS. Top notch~~

[Kagetsu]

Slightly off topic.

I've been looking for ways to listen to obscure music. Medieval/Renaissance , Japanese Tyco and traditional. No one plays it to hear and is very hard to find hit and miss. Celtic was strong fro a while but that has faded.

[Mr. Pedro]

As far as indie goes, I mosty gravitate to the older stuff like 80's SST acts (Husker Du, Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr., Minutemen). I also find myself digging stuff by Pavement, Sonic Youth, Modest Mouse (even though they're not quite "Indie" anymore). The Smiths however, just blow all and any of that away, no questions asked.

Now what seems to pass for "indie" these days (or at least the common perception of it) does nothing for me. A lot of it puts me to sleep. "Coffee-Rock" is my unflattering name for that vein of music.

[RD!]

As far as indie goes, I mosty gravitate to the older stuff like 80's SST acts (Husker Du, Meat Puppets, Dinosaur Jr., Minutemen). I also find myself digging stuff by Pavement, Sonic Youth, Modest Mouse (even though they're not quite "Indie" anymore). The Smiths however, just blow all and any of that away, no questions asked.

Now what seems to pass for "indie" these days (or at least the common perception of it) does nothing for me. A lot of it puts me to sleep. "Coffee-Rock" is my unflattering name for that vein of music.
It depends on the definition of indie. Is it because they're on a small-time record label or is it reflective of the music they make. There's no real style to an indie rock band aside from being "a style enjoyed by a smaller group than the mainstream music of the time"

[Mr. Pedro]

It depends on the definition of indie. Is it because they're on a small-time record label or is it reflective of the music they make. There's no real style to an indie rock band aside from being "a style enjoyed by a smaller group than the mainstream music of the time"

As far as I'm concerned, indie = independent. Not connected to a large label or such. I just feel however, that there's a certain idea and sound connected with the word "indie" that's become so pervasive (the twee acoustic, chamber-alterna rock/pop) regardless of whether it's warranted or not. I know that there's plenty to the contrary of that description; I'm simply relaying the stereotype that is embraced in some circles.

[RD!]

As far as I'm concerned, indie = independent. Not connected to a large label or such. I just feel however, that there's a certain idea and sound connected with the word "indie"I agree with the latter, even if there is this range of styles involved. But I'll always consider Modest Mouse and the Decemberists an indie band regardless of which label they're on.