Good Indie/Alternative Rock bands to check out?

[Brandty]

I'm always looking for new music especially Indie/Alternative Rock bands.

For instance I enjoy listening to Franz Ferdinand, Vampire Weekend, The Young Knives, Foals, Good Shoes. In general I enjoy bands from Europe.

Anyone have some suggestions for bands that would fit along with stuff like this?

Myspace links would be appreciated...

[munkeybanana]

the smashup. (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=2292551)

[Kamikaze189]

"Why?"

http://themixtapepodcast.blogspot.com/2008/09/why- video-live-on-roof-of-dublab.html (http://themixtapepodcast.blogspot.com/2008/09/why-video-live-on-roof-of-dublab.html)

(Link to song from that page, for the lazy: http://www.zshare.net/audio/19106627b9dbbb35/ )

and

http://cougarmicrobes.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/bil ly-the-kid-did-what-he-did-and-he-died/ (http://cougarmicrobes.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/billy-the-kid-did-what-he-did-and-he-died/)

and

http://turnthepageblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/this-g oes-out-to-all-my-underdone-and.html (http://turnthepageblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/this-goes-out-to-all-my-underdone-and.html)

[lilsamuraijoe]

A few bands I have been listening too recently are the raconteurs, the von bondies, and the black keys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7aOWIFgIZQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0keUQIJBJx0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKXlgISd3iA

Muse is one of my favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG2DU0-lu_4

You can always use Pandora.com, free commercialess internet radio. How it works is you input an artist or song name and then it compiles a play list with songs or band similar to that. The sound quality is great and I have found a few cool bands of it.

[Brandty]

Thanks for leading me onto Pandora.com, it's really nifty, gonna have to start using it...

[Tyr]

Pandora.com was great until they barred everyone from outside the US. Fuckers.

Check out Arcade Fire by the way, they do some pretty interesting stuff.

[dontleave]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKZkkBFCceY

Oh yes I did.

[darkmessiah]

Deerhunter, Foals, Vampire Weekend?

[Funky Biscuits]

For me, Indie is the scum of all music.
Thats just a generalisation

[darkmessiah]

For me, Indie is the scum of all music.
Thats just a generalisation

I respect your opinion.

Oh and Modest Mouse

[MonkeyHatchetZombie]

ummm.... the skalights!

[tp500]

What? People actually listen to good music in here? It's not just metallica and disturbed?????!! WHAT!?

Look up:
Battles
Black Mountain
Broken Social Scene(FANTASTIC CANADIAN BAND)
Comets on Fire
Metric
Kiss Kiss
MGMT
The Mars Volta
Ours
People In Planes
Stars
Thrice
Yeasayer
3

[Puscifer]

dunno about indie bands, but u might like these (Alt/Prog Rock)...

Tool, Isis, Puscifer, A Perfect Circle, Ashes Divide, Jesu, Deftones, Team Sleep

:D

[DangerWillRobinson]

Indie music in my opinion, totally turned music from people who get things done, into people who drive vintage motorcycles and put "go green" bumper stickers on the back of their moped helmets...

I don't know if anyone noticed either, but they all look and sound exactly.the.same. Doesn't that hint towards a lame trend? Which also hints towards cashing in on such trend? Which also means that everyone and their mother are going to wear scarves, forget about actual music, and start an Indie band to get rich? Yes.

(in before hardcore punk/metal, i fucking hate it.)

[Safety_Man]

Les Savy Fav, Chad Vangaalen

Check out Chad Vangaalen's song Molten Light. IT. IS. TERRIFYING.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLw5b70OJH8

[Funky Biscuits]

Indie music in my opinion, totally turned music from people who get things done, into people who drive vintage motorcycles and put "go green" bumper stickers on the back of their moped helmets...

I don't know if anyone noticed either, but they all look and sound exactly.the.same. Doesn't that hint towards a lame trend? Which also hints towards cashing in on such trend? Which also means that everyone and their mother are going to wear scarves, forget about actual music, and start an Indie band to get rich? Yes.

(in before hardcore punk/metal, i fucking hate it.)

Liking Indie comes right before liking Disney in all things retarded

[Brandty]

Damn, I like Indie and Alternative stuff because the music isn't really that dark, I enjoy listening to upbeat songs that have nifty riffs and instruments. I also like the feeling that not everyone knows about some of the bands and that the media hasn't gotten to them (stupid bands you see on MTV/VH1 when they rarely play real music.)

I just don't like bands that have become mainstream or heavy, heavy stuff where they scream and bombard your eardrums with indistinguishable squeals and what not.

I don't hate metal per say: Mastodon's music is the kind I like, whatever genre you would consider it.

Any way I'm looking for new music, there are other threads for different kinds of music if you don't wanna leave a suggestion.

[tp500]

Brandty, seriously check out every band I posted, they are very low key, no screaming or growling, just awesome rock.

[MonkeyHatchetZombie]

Mastodon
YES. YES. YES. You are my new friend.

Look up Vaeda if you want a non-popular band that sounds AMAZING, especially live. (Although in the last few weeks their songs have been in commercials and they were in the RB2 commercial)

And if you guys want a good Expunkative* band check out
myspace.com/thegogogonads


*Experimental/Punk/Alternative

Edit: brandt, thrice isn't low key they're pretty popular....

[darkmessiah]

I don't know if anyone noticed either, but they all look and sound exactly.the.same. Doesn't that hint towards a lame trend? Which also hints towards cashing in on such trend? Which also means that everyone and their mother are going to wear scarves, forget about actual music, and start an Indie band to get rich? Yes.
My indie is pretty varied.

One is Math Rock, one is Ambient, one has Jamaican Ties,

it's all good in the 'hood yo!

People in planes sounded like another rock band... but that one song owned

I have to complain about this Hard Rock music or something like that. I know a guy who listens to 3 Doors Down, Trapt, Evanescence and that kinda shit, and when he put Trapt into his pandora search, everyone single "artist" he knew came up lol, talk about the exact same music.

[Brandty]

Popular isn't a bad thing, its when bands let the media mess with their music, change them.

Liked most of your post tp500, that's the kind of stuff I was looking for, keep it up.

[MonkeyHatchetZombie]

Popular isn't a bad thing, its when bands let the media mess with their music, change them.
The Nads will never change for anyone. EVER.

Unless they offer us cookies...

[Oblivion165]

Gunther
http://www.gunthernet.com

[EClaris]

Mountain Goats


some what of an aquired taste but it's all good

[MadMan]

Behemoth.

nuffsaid. lol