Indie music - punk/rock/lofi (Not music to spin to thread) ;)

In before "pretentious hipster crap"

What are some of your favorite (and perhaps unheard of bands) Independant label and/or "different sounding" ones.


I submit -
Neutral Milk Hotel - Myspace In the Aeroplane Over the Sea inspired my life :]
Pavement - myspace
Broken Social Scene - myspace
The Arcade Fire - Funeral - myspace
Joanna Newsom - Ys - myspace
Sufjan Stevens
Minus the Bear
Incredible String Band (from the time your parents were hippies)
Elliott Smith
the Decemberists. Epic pirate chanteys for the win!
The Unicorns
The Eels
Clap your hands say yeah
The Flaming Lips

Grandaddy, Built to Spill, The Shins, Guided by Voices, The Flaming Lips, The Beta Band, many others that I can't think of at the moment

www.myspace.com/pixelh8

He makes music from gameboys, kids toys and other bleepy things.

Pretty wicked stuff

The FaintMyspace
The Mountain GoatsMyspace
Badly Drawn BoyMyspace
The Ditty BopsMyspace
Gogol BordelloMyspace
The PerfectsMyspace
MellowdroneMyspace
Ima Robot Myspace
Yat-Kha Myspace


As far as Neutral Milk Hotel goes, I liked On Avery Island better than I liked On an Aeroplane... Which is not to say that I didnt like Aeroplane, but (with the exception of "Pree-sisters swallowing a donkey's eye" that one was too strange) I liked Avery better. All good stuff though.

The Flaming Lips put on a great stage show. Very entertaining - and I love Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Aimee: I love low bit stuff. It's the inner/outer/flaming geek in me :S

Dangerousmind66: thanks for that, i'll check out some of those i haven't heard of on last.fm/myspace.

I forgot the eels, the unicorns, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

rumanastone

hmm maybe my list is stretching it, but all these people are incredible and vaguely indie -

DeVotchKa, Beirut, Neutral Milk Hotel, Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Múm, A Hawk and a Hacksaw

besides that, I've recently discovered Klezmer that is as different-sounding as it's ever going to get

Anti-Flag
Billy Talent

Both thh bpmb!

I get to see The Faint and Gogol Bordello (separately) within the next two weeks!!!! WOOT!

Whats the best live show you guys have seen? Mine's gotta be Depeche Mode, even though Dave had laryngitis and couldnt finish his set. At the time, I was really disappointed, to say the least, but Martin came out and sang a couple songs you dont usually get to hear, and I realized that I saw the band in a way that most people never will, and I count myself lucky.

Fave indie/unknown bands?

A Sound Mind
Fido
Fozzy
The Duke
Standing Tall(although recently broke up)
Superheist (unfortunatly broken up)
Walk The Earth
Appleton

Theres a few more such as: Simeon, Best Before, Adrian Rowse, Dark Tranquility which I love and are unknown but have only heard a few songs

Praps, where possible links to webpages or myspaces for artists you really love? Please

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If you like I could go through my old posts and edit with links to myspace - it isn't that hard to search. just copy/paste the names

Oh I know I know.
It's just if the thread goes any further there will be alot of artist to search through.

People posting praps a link to just one of there suggested bands means only one person has to search one, rather than lots of people searching everything.

Splitters Sub Ska Rockers reminises of my home town.. and my mate the singer.

well i updated my first post with a bunch of links

I have a new favorite, saw them last night,
Valient Thorr Myspace

This is TOTALLY my thread

I'm a massive fan of the genre. Well. Aswell as everything else. I can't be bothered writing out all of my favourites, but I'd strongly suggest you all go check out Gotye (pronounced "Gore-Ti-Yeah") - http://www.myspace.com/gotye - Independent original aussie music FTW!

Oh, oh. and check out Frou Frou. They're amazing. http://www.myspace.com/froufrou

Ancient thread! Rise from the grave and do my bidding! =D

Are you referring to the 80s????? Hipsters have been huge in developing the mainstream and supporting the underground since the early 90s

Right now I'm loving:

Silversun Pickups, MGMT, The Toxic Airborne Event, The Big Pink, The Killers, Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear, and Cage The Elephant for more recent stuff.