Electric City
06.25.09 | are these bands you like or bands you want to get into? Microcastle by 4 is good for certain moods, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't offer up Animal Collective. Other great bands to get into though are The National, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Interpol, all great. |
atrink
06.25.09 | yeah i should have said that... these are bands that i like currently |
Electric City
06.25.09 | oh, the antlers, sonic youth, sunny day real estate |
Yotimi
06.25.09 | Some essentials:
1. Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
2. The National - Boxer
3. Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On, The Rising Tide, Diary
4. Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
5. Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
6. Arcade Fire - Funeral
7. Animal Collective - MPP
8. Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret
9. The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
10. Dinosaur Jr. - You're living all over me
11. Galaxie 500 - On Fire
12. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
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atrink
06.25.09 | thanks for that. that's a ton of music to check out i listened to the new dinosaur jr. cd and i don't like it that much so yeah |
Yotimi
06.25.09 | Haven't heard it yet but You're living all over me is way way different than their newer stuff. |
cirq
06.25.09 | Minus the bear! |
atrink
06.25.09 | i just listened to it and it is pretty good. thanks |
darthbarf
06.25.09 | Arcade Fire- Funeral got me into indie |
AggravatedYeti
06.25.09 | Arcade Fire
Animal Collective
My Bloody Valentine
Broken Social Scene
Sonic Youth
The Pixies
Modest Mouse
Built To Spill
Pavement
Grizzly Bear
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The Strokes
I guess start there ;) pick almost anything from those artists and you'll be fine. Mix of current goodness and the forefathers.
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atrink
06.25.09 | this is a shit-load of music. thanks guys |
chaseguitar
06.26.09 | i just started getting into indie music too... I really like This Town Needs Guns though, you should check em out. |
Waior
06.26.09 | Minus the Bear
Joey Eppard
Iron and Wine
Lisa Hannigan
Modest Mouse
The New Pornographers
Tilly and the Wall
Fleet Foxes
Bright Eyes
Copeland
Dustin Kensrue |
Tits McGee
06.26.09 | alot of essentials have been said, but I'll just note that Elliott Smith, Arcade Fire, and Sonic Youth are really good starter Indie artists |
