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SmileNerd 09.07.15	Check out Silversun Pickups and The Districts.
LotusFlower 09.07.15	The Districts [2]
SmileNerd 09.07.15	Also Weezer and Arcade Fire. Those are some of the basics.
LotusFlower 09.07.15	Antarctigo Vespucci, Ozma, and Rozwell Kid if you want Indie Weezercore tho
Cosmoblue 09.07.15	Thanks guys (gals? probably not), I'll definitely check those out when I have the time.
Muppelope 09.07.15	Silversun Pickups, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fleet Foxes, The Tallest Man On Earth, Minus The Bear are all some of my favorites
Artuma 09.07.15	modest mouse and pavement duh
skeames1214 09.07.15	The Beatles
LotusFlower 09.07.15	Troubled Hubble
Ashen 09.07.15	The National, Built to Spill
skeames1214 09.07.15	Seriously tho Grizzly Bear is dope, and animal collective is the best band that has ever been.
Keyblade 09.07.15	indie is such a broad and vague genre idk try the national
LotusFlower 09.07.15	Laura Stevenson
Keyblade 09.07.15	^ her too
LotusFlower 09.07.15	Fox Stevenson too if you're into electronic music, but I guess he isn't actually independent. You should just stream his All This Time EP anyways.
skeames1214 09.07.15	Yeah Laura Stevenson is dope. The Dirty Projectors are good good shit
Ashen 09.07.15	The Antlers, Iron & Wine, idk have you tried just clicking the "indie" tag and checking out the indie page? Also, indieshuffle.com
SmileNerd 09.07.15	Oh and one of my all time favorites, Ozma.
LotusFlower 09.07.15	I already said Ozma you scrub
RadicalEd 09.07.15	Haven't looked at the other recs given, so forgive me if I repeat stuff. The National Tallest man on Earth Foals Arcade Fire Built to Spill Destroyer Frightened Rabbit Future Islands Gotye The Graduate Jenny Lewis The Jezabels Junip M83 Los Campesionos Spoon
Keyblade 09.07.15	and there's the problem with asking for indie recs if you're looking for a specific sound. most of these bands are so radically different sonically despite falling under the same umbrella
YetAnotherBrick 09.07.15	Pavement - Crooked Rain Sebadoh - Bakesale The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me, Bug Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot The New Pornographers - Twin Cinema Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Deerhunter - Microcastle, Halcyon Digest The Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic, The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi Eels - Electro-Shock Blues Elliott Smith - Either/Or, s/t Arcade Fire - Funeral, then rest of discog Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch Fiona Apple - The Idler Wheel... Stars - Set Yourself On Fire Bloc Party - Silent Alarm Tegan and Sara - The Con And yeah Modest Mouse and The National and all that
BMDrummer 09.07.15	women sebadoh the microphones
theNateman 09.07.15	Gotye [2], also try out courtney barnett, and Jeff rosenstock.
LotusFlower 09.07.15	All of Jeff's work tho, he's in like 6 different bands and they're all kick ass.
danielcardoso 09.07.15	The Tallest Man On Earth, who've already been mentioned. Also, Wilco and The Smiths are pretry much mandatory for indie, early R.E.M. as well.
theNateman 09.07.15	Guys, how have we missed the Pixies? They are some essential listening for indie. Sonic youth as well
skeames1214 09.07.15	Doolittle specifically.
Artuma 09.07.15	both are essential
Mort. 09.07.15	The cribs
danielcardoso 09.07.15	Yup, both are essential [2], though if I had to pick a favorite it'd definitely be Doolittle. Just polished enough to connect to a wider fanbase but also enough grit to be a "classic" Pixies record.
theBoneyKing 09.07.15	Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism The Decemberists - Picaresque PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love The Strokes - Is This It Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City Wye Oak - Civilian Also someone already mentioned them but check Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
NorthernSkylark 09.07.15	surfer rosa, yeah >
eddie95 09.07.15	Titus Andronicus - The Monitor & Airing of Grievances Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
Sunnyvale 09.07.15	The Tallest Man On Earth- The Wild Hunt (and everything else) The National- Alligator Real Estate- Days
oisincoleman64 09.07.15	American Football - American Football Arctic Monkeys - AM Bomb The Music Industry! - Scrambles Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism Elbow - Leaders Of The Free World Forgive Durden - Wonderland Hop Along - Painted Shut Modern Baseball - Sports Modest Mouse - Strangers To Ourselves Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted Jeff Rosenstock - We Cool? Say Anything - Hebrews Sleater-Kinney - No Cities To Love Sorority Noise - Joy, Departed Twenty One Pilots - Blurryface Gerard Way - Hesitant Alien Westkust - Hesitant Alien
Dylan620 09.07.15	Arcade Fire - Funeral Arcade Fire - Neon Bible The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving The Weakerthans - Reconstruction Site The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour Modest Mouse - This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica Gem Club - Breakers Brand New - Deja Entendu Brand New - The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me The National - High Violet The National - Alligator The National - Boxer Built to Spill - Perfect from Now On
Dylan620 09.07.15	double comment, oops
BallsDeep 09.07.15	Can anyone actually define indie rock for me? what elements are common to all 'indie rock bands' or simple just 'indie' bands? I'm familiar with alot of the major players in the genre but i still couldn't tell you what the genre is about, other than incorporating more obscure sub genres into the music and experimenting more than your average band.
Ashen 09.07.15	"Can anyone actually define indie rock for me?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_rock "I'm familiar with alot of the major players in the genre but i still couldn't tell you what the genre is about" so you actually aren't familiar with the genre at all, and have no idea what you're talking about. instead of throwing your arms up in frustration and crying about indie being a nonsensical, enigmatic, inferior genre of music that is simply below your apparently superior understanding of music, try making a conscious effort to listen to it and expand your horizons. "other than incorporating more obscure sub genres into the music and experimenting more than your average band." this is like what i thought about metal music when i was 9, complete with the contradictions and generally ignorant viewpoints you have outlined here. do not pass go, do not collect $200. go rethink your life and come back when you have something to say that isn't complete bullshit.
Sinternet 09.07.15	^ rekt Some ones I don't think other people have mentioned Manchester Orchestra Bright Eyes Red House Painters The Olivia Tremor Control The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Band Of Horses Father John Misty The Beta Band The Microphones The Postal Service The World Is A Beautiful Place and I am No Longer Afraid to Die TV on the Radio We Were Promised Jetpacks The Smiths MGMT The Go! Team Unknown Mortal Orchestra Fleet Foxes Belle and Sebastian