Recommend Me Some Good New Indie Bands

[amosrock]

I'm a big fan of:

The National
Sufjan Stevens
MGMT
The Airborne Toxic Event
Damien Rice
The Decemberists
Band Of Horses
Death Cab For Cutie (Ok they're not indie anymore but i still group them in)
The Shout Out Louds
Keane
Stars
Frou Frou
Elliott Smith
MuteMath
The Arcade Fire
Sigur Ros
Sondre Lerche
Andreas Johnson
Spoon

But i've been listening to the majority of this stuff for years now...Very rarely do I find new indie bands that I really enjoy...so any of you indie fans out there recommend me some new stuff.

[KidRobot]

M83
Okkervil River
School of Seven Bells
Built to Spill
Murder by Death
Noah & the Whale
Neutral Milk Hotel
Why?

[chipdip18]

Caribou
Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Mogwai
Fleet Foxes

[amosrock]

out of all of those i've only heard okkervil river and built to spill....couldn't ever really get into built to spill but i remember loving what i heard of okkervil river....i'll check it out again...isn't m83 more like an electro-ish band? my co-worker loves them...i have yet to hear them.

thank you i will check these out tonight

[alltimecam]

sunset rubdown
or wolf parade (their first album)
animal collective
clap your hands say yeah (their first album)
dan deacon
destroyer
great lake swimmers
guillemots
jose gonzalez
the most serene republic
xiu xiu

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yeah, I'm bored

[KidRobot]

out of all of those i've only heard okkervil river and built to spill....couldn't ever really get into built to spill but i remember loving what i heard of okkervil river....i'll check it out again...isn't m83 more like an electro-ish band? my co-worker loves them...i have yet to hear them.

thank you i will check these out tonight

M83 is pretty similar to MGMT...more relaxed though.

Okkervil has not made a bad CD yet. I'd start with The Stage Names.

Built To Spill is hard to get into but I figured you might like them.

[IWasaCamera]

Since what you listed is all over the place:

Pavement
Yo La Tengo
Built To Spill
Beulah
Beat Happening
Silver Jews
Ugly Casanova
Grizzly Bear
Blonde Redhead
Department Of Eagles
Eels
Bon Iver
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Iron & Wine
Beirut
My Morning Jacket
St. Vincent
Field Music
Wilco
Smog
Belle & Sebastian
Andrew Bird
Dr. Dog
Menomena
Yeasayer
Akron/Family
Low
Midlake
The Mountain Goats
I'm From Barcelona
The Magic Numbers
and many others.

[amosrock]

M83 is pretty similar to MGMT...more relaxed though.

Okkervil has not made a bad CD yet. I'd start with The Stage Names.

Built To Spill is hard to get into but I figured you might like them.

i'll check built to spill out again...are there any specific songs or albums i should start with?

[KidRobot]

You can't go wrong with Perfect From Now On or There's Nothing Wrong With Love.

[Jumpoff]

M83 is pretty similar to MGMT...more relaxed though.

Okkervil has not made a bad CD yet. I'd start with The Stage Names.

Built To Spill is hard to get into but I figured you might like them.

m83 is infinitely better than MGMT..

Xiu Xiu
Pinback
Pavement
Archers of Loaf

not exactly "new"..

[ThisIsNotDan]

m83 is infinitely better than MGMT..

Xiu Xiu
Pinback
Pavement
Archers of Loaf

not exactly "new"..

what this dude said

[KidRobot]

m83 is infinitely better than MGMT..

Xiu Xiu
Pinback
Pavement
Archers of Loaf

not exactly "new"..

Oh I know. I'm just relating to his current favorites for reference.

Saturdays = Youth has been on repeat for me for a while now.

[voncorn]

You can't go wrong with Perfect From Now On or There's Nothing Wrong With Love.

Start with There's Nothing Wrong With Love. And if you want to be even more badass, start with Ultimate Alternative Wavers. One of my personal favorite lo-fi indie records.

[Jumpoff]

I forgot to mention, Silver Jews too.

Not necessarily a fan of Xiu Xiu but I recc'd them just due to werirdness :-p

oh and :

Guided By Voices
Beulah
12Rods

[about3fitty]

innerpartysystem. yeah i recommend them to everyone. big deal, wanna fight about it?

[thesafeword]

Boat
Bel Riose
Throw Me the Statue
The Helio Sequence

[thesafeword]

innerpartysystem. yeah i recommend them to everyone. big deal, wanna fight about it?
I hope to god that you're not serious.

[thespearkid]

A lot of what has already been said.

And Cloud Cult.

[about3fitty]

I hope to god that you're not serious.

about fighting about it?

[thesafeword]

About reccomending innerpartysystem.

[about3fitty]

About reccomending innerpartysystem.

why would you hope to god that im not serious about that?

[thesafeword]

Either this is a fucking stupid joke or you're fucking stupid.

[about3fitty]

Either this is a fucking stupid joke or you're fucking stupid.

why, because they arent "indie?"

[HangsLikeHeaven]

Well the thread is supposed to be recommending indie bands, so yeah, that would be it.

[about3fitty]

indie is a stupid name for a genre anyway. maybe he will like them, only one way to know

[HangsLikeHeaven]

Well everyone might as well rec any band they enjoy.

[about3fitty]

maybe they should. good tunes are good tunes

[swt_catastrophe]

Since what you listed is all over the place:

Pavement
Yo La Tengo
Built To Spill
Beulah
Beat Happening
Silver Jews
Ugly Casanova
Grizzly Bear
Blonde Redhead
Department Of Eagles
Eels
Bon Iver
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Iron & Wine
Beirut
My Morning Jacket
St. Vincent
Field Music
Wilco
Smog
Belle & Sebastian
Andrew Bird
Dr. Dog
Menomena
Yeasayer
Akron/Family
Low
Midlake
The Mountain Goats
I'm From Barcelona
The Magic Numbers
and many others.

soo good. i like a majority of that list, but bon iver <3 i'm obsessed with

[amosrock]

i went through last night and started listening to a lot of this stuff....it's gonna take me a long time to get through it all lol...so far though i really enjoyed why? m83, okkervil river, kay kay & his weathered underground, guillemots, jose gonzales, and a bunch of others....you guys rock! keep em comin!

[Kid B]

maybe they should. good tunes are good tunes
Innerpartysystem has nothing to do with good tunes.

[Until The Bombs]

http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=701242

[KidRobot]

Rec threads like this are so dumb. It would take him over a year just to check out all the bands listed on two pages.

Well not if he just listens to a few songs on their MySpace. He can run through 20 bands in a night easily.

[Until The Bombs]

Even though I contributed, he could just as easily check out an indie site, or peruse around the forum for a while.

[KidRobot]

Even though I contributed, he could just as easily check out an indie site, or peruse around the forum for a while.

Or just make a topic and wait. Much easier.

[KidRobot]

I'm more judgemental than most and even I don't think that a few listens on myspace is enough. I think you definitely know what you hate from that but it takes a lot more than a few myspace listens to distinguish to average from the good from the excellent.

Well if he likes the sound he can pursue from there but if he knows he doesn't like the sound he leaves it.

[Until The Bombs]

Or just make a topic and wait. Much easier.

Or search and find the exact same thread.

http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=300747&highlight=indie

[KidRobot]

If he likes indie chances are he will like pretty much everything rec'd enough to give it a proper listen but he could never do that what with the masses of suggestions. There should be some kind of etiquette to rec's where no one lists more than three bands/albums.

I agree. Listing 150 bands doesn't help him. It makes sifting through stuff too hard.

Or search and find the exact same thread.

http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=300747&highlight=indie

Nah.