So, indie rock is one aspect of my music collection that is lacking. I enjoy the genre, but I honestly just don't know that many good indie bands. That's where you come in. Help.

If it would be helpful, some indie bands I like are Sonic Youth, Bloc Party, Snow Patrol, Wilco, Devendra Banhart, The Shins, The Stills, and the Dresden Dolls.

Pixies
The Decemberists
Arcade Fire
Pavement
Silver Jews
The Mountain Goats

Vampire Weekend

Spoon
The Walkmen
Arctic Monkeys
Broken Social Scene
Wolf Parade

Ima Robot.

I don't think clown would like them.

!!!
Andrew Bird('s Bowl of Fire)
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Band of Horses
Beirut
Broken Social Scene is worth recommending again
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Cloud Cult
Datarock
Kaiser Chiefs
Klaxons
Little Man Tate
Menomena
Minus the Bear
Oh No! Oh My!
Say Hi to Your Mom
Seabear
Sunset Rubdown
The Magnetic Fields
The Shins?
The World/Inferno Friendship Society
We Are Scientists
Wiretree
Yeasayer
Yo La Tengo

as for a condensed list, if that's too much:

You would probably know better than me, as I don't listen to any Indie except for them, and can't recommend based on his taste. Also I've still only heard Ima Robot's first album, and been told that their second one sucks.

Peter Bjorn, & John

Ima Robot? Weird.

Architecture in Helsinki
The Fratellis
The Most Serene Republic

Seconding these:
Wolf Parade
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Oh No! Oh My!
Say Hi to Your Mom

Asobi Seksu
Frightened Rabbit

The Ropes

Tokyo Police Club.

Why would anyone recommend World/Inferno? Jesus.

Sebadoh
http://www.myspace.com/sehbahdough

Deer Tick
http://myspace.com/deertick

Algernon Cadwallader (amazing live)
http://www.myspace.com/algernoncadwallader

Each Other's Mothers (see above comment)
http://www.myspace.com/eachothersmothers

Belle & Sebastian (a necessity)
http://www.myspace.com/beileandsebastian11

The Weakerthans
http://www.myspace.com/theweakerthans

That's a good starter list

I woke up this morning and just really, really wanted to listen to Tokyo Police Club. I need more music from them.


I loved The Life Pursuit but I didn't think anything else of theirs was so great.

Fuck you just mentioned Sebadoh? I didn't think anyone knew them. My friend actually dated Eric from Sebadoh and he's a fucking creep. She's never kissed a guy, never mind had sex with anyone, but he stalked our campus looking for girls and found her. Then they went back to his dumpy house and took a bath together. They did that every weekend and he had some old girlfriend and AGH that's so funny. You're not from Massachusetts, are you?

We're like...music buddies.

I'd highly recommend Sunset Rubdown, and Swan Lake too. I'd say to check out Frog Eyes, but even I'm kind of iffy about them.

Haha no, Pennsylvania. Sebadoh is pretty fucking famous. Lou Barlow was also in Dinosaur Jr., probably one of my favorite bands of all time.

Sebadoh's III was pretty influential when it comes to lo-fi recordings, and Bakesale is an amazing album.

Isn't Eric old?


Oh man, I disagree, although I know where you are coming from. Their other material is more soft and not aggressively poppy. My favorite album by them is If You Are Feeling Sinister.

Have you given Dear Catastrophe Waitress a listen?

I didn't know the Dinosaur Jr. bit. I feel like I should because I saw them open for the Pixies. Whoops.

Yeah, he just turned forty or something. She's still eighteen.

Sebadoh rules and you're dumb if you don't like them but like Guided By Voices or Pavement or the like

If this is supposed to be an insult against B&S, let's compare the two:

One puts on hilariously retarded shows (I've been to one, I know from experience), and the other produces lovely pop tunes.

World/Inferno is a crappy folk band and a crappy punk band, where as Belle and Sebastian are one of the best indie bands ever.

You guys are awesome. Seriously, thanks for all the recommendations. There are a few that I already knew, like Trail of Dead, Spoon, Broken Social Scene, Arcade Fire and the Pixies, but knowing that the taste is shared makes me want to look at the other recommendations more.

I will say, though, I'm not a fan of anything lo-fi except for a couple Pavement songs. I probably should have said that from the start.



But World/Inferno did a song with Leftover Crack, which is enough to erase like two album's worth of crappiness.

Uh, Leftover Crack is one of the cheesiest bands out there and suck.

KILL CAWWWPPPPPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Get into real hawdkawr

Man you suck

Because punk isn't an inherently cheesy genre or anything, right?

found some stuff i liked out of this thread, thanks

and for my recommendations:

Arctic Monkeys
The Kooks
Maxïmo Park

Punk isn't all about shitty gimmicks.

EDIT: It's not even the kill cops thing. It's....well, the band just sucks.

The Moldy Peaches

Minus the Bear

Man, I can totally see thinking the band sucks, but I can't see thinking punk isn't just shitty gimmicks. It is. Maybe it didn't used to, but that's as far as I'll bend.

Uh, I don't really think you know what you are talking about.

I know I don't, but does that mean I can't argue with everything you say? I jus' like to contradict you, sorry baby.

Really? There are a lot of legendary punk bands BUILT around a gimmick. Especially in the hardcore and street punk scenes. From the Sex Pistols and both incarnations of the Misfits' entire existence as bands to Black Flag's suburban tours (Also, Police Story is a much more gimmicky "kill cops" song than anything Leftover Crack has ever done.) to the gimmicky Ramones logo that every trendy kid has on a t-shirt to Jello Biafra running for office. (maybe I'll ignore that one since it was after the band broke up, but still...a lot of their songs are cheesy as fuck.)

I won't even get into obvious cheesy gimmick bands like The Exploited, The Casualties, The Unseen, A Global Threat, etc.

Punk is inherently cheesy. Period. I thought pretty much anyone over the age of 15 who was still into it acknowledged and accepted that fact despite liking the music anyway, but I guess that's just around here.

Let's break this down:

1. Sex Pistols suck
2. Oldfits are good, but any band trying to copy them, any band in that horrorpunk genre (well, with the exception of Groovie Ghoulies, but they put a spin on it), and the newfits themselves suck
3. Black Flag doesn't have a gimmick, actually had a reason to be mad at cops, and only had one song about it. And you really think Police Story is more gimmicky than One Dead Cop? Please.
4. Ramones suck
5. Jello running for office had nothing to do with the band, and how the fuck is that a gimmick?
6. Exploited, Casualties, Unseen, Global Theat suck Donkey balls
7. Do you even know anything about the genre that you apparently like? If you get into good punk, you realize a lot of it isn't cheesy. The only cheesy ones are the ones that you seem to know about. There can be good gimmicks, if done correctly, but doing drugs and blowin' up churches to be baaadmothafuckaz isn't one.

EDIT: A List of somewhat alright gimmicks!

1. Municipal Waste- I can't say I listen to them much anymore, but most of their songs revolve around the same theme.
2. Many bands, such as Charles Bronson (don't listen to much anymore, either), use sound clips in between 2 songs. That's fine most of the time. It can get annoying, though.
3. Skateboard bands (JFA, Big Boys, Skate Korpse, etc.).

You like Screeching Weasel and you say punk isn't cheesy.

I never said punk wasn't cheesy. I said all of it wasn't cheesy.

I haven't listened to them in a while, either, anyways. I don't even really see how they are incredibly cheesy, other than stupid lyrics.

Actually, what I said is punk wasn't about gimmicks. THE FUCK

I think the fact that the lead singer's name is Dan Weasel is both cheesy and gimmicky.

EDIT - Unless that's his real name. Then I just feel bad for him.

It's Ben Weasel. What's wrong with a nickname?

Ben, Dan, both one syllable ending in N.

There's nothing wrong with a nickname. I just don't like how so many punk bands used fake names like that. (Ramones, Dead Kennedys, Screeching Weasel, Dead Milkmen). I think it's silly.

Get over it.

I was never under it . . . BUT YOUR MOM WAS UNDER ME!

Bazing!

I love how bob's answer to everything is that he personally doesn't like the band. Thus, for some reason, removing any validity they have in the genre.

It's true, though. My word is law.

Jude Law.

What!? NO!

why does the clown post, and why does sa bob post about music

seriously, 'ramones suck'? what the fuck is wrong with you

They are dull and boring. All their songs, with the exception of like...2 sound the same.

Who listens to The Ramones? I mean, HONESTLY.