my fave indie bands some are alt bands too
 

ben kweller
liz phair
yeah yeah yeahs
wilco
ben folds
tv on the radio
the ravonetts
the shins
the kicks
kings of leons
secret machines
franz ferdinand
death cab for cutie
oasis
the killers
coldplay
tv on the radio
beck
and many many more

you forgot to mention tv on the radio

make sure to check out Califone... it should be on your list. Alt-Folk and best album is Quicksand-Cradlesnakes

My Fav Bands Got To Be,
Oasis, Idlewild, the Beatles, the Jam, David Bowie, Happy Mondays, the Who, Ocean Colour Scene, the Music, the Doors, Kings Of Leon, the Strokes, Stone Roses, Led Zepplien, Inspiral Carpets, Seahorses, John Lennon, the Verve, the Killers, The Rolling Stones, the Bluetones, the Small Faces Etc... Could go on for ages! lol

Hm....

The Anniversary, Hey Mercedes, Pedro the Lion, Onelinedrawing, Far, New End Original, PJ Harvey, Weakerthans, Amanda Rogers, Breaking Pangaea, Denali, Get Up Kids,
Juno, Motion City Soundtrack, Radiohead, Rainer Maria, Rilo Kiley, The Notwist....

Indie can go as far as to say Independent bands and Independent Labels....which in that case, there's a million of them.....or Indie in terms of the sound or the "label" we attach to their style of music.

myeah.
where's the indie, 'mcrrocker'?

^What are you talking about? A lot of those bands are considered indie.

TV on the radio is great. Hey, good enough to be posted twice on one list. And, Wilco *wets 'self*, I might go see them on the 21st (but Deerhoof plays on the same day :( so I'll be in a dilly of a pickle).

Wilco is great. I saw em' last year. It was a really good show.

Agreed, most of those bands are pseudo-indie NME tripe. My top five...

1. Spoon
2. Les Savy Fav
3. Belle & Sebastian
4. The Rapture
5. Broken Social Scene

its all about louis XIV, the arctic monkeys and the warlocks at the moment

heard the first 2, really like the middle but the bastards don't have an album out yet....

liz phair
yeah yeah yeahs - Love.
wilco
ben folds - Love.
tv on the radio
the ravonetts - Like some shizzle.
the shins - Love the stuff i've heard.
the kicks
kings of leons - Seen live, not amazing.
secret machines - Like.
franz ferdinand - Alright.
death cab for cutie - Love.
oasis - Ok.
the killers - mhmh.
coldplay - ok.
tv on the radio
beck - Love.

Bwaha
 

TV on the Radio is amazing. I am in love.

I also recommend Nuetral Milk Hotel, The Decemberists, and DEFINATLY The Arcade Fire (Concert over the weekend! Score!)

Since alt. is allowed as well as indie...

Dogs Die In Hot Cars
Blonde Redhead
Pinback
Piano Magic
The Delgados
Elbow

the warlocks rule!!
Dont mind WIlco one bit either.
Some of the rest sure is nme tripe..
brian jonestown massacare anyone??

If you like Wilco, you should check out the more country-rooted Son Volt.

I'm not very good at labels but here's my list:

belle and sebastian
mull historical society
elliott smith
teenage fanclub
dogs die in hot cars
world party
eels
grandaddy

Finally, someone who likes Dogs Die In Hot Cars. I have never heard anyone else mention them.

I guess people have different views on what exactly can be classed as indie! It really annoys me when people will not listen to bands who are more 'mainstream' just because they are more mainstream does not mean they are pseudo-indie NME tripe ;)

Personally I love indie music and the list below is what I'm into at the moment! I think it can be classed as indie, although I agree bands like the white stripes are more blues-rock :)

Doves
Jet
White stripes
he coral
Maximo Park
Simian
Franz Ferdinand
Razorlight
Death Cab for cutie
Kings of Leon (I think these guys will make it very very big)
The cribs
Bloc party
The futureheads
Kaiser Chiefs
Rooney
The strokes
The Zutons
The Dead 60's
The Libertines

:)

You can be blues rock and still be indie, seeing as how indie isn't a genre. And...

Doves = Major label
Jet = Major label
White stripes = Major label
The coral = Major label
Maximo Park = Indie label
Simian = Major label
Franz Ferdinand = Major label
Razorlight = Major label
Death Cab for cutie = Major label
Kings of Leon = Major label
The cribs = Major label
Bloc party = Major label
The futureheads = Major label
Kaiser Chiefs = Major labe
Rooney = Major label
The strokes = Major label
The Zutons = Major label
The Dead 60's = Major label
The Libertines = Indie label

Do you see now why I would call those bands "pseudo-indie NME tripe?" Almost all are signed to a major label or a subsidiary of a major label, almost all are written about by the NME, and almost all are bad.

i would love to hear what bands YOU listen to.....

Why don't you read what I wrote above, then? Here, I'll make it easy for you, my top five bands...

1. Spoon
2. Les Savy Fav
3. Belle & Sebastian
4. The Rapture
5. Broken Social Scene

I'm also a very large fan of Rufus Wainwright, but he's not a band, so I couldn't put him on. :(

that's it? 5 bands?.....please....and you're so high and mighty....stop making bullshiit comments about "indie" bands you don't like...plenty of other people do....and not because the dreaded nme hypes them up.....

Never a dull moment in the indie forum, eh?

Right now mine looks something like
Denali
Stereolab
Deerhoof
The Unicorns
Call and Response
The Notwist
TV on the Radio
Headphones
The Robot Ate Me
The Decemberists
Trembling Blue Stars
Belle & Sebastian
The Black Heart Procession
Sons and Daughters

obviously im really big on the indie-pop sound

Fine, you want to see what I listen to? I put iTunes and shuffle and here are the first 30 bands that came up (that I didn't already name)...

!!!
Bjork
M83
Soiled Doves
The Beatles
Franz Ferdinand
The Unicorns
The Boy Least Likely To
Brakes
Architecture In Helsinki
The Clash
Chin Up Chin Up
Captain Beefheart
Of Montreal
The Arcade Fire
Sufjan Stevens
Elliot Smith
Elefant
Radiohead
Blur
Modest Mouse
Sigur Ros
The Kinks
Gang of Four
The Cure
Kraftwerk
The National
The Most Serene Republic
Xiu Xiu
Dance Disaster Movement

Happy?

oh but sigur ros, franz ferdinand,architecture in helsinki, the arcade fire and sufjan stevens are liked by the nme...oh no...i guess that means they're crap....too bad.....

There's a difference between being written about by the NME and being hyped as the next big thing by the NME. And those bands are universally liked. Maximo Park, Kaiser Chiefs, Razorlight? No one besides the British press cares about those bands.

But I think you know that and just want to be an ass.

actually franz ferdinand and the arcade fire WERE in fact hyped as the next big thing by the NME...so please, don't think that just because NME really likes a band it sucks....that would make YOU a snobbish ass....some people like maximo park, the kaiser chiefs and razorlight...i personally don't but i still check out anything NME recommends....and, what do you know, i can actually make a decision if a like a band or not for myself even if NME likes them...who would have thought it....

Oh please. Stop trying to turn this into some Snob vs. Non-Snob thing, or trying to make me into some close-minded elitist who hates everything that isn't on some one-band record label out of Bum****ville, Arkansas.

You know full well what I mean when I say bands that the NME hypes. 10 years from now do you think anybody will remember Razorlight? Kasabian? The Futureheads?

No. And that's what seperates the good from the bad when it comes to the NME. They try so hard to be the magazine that broke the next big thing, that they'll put any band with a record deal on the cover if they think they're it.

Obviously, the NME is sometimes correct in naming good bands, but as I stated in another thread where you hounded me for this, a good portion of the bands are utter ****.

look adidass I used to love the nme but after ten years of the next greatest band to change your life it becomes a bit hard to take seriously.
This isnt to say that all the bands they champion are crap. Just to say that if you hype every other band as genius your not really gonna be taken to seriously when you get one right.
That said its a great read at times.
expletive...heard a bit of that m83 disc..thought it sounded pretty cool..is it on your recommends list as well as your ipod?
Thanks for the tip on the band hookerd with machine guns. Will check it out.

Yep, it's amazing. One of my favorites of this year.

i "hounded" you for it and was annoyed by you because you dissmissed the mere idea that the kooks could be a decent band simply because nme might have written about them, which is rediculous, i agree that they have hits and misses as far as new bands are concerened, but the fact is that they try to promote new music and discover new bands and therefore they are a good way to get to know some new music, if you don't like it ok, no biggy, but don't dismiss it just because nme says they're good, because the band you missed like that could be as good as franz ferdinand ( which, if i'm not mistaken, you like)...

So you class your bands by what label they are signed by? That's rediculous. I really don't pay attention to a label, I listen and judge what I hear.

However I do agree signing to a major label can cause a change in the music, Death cab for cutie now on a major label for their latest album plans and the music doesn't quite the same, almost as if they are aiming for a wide audience.

Now Mr. Deleted, to hold this kind of opinion I expect you see music as a cultural, intellectual and philosophical phenomenon, rather than an audiological one. While I won't disagree that the bands you have listed as your favourites are also pretty good I have to say that there's something vaguely sinister to me about anybody who doesn't like any one band from The White Stripes, Razorlight, Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand, Jet and The Coral. Seriously, I don't understand how anybody can dislike ALL of these bands.

What's going on? If you could explain in a way which involves talking about the music directly, rather than just referencing magazines, scenes and labels then I'd appreciate it greatly.

No, I was telling you why those bands weren't indie. To both you and the guy above me, out of those bands I like...

Doves
Franz Ferdinand
The Strokes
The Libertines
Death Cab For Cutie

[Most] of the rest I find boring, derivative, and generic (to be fair, that description could also fit Franz and The Strokes).

I've never heard a song by Simian, and I don't care either way about The White Stripes.

I would still class the bands I listed as Indie, I'm going off the indie scene in my area, you will hear a lot about all of those bands.

White stripes are probably my favourite band at the moment, very original sound :)

I still don't really get the whole arguement over NME writing about a band, If I do read NME, it doesn't decide what I like and what I don't like though! NME is always saying a band will be the next big thing, probably not likely but I think what is more likely is 1 or maybe 2 songs from a band will be remembered. It isn't often you get any band which is remembered a decade later. :)

radiohead
BRMC
british sea power
M83
the libertines
the warlocks
mystery jets
godspeed...
louis XIV
duke raoul
testicicles
xiu xiu
the arctic monkeys
the edmund fitzgerald saga
grandaddy
the veils
the martini henry rifles.

that's basically the "indie" im listening to at the moment.

The White Stripes were signed to Sympathy For The Record Industry when White Blood Cells became a hit , so they went a major label , so what? ... so do lots of bands.

Franz Ferdinand are signed to Domino records who are distributed by Rough Trade , thats about as indie as you can get.

Franz are distributed by Sony here in the US. And you can't really continue to be an "indie" band when you're signed to a major label, especially when you're a band as famous as the White Stripes. I'm not calling them sell-outs or anything, some great bands are signed to majors, I'm just saying that they're not really indie in a purist sense.

Maybe once upon a time. Once you have song wirtten by The Matrix, you are no longer independant.