Sunday, January 1, 2012

What are some good indie bands?

The American Analog Set


Animal Collective


The Antlers


Aqueduct


The Avett Brothers


Bag Raiders


Band Of Horses


Beach House


Blitzen Trapper


The Black Keys


Blue Sky Black Death


Bombay Bicycle Club


Bon Iver


Brand New


Broken Bells


Charlift


Dananananakroyd


Dear Reader


Death Cab For Cutie


The Decemberists


The Dodos


Donora


Fleet Foxes


Florence And the Machines


Fruit Bats


Fun Loving Criminals


Geographer


Ghostland Observatory


Grizzly Bear


The Gorllaz


Hadouken!


Helen Austin


The Helio Sequence


Holy Ghost!


The Hush Sound


Ida Maria


idlewild


Jamie T


Johnny Foreigner


The Klls


The Kooks


The Limousines


Lo-F-Fnk


Local Natives


Lykke Li


M83


Manchester Orchestra


Marching Band


MGMT


Mike Snow


Minus The Bear


Mobius Band


The Mountain Goats


Mumford And Sons


Nada Surf


Neutral Milk Hotel


Noah And The Whale


Of Montreal


Passion Pit


Pedro The Lion


Phoenix


The Postal Service


Queens Club


The Red House Painters


Rogue Wave


The Ruby Suns


Say Hi


School Of Seven Bells


The Shins


The Silent Years


Silversun Pickups


The Sounds


Stomoway


The Strokes


Sufjan Stevens


The Swell Season


Takka Takka


The Temper Trap


Thao Nguyen %26amp; the Get Down Stay Down


Tilly And The Wall


Two door Cinema Club


Vampire Weekend


Vetiver


Violent Femmes


Voxtrot


We Are Scientists


The Whitest boy Alive


The XX


Yacht


Yeasayer





Any other bands you may know would be great. i love new music:)





Oh and any indie Christmas songs would be great. i already know of Sufjan Stevens ones and Boats and Birds ones.|||Ok, whoa. I think you already answered your question, haha.



* They're not "indie" but you didn't mention them so I'll add it, haha. Alphabeat. Their music is just fun. They're a Danish pop band with a 80s feel. Oh! and Matt %26amp; Kim.( I love " Good Ol Fashioned Nightmare")Oh, and if you were including me in the rude *** people, I apologize for not answering the question properly. Sorry, it's just that you listed all that I know of! lol.|||A lot of these bands aren't indie because they are signed.

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|||Shoot not much outside of what you listed


Hall and oats - (You Make My Dreams)


Dirty Projectors - (No intention)


Empire of the Sun - (Walking On A Dream)


Arcade Fire - (Sprawl 2)


Doves - (There Goes The Fear)


She %26amp; Him


The Smiths - (Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want)|||The Avett Brothers


The Decemberists


Mumford And Sons








three of the better bands on the planet! congrats your musical tastes rock!!|||Arcade Fire - The Suburbs


Vampire Weekend - Contra|||ooh challenging you already listed a lot!


i think i have a few good ones up my sleeve :]





Coconot and El Guincho. fun music. El Guincho is like the spanish Panda Bear


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXwEhXiC鈥?/a>


i El Guincho's old album Alegranza better than the new one, but the new one, Pop Negr0 is good too


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I9bSy_zs鈥?/a>





No Age


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDc7k3QC7鈥?/a>





Tortoise


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdblc_OMA鈥?/a>





Wavves- fun beachy music. i don't like his new album, King Of The Beach at all, you can tell he's not a very good singer on it. but you might like it. this is from an older album


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FrEAndoK鈥?/a>





Sunset Rubdown


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnnuGZ3QK鈥?/a>


Wolf Parade and Swan Lake have the singer in it also





Frog Eyes


Department of Eagles








Deerhunter- check out Microcastles and Halcyon Digest


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc37ku_zs鈥?/a>


Atlas Sound is also excellent, a solo project of Bradford Cox who is in Deerhunter.





Neon Indian- chillwave, very good


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlJ27Dcv4鈥?/a>


Washed Out


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DkslcOhy鈥?/a>


if you like those two, check out: Ducktails (i especially reccomend), Blackbird Blackbird (you can get all of his songs free on last.fm), and Toro Y Moi





Ariel Pink


Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti





Girls


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuoTjYYqe鈥?/a>


Women


Dum Dum Girls


Parenthetical Girls


Vivian Girls





Crystal Stilts


White Rainbow


Gowns


Bear In Heaven





The Unicorns


Islands





Ponytail


Bat for Lashes


A Sunny Day in Glasgow














there ya go, that should get you started looking some stuff up


merry christmas :]

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