Your favroite Indie band

[nozkits]

The title says it all.

What is your favorite(s) Indie band(s).

I will start off by naming one of my personal favorite.

Lali Puna.

[Rengori]

I don't really know too much about Indie rock or that stuff kind of stuff. Ask my sister though, that's her thing.

[The Mog Ninja]

Phantom Planet

[Armisael]

The Veils

[nozkits]

Peter, Bjorn & John

[Fonzie]

Slayer.

[El Bandito]

Old Modest Mouse (though their major label albums are also awesome).

For current ones, I'll go with the Shins if you count Sub Pop as still being an indie label and The Arcade Fire if you don't.

[I Took the Red Pill]

Slayer.Wait, what?

I'd say Sufjan Stevens, if you consider him indie, because he is a god among men.

[Shoeberto]

Old Modest Mouse (though their major label albums are also awesome).
I don't remember if The Moon and Antartica was on a major label or not, but it's pretty fantastic.

I like a lot of small-time rappers, like MC Frontalot. I guess I don't listen to too much indie otherwise.

[Rengori]

Slayer.Wait, what?
They used to be on an independent label. Even if it was only for three albums (one of them live).

[I Took the Red Pill]

Slayer.Wait, what?
They used to be on an independent label. Even if it was only for three albums (one of them live).Let's call Nirvana an indie band too since they started off on Sub Pop.

[Rengori]

Slayer.Wait, what?
They used to be on an independent label. Even if it was only for three albums (one of them live).Let's call Nirvana an indie band too since they started off on Sub Pop.

I was just saying, I wasn't agreeing.

[El Bandito]

I don't remember if The Moon and Antartica was on a major label or not, but it's pretty fantastic.

Yeah it was released on Epic I believe. It's between that and The Lonesome Crowded West for my favorite album of theirs.

And I completely forgot about Soofyan. He indeed is the only man who can still garner my respect after wearing wings to a performance.

[silentenigma]

http://www.saubeach.com/blog/archives/animal_collective.jpg
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE (www.myspace.com/animalcollectivetheband)

[Resha]

Not sure if some of these are strictly indie...but:

The SHINS because they are smurfing fantastic.
Interpol.
The Strokes.
The Postal Service.
Sufjan Stevens.
Iron & Wine.
I kinda like Bright Eyes too.
Neutral Milk Hotel.
I used to really like The Decemberists but now I'm a tad bored of them. :p

[CloudDragon]

Well not all of these are indie bands, but most of them qualify:


!!!, America, Amiina, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Annuals, The Arcade Fire, At The Drive-In, Band of Horses, Be your own pet, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, The Black Keys, The Black Mages, Blink 182, Broken Social Scene, Built to Spill, Coldplay, Cold War Kids, Counting Crows, The Cure, Damien Rice, David Bowie, David Gilmour, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Dr. Dog, Echo & The Bunnymen, Explosions in the Sky, Feist, The Flaming Lips, Girl Talk, Goo Goo Dolls, Gorillaz, Grizzly Bear, The Hold Steady, Hot Chip, Imogen Heap, Incubus, Interpol, Jethro Tull, John Williams, Jon Brion, Justice, Kings of Leon, The Kinks, LCD Soundsystem, M83, The Mars Volta, Mindless Self Indulgence, Modest Mouse, Muse, My Morning Jacket, The National, The New Pornographers, Of Montreal, Old Crow Medicine Show, Pink Floyd, The Polyphonic Spree, The Postal Service, Radiohead, Ratatat, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Roger Waters, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Spoon, The Starlight Mints, Sublime, Sufjan Stevens, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Tenacious D, Thom Yorke, Tom Petty, TV on the Radio, The White Stripes, Wilco, Wishbone Ash, Wolfmother, Yeah Yeah Yeah's

[Burtsplurt]

The Microphones are my absolute favourite, but I mostly like bands on independent labels (e.g. Neutral Milk Hotel, Sufjan, Iron and Wine, At the Drive-In etc.).

I would have gone for Joanna Newsom, but she isn't really a band.

[Momiji]

Well not all of these are indie bands, but most of them qualify:


!!!, America, Amiina, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Annuals, The Arcade Fire, At The Drive-In, Band of Horses, Be your own pet, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Ben Folds, Ben Folds Five, The Black Keys, The Black Mages, Blink 182, Broken Social Scene, Built to Spill, Coldplay, Cold War Kids, Counting Crows, The Cure, Damien Rice, David Bowie, David Gilmour, Death Cab For Cutie, The Decemberists, Dr. Dog, Echo & The Bunnymen, Explosions in the Sky, Feist, The Flaming Lips, Girl Talk, Goo Goo Dolls, Gorillaz, Grizzly Bear, The Hold Steady, Hot Chip, Imogen Heap, Incubus, Interpol, Jethro Tull, John Williams, Jon Brion, Justice, Kings of Leon, The Kinks, LCD Soundsystem, M83, The Mars Volta, Mindless Self Indulgence, Modest Mouse, Muse, My Morning Jacket, The National, The New Pornographers, Of Montreal, Old Crow Medicine Show, Pink Floyd, The Polyphonic Spree, The Postal Service, Radiohead, Ratatat, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Roger Waters, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Spoon, The Starlight Mints, Sublime, Sufjan Stevens, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, Tenacious D, Thom Yorke, Tom Petty, TV on the Radio, The White Stripes, Wilco, Wishbone Ash, Wolfmother, Yeah Yeah Yeah's

Umm...approximately 65% of those bands are rather well known and somewhat mainstream/post-mainstream. (Yes, I read that you said that many are not indie, but many of those don't even qualify.)

[Breine]

I'm not totally sure whether they're indie or not, but Antony and the Johnsons.

[Jowy]

The Fiery Furnaces.

I JUST WON THE POMPOUS INDIE ROCK SNOB AWARD ^_^;;

[Ko Ko]

Just Of Montreal and Sufjan Stevens.

[Cz]

I don't really think of any band as my favourite, but The Arcade Fire come pretty close.

[Xander]

Yay at the mentions of Of Montreal :D (of of XD) they are maybe my favourite band full stop. I hate labels though, look at people disputing the "indie" tag already XD

But of the other bands mentioned I also love animal collective, arcade fire, the shins (probably my second favourite band), and I dont know what else i like is "indie" so I'll leave it at that :p

[silentenigma]

wow i'm not the only one to like AC. that's surprising.

[Caraliz]

Slayer.Wait, what?

I'd say Sufjan Stevens, if you consider him indie, because he is a god among men.
<3.

also, is this just a thread for indie kids to one-up eachother by flaunting bands no one has ever heard of?

if it is, I'm in. I love "man man" <3.