Anyone listen to Indie music here?

[TheNerdAL]

So I am getting into indie music because it sounds different from the music in the radio. I wanna know who listens to it here and can anyone recommend me some bands? Thanks. :)

[nbkr]

Have a look at http://www.jamendo.com

[RiceMonster]

Indie is a pretty broad term. Could you maybe give us a better idea of what you're looking for? I could reccomend you some of my favorite bands, but they may be very different from what you're looking for.

[gnomeuser]

Generally I would recommend you go grab the SXSW sampler torrents (no worries this is legal). There is a lot of good very different music (several gigs worth actually), personally I am rather fond of the epo-555 tracks.

Outside of that the Labrador Sampler torrents also contain a lot of good bands.

Finally I have gotten a lot of good music from Magnatune.

Oh and my friends won't forgive me if I forget to mention their band Mimas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(band)).

[Random_Dude]

Have a look at http://www.jamendo.com

This is awesome! :D

Thanks for sharing.

[cascade9]

Indie as 'inderpendent'- I listen to some, mainly local bands. The only international band I listen to that would count as inderpendent isnt to many peoples taste, and its way to political for me to even want to post the url to the bands website.

[TheNerdAL]

Indie is a pretty broad term. Could you maybe give us a better idea of what you're looking for? I could reccomend you some of my favorite bands, but they may be very different from what you're looking for.

And kind really, as long as it sounds good. :P




Oh and my friends won't forgive me if I forget to mention their band Mimas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(band)).

Good band. :)

[tjktyler]

Do you consider Indie to be no record label, or just a record label outside of the mainstream?

[julio_cortez]

If Idlewild can be considered indie, that's what I'd suggest you to listen. I kind of like them :)

[TNT1]

Indie is a pretty broad term.

Yeah, remember back in the day, if it was on 4AD, it was cool... Whatever happened to 4AD? Die along with the pixies?

[TheNerdAL]

Wow, Jamendo is awesome! :D

[Dixon Bainbridge]

Do you consider Indie to be no record label, or just a record label outside of the mainstream?

Indie was born out of the late 70's/Early 80's in Manchester, England. It originally meant Independent label music, ie, underground bands that would not have been picked up by major labels as the music was deemed uncommercial, but also came to characterise a certain type of guitar based music.

It's now a largely irrelevant name, only really having meaning in the late 70's/80's.

[PuddingKnife]

http://pitchfork.com/

[shobon]

http://pitchfork.com/

+1

[Elfy]

Have a look at http://www.jamendo.com
Well worth a look in my opinion.


Die along with the pixies?They only fade away - take it from me.


A lot of the music I listen to would have to be independent if they started out now - I doubt if they would get any joy at all in the current 'general' state of music.

Try ozric tentacles - they were independent enough to get their first few albums out on cassette at free festivals in the UK

[cascade9]

Yeah, remember back in the day, if it was on 4AD, it was cool... Whatever happened to 4AD? Die along with the pixies?

Still alive, but nothing like they were in the 80s.

Funny that you said 'the pixies', they were never what I thought of as a 'typical' 4AD act (nothing like the cocteau twins, lush, this mortal coil, etc. 'ethereal/shoegaze' style stuff). Thats probably my bias comping through, bands like MAARS were on 4AD. Then again, MAARS was AR Kane (dream pop/ethereal)and Colourbox (electronic, with touches of reggae), so maybe that does fit......


Indie was born out of the late 70's/Early 80's in Manchester, England. It originally meant Independent label music, ie, underground bands that would not have been picked up by major labels as the music was deemed uncommercial, but also came to characterise a certain type of guitar based music.

It's now a largely irrelevant name, only really having meaning in the late 70's/80's.

LOL. Dont get to carried away with the manchester idea, the 1st real 'indie' punk single "(I'm) Stranded" was recorded out here in the colonies- brisbane, australia. 1976.

Pity that between the bad timing of signing to EMI (just after the sex pistols had been booted and the released "EMI") and the way that EMI wanted to "sell" the saints using the "fashion" of punk (ripped clothes, spiky hair, etc) ended up actually hurting the saints more than it helped them, but thats the way things go.


The Saints resisted being re-modelled into the English punk look and were generally ignored by the Australian press at the time, which reported that "a sinister new teenage pop cult, based on sex, sadism and violence, is sweeping Britain." They relocated first to Sydney and then to London where they experienced adulation and recognition on their first regional tour, but they had moved away from the spiky-topped safety pin style of UK groups. The Saints preferred to be described as 'gutsy realists', Kuepper recalled being swept up into the same punk packaging:
The band was a full thing by 1974. Two and a half years later, this incredibly fashionable movement comes along, only an arsehole would have associated himself with that.
—Ed Kuepper
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/(I'm)_Stranded_(song (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28I%27m%29_Stranded_%28song))

These days, "indie" is just as much marketing as "punk" was in the 1970s.

[nothingspecial]

Try ozric tentacles - they were independent enough to get their first few albums out on cassette at free festivals in the UK

Of which Sliding Gliding Worlds is the superior offering.

Once you have that you don`t really need any more Ozric Tentacles.

And if you like that try the Grand Masters of the free festival - Hawkwind - although they have been signed to various lables in the past, they, more than any other band I can think of do exactly what they want - truly independant.

Although, to be honest, this may be sending you down a path you might not want to take.

Other thoughts, try the Punk scene. NOFX do exactly what they please, no major labels there, and they`re funny. Lawrence Arms come to mind also.

[andrek]

Dunno if it can be called indie, but I love Minus the Bear.

[Dixon Bainbridge]

LOL. Dont get to carried away with the manchester idea, the 1st real 'indie' punk single "(I'm) Stranded" was recorded out here in the colonies- brisbane, australia. 1976.

Bands releasing songs on independent labels goes right back to the 1920's.

I was talking about a specific musical genre, which was post punk, UK music scene, which gave birth to the modern genre of Indie. In that, I am in fact correct.


These days, "indie" is just as much marketing as "punk" was in the 1970s.

Like I said, the term indie is an anachronism, only relevant to the late 1970's and 1980's.

So, correct again.

[Frogs Hair]

Yes , if independent label is the definition . The need to record in a major studio or for a major label has been in decline for a long time due to technology . I think the web is saturated with music to the point it is hard for even very talented bands to gain recognition , on the other hand automatic exposure has been a great benefit for some.

[cascade9]

Bands releasing songs on independent labels goes right back to the 1920's.

I was talking about a specific musical genre, which was post punk, UK music scene, which gave birth to the modern genre of Indie. In that, I am in fact correct.

Like I said, the term indie is an anachronism, only relevant to the late 1970's and 1980's.

So, correct again.

LOL, minor logic fault much? Either the term 'indie' is an 'anachronism' or there is a 'modern genre of Indie'. :lolflag:

I think you totally missed my point.

[Dixon Bainbridge]

LOL, minor logic fault much? Either the term 'indie' is an 'anachronism' or there is a 'modern genre of Indie'. :lolflag:

I think you totally missed my point.

No I got it, I just didnt agree with it.

Also, if you understood fully what I said, you wouldnt have been confused over 'anachronism' and 'modern genre of indie'.

[majabl]

You could do worse than to spend a bit of time listening to BBC 6Music and see if anything played there takes your fancy - http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/

[Linye]

Dunno if it can be called indie, but I love Minus the Bear.

+1 That band is amazing.

In the sense of Minus the Bear, I recommend:

Mute Math
Two Door Cinema Club
The Xx
The Whitest Boy Alive
Phoenix
The Temper Trap