I agree with this
Listen to Minus the Bear. Now. If you don’t you are gay. Real talk.
Also, it is unfair to call Modest Mouse sellouts, they have been around forever and have like 14 albums, you can’t blame them that they became popular at the end.
Also, along similar lines of Ratatat (not really indie), Ghostland Observatory.
EDIT: Also, Dredg is amazing, but they probably aren’t classified as indie anymore.
imo.
so like are we gonna rename this thread “people who mindlessly devote themselves to Pitchfork media reviews”??
Ugh people can agree with pitchfork and not be a slave to it.
That said, Pitchfork Festival last year was awesome.
And after I posted I looked at pitchfork and found this. Andrew Bird fans take heed
Love indie/underground pop/rock/rap
problem with an indie thread is for some reasons indie hipsters just want to outdo each other all day. This thread will slowly deteriote into people posting all the “Best New Music” albums from Pitchfork. But while I’m here.
MF DOOM all day and twice on sundays
Antlers
Andrew Bird
Flaming Lips
XX
Girls (aside from their videos being a bit too homo for my taste)
Jamie - T (known as the one man arctic monkeys)
and surprised no ones mentioned Sparklehorse. Please get Sparklehorse if you are fan of Lo-Fi equipment indie in the flavor of STARS.
(pretty much anything Dangermouse is associated with as well)
[media=youtube]-1Pb27Cd7ss[/media] go around 9:44-10:00 there’s, wheres that song from…i know its an indy freestyle song…but idk the name.
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I’m really into a band called Health right now. Really cool noise rock. Other than that, haven’t listened to any new indie. Fleet Foxes, Wolf Parade, and Explosions in the sky were the last new bands I’ve listened to. Hope to find new music soon, gettin kinda bored.
On a completely unrelated note, every time I read a post by you, I always read “in my opinion” loud in my head. Kinda bothers me.
EDIT: I always thought Minus the Bear was pretty boring, not nearly as exciting as other Seattle/Washington bands like The Blood Brothers or The Fall of Troy (even though TFOT’s last two albums were shit).
Speaking of Portland, well Oregon at least. The Thermals album, “The Blood, The Body, The Machine” is one of the best concept albums I’ve ever heard. Although they deny it’s a concept album.
Victory.
FoT is pretty awesome but I could never really get into Blood Brothers and they fell off the map after a few lackluster albums, but to be fair, the style of Minus the Bear and those two bands are way difference.
Also, I’ve never heard of Pitchfork Media, but it sounds like one of the reasons I don’t delve too deep into the world of indie music because while I like the music, I hate dealing with the stupid hipsters that only care about how “cool” it is to listen to a new band first.
imo.
I don’t think I enjoy electronic stuff to properly enjoy Minus The Bear.
Although the band name is straight up indie rock godliness. When I read that their band name was a play off the old sitcom BJ and the Bear, I gave them a standing slow clap ovation right from in front of my computer just by myself.
Re: Pitchfork - http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/6044-david-cross-albums-to-listen-to-while-reading-overwrought-pitchfork-reviews/
Fantastic.
I find that there are two types of idiots associated with “indie” music.
There are the pretentious asshat hipsters that only care about how cool and indie they are for finding/listening/loving obscure bands first. And then there the idiots that go the other extreme with mindless hate hate hate and think everyone that talks about anything “indie” are asshat hipsters and feel a compulsive paradoxical need to out-cool them by pointing out how pretentious they are.
What happened to just listening to music you like? Now you are cool or uncool if you read this site or listen to this radio station or listen to Grizzly Bear or listen to Lady Gaga (holy shit Bad Romance is catchy as hell)…everything’s gotta be personal.
Yes, I listen to Miley Cirus. But I hate Party in the USA, that song is way too annoying.
Although when I kid about Death Cab (and I am just kidding), there is some legitimacy to it, as their latest stuff has a more mainstream sound, although I’m not saying that in a negative way. And truly…there is nothing more hilariously spot-on as an example of selling out to The Man as (a) being on the soundtrack for a Twilight movie, the ultimate avatar of the exploitation of brainless American teenage purchase power, (b) being in Guitar Hero, which sadly also happened to the New Pornographers (SELLOUTS!), and © being in an iPod commercial (Feist, SELLOUT! Doesn’t being in an iPod commercial revoke your membership from Broken Social Scene? I would have thought all the other indie hipster rockers would be offended.). That is hilarious, you have to admit.
If the name of your first album is like a 50 letter long single word (Vivapixiesomethingsomethingplot…? Who can remember that?) then shit…that is indie.
They have too much of a somber and mellow sound to really compare to Stars though, but it’s a pretty apt comparison aside from that.
Holy shit those Pitchfork reviews are contrived, I couldn’t even read through David Cross making fun of them. :sad:
imo.
Does anybody here like Passion Pit?
god forbid somebody checks a music review website and is introduced to a new band.
i find that if anyone is going on there to find the “obscure band” thing, their going to feel pretty dumb when they realize that the amount of traffic pitchfork gets means thousands of other people already know about them.
passion pit is decent. i saw them live for free and it wasnt groundbreaking. recorded stuff is pretty good i suppose.
minus the bear i started listening to i think freshman year of college. got hooked, seen them three times live since. very fun live set, and alot of great tunes but they seem to be on a downward spiral (or im losing interest). id like to hear a new album from them. ice planet was pretty good, but i really liked highly refined pirates.
The Blow!
I had a few beers and shots with the dudes from Passion Pit and The Antlers when they were in Toronto.
My girlfriend puked AT the bar and the Antlers keyboardist was pretty amused.
Passion pit are just really down to earth dudes, the lead guitarist also does some DJing on the side.
I think he made them up…? I hope so at least.
The genius there is that we can’t even really tell if he did or not. Damn, that guy is a good writer.
i was gonna post this in the what are you listening to thread but i’ll post it here, cuz ted is awesome.
ted leo + the pharmacists - ghosts
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:rock: NEVER look at this chicks face. it ruins the cuteness of her voice. luckily i’ve completely forgot what she looked like.
Hey man, I just got here.
Ratatat is sick. That’s really all I can contribute, because I don’t listen to music until my computer or television tells me it’s cool.
Umm… oh man… ok, what do I say about this going on here.
There is a problem that has spun way out of control and it needs to be brought up. The term “indie” comes from “indie rock”, but the problem is, the term “indie” has been used in the music world for years and years as a short form of the word “independent”.
In short, calling indie rock just indie is silly and wrong.
/End rant correction