Topic: What is your favorite INDIE indie band? (Read 18862 times)

Tied Up · « **on:** 15 Mar 2005, 09:23 »

In the interest of discovering new music I thought I would ask what everyones favorite indie indie band is. No thats not a mistype, I'm talking seriously indie. College band indie. Cutting albums in their moms basement, burning cd's on their Dell's indie. We've all hear the likes of Death Cab for Cutie, A.C. Newman and Blonde Redhead (and if you haven't you should) but what about your favorite local bands that no one outside of a 30 mile radius from your town have heard of.

Give your favorite local bands a little international credit. Post their website if they have one.

My personal favorite indie indie band is the Sourkeys. These guys are from Waterloo, Ontario Canada and put on one of the best live shows around. I go see them whenever I have a chance. A good friend of mine is a friend of the lead singer so I get to hang out with them every once in a while.
Best way I can describe them is a mix between Weezer and Heavy Vegetable, but they do have a sound all their own.
Check out their website http://www.thesourkeys.com/

Whats your favorite?

Beano · « **Reply #1 on:** 15 Mar 2005, 10:23 »

In Dundee there's a band called Alamos who are pretty damn good. http://www.alamos.co.uk has got some live downloads on it.

Another good scottish indie band who you may actually have heard of are Aereogramme. The Matardor label website has some mp3s.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #2 on:** 15 Mar 2005, 10:29 »

Mine is Overlord. My bands guitarist is their singer, and they slay our sorry arses. Doubt anyone on this forum would like 'em though.

Are there two bands called Send More Paramedics? I know one for Nottingham...

Amsterdarn · « **Reply #3 on:** 15 Mar 2005, 11:39 »

The Missouri Compromise. They're not local, but no one's heard of them. My friend picked up their CD "The Creation of Maine" (go nerdy historical references!) from the promo racks at my college's radio station. They're crazy good.

Jolouie · « **Reply #4 on:** 15 Mar 2005, 12:13 »

Deceived. They're pretty good straight metal.

Kai · « **Reply #5 on:** 15 Mar 2005, 12:40 »

The Three Businessmen.

They're these three guys who own a record shop that I frequently go to, and produced a ton of records over the past like , 20 years. THey hold free concerts frequently too. Since they haven't gotten any commercial sucess after 20 ish years, I'm assuming that they're in it purely for the music value, which tends to lead to some really good (although far out) music.

negative creep · « **Reply #6 on:** 15 Mar 2005, 13:16 »

edited due to lack of existence of said band nowadays.

nothingwitty · « **Reply #7 on:** 15 Mar 2005, 13:32 »

The Wunder Years!

A fantastic emocore band that broke up a few years ago... their records are still available (along with some MP3s, if you want to search the site)

www.springmanrecords.com

jaffy · « **Reply #8 on:** 15 Mar 2005, 13:35 »

The Shakedowns - awesome punkish indie rock with a great drummer and a really good guitarist. they just released their first album(selftitled) last october.

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #9 on:** 15 Mar 2005, 13:37 »

The Jim Yoshii Pile Up.

Terrific indie rock band, who, I believe, are from Oakland. Check them out, they're incredible.

thehoopiestfrood · « **Reply #10 on:** 15 Mar 2005, 16:50 »

They probably don't quite count but I can't miss an opportunity to pimp out Jetplane Landing.

www.jetplanelanding.com

I wrote a massively long review of their last single (it had 23 tracks on it) on the old forum which was all deleted, but not the old old forum which was this forum before it turned into the old forum and then into this. That makes no sense. I am sad it is gone because I took a long time to write it.

Verek · « **Reply #11 on:** 15 Mar 2005, 16:56 »

My favourite indie indie band (and really the only one I can think of) would have to be The Speedbumps. They should so totally win the Kent State Battle of the Bands, it's not even funny. The reason why they're my favourite (beyond the fact that they're the only one I can think of) is that their music is such a rapid departure from stuff I normally listen to, and I STILL like. That's gotta be worth something.

Anyway, go check 'em out at http://www.thespeedbumps.com I also know the bassist. He's a good guy.

The stuff on their forthcoming CD is probably better than the stuff on the site, simply because it's newer and they'd have more time to progress and learn as a band. But there's this one song...man, it's sweet...There's banjo and cello and it's just freaking cool.

muffy · « **Reply #12 on:** 15 Mar 2005, 19:24 »

Aw, I have a soft spot for Jetplane Landing after hearing one of their songs about 2/3 years ago, I think it was something along the lines of 'This is not, revolution rock' or something...

I we're talking indie indie Indie, then...
Seafood,
Hefner,
Arab Strap, and
Easyworld.

Reno · « **Reply #13 on:** 15 Mar 2005, 22:59 »

Mine would have to be Lucy Psychosis out of Summerland, BC, Canada. I went to highschool with all the band members, and all their albums were recorded, edited and mixed in the lead singer/guitarists basement.

ThunderCats421 · « **Reply #14 on:** 16 Mar 2005, 08:46 »

I'd like to introduce you all to AMSTERBAND!
http://www.purevolume.com/amsterband

My other immediate favourites are:
WaxWing (you may know their Blood Brothers)
http://www.waxwingrock.com/

and Rocky Votolato (Rocky Votolato is the lead man for WaxWing with his brother Cody Votolato, also his younger brother Cody plays guitar for the Blood Brothers) Rocky is my cup of tea.
http://www.rockyvotolato.com/

KharBevNor · « **Reply #15 on:** 16 Mar 2005, 09:58 »

Yeah, I think that's where the opther guys might have got it from as well. Given that they dress as zombies on stage and invented their own musical genre called Zombiecore.

ASturge · « **Reply #16 on:** 16 Mar 2005, 11:28 »

thers a great band called "seaglow" in the matlock area in derbyshire. very very good. Their lead singer/guitarist suffers from "pretentious twat" syndrome though....

Then there's the band i'm in of course, we're called "JOE:MAN HATER"

you know you lav it

thehoopiestfrood · « **Reply #17 on:** 16 Mar 2005, 11:36 »

Quote from: muffy

Aw, I have a soft spot for Jetplane Landing after hearing one of their songs about 2/3 years ago, I think it was something along the lines of 'This is not, revolution rock' or something...

I we're talking indie indie Indie, then...
Seafood,
Hefner,
Arab Strap, and
Easyworld.

That would be called "This Is Not Revolution Rock".

And good call on your list! <3 them all SO HARD. Also, I'm gutted I missed an acoustic Seafood/JPL concert last month - it was apparently awesome.

Skibas_clavicle · « **Reply #18 on:** 16 Mar 2005, 16:46 »

Agreed, Arab Strap is amazing :)

muffy · « **Reply #19 on:** 16 Mar 2005, 19:13 »

I've successfully missed Seafood all the times they've played near me, and it upsets me...

Another band to add to the list, which I only admit very quietly and when no-one's paying attention lest it comes back to haunt me
King Adora.

There, now,. I've said it.
As you were, it was just the wind...

Tied Up · « **Reply #20 on:** 17 Mar 2005, 05:10 »

Seafood and Arab Strap eh? Where do they hail from? Would they be round Ontario way to play at any point or am I going to have to go overseas?

Tinjessla · « **Reply #21 on:** 17 Mar 2005, 05:19 »

The Crimea for meeeee. I first caught them supporting a band i forget the name of and i saw them again at T in the Park last year. Juat as great live and they're very nice guys to boot.

I Am Not Amused · « **Reply #22 on:** 17 Mar 2005, 06:06 »

The Baker Brothers

Indie pop, kind of like the microphones, but a little more rawk. It's two guys who used to go to my high school and now they utterly kick total ass. Their stuff is seriously gorgeous/amazing, even though it sounds like it was recorded underneath a sand bucket.

applecart · « **Reply #23 on:** 17 Mar 2005, 10:46 »

Okay, some of these will be recognized by a few:

Hit these:

Frog Eyes
Hala Strana
Montag
Cass Mccombs (signed to Monitor records awhile ago)
Old Bombs
Vikki and the Hair Police
Kill Spiders
Cream Abdul Babar
Dino Felipe
The Double (they were sub-par hardcore up until their last album, which is something else entirely.)

that's pretty good for now

-evan

thehoopiestfrood · « **Reply #24 on:** 17 Mar 2005, 12:46 »

Quote from: muffy

Another band to add to the list, which I only admit very quietly and when no-one's paying attention lest it comes back to haunt me
King Adora.

There, now,. I've said it.
As you were, it was just the wind...

I liked King Adore too. They were just so trashy! It was great.

Quote from: Tied Up

Seafood and Arab Strap eh? Where do they hail from? Would they be round Ontario way to play at any point or am I going to have to go overseas?

"Seafood are frequently described as "A London post-grunge band". This is patently not true. Kevin and drummer Caroline Banks are from Uxbridge in Middlesex, while David Line (guitar/vocals) and Charles MacLoed (guitar) were brought up in Guilford, Surrey. "It's all outskirts of London," says Kevin, defensively."

Arap Strap are Scottish.

King Adora are whores.

selfmadecritic · « **Reply #25 on:** 17 Mar 2005, 13:29 »

Cap'n Jazz, most def.

ayePod · « **Reply #26 on:** 18 Mar 2005, 06:27 »

Quote from: Tinjessla

The Crimea for meeeee. I first caught them supporting a band i forget the name of and i saw them again at T in the Park last year. Juat as great live and they're very nice guys to boot.

I suffered a Dashboard Confessional crowd just so i could see those guys play at the QMU in Glasgow.

Tinjessla · « **Reply #27 on:** 18 Mar 2005, 06:35 »

Egads. But it was more than worth it, right? I think i'd be prepared to do the same actually.

denihilist · « **Reply #28 on:** 18 Mar 2005, 08:02 »

My favorite local band is Zykos. They toured with Explosions in the Sky not too long ago.

My favorite new indie band that's not local is A Gun Called Tension. I saw them play last night at SXSW. It was the most wonderful thing in the world.

SailorPunk · « **Reply #29 on:** 18 Mar 2005, 08:39 »

I have quite a few...mostly they are local from home (Cape Breton) and I would recommend them all:

-RockRanger
-Slowcoaster
-Yellow
-I Was A Spy
-One Day Late
-The Burdocks

Tied Up · « **Reply #30 on:** 18 Mar 2005, 10:21 »

Another band that i have to plug is Back Against the Wall. Its a band that was put together by two of my college buddies a few years back and wasn't anything too serious. I just went to one of their shows last night when they opened for the Mudmen, and they blew me away. They are mildly metalicaish (mostly in the vocals) but the lead guitar player has to go thru about 5 guitars a show because they keep catching fire during his wicked solos. Quite a departure from the days when we used to sit in rez and record bad Weezer covers on the bass players computer.

You can check them out if you are so inclined at www.batw.tk

muffy · « **Reply #31 on:** 18 Mar 2005, 15:48 »

ha...the sleaze of King Adora got to more people than I thought

And I know they get checked a lot on here, but
TILLY AND THE WALL.

And Smoosh, while we're at it.

ayePod · « **Reply #32 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 11:04 »

The Ocean Fracture are easily my favourite local band. They sound like Dillinger Esacpe Plan beating Mogwai with the decapitated corpse of Daryl Palumbo who they went back in time and killed before the creation of Head Automatica.

www.theoceanfracture.com

Hat · « **Reply #33 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 12:11 »

My nomination goes to Mobstar, simply for the most insane bass shred ever. I'm not particularly into Whitesnake throwbacks as a general rule, but these guys are just really freakin' good.

Sideways · « **Reply #34 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 12:41 »

The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir (aka "The Agnostics")

Kai · « **Reply #35 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 15:11 »

WOAH THREADS ARE BACK FROM THE DEAD ZOMG

lastclearchance · « **Reply #36 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 15:31 »

The Goods
20%
Outlet
Three Years Accident Free

Those are super-local. I know at least one bandmember from each. Then there's Pencilgrass whom I've never seen live but have one of their mp3s and love it.

2 Skinnee Jsare not exactly local but they played locally a lot because one member was from West Hartford.

The following are not local to me but I don't know that they have gotten beyond local status:

Zoothead and Matthew Custar are both now defunct I think. No-Shadow Kick may still play. In early 2002 I got their CDs (as well as a ton of other crappy ones) from the two boxes-full I got from the radio station at the college I was visiting.

I found out about The Rockwells from some random guy's iMix on iTunes. Pretty soon I was buying their EP from CDBaby. They might be getting out there. Meaning, outside wherever they're from (I forgot).

rive gauche · « **Reply #37 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 15:37 »

Wasn't there a thread about this like... 4 and a half days ago?

Quote from: Tied Up

My personal favorite indie indie band is the Sourkeys.

Yay for the Sourkeys! I wanted to see them play with the Burdocks, but the show in Guelph was 19+. Did you go see them?

LIVE!Forever · « **Reply #38 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 17:16 »

great ambient stuff

http://www.myspace.com/familiartrees
-listen to "discreet robots" and "nameless"

http://www.myspace.com/sidecarlilidelamora
- listen to "i have known love"

cool jazzy california sounding band...
http://www.myspace.com/thefleetfoxes

- i love "in the hot hot rays"

and of course listen to me

http://www.myspace.com/thesleepysummer

- i recommend "how?" and "who does she love?"

Kid Modernist · « **Reply #39 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 17:34 »

The Knack

ayePod · « **Reply #40 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 17:46 »

Quote from: LIVE!Forever

http://www.myspace.com/thesleepysummer

Thats shit be krunkin'.

La Creme · « **Reply #41 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 18:33 »

The Sugarplastic

Whirling Dervishes

The Shennanigans

Bunnyman · « **Reply #42 on:** 28 Nov 2005, 22:59 »

John Muir's Refinery

Sure, it's a jam band, but it's a damn awesome jam band.

The Coco Quintet

Formerly the avant-garde rock band Ralph, now an avant-garde jazz quintet channelling the spirit of an avant-garde rock band. It's a truly beauteous sound to behold.

Both about as indie-rock-bottom as you can get.

StupidityKills · « **Reply #43 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 04:24 »

New Rhodes (well, they're on MoshiMoshi but that's pretty indie, they've had a few singles with some success but deserve a lot more. They're recording their album right now.)
http://www.NewRhodes.com

Komakino (who are also signed, to DiS)
http://www.komakino.tk

Hopweood (My friends new instrumental ethereal band. Sounds lovely)
http://www.myspace.com/hopewood

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #44 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 08:07 »

Quote from: Skibas_clavicle

The Jim Yoshii Pile Up.

Terrific indie rock band, who, I believe, are from Oakland. Check them out, they're incredible.

I heard a couple of tracks by them, damn good stuff.

negative creep · « **Reply #45 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 09:11 »

omg old thread! well the band i mentioned split up some time ago, so.... never mind...

AngelicHapa · « **Reply #46 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 12:00 »

http://thejollyrogers.org">The Jolly Rogers are so indie, they burn a CD and handwrite what it is on the lines. Great stuff, though.

http://myspace.com/thejollyrogersmusic">myspace

kidgotham · « **Reply #47 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 12:09 »

Man , the sour keys kick ass.

Thrillho · « **Reply #48 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 13:21 »

The only true indie band in that kind of context that I like is my own band. We have literally no production costs on our two albums to date.

lastclearchance · « **Reply #49 on:** 29 Nov 2005, 15:24 »

I bought a tour EP from Jens Lekman that was burned onto a Staples CD-R; does that count?

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Author Topic: What is your favorite INDIE indie band? (Read 18862 times)

Tied Up

Beano

Amsterdarn

Jolouie

nothingwitty

jaffy

thehoopiestfrood

Verek

Reno

ThunderCats421

ASturge

thehoopiestfrood

Tied Up

Tinjessla

applecart

thehoopiestfrood

selfmadecritic

ayePod

Tinjessla

denihilist

Tied Up

ayePod

Sideways

rive gauche

LIVE!Forever

Kid Modernist

ayePod

La Creme

Bunnyman

StupidityKills

kidgotham