Gone off Indie

[Red_Eye_Jedi]

What else would you suggest?

Q by any chance? lol

[fowls]

Los Campesinos original? No way, there are TONNES of twee indie pop bands that sound just like them, LC are just the first to break it into the (slightly more) mainstream. It's a very limited genre, so all bands that try it end up sounding pretty much identical. The only thing that sets LC apart is their use of self referential witty lyrics (i.e. the same thing that set Arctic Monkeys apart a few years ago).

Edited June 3, 2010 by fowls

[st00ka]

What else would you suggest?

Q by any chance? lol

[Jackmypie]

Downloading LC Discography can't believe I've never really listened to LC before!

[Jackmypie]

I read NME cos of the music they promote, Crystal Castles, Klaxons... Deffo my type of music..

[fowls]

For new music, music magazines aren't that great, blogs are much better for that kind of thing. Gorilla Vs Bear and Music For Kids Who Can't Read Good are my favs. Discovered loads of great new bands through them.

Edited June 3, 2010 by fowls

[TheSeventhOne]

Terrorizer and Q are my magazines of choice. Neither of them are amazing but they do the job when I want something music related to read.

[stuartbert two hats]

Personally i think most magazines are pretty shite and if you only stick to one of them you end only ever listening to one type of music. I sometimes pick up DJ Mag and Wire even less often. I rarely I buy the NME but am always left wondering why I've wasted my money when I do, just like the rare times I buy some crap from McDonalds.

[Jackmypie]

Anyone wanna recommend me some Real Indie bands as in unkown bands... I'm on a downloading spree

[TheSeventhOne]

Anyone wanna recommend me some Real Indie bands as in unkown bands... I'm on a downloading spree

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Surfer Blood, Titus Andronicus.

[Jackmypie]

Start with all the ace indie bands me and the guy who mentioned These New Puritans and Warpaint reccomended in our posts.

[fowls]

Wye Oak

OWL - Free album to download here

Scenic Square - Can only find 2 songs by them, but those 2 songs are great

Boy Eats Drum Machine - Free EP to download here

Mountain Man

Menomena - Not really unknown, but nowhere near as known as they should be. Their new album (Mines) is AMAZING, best thing I've heard in a long time.

Edited June 3, 2010 by fowls

[tilt]

decent Psy trance

[Jackmypie]

Okay Just finished listening to Los Cempesinos and gotta say You! Me! Dancing! is a f**king tune!

[rexclark]

Can't say I've been to taken by any acts recently but i think I'm just getting old and thinking music isn't as good as it used to be.

[Gutterflower]

Loving that Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dance! pretty sweet

Am i the only person who thinks that Acolyte by Delphic is a absolutely cracking album?

[Jackmypie]

Loving that Los Campesinos - You! Me! Dance! pretty sweet

Am i the only person who thinks that Acolyte by Delphic is a absolutely cracking album?

[fdc]

I think the trick is to like bands and artists rather than genres.

[shoei67]

Indie this...indie that.. personally I can't be bothered with 'genre BS' tags. It's music, simple as that. You get it or you don't. It touches and inspires you or it doesn't.... one man's meat is another man's poison etc...

Edited June 3, 2010 by shoei67

[fdc]

one man's meat is another man's poison etc...

[Jackmypie]

one man's meat is no business of another man, without consent from both parties

[1mills]

It ain't just me. Last summer I saw them have 3,000+ people put their fingers in their ears for the duration of their set.

I've not heard them on record (not so I've noticed, anyway), so they can perhaps gain a bit of credibility back that way, but live they were truly dreadful. Dirge of the very worst kind.

At the same festival a year or three before I saw the same thing happen with Bombay Bicycle Club, while the indie kids were raving about them on forums such as these. And now they're considered a perfect example of landfill.

So make of that whatever you will. What I make of that is that I'm ahead of the game. Come back in three years and tell me again I'm wrong.

Edited June 3, 2010 by 1mills

[Roonwilldo]

This is what I call real indie as in independent music, not floppy haired boys with skinny jeans and guitars...

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[fdc]

Menomena - Not really unknown, but nowhere near as known as they should be. Their new album (Mines) is AMAZING, best thing I've heard in a long time.