Now, who are your favorite indie artists?

[mvd]

Just some of my choices. Don't have much time.

Wilco
Cindy Alexander
Thea Gilmore
older Liz Phair (newer isn't indie)
Stacie Rose
New Pornogaphers
Camera Obscura
The Essex Green
Hem
The Weepies
Stars
Eisley
Rogue Wave
The Pierces
Weezer
The Decemberists
Sufjan Stevens
Brandi Carlile
Abra Moore
Tegan & Sara
Penelope Houston
Wussy
Rilo Kiley
Rainer Maria
Metric (anxious for the Emily Haines solo CD)
Ingrid Michaelson
Regina Spektor
Teenage Fanclub
Amy Rigby

[WCGreen]

1. I really like the Decemberists and the Format....

As well as Hank Williams III, James McMurtry, Lucinda Williams...

[mvd]

3. Lucinda's a great choice

She's still not very mainstream, or on a big label. So I'd say she's indie.

[mvd]

6. Some of my more pop loves might also not be on big labels

But I haven't checked yet.

[WCGreen]

9. BEn Folds is cool...

I don't care how much people sneer at his success...

[mvd]

11. Agreed

:hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

4. We always see Hank III when he is in town. I love the look of shock

on concertgoers/fellow bar customers' faces when he goes from his grandpa's stuff into his own. :hi:

[WCGreen]

5. Yea, he's pretty cool...

I guess talent does skip generations...

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. The interesting thing is that his father is a terrific classical pianist.

MrG and I used to go to his concerts when he was younger and his piano playing made me cry. I remember he used to bring his son out on stage with him when he was only 3... Gosh, I'm not even that old. And yet all of a sudden I'm wondering where those intervening years flew off to.

[WCGreen]

8. Jack Daniels...

[mvd]

2. Oh, and I might add Yo La Tengo

Based on the newest CD..

[ghostsofgiants]

10. Bright Eyes/Desaparecidos (fuck the naysayers, Conor is awesome)

Cursive
Murder By Death
Pretty Girls Make Graves
The Arcade Fire
Death Cab For Cutie
Paulson
Pistolita
Head Automatica
The Lost Patrol/The Lost Patrol Band
The (International) Noise Conspiracy
Arctic Monkeys
The New Amsterdams
The Evens
City and Colour
...And you Will Know Us By the Trail Of Dead
Nada Surf

I could go on and on, I'm sure.

[WCGreen]

12. I forgot Bright Eyes...

Although his country flavord stuff is my favorite side...

His techno stuff leaves me, as most of that genre does, cold...

Lately, I have taken a shinning to Artic Monkeys....

[ghostsofgiants]

14. Yeah, I definitely preferred "Wide Awake" to "Digital Ash"...

Though "Light Pollution" is a fucking great song.

I love their "Fevers and Mirrors" album a lot too.

[WCGreen]

17. Wide Awake is almost, almost a masterpiece....

[ghostsofgiants]

18. Indeed.

Right now, though, I really want him to put out another Desaparecidos album.

[mvd]

13. What's your favorite Death Cab album?

I'm curious. Nada Surf sounds like they might be up my alley, since I love the New Pornographers, Shins, and Teenage Fanclub.

The other indie thread is fun, but I also wanted to find out what indie artists people think are most DESERVING of praise.

Night! :hi:

[ghostsofgiants]

16. Favourite Death Cab album, probably "Transatlanticism."

Though "The Photo Album" is really good too.

As far as Nada Surf goes, "High/Low" is a classic album in my books.

[HughBeaumont]

56. ooooops . . . .

:blush:

[RetroLounge]

15. There's a few I've been listening to lately

Dark Horse Project
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=10943035

Terra Naomi
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=2177580

Holy Mary Motor Club
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=9088638

RL

[mvd]

19. Just a few more I could look up easily

Josh Ritter
Belle And Sebastian
Jennifer O'Connor
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's
Neko Case
Barenaked Ladies (newest CD is on indie label)
Cat Power
Mojave 3

[mvd]

20. You can check here to see if the label is RIAA or not

http://www.magnetbox.com/riaa/

[Broken_Hero]

21. define Indie Artist, and I might answer

most of the people on that list of yours I would consider to be lowbrow alternative....

[mvd]

23. I'm basically sticking to the not on a label that's part of..

the RIAA definition. Which would fit more artists, but not all lesser known artists.

[mvd]

24. In post #20, I provided a link where you can check

In the RIAA Radar Indie 100, I found more excellent albums: ones like Veruca Salt IV and the Raconteurs' Broken Boy Soldiers.

[Broken_Hero]

25. and what defination is that?

I honestly don't know what Indie Music is, its like industrial music, what in the world is industrial music? There are a lot of sub genres, that I have no idea what they are, by definition...of your list Weezer jumps out at me as being the best...with Liz Phair in second.

[mvd]

27. Indie music can be generally non-mainstream artists

But I'm trying to limit it to the record label here. I made a couple errors in my above list, though, so you can mention others.

[Broken_Hero]

29. hmm....Weezer by that definition

is not indie...they have been on mtv since...94, or so...same with Liz Phair, and quite a number of bands...

By non-mainstream artists...I honestly dont' know any, except my friends band in Sacramento, the PHK....and probably LUXT, of Sacramento as well...but LUXT has opened for big bands, like Rob Zombie, and Rammstein....by non-mainstream, man, that wipes a lot of it out....

[mvd]

32. It's a fine line

Weezer released an indie-only CD, for example.

Here's the Wikipedia definition:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_%28music%29

[Broken_Hero]

33. yeah, its a fine line for sure...

what about Industrial music, what is that? Its weird the sort of labels get thrown on music...

[mvd]

34. I wouldn't be the best person to ask about that

Not really into industrial.

[Broken_Hero]

36. sorry for all the questions...

they are just ones I have concerning music in general...I consider myself to be a huge music fan, and I dont' even know what some of these labels mean...to me, Industrial is Prodigy, NIN....basically hard techno music...

[mvd]

37. NIN came to mind

I could go with that definition.

A couple of the artists in my OP have RIAA ties, but some labels like Koch Records bring along emerging artists. So I'm partly right.

[ghostsofgiants]

39. I personally go with more of an aesthetic approach.

Though indie is a pretty broad, catch-all kind of distinction, kind of like the word punk in a sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indie_rock

That's what i think when I hear the word indie in reference to music, anyway.

[mvd]

41. I guess using that definition

All of the artists I mentioned would qualify.

[Broken_Hero]

42. yeah, that defination is a bit more specific IMO

and one that I can go along with...:)

[Initech]

22. A few I really like:

Arcade Fire
Neutral Milk Hotel
Interpol
Pavement
Arctic Monkeys
Maudlin Of The Well
Kayo Dot
Neurosis
Arsis

I'm not really big into indie, I'm more on the metal side of the music spectrum.

[datasuspect]

26. Goggly Gogol

Johnny Zhivago
The Heaven Seventeen

[deucemagnet]

28. Good list!

I'd like to add the Silversun Pickups. I'm sure I'll think of more later. :hi:

[WCGreen]

30. Portishead.....

I forgot about them until I accidently knocked over a CD hanging thingy I have Dummy came out and landed at my feet...

[nickgutierrez]

35. Oooooooooh...

Good one! :D

[nickgutierrez]

31. I could gush all day about George Hrab

The Freak Accident
Of Montreal
The Notwist - do they count?
Jim's Big Ego
3 Blind Mice
The Shins

[swag]

38. Ernst Ernst

The Drug Lords
The Horse They Wouldn't Allow
Jimmy Jones and the Cult of the Damned
The Mormon Santa Band.

[idgiehkt]

40. I'm a Liz Phair fan

mainly Exile in Guyville and WhipSmart. The others I'm not familiar with.

[Omphaloskepsis]

43. Mad propers for the nod to Eisley..

Music to fuck to. Pretty Girls Make Graves and Sleater-Kinney are on my indie list. Belle and Sebastian too.

[leftofthedial]

44. john common

good to be born on freeschool records

[taterguy]

45. Superchunk

I think of them as the quintessential indie artists. Major labels were drooling all over them in the early 90s thinking they had found the next Nirvana. Instead Mac & company just formed their own label. They make a comfortable living putting out quality albums and putting on fine shows but they'll never be truly famous.

[Avalux]

47. Good choice!

:hi:

[tinfoil tiaras]

46. Yay, Rilo Kiley!

I lurve them. Here are my favorites:

Rilo Kiley
The Shins
The Decemberists
Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins
The New Pornographers
Regina Spektor
Belle & Sebastian
Death Cab (are they still indie or not :P )
Ben Folds
Ben Kweller
Sufjan Stephens
Beck
Motion City Soundtrack
Bright Eyes

[mvd]

50. We have quite a bit in common here, too

It seems we have many of the same pop and indie choices. I added B&S later, and of course Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins and the Shins would be on.

I could expand the list after going through my collection, but it's so big, and I have a nice sample now. But I don't want to forget alt-country, which often has the attitude of indie: there are Kasey Chambers, Martha Wainwright, Mindy Smith, and rebel Steve Earle.

[tinfoil tiaras]

61. I like Kasey Chambers

and a little bit of Steve Earle....:D

[regularguy]

48. Yay Regina Spektor! I can't get enough of her stuff lately.

I liked last year's Stephen Malkmus (the Pavement dude) release, I'd like to see another one soon...

[asthmaticeog]

49. SOOO many, as I harldy listen to any non-indie anymore...

I'll keep it shorter by sticking to groups that currently exist:

Liars
Parts & Labor
Gang Gang Dance
Oneida
Aloha
Futureheads
Vaz
Paik
The Wedding Present
Roxy Pain
Self-Destruct Button
TV on the Radio
Machine Go Boom
Mission of Burma
Blonde Redhead
Mogwai
Roué
Centaur
Sigur Ros
shannonwright
Young People
Vetivier
The New Lou Reeds
Robyn Hitchcock
Pere Ubu
Danielson
Red Eyed Legends
Frog Eyes
Gogol Bordello
Mountain Goats
Lungfish
Negativland
Spoon
Television Personalities
Yeti

[dolo amber]

51. You're a Yeti

[asthmaticeog]

55. Fine. Next time you need your back waxed, ask someone else.

[ceile]

52. Pixies

Super Chunk
Imperial Teen
Luna
Tsunami

[anarch]

53. The Telescopes

Six Organs of Admittance, Relay, Eyes of the Killer Robot, Comets on Fire, Weird War, Broadcast...and a bunch of other stuff, but that's what comes to mind right now.

[azmouse]

54. I am soooo out of it....

:blush:
I haven't heard of a single one of those names.

[HughBeaumont]

57. erg.

Sigh
Mastodon
Cephalic Carnage
Mouth of the Architect
Isis
Sunn o))))
500 ft of Pipe
Unearthly Trance
Big Business
Melvins
Neurosis
High on Fire
Converge
godspeed you black emperor
Kayo Dot
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Faun Fables
Bongzilla
Pearls and Brass
Cult of Luna
Planes Mistaken for Stars
Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant
Fantomas
Melt Banana
Boris

[ghostsofgiants]

59. Ooh, Planes Mistaken For Stars are quite enjoyable.

[ronnykmarshall]

58. Cindy Alexander !!!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x5641302

[GOPisEvil]

60. The Long Winters, Centro-Matic, What Made Milwaukee Famous,

Grand Champeen, Spoon, Scott H. Biram to name several.