The Indie Thread

[blackwasp]

Yesterday I bought quite a bit of new music:

"Surfer Rosa" -- The Pixies
"Doolittle" -- The Pixies
"Either/Or" -- Elliott Smith
"Moon Pix" -- Cat Power
"Slanted and Enchanted" -- Pavement
"Crooked Rain Crooked Rain" -- Pavement
"School of the Flower" -- Six Organs of Admittance
"You Forgot It In People" -- Broken Social Scene

 

[philN]

^ Great choices! I haven't heard the Six Organs of Admittance album, but all of the other ones are personal favorites of mine.

Do Six Organ of Admittance have some tie in with Devendra Banhart? I thought I heard something about that, but I may have been mistaken.

 

[blackwasp]

^ Great choices! I haven't heard the Six Organs of Admittance album, but all of the other ones are personal favorites of mine.

Do Six Organ of Admittance have some tie in with Devendra Banhart? I thought I heard something about that, but I may have been mistaken.

Hmm...I'm not sure. I have a 3 hour drive back home today, so I'll get a bit of music listening in.

I found an indie record store on campus that's great. All of the cds were new, and three of them were only $8.99 apiece. The most expensive ones (the Pavement albums) were $13.99, but are both 2-disc sets. I also talked with a couple of the people working there about the Intonation festival. Good times.

 

[nadroj1985]

Do Six Organ of Admittance have some tie in with Devendra Banhart? I thought I heard something about that, but I may have been mistaken.

I haven't heard about it; they get lumped in with the "New Weird America" label along with Banhart and Newsom often, though, even though SOoA have been at it for 5 or so years already. "School of the Flower" is a good album, though -- one of the better ones I've heard this year.

 

[The Theory]

I need that Six Organs... album.

Have any of you heard of Blanche? I saw their music video on the Paste Magazine DVD Sampler and it was amazing. It reminded me of a mix between 16 Horsepower and The Arcade Fire. I haven't been able to find it in a store anywhere, and have been too lazy to order it online.

 

[philN]

I've heard of Blanche via Pitchfork. I remember skimming through a review of If We Can't Trust the Doctors a while ago. Pitchfork wasn't too impressed, if I recall correctly, but your comparison to 16 Horsepower makes me want to give them a listen myself (after all, it's not like Pitchfork has never been wrong or anything).

I've got a few tracks off the newest SoOA album, but I haven't really listened to them yet.

And on a not-so-indie topic, I got the new System of a Down album, which I think is a little short, but has some decent songs. I've had Cigaro stuck in my head most of the this weekend.

 

[The Theory]

Pitchfork could be right... I only heard that one song. But it was a sweet song.

 

[invisible trousers]

MODEST MOUSE!!! (although im not sure if they're still considered indy)

i dunno it's hard to be indie when you have songs on kidz bop compiations

is hip hop indie? there's a bunch of fun stuff out right now (prefuse 73 reads the books, edan, dalek, etc) but it might deserve its' own thread

 

[Arnold_Philips]

Hip-Hop has some indie elements to it, although there's not such a harsh distinction between mainstream and underground as there is in rock. Indie personalities very often collaborate with seemingly mainstream artists in the hip-hop scene.

 

[DJ B.K.]

Yesterday I bought quite a bit of new music:

"Surfer Rosa" -- The Pixies
"Doolittle" -- The Pixies
"Either/Or" -- Elliott Smith
"Moon Pix" -- Cat Power
"Slanted and Enchanted" -- Pavement
"Crooked Rain Crooked Rain" -- Pavement
"School of the Flower" -- Six Organs of Admittance
"You Forgot It In People" -- Broken Social Scene

I wish I could affird to buy that much music in one day!

 

[cjedick]

Yesterday I bought quite a bit of new music:
"Either/Or" -- Elliott Smith

Did/do you like "Either/Or"?

 

[iamtheproblem]

i have to post one more post so i can post a link on my next post...

that's a lotta post.

 

[iamtheproblem]

I got into this a bit LATE in the thread and, sorry, but I didn't read it all. It's really cool to see so much indie here tho.

Anyways, I'm not too good at genre-izing, but here's some of my favs:

mewithoutYou - FAV BAND OF ALL TIME
Berry - AMAZING, know some of the people, check 'em out - http://www.myspace.com/berry
Caleb Engstrom - more amazing, I know him check him out - http://www.myspace.com/calebengstrom
Anathallo - amazing.

*if there was no way into God I would never have laid in this grave of a body for so long*

 

[philN]

Did/do you like "Either/Or"?

Yeah, I'm curious as well.
I think Either/Or is my favorite Elliott Smith album. Although XO is not far behind.

 

[antiarte]

mewithoutYou - FAV BAND OF ALL TIME

I don't think they're indie. Ain't they nu-metal?

 

[antiarte]

I think Either/Or is my favorite Elliott Smith album. Although XO is not far behind.

I dig his music too. "Needle In The Hay" is just one freakin awesome song.

 

[philN]

I don't think they're indie. Ain't they nu-metal?

mewithoutYou is sort of angular, art-rock. I think they're sort of indie; at least, more indie than nu-metal.

They're not too bad. Catch For Us the Foxes was a decent album.

 

[theFijian]

I dig his music too. "Needle In The Hay" is just one freakin awesome song.

As is 'Roman Candle', i think you can download them from the Domino records website

 

[blackwasp]

Did/do you like "Either/Or"?

Yeah, I'm curious as well.
I think Either/Or is my favorite Elliott Smith album. Although XO is not far behind.

I've been trying to listen to all the discs, so I think I've only heard it once through, but I really like it so far. (I'm getting ready to listen to it again.) I was really surprised by Broken Social Scene...that is a very good album.

 

[philN]

I was really surprised by Broken Social Scene...that is a very good album.

Yes it is. The whole album is terrific. Every time I listen to Pacific Theme or Cause=Time I always hit repeat. I can't get enough.