Pretty much every band I enjoy listening to either stopped making music, is on hiatus, or changed there sound so drastically I can't enjoy it. The reason I want indie rock bands is that I love that feeling of getting an album you watched and waited on for so long, unfortunately because of the aforementioned reasons I don't often get that feeling, the last album I waited on was the most recent Flogging Molly album and even then I felt a tad disappointed in there changing sound. A friend of mine recommended I listen to The Shins but from what I've heard there songs are more music for the sake of music than music with a feeling and a meaning that I prefer. What can some of you guys suggest to me?

You may be interested in a band called Boyce Avenue (their YouTube is linked in my signature). They are more or less Alternative Rock, and they started by just posting covers of songs online, and now they are fairly well known on the internet. They post a lot of covers, but they have two albums out currently, the newest being "All We Have Left" which is all original songs.

Indie is a pretty big genre. Here's some bands and artists I like that I'd consider "indie" on some level.

Arcade Fire
Decemberists
Elliott Smith
Flaming Lips
Joanna Newsom
Neko Case
Neutral Milk Hotel
New pormographers
Octopus Project
Sparklehorse

A lot of that's not rock, necessarily. If you specifically want rock, go for Arcade Fire, Decemberists, and New pormographers first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcU2c-0rSoc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TataYXStVr8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jigctxNZ4-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkSl9GGOFHM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFI8nEi7HWQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1f2M5G9KG8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lyu1KKwC74
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_K36y-iLUk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq-W-4Izjwc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGytDsqkQY8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQbVyWED6Ac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fglU5Ngd-Pk


etc

Death Cab For Cutie is one of the most popular indie sounding bands out there.
As Tall As Lions, though I don't know how much indie they actually are, but still good
The Postal Service
Neutral Milk Hotel
Modest Mouse, aren't they indie?
Snow Patrol
Blur
The Decemberists
Arcade Fire
Pheonix

Completely forgot about them. Yeah, they're indie and another great rock band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kols9wQQPzs

http://sargenthouse.bandcamp.com/

Also, that website, Bandcamp, use it. Free streaming, albums are either cheap or free and in any format.

Don't know if this qualifies for indie or not but "We Were Promised Jetpacks" is pretty awesome. Their song "Medicine" played on my local station during "The Independent Rock Block", so I guess it's indie.

S Club 7.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGCre4HgPLU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gpMlAiqcjU&ob=av2n

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk5iMgG-WJI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o03awtSlbkY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRYPhxhaSL8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hamKl-su8PE&ob=av2e Seen these live and are pretty good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLYsIESNtUc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWwBkA0GqaY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz2pa_ygtlQ Seen these live too.

Dax Riggs and all his side projects!

I'm going to post some of what I consider indie. I've seen some already mentioned so I won't post those.



Here's my post from the music recommendations thread, only things not "indie" on there are The Replacements and Avey Tare but you might also enjoy those, so you should check them out as well.

I'll post some more as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohgr51CqliY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMMjEOY3VGk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXYM6-X8c3o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPJw9-uWIRE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YCLBL4LEkc

EDIT: If I'm gonna post Titus Andronicus, might as well post AJJ as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDH_4lalRtQ

EDIT 2: If I'm gonna post AJJ might as well post WDU.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AagXbraxPK0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8YHVQGfFLs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0O7oVK2xi0

Well really it's not a genre at all, but okay.

I'd advise you check out Calexico. Great band, quite folky, should be right up your street. Have a listen to The Black Light, it's a great album.

So far I'm liking what you posted. I'll have to sift through everything soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=749g_DBG618

Not too knowledgeable about indie music, but I do love me some poppy indie like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdSoPMh6kUM or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksMEXz_YOCI

(Thanks for making this thread and reminding me it's been a while since I've listened to Metric :foodndrink: )

I'll expand upon this by suggesting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1aT8fNBts8(Straight forward and hard to dislike) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKgJiu_-9PY(Orchestral pop meets "indie" folk)

This is a great recent album. It's pretty much indie folk over ambient electronic music, very tastefully done. I recommend listening to the album in full instead of judging it by my link.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Lr0igwLIY&ob=av2e

Other random stuff:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmjMFPSLXI4&feature=related Indie rock, simple but good song writing. Lyrics and vocals can get a bit meh at times but both are solid for the majority of the album. Everything else is good if you aren't looking for a super-serious listen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHaCtxW6Vv8 Indie folk rockish stuff, pretty neutral towards this myself but they haven't been mentioned so I see no reason not to share.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0M6s_OIRNc Gentle indie folk/rock.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_GFfUBBQVw Not indie(I hate using that word to describe music) but since you mentioned feeling and meaning over everything else this might be something you appreciate. The mind behind it all is christian and he calls the band a christian one but it doesn't show too much through the music. I recommend the older albums Gold and Silver but you might end up liking the newer ones more as the vocals are much clearer on them instead of the mumbled/distorted vocals that dominated Starflyer's early releases.


Also going to recommend http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ns9M6DcjtY just because it's the blues clues guy and who doesn't want to hear the blues clues guy make serious music?

OP, you should give us names instead of just saying all of the groups you're into don't make music any more. Would make providing accurate recommendations much easier.

INTERPOL = Supreme kings of Indy rock IMO

Here are some various songs by them :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqfiHfDmOnw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkBAUqp6NKg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBJSei0XV0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsD3oV0fMCI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W873FDIviM

No mention of The Thermals?

The Thermals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOLC9gELguQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO3_ZG7wJPc&ob=av2e

The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orwgXlNrbTk (song is called Gordon Paul)

Street Smart Cyclist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8LhDohyec4 (song is called Hoods up!)

Galt Aureus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRw7JTYSxBw (Song is called Eight)

The Killers ? They have a few catchy songs from each album like 3 or 4 from each one.
Everyone mentioned other good bands,

A darker rock band, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3putO7CnuQ, if you're into 'doom' rock. Reminds me a lot of Black Sabbath. http://icedragon.bandcamp.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRfBqoGVFXc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KrmxavLIRM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6H8WcTPnWM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50LShhlkTfw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub_m2iGf0xc and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Itt0rALeHE8 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL_Ye0h5xEI.

Oh yeah, and Phoenix, as someone else mentioned. Great stuff.