Favorite Indie Rock Band

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The Energy
Lamb
NIN
Opeth
Fantomas
Faith No More

NIN indie ?! NIN would be classified as industrial or metal by most people. Not that classifications matter that much, but how would NIN be indie?

I would also say Lamb are triphop in the purest meaning of the world. Great band though.

sonic youth
fugazi
pixies,
rapeman
dinosaur jr
seafood
biffy clyro (early)
Oceansize
jetplane landing
and you will know us by the trail of dead
Black rebel motorcycle club
spaceman 3
jesus and mary chain
modest mouse (early)
pavement
the fall
shellac
girls against boys
the shins
texas is the reason
the promise ring
sunny day real estate
death cab for cutie
Mineral
the get up kids

Stereolab
Portishead
No Age
Pixies
etc.

I love so many indie bands...
Here are a few I've seen live:
The Hold Steady
Modest Mouse
! !!
Vampire Weekend (still my favorite live performance ever)
Animal Collective (amazing show)
Jarvis Cocker
Titus Andronicus (had a nice little discussion with their awesome lead singer)
A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Dinosaur Jr. (Yeah, I was right up front with the bodysurfers)
The Apples in Stereo (Rob Schneider is awesome live)
Man Man (Craziest live show ever!)
Boris

My two favorite bands are Arcade Fire and Neutral Milk Hotel (In an Aeroplane Over the Sea is quite possibly the best album ever made)

The Smiths, Pixies or Nirvana

I know these are crudely obvious choices, but c'mon!

I don't have the muzziest clue how to figure out what's indie or in fact any genre, I'm as blind to it as some of us are to faces... but here are the ones I like that it seems no one has heard of around here:

The Might Be Giants (more popular, but far and away my favorite, and have been since the 80s when I'm sure they were indie)
Hugo
Flaming Lips

THE SHINS f**k YEAH

I don't understand what indie music is supposed to be. By my reasoning indie music should be by any singer or band that isn't signed on by a major record label, but there are plenty of bands termed 'indie' that have major label support. People often seem to use the term to refer to a genre of music, which doesn't make sense to me.

I like the:

Fratellis
The Arctic Monkeys
The Hoosiers(if that counts)
Radiohead
Good Shoes
Vampire Weekend
and, my fave: The Wombats!

this is most delicious nerd session of indie music intellect...I LOVE IT!

I bear a flag for jill sobule. she never really got it off right, but she still makes music today even after that supermodel song try and look around for san francisco, and god save the internet. she makes really cool controversial music

I really really really love Beirut, listen to post cards from italy, it's so good. I love his sad gypsy vibe.

I've totally been getting into the errors, metric, crystal castles and justice lately.

My friends keep telling me to listen to MGMT but their just...meh to me :S

That must be Kent, it's a swedish rock band which is popular all over scandinavia, especially in sweden and norway, and this is their most famous song, "Nothing", yes, it's called "Nothing" or in swedish; "Ingenting", enjoy

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-3ChVWFkqI&feature=related[/youtube]

i don't listen to indie rock might i do enjoy listening to indie rap like:
classfied
pos
dl incognito
shwayze
atmosperre
after math bang
mascuring meshedi
loop troop
gym class heroes
cyniks
sage francis
madcon
kid beyond
and the flowbots


i also love indie punk such as
say anything
hit the lights
cute is what we aim for
all time low
marianus trench
forever the sickest kids
benfit of a doubt
and sterio

they are all indie cuz not very many people know about them they play some on the radio but don't make a big deal about there debut single so some people have heard them with out relziing it . cute is what we aim for came to play at a comimity centure arena i told my classmates i am seeing cute as what we aim for they said " who" when i sang they radio single they knew the words and started singing along suprised that is who i meant it is diffeant if oyu sing somehting incredblly popular like right round( ugh) florida how can anyone not know that song the atenttion it gets so yeah those would be called indie.

OOh...a what indie rock band contest. I should win this...its my obsession and I am from Chicago! Seriously...I do like these bands...I have seen many of them live.
Blonde Redhead
Gastra De La Soul
Eleventh Dream Day
Big Black
Slint
Sonic Youth
Brief Candles
Asobi Sesku
Scale Model
Tiger Trap
The Beat Happening
Tourtise (though they are more jazz these days)
GYBE!
Silver Mt. Zion
Mogwai
Brass Knuckles for Tough Guys
JeJune
June of 44
Rainer Maria
Dinosaur Jr.
All Girl Summer Fun Band
The Archivist
Au Revoir Simone
Beulah
Bratmobile
Sleater-Kinney
Cranes
Curve
Cush
The Field Mice
Fields
The Fruit bats
Gingerbread Patriots
Of Montreal
The Minders
Dressy Bessy
Helium
Heavenly
A is Jump
The Ladybug Transistor
Galaxie 500
Luna
Neutral Milk Hotel
The One AM Radio
Pedro the Lion
Partyline
Retsin
The Sea and Cake
Slumber Party
Stereolab
Swirlies
Felt
tizzy
wolfie
sarge
My favorite
the lucksmiths
guided by voices
Aden
Black Watch