Indie Bands reviews from Reddit

"Specifically Wide Awake and Light Up Gold."

"Parquet Courts are unmatched. Probably one of the most creative and raw indie bands to hit the scene in a long time."

"I like Parquet Courts and The Nude Party more than Idles."

"Parquet courts"

"Peach pit"

"Peach Pit"

"Check out Big Thief (suits the sad folk indie vibe) and Gang of Youths (melodic af Aussie version of the national)"

"Hippo Campus"

"Hippo Campus, Papercuts, Waxahatchee, Keane, Sjowgren, Sure Sure, Wallows."

"I’ll add my recommendations too:"

"Saint Motel (they have some hits, but all of their music is great)."

"Ive been listening to a lot of Saint Motel and Half Alive lately."

"If you like COIN, you'll definitely like Saint Motel!"

"Try the Backseat Lovers too, theyre so good"

"I also adore The Backseat Lovers."

"Car seat headrest, everything everything"

"Recommended indie artists: Car Seat Headrest, COIN, Courtney Barnett, Day Wave, Del Water Gap, Fazerdaze, Future Islands, The Greeting Committee, Palace, Grouplove, Half Moon Run, Hazel English, Houndmouth, ISLAND, Japanese Breakfast, Khruangbin, The Lagoons, The Lonely Biscuits, The Maccabees, Maggie Rogers, Magic City Hippies, The Paper Kites, Passion Pit, Phoenix, Phony Ppl, The Preatures"

"For me Car Seat Headrest have been the best Indie band in ages."

"Well established acts you’d be familiar with."

"Not bad, The happy fits, jawny (highly recommend the It’s never fair, Always true album)..."

"Other good ones are feng suave, hotel ugly, dayglow."

"Plenty of great guitar-led indie bands around…"

"DIIV"

"Are amazing live."

"Completely blew me away."

"The national"

"They are so good."

"The Paper Kites!!"

"Tame Impala is probably my favorite band and I recently discovered jungle and I’m pretty high on them."

"If I were to choose something else it would be along the lines of modest mouse, mt. Joy, tame impala, or my son the hurricane."

"Mt Joy <3"

"If I were to choose something else it would be along the lines of modest mouse, mt. Joy, tame impala, or my son the hurricane."

"Pond"

"Pond, future islands, the vaccines"

"I think I’ve caught them 3 times in the past."

"(highly commercialized but actually very good)"

"Puts on a great show and draws a respectful crowd"

"Has been one of my favorites."

"Palace us one of the best bands out there but if I were to choose something else it would be along the lines of modest mouse, mt. Joy, tame impala, or my son the hurricane."

"Toe are a cut above the rest, try to watch their live sets too, there’s one called Cut on YouTube that’s incredible, their live version of Goodbye is incredible."

"Toe and kikagayu moyo are two that come to mind"

"Well established acts you’d be familiar with."

"Amyl and the Sniffers Surfbort"

"Amyl and the Sniffers!"

"4 times louder, Oregon space trail of doom, first responder, mudd, carriers, jayus, bascinets, wasp factory, fullsend, freeside, plan b, snarls, barefuzz, cosmic grafitti, poison door, ghost soul, of two minds, mungbean, a cure for love"

"Try these stuff [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4tAc1Iobvr6koi22zLHB7k?si=yDCdjDl8TkW2LAZOWqAlzg]"

"If you like all the bands you listed, you will probably love them."

"Plenty of great guitar-led indie bands around…"

"Young the Giant and Vampire Weekend are the best and most consistent of the bunch"

"Went to their concert couple of years ago and it was sooo sick."

"Were excellent."

"Margaritas Podridas is a great mexican grunge band lead by a woman."

"Margaritas Podridas is a great mexican grunge band lead by a woman."

"A couple of standouts are"

"My favorite Indie bands right now are:"

"Definitely The Pillows!! They're lovely"

"The pillows"

"Their last album is my aoty 2023"

"Are a band I knew/know nothing about an they proper surprised me."

"Indie/alt rock stuff: The Snuts"

"Vulgar Commons are definitely down."

"We play all over Chicago and are putting out our second EP soon."

"My band The Hell Catz are a mix of hard, psychedelic rock."

"4 piece female fronted rock band with psychedelic influence."

"Well established acts you’d be familiar with."

"Bon Iver"

"[OGRE YOU ASSHOLE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L1YM40U2Fc)"

"Ogre You Asshole. The Japanese version of Modest Mouse."

"Retching Red is the singer of Tilts hardcore band. They're awesome."

"The band is retching red. Yeah same singer, cinder block. Here's their first album, I don't know if they made more but its a banger."

"You should check out the band Water Fountain Coins. They are from Michigan but they are pretty cool"

"Water fountain coins is pretty good."

"Check out flowersatherfeet"

"If you like female fronted bands, then check out flowersatherfeet"

"Cage the elephant"

"Indie/Alternative Modern Rock: Cage the Elephant, The Neighbourhood, New Politics."

"[Soundcloud.com/yiayiaofficial], original new rock sound, mixed with alternative, metal, industrial, punk, techno, emo and r&b"

"My band is playing regularly and we just put out this new single. We make psych rock/shoegaze/synthpop stuff!"

"Came here to say kikagaku moyo"

"Toe and kikagayu moyo are two that come to mind"

"I recently discovered jungle and I’m pretty high on them."

"The other name i’ll throw in the mix is Jungle, they’re not quite indie."

"Mannequin Pussy"

"Mannequin Pussy"

"Elephant gym: crazy good math rock"

"Also since you said any band - check out Funeral Commercial from Ohio"

"Super underrated shoegaze band that I recommend to everyone because they aren't on streaming - honeydip"

"If you don't mind music in Porguguese, you should really check out Ana Frango Eletrico."

"Frida Kill out of Brooklyn, NY, USA"

"Asian Glow hasn’t been mentioned yet, very good shoegaze/emo/indie artist. Their recent output has strayed from the more gazey sounds but the early stuff is phenomenal I really like the album Cull Ficle"

"Some of the best bands from around the country: Fair to Midland"

"Some of the best bands from around the country: Polythia"

"The Phenobarbidols - Fish Lounge."

"Some of the best bands from around the country: Loaded Moses"

"Bahamas"

"Some of the best bands from around the country: Moving Atlas"

"Skindred -> Smile"

"Vampire Weekend"

"Silversun Pickups"

"Houndmouth"

"Yeah Yeah Yeahs"

"The Head and the Heart"

"Ive been listening to a lot of Saint Motel and Half Alive lately."

"Rotel Otis"

"Angel Olsen"

"Chad vangaalen"

"Some of the best bands from around the country: Saturate"

"Stereo Club- they bring back the early 2000s vibes"

"Indie/dark folk stuff: José González"

"Some of the best bands from around the country: Nothing More"

"Indie/dark folk stuff: Boduf Songs"

"Indie/alt rock stuff: Wavves"

"Some of the best bands from around the country: South FM"

"Indie/alt rock stuff: Kid Kapichi"

"Jack Garratt; he blends indie pop with electronic elements"

"A few names to try: Los Lobos"

"If you like Pink Floyd, check out Younger Brother, I'd recommend the songs "Train" and "Ribbon on a Branch.""

"The Alan Parsons Project"

"A few names to try: Jason Faulkner"

"We're High June, an alternative rock band out of NC. We currently have around 11k monthly listeners and would love for you to give us a look!"

"Deeper"

"Fencer"

"A few names to try: Teenage Fanclub"

"Sneaks"

"Snooper"

"Newdad"

"Sprints"

"English teacher"

"Modern Woman"

"Folly Group"

"Blue Smiley"

"Feeble Little Horse"

"Saturn 17"

"Winona Forever"

"Boyscott"

"Plush. Just seen them in concert with falling in reverse and disturbed."

"Sweeping Promises"