Top 40 Indie Bands In America

[DudeAsInCool]

Information LeafBlower and a consortium of music bloggers have compiled what they think are the top indie bands in America...complete with sample MP3s. "Best" might not be the most appropriate title for this list--what about "40 Bands You Shouldn't Miss"? And there are a lot of obvious omissions - No Beck! No Drive By Truckers! No Belle & Sebastian! No Yo La Tengo, Built To Spill, Tom Petty...I could go on. That said, all the bands on the list deserve recognition of some sort...

1) TV On The Radio

2) The Hold Steady

3) The Decemberists

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4) Ghostface Killah

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5) My Morning Jacket

6) Bob Dylan

10) Cat Power

11) Grizzly Bear

12) My Chemical Romance

13) Wilco (36)

14) Joanna Newson

15) Sleater-Kinney

16) Okkervil River

17) Eric Bachmann

18) Beruit

19) The National

20) Voxtrot

21) Bishop Allen

22) Tom Waits

23) Sufjan Stevens

24) Aberdeen City

25) Fiery Furnaces

26) Ryan Adams

27) M. Ward

28) Midlake

29) Sonic Youth

30) Man Man

31) Lavender Diamond

32) Timbaland

33) Lucero

34) DangerMouse

35) Car Stereo (Wars)

36) Girl Talk

37) LCD Soundsystem (

38) Tapes N Tapes

39) Shearwater

40) Margot & the Nuclear So and So's

[method77]

Lots of great names in there but many more missing. I would add Interpol to the names mentioned above

[Potato]

What about 7, 8, and 9?

[DudeAsInCool]

What about 7, 8, and 9?

I saved the best for last?

7) The Mountain Goats

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8) Silversun Pickups

9) The Thermals

method77 Posted Today, 12:31 AM

Lots of great names in there but many more missing. I would add Interpol to the names mentioned above

This poll was on American bands

[method77]

Interpol are from NY which is in the US unless Bush threw them out for being democrats

[DudeAsInCool]

Interpol are from NY which is in the US unless Bush threw them out for being democrats

Shows you what I know - they sounded foreign and suspicious

[Potato]

LOL @ method

[Shawn]

Didn't even realize Beck was on an Indie label.