Do you ever get sick of the songs you hear on the radio? Or maybe the songs that you have on you iPod? Well I have been listening to all these amazing Indie bands and i just really want to share good music with all of you.
Here are 20 bands you probably haven't hear before, (because they're not popular) but you should totally listen to (BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL AWESOME) I separated bands with male and female vocalists, just in case that matters.
1) Two Door Cinema Club
Genre: Indie rock, electropop, post-punk revival,dance-punk
From: Bangor and Donaghadee, County Down, Northern Ireland
Best songs: Something Good Can Work,
Undercover Martyn, Do You Want It All
2) MGMT
Genre: Psychedelic rock, neo-psychedelia, progressive rock,
surf, electronica, western, synthpop
From: Middletown, Connecticut, United States
Best songs: Kids, Electric Feel, Time To
Pretend
3) The Kooks
Genre: Indie rock, Britpop, alternative rock, indie pop
From: Brighton, England
Best songs: Naïve, Love It All, She Moves In
Her Own Way
4) Kids Of 88
Genre: New Wave, electro, afrobeat, disco
From: Auckland City, New Zealand
Best songs: My House, Just A Little Bit, Feed
The Birds
5) The Wombats
Genre: Indie rock, post punk, [Pop Punk]
From: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Best songs: Techno Fan, 1996, Our Perfect
Disease
6) Friendly Fires
Genre: Indie rock, Dance-punk, disco, funk
From: St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK
Best songs: Hurting, Hawaiian Air, Jump In The
Pool
7) The Drums
Genre: Indie rock, indie pop, post-punk revival, New Wave,
electronic
From: Brooklyn, New York
Best songs: Submarine, How It Ended, What You
Were
8) The Temper Trap
Genre: Indie rock, post-punk revival
From: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Best songs: Sweet Disposition, Fader,
Trembling Hands
9) Phoenix
Genre: Alternative rock, New Wave, Synthpop
From: Versailles, France
Best songs: 1901, Lisztomania, Too Young
10) Animal Kingdom
Genre: Indie rock, Alternative
rock, Post-Britpop
From: North London, United Kingdom
Best songs: Strange Attractor, Signs & Wonders,
Tin Man
11) Plastiscines
Genre: Garage rock revival, Indie pop, Indie rock
From: Saint-Cyr-l'École, France
Best songs: Bitch, Barcelona, Another Kiss
12) The Like
Genre: Alternative rock, Indie rock
From: Los Angeles, California, USA
Best songs (for me): What I Say & What I Mean, June
Gloom, He’s Not A Boy
13) Uh Huh Her
Genre: Indie, rock, electropop
From: Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Best songs: Common Reaction, Another Case, Explode
14) The Pretty Reckless
Genre: Alternative rock, hard rock, post-grunge
From: New York City, New York, U.S.
Best songs: My Medicine, Miss Nothing, Make Me
Wanna Die
15) The Bird & The Bee
Genre: Indie pop, synthpop, psychedelic pop, shoegaze
From: Los Angeles, California, United States
Best songs: Fucking Boyfriend, Again & Again, I’m
Into Something Good
16) Sleigh Bells
Genre: Noise pop, dance-punk
From: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
Best song: Riot Rhythm, Rill Rill, Run The Heart,
Infinity Guitars, Comeback Kid
17) Those Dancing Days
Genre: Indie pop, twee pop
From: Stockholm, Sweden
Best songs: Hitten, I’ll Be Yours, Fuckarias
18) Of Monsters & Men
Genre: Indie Folk, Indie Pop
From: Garður, Iceland
Best songs: Little Talks, Love Love Love, King & Lionheart
19) Donora
Genre: indie pop/rock band
From: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Best songs: Shout, I Think I Like You, Shhh
20) Dressy Bessy
Genre: Indie rock, Power pop
From: Denver, Colorado, United States
Best songs: Electrified, If You Should Try & Kiss Her,
She Likes It
Enjoy! :)
- Mersi Marrakesh