Indie/Alternative Music

Does anyone else on this forum enjoy indie/alternative music? I couldn't find a topic devoted to it, so I started a new one.

I classify indie/alternative music as music that generally doesn't hit the top 40 or isn't generally featured on commercial radio or television shows very often (or at all in many cases.) Sometimes college radio stations will play alternative/indie music, but I don't count that.

The bulk of music I listen to belongs in this category. I've found most of the music in this category on Pandora.com (which I think is US only) and in the past on mp3.com (which used to have a much wider selection), on college radio and going to random live shows in San Francisco.

There are lots of different types of indie/alternative music but I tend to prefer the music that falls into the pop, rock, folkish and punkish areas. I generally don't like hardcore punk, but do like pop and rock with touches of punk.

One reasonably well known band that used to be alternative is The Pixies. I've enjoyed them since their early days but tend to be drawn to more pop like music these days.

Here are some of the artists I love that I consider alternative or indie who have at least one or more songs in the list of songs I love the most.

100 Watt Smile
20 Minute Loop
Actionslacks
Agent Sparks
Anya Marina
Audra and the Antidote
Belly
Bongwater
Camper Van Beethoven
Citizens Here And Abroad
Emma Ejwertz
Fonda
Francine
Frank Black
Fuzzbox
Girlyman
Hello Saferide
In Flight Radio
Jennifer Marks
Juliette And The Licks
Kristin Hersh
KT Tunstall
Letters To Cleo
Loquat
Madder Rose
Please Do Not Fight
Rilo Kiley
Sister Seven
Stars
Straight No Chaser
Tanya Donelly
The 1990's
The High Violets
The Histrioniks
The New Pornographers
The Oohlas
The Secret Ink
The Watson Twins
The Weepies
theStart

Re: Indie/Alternative Music

I like -
Frank Sinatra
Ella Fitzgerald
Tony Bennett
Sarah Vaughan
etc
Does that answer your question ?

Re: Indie/Alternative Music

You would have loved to have seen Mr Benedetto sing the National Anthem during the baseball World's Series last month. He is my father's age, looked and sounded fantastic !!

Re: Indie/Alternative Music

I don't think he/she realises this is an over 50s forum Alan not a kiddies one.

Indie/Alternative Music

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Lots of us like more modern stuff!
Some of my favourites are
Rogora Khart
Ghostfire
Kiss Like Ether
Miss von Trapp
The Men That Won't Be Blamed For Nothing
The Wattingers
Professor Elemental


As well as 40's, 60's, 70's, 80's right up to now!

Re: Indie/Alternative Music

Nope, I'm painfully aware that I'm 58, I'm just trying to connect with fellow over 50's folks who are still expanding their musical tastes and enjoying new music.

I appreciate Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett and Sarah Vaughn, but they're not what I like to listen to regularly.

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Not so much the modern terms for Alternative/ Indie. But im a big fan of earlier stuff from the 60`s / 70,s that used to be known by those names.

Stackwaddy,
Beefheart,
Silver Apples,
Nigel Mazlyn Jones, to name a few.

More modern bands.

Nine Inch Nails,
Nirvana,
Bill Callahan / Muse,
Fire Engines,
Low.