Sugar aka “Bob Mould’s other band” – Copper Blue
Eleventh Dream Day – Stalled Parade
neutral Milk Hotel – On Avery Island
 That era has held up pretty well I think…every time I hear Gaslight Anthem, I just think “not as good as the ’Mats”

i’d probably never discover any new music. although that seems to be happening anyway as my available free time to find and check out new bands seems to dwindle every year. i need to reprioritize. anyway, here’s quick list of 90’s faves:

silkworm – couldn’t you wait
guided by voices – as we go up we go down
pavement – texas never whispers
nothing painted blue – drinking game
dinosaur jr. – i ain’t sayin’
wedding present – corduroy
jawbreaker – want
built to spill – fling

and love all of them.

i could live entirely on music produced between 1983 and 1998.

I also feel that Yo La Tengo was (and still may be) considered one of the most important “Indie” bands of the time.

In case you haven’t had the pleasure, check out Adorable

just got an old old old cd: Organized Konfusion’s ‘Stress: The Extinction Agenda’ as a gift. kickass.

also picked up Los Amigos Invisibles’ new CD ‘Commercial’ at their HoB Anaheim show recently that fucking rocked.

I sure as hell hope their other songs are better than this. In the last 5 years, I’ve heard about 50 songs exactly like this one by various bands.

On a related note, and old crotchety fucker with whom I used to work, an indie rock fan btw, was describing indie rock on the whole as a bunch of crap, just that some bands you have some kind of connection with and those are the ones you end up liking. It’s not that the difference between the ones you like and dislike are that great, it’s that you chopped up a hooker listening to one band, giving you a positive to connection to the music, whereas you have nothing to associate with some other crappy band and therefore just toss them into the “recycled” bin.

I can see his point.

reminds me of Archers of Loaf. I can tell already that I like this band.

BTW, Archers of Loaf fucking rule. Listen to “Wrong” if you care to hear their ripitude.

Q: What indie-rock icons recorded their debut major-label album two blocks away from US Cellular Field?

A: Modest Mouse, The Moon And Antarctica. At what used to be called Clava Studios on 33rd and Wells. No, really.

and The Strokes will follow with an album in the first-half of 2010. Sweeeeeeet.

Oh, and It Might Get Loud looks fucking awesome.