<p>Anyone want to share some of their music? I'll start things off =D</p>
<p>-Anchor & Braille
-As Tall as Lions
-Consider the Thief
-Gatsby's American Dream
-Lydia
-Neutral Milk Hotel
-Search the City
-Straylight Run
-Theophany
-Weaver at the Loom</p>
<p>Oh my god, I’ve actually heard of one of those! (Neutral Milk Hotel - but I don’t really like them)</p>
<p>Anyway, I don’t really like a lot of obscure indie bands. Most of them sound so similar. Once in a while, I find something that interests me, but that occurs too rarely for me to actually justify going out there and looking for them.</p>
<p>To me, the “average” indie band is…like Minus the Bear.</p>
<p>Omg, Minus the bear’s a great band =D
And Neutral milk hotel is really eccentric, but you should really check out “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.” It’s a great song :)</p>
<p>Neutral Milk Hotel is considered obscure? I thought it was somewhat popular.</p>
<p>Gatsby’s American Dream I’ve heard of as well.</p>
<p>I did. It was the first of their songs I heard. I would like it if it wasn’t for the lead singer’s voice. Also, it’s, like, too pretty. I like pretty things, but a different kind of pretty. (See Radiohead’s “Everything in Its Right Place”)</p>
<p>I know exactly what you mean 
I wound up getting the album and then putting it away for such a long time because that I couldn’t get used to it, but I picked it up like 10 years later and now I love it xD</p>
<p>Well… yes, I’d say Neutral Milk Hotel isn’t that obscure, but not many people have heard of them. Our fellow teenagers are just too into the mainstream rap stuff lolz… =D</p>
<p>I have no idea how obscure the following bands may be:</p>
<p>-The Antlers
-Babyshambles
-The Gossip
-Guster
-Lucky Boys Confusion
-Seven Foot Wave
-The Thermals</p>
<p>I have a ton more, but these are bands I have a good amount of songs of. There are many more obscure bands where I just have 1 or 2 of their songs…</p>
<p>Um, this isn’t that obscure probs, but w/e</p>
<p>^ I have a bunch of Guster. Like em a bunch. </p>
<p>A lot of the music I listen to isn’t mainstream, but it isn’t obscure either. Some of the ones that might be obscure (I could be mistaken):
Dispatch
John Frusciante (guitarist from RHCP, but his solo work is mind blowing)
Damien Rice
Badly Drawn Boy
Ratatat
Gary Jules</p>
<p>^ZOMG! I love John Frusciante (RHCP is fav band, but he is AMAZING as wellll).</p>
<p>Dispatch is awesome—have you listened to State Radio as well?</p>
<p>Yep. They played a benefit show for one of the clubs at my school. It was an outdoor concert and it rained most of the day so there was a really small turnout, and I ended up in the second row. The show had to be over at 9 because of sound ordinances so Chad just got an acoustic guitar and came out into the audience and played keepsake. it was one of the coolest shows ive ever been to. </p>
<p>Some of my friends actually got to meet him because he came to help out the club (it restores some historic buildings). I, however, was not able to weasel my way out of class.</p>
<p>@OP I saw Straylight Run as an opening band in a concert 5 years ago lol</p>
<p>^^Woah, that sounds sweet.</p>
<p>I love keepsake, it was on at the end of the third season finale of weeds and i got so exciteddd.</p>
<p>Love is Chemicals, Snowden, Small Leaks Sink Ships. I have very little “cred,” these are the only indie bands I know of the top of my head that are definitely obscure. I do enjoy a lot of indie but it’s stuff like The Shins and Spoon and The Decemberists and other bands that everyone’s heard of. Not that this relates to their musical value at all. A great way to find new music is the IndieFeed family of podcasts. They have a pop channel, alternative and modern rock, hip-hop, blues, electronic, dance, everything. Great stuff.</p>
<p>Uhh those bands are not “obscure” by any means.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of them, if it makes you feel any better wombat.</p>
<p>Many people who have an interest in the alternative/indie scene will have most likely heard of them. Personally, I do not even listen to alternative/indie I am more of a pop punk/screamo kid but I still know 70% of those bands.</p>
<p>Death Cab for Cutie, duh.</p>
<p>^ Lulz.</p>
<p>Hong Kong people are the most pop-obsessed ever, so what I think is obscure probably really isn’t. Iron and Wine and The Shins seem pretty popular among people who know what they’re talking about, but their albums aren’t even available here. I get most of my new indie music from Tiny Mix Tapes :D</p>
<p>In my experience, those who just want to namedrop the most obscure bands they can think of are the same people who display Stephen Hawking books that they never read. They’re full of pretense.</p>
<p>If you’re looking for recommendations, however, let me know and I might be able to recommend some pretty good bands that I like.</p>
<p>I agree, Bruins Fan.</p>
<p>And these kids probably like some really popular songs but would never admit it.</p>
<p>When did it become trendy to want to like as many obscure bands as possible? It seemed like it happened around 2002ish.</p>
<p>I hardly know any indie/obscure bands. MTVU (when I watch it at home during breaks) bands are the extent of indie bands to my knowledge.</p>
<p>You guys should listen to legitimate avant-garde music (note, there is a difference between obscure/indie and avant-garde). Deerhoof. GO. And indie hip hop is great, but I never see anything get mentioned.</p>
<p>I don’t claim I listen to indie music at all, but it seems whenever I mention stuff I listen to, no one knows it (film score composers + 80s post-punk/new wave/darkwave). It just seems really strange that people don’t know what Depeche Mode is or Joy Division is.</p>