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A few hours of scrolling on here today has done more for my taste in music than years and years of Sp*tify algorithms. Highly recommend turning to the PI.FYI community for something fresh.
That in mind here's a couple of bands I really like that I have had to introduce to like 90% of people, I've tried to make sure all of these artists have under 100k monthly listeners on Spoofy:
- Blue Deputy: indie dream rock who will absolutely become my favourite band the moment they release their first EP (they keep promising it's in the works!!!!) favourite tracks: Cypress, New Jersey, Lucky Star (that one's not on streaming yet!)
- Lesbian Bed Death: Gothic Hard Rock/Metal that packs a hell of a punch, they're so much fun. Favourite tracks: Maria, Your Love Makes Everything Worse, She Loves Lilith
- Sean Solomon: He has that one song on tiktok where he plays along to VCR recording of the music video (that I believe he drew and animated himself)/backing track. That one song is Car Crash and it's just quite lovely, really
- The Man the Myth the Meatslab: more acoustic midwest emo I found on TikTok lmao. effortlessly, i feel everything is eerily similar to Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl but imo not in a way that feels like a ripoff, it actually elevates the song for me. It's like a spin on a similar theme from a different perspective
- Chloe Slater: working class, indie, feminist indie rock anthems for disenfranchised people who just wanna dance. favourite songs: Fig Tree, Sucker, Thomas Street
- Life to Experience: this is kind of a memey one bc their album The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads appears on a tonne of people's cringe/bad album covers lists, but guys. Please. I promise you it is genuinely one of the best Prog Rock albums of all time it rules so hard. Please try it. this is not an original take but it IS a correct take.
- Wax Fang: this band had one song appear in an episode of American Dad of all places, and whoever put it there should have immediately been given a raise and creative control of the entire show. The song they used is called Majestic, and the album it's from, La La Land, is an incredible rock album.
Feb 14, 2025
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I can't stand music discourse—particularly of the "rock is dead" or "rock is back" variety—because I find that nobody has decent taste, and often they're not even aware of the best bands making music now. I feel like most adults have a period of their life when they discover a lot of music and then they give up searching. I'm relentless when it comes to discovering new favorite bands. I don't think there has ever been a time with as much incredible and timeless guitar-driven music as right now. Nothing, Teenage Wrist, Soft Kill, Ruby Haunt, Ski Lodge, cursetheknife, Jorge Elbrecht, Narrow Head, Sports Coach, Gold Star, Choir Boy, Better Person, Private World, Peel Dream Magazine, Salem, Heavenward, Broken Head, Sweet Trip, Valleyheart, Sculpture Club, Winter, Deafheaven, No Joy, Sheer Mag, Day Wave, Roseville, Kitten, Glare, Amusement Parks On Fire, Soft Blue Shimmer, Black Marble, Provoker, Anonymous Club, Holiday Sidewinder, House of Harm, Superbloom, Softcult, Tigers Jaw, Second Skin, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, NewDad, Failure, Beachy Head, The Chain Gang of 1974, Cindy, Seer Believer, Fearing, and VR Sex are the names of some current bands you should probably be listening to that come to mind. And Drab Majesty's The Demonstration, a melodramatic tragedy pageant in honor of the Heaven's Gate suicides, remains the best album of the last decade. If you want something more electro, go for Real Lies, these two Islington dudes who make the most tasteful club pop since the Pet Shop Boys. Their recent single "Late Arcades" was written as an ode to their old schoolmate, Richard Spencer, who vanished years ago. That shit makes me cry. (Especially in the car.)
Mar 3, 2022
90% of my friends are musicians so boy do I have recs for you!! All of these musicians are so talented and worth your curiosity. You're going to have the nichest recommendations when your friends ask you what you've been listening to recently.
I tried to hyperlink each artist but it's not working so I made a playlist instead. I'm realising now writing this there's kind of two vibes here, a kind of post rock/grunge one and a chill guitar indie one.
Mouse Teeth (you already know mouse), genre-blending poetic goodness. FFO: Mitski, PJ Harvey
The People Assembly, krautrock/post-rock chaos, best live shows, FFO: Fugazi, Shellac
Sister Bliss, a Transatlantic Leicester/New York collaboration, FFO: Mac Demarco, Beach Fossils
Hex Poseur, garage rock/grunge/punk goodness, FFO: Bikini Kill, White Stripes
Earls, Birmingham punk (no longer playing 💔 but the singer is now in Mouse Teeth's band, drummer is in Gudness and other two are in Fruit), FFO: Idles, Bob Vylan
National Opera, indie electronica dance pop, FFO: LCD Soundsytem, Metronomy
Dad Jokes, feel good indie, FFO: Alvvays, MJ Lenderman
Heart Sauce, summery synthy guitar indie, FFO: Hard Life, Faye Webster
CJ Pandit, indie singer/songwriter, FFO: Billie Martin, Willie J Healey
Dum Language, guitar indie rock who's sharpied name you will see everywhere, FFO: Kagoule, Palma Violets
Dusker, mathy post-punk, FFO: Protomartyr, Polvo
Sun Dog, shouty garage, FFO: Tropical Fuck Storm, Gilla Band
Chief Springs, harmonic indie folk rock, FFO: Big Thief, The National
Courtney Askey, gothic folk/grunge singer songwriter, ME lol, FFO: Nick Cave, PJ Harvey
Jul 26, 2024
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I’ve fallen off the indie band thing for a while now but here are my reccs from 2018:
- For Tracey Hyde (pretty big name but nevertheless)
- Silica Gel (also not sure if they are indie anymore…)
- Night Off
- THORNAPPLE
- Bye Bye Badman
- SURL
- ADOY (as the other person recommended fr)
- Se So Neon (I’m pretty sure they’re a big name now)
- Shadow Community (not sure if their a band actually)
- Mid-air thief
- Parannoul (Also another big name I think)
- Woes (because I’m from Singapore so I have to mention them)
- Bakers in Space (Singapore again)
- Subsonic Eye (Singapore again!)
Lastly a special mention, this band is still active but they’ve changed members completely and deleted their old YouTube videos… I loved their initial songs: KangKang/Kang “I think, it’s weird pose.”:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2v7FnKXBtvTT6YtlsusywF?si=mxlJWou9R_KpjFzmW0Ld5A
Feb 9, 2024
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"I'm gunna let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just... let it happen"
Jun 9, 2024
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Four hour coach trip up to a city ive never stayed in before to see my favourite band (who have two songs on spotify) in the tiny upstairs of a tiny bar and I bothered to make myself look nice and I am EXCITED and SO THRILLED I have needed a win so bad Ive loved this band for five years I didnt think I'd get to see them live 😭😭😭 theyre from the opposite side of the world but theyre based closer now!!!!!!!
Jun 15, 2024