I am looking for bands that are similar to Grizzly Bear, Arctic Monkeys, The Decemberists or some good mellow, folksy independent stuff. Any of you guys have anything valuable to recommend?
Pinback, Blitzen Trapper, Bon Iver, Built to Spill, Band of Horses, Deerhunter, Wilco, Iron & Wine, Phosphorescent, Beirut, DeVotchKa,...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead, Neutral Milk Hotel, Beck (for folksy stuff check out Sea Change), and Elliott Smith.
" @systech: Beirut...Sunset Rubdown's 2007 album...St. Vincent (She's the best thing that anyone can recommend you)...The Antlers...... I COULD GO ON FOR DAYS. I have a blog where weekly I post new music that I find, go check it out if you want more suggestions. "
Bruce is basically the person to see for these kinds of bands.
If you're looking for folksy stuff I'll go ahead and recommend Dustin Kensrue. He's awesome.
EDIT: you can always use http://www.last.fm to see similar artists to those you like, and see what people who listen to the bands you named, listen to aswell .. very helpful music-similarity website !
@Bruce: I agree with Beirut. It's some great music.
Hmm, I was going to say Decemberists... I just started listening to Company of Thieves and they're pretty good. Animal Collective and the Black Keys are great too.
OASIS!!! You had to have lived in a cave for like the last 20 years not to have heard any of there songs but yeah, always a great band, they're fucking amazing. Live Forever is the greatest song ever written.
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