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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsUpdating my iPod. Suggestions?
I need some new, as in current, tunes to listen to, alternative/indie type stuff. I've still got $30 on my iTunes account, and I'm guessing my husband will give me some iTune credit for Christmas.
For instance, I like that "Demons" song by Imagine Dragons and "Radioactive." I like "Sail," AWOLnation, things like that.
Help an old granny out here.
handmade34
(22,756 posts)politicat
(9,808 posts)Ayria's Plastic Makes Perfect (most recent album.) incredible voice and doing some amazing things with techno-alternative. (Big City Lullaby (Mix) is especially interesting - it has electronic sensibilities, but uses acoustic instrumentation.)
You might try Florence + the Machine. She's sort of the intersection between blues, folk-punk and techno. Also, amazing voice.
I'm also fond of Cherri Bomb when I'm in the mood for guitar-driven rock. That's rare for me -- I am definitely a citizen of the Republic of Electronica, though from the Industrial/future-pop autonomous state.
Others on my recent purchases list (which you might not like, but they're new and interesting)
Darker Days Tomorrow - False Prophets (album)
VNV Nation - Transnational (this isn't the album I'd recommend for a first foray ; it's good, but not as accessible as Of Faith, Power & Glory, Matter + Form or Burning Empires.)
Assemblage 23 - Bruise (2 years old, most recent album)
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Last edited Mon Nov 25, 2013, 04:34 PM - Edit history (1)
I'll check these out.
Ed. Good choices. Thanks. I never knew who did that pumped up kicks song, which I like a lot.
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)You've got an indie heart.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)It's the one area where my husband and I disagree vehemently. He's still kind of stuck in the '60s, and while I enjoy some nostalgia now and then, I'm pretty well tired of most of those songs unless they're obscure. I made him a mix tape once before he moved up here and threw in some (really mild) NIN and Nirvana and he nearly had a heart attack. "That shit's not music." Harrumph. Sounds like my dad. Lol. (Except my dad, rest his soul, would NEVER have said "shit."
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)Keeps me young.
Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)I particularly like "Unbelievers" "Step" and "Diane Young" from that album.
Also, Alt-J is a new alternative band from England that won an award for best rookie album last year. I like "Something Good" "Fitzpleasure" and "Tessellate" from that album.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)They're still alive?
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)but the band found some kid that sounded just like him. Still touring IIRC....
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Hitler's DEAD???
AAO
(3,300 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)saw the play in San Francisco in 1969, but I was talking "current."
AAO
(3,300 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)but I like to pretend I am.
AAO
(3,300 posts)has mainly stuff from the 60s, 70s, 80s. I guess I'm a musical dinosaur.
Ghost of Tom Joad
(1,355 posts)Billie Joe Armstrong teaming up with Norah Jones, not what one would expect.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)I've heard it somewhere.
bif
(22,708 posts)Her "50 Names for Snow" is outstanding.