How do you keep up with new music? What are some of your favorite indie bands?

Purevolume. Com is an easy way to keep in the know with indie upcoming bands. That combined with using Pandora Internet Radio|pandora.Com which will throw some smaller bands in every now an then amongst the more popular ones in your created stations it is prety easy to stay in touch with what is what then there is always XM Satellite Radio|xm/sirus satellite radio I check purevolume.

Com once a week at least and listen to pandora and xm/sirus everyday and I fancy myself to be quite in the know with music. Rarely is there ever a band someone suggests that I haven't already heard of and listened to, and I don't spend any time researching new bands or anything I just casually listen and check purevolume so that's what I recommend doing. Pandora is a site where you create your own radio stations by submitting artists and songs you like and it compiles a station of music similar to what you input xm radio has quite a few channels and they are pretty good about not playing only the radio hits, they vary up there playlists pretty good and purevolume is like a myspace for bands only more professional and generally the bands on the home page are good,the feedback system they have is great for separating generic crap from decent original groups also a couple bands I am currently listening to are: Band of Horses, Tegan and Sara, Chairlift, Herman's Hermits, As I Lay Dying, Buddy Holly, and Four Year Strong I am a sucker for everything pandora is my best friend though, I have a station for classical with Ludwig van Beethoven|beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart|mozart a station for the The Beatles|beatles and other oldies a station for enya a station for indie and alternative punk a station for metal etc. But in general people tell me I have pretty good taste in music and often bring their questions about music to me so for whatever it's worth the bands I listed are all pretty good of course none of them are really indie anymore, they are all pretty big now(except the oldies).

Pandora Internet Radio|Pandora is a really good source like mentioned above. I also use Last. Fm to see what other people with similar taste are listening to.

Another source that I find useful is pitchforkmedia. Com and pitchfork. Tv they have lots of reviews of new indie records and I find it to be a good filter of everything that is out there.

Some of my favorite bands at the moment: Animal Collective (new record is amaaaaazing! ) Sigur Ros Band of Horses Panda Bear (musician)|Panda Bear Sufjan Stevens! (Chk Chk Chk)|!(chk chk chk) Arcade Fire Wolf Parade ... and a few more.

It all depends on your taste. I have a music site and many of my visitors are into indie rock and Dance Music|dance music. You should check out Hypem.Com if you're into that style of music.

I think the best way to find out music is still from the people who know you. If you take recommendations from them, you usually wo'nt get too dissapointed. My favorite indie bands are (for now): Los Campesinos Crystal Castles Fuck Buttons Clinic The Do Explosions in the Sky Flying Saucer Attack Gingerbread Patriots Oxygen_st4r (free!) Kimya Dawson Julia Nunes Tom Milsom Sufjan Stevens Sigur Ros Soulwax Note that the term Indie is not easily defined.

I interpreted it as 'probably not known by the moms of the world'.

I go to alot of local shows. I love watching bands doing original material live.

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