Phoenix, Coldplay, Matt & Kim, Franz Ferdinand and MGMT are all bands of this genre. Post who you think I should look for in the CD section. And post some bands that would fit well with these! :P Fire Away!
Phoenix, Linkin Park, Weezer, Jimmy Eat World, Franz Ferdinand, Coldplay, The Killers, MGMT, Wolfmother, Alphabeat, The Monkees, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Fratellis, The Maine, Interpol, Arctic Monkeys, Our Lady Peace. I could name some more. Do they have to be Pop Bands?
Modest Mouse, The Strokes, Muse, Gogol Bordello, Okkervil River, Cage the Elephant, Band of Horses, Passion Pit, Arcade Fire, They Might Be Giants, Streetlight Manifesto, Snow Patrol, Gorillaz, and Weezer are some good ones. I bold'd my faves.
White Stripes, The Strokes, The Shins, They Might be Giants, OneRepublic, Snow Patrol (meh), Muse (weird space rock stuff), The Offpsring, Matchbox Twenty, Audioslave, Alice ind Chains, Nirvana.
Modest mouse isn't alt-pop-rock, they're more indie-alt-rock. Also, they're older stuff is hard-up indie that makes Pavement sound like Hannah Montana.
Out of the bands listed so far, my most favorite would be Modest Mouse, though they don't have as much of the pop element as, say, Coldplay(another of my favorites).
Seriously though, if you've never given older Modest Mouse a try, you should. Dramamine, Trucker's Atlas, Polar Opposites, Heart Cooks Brain, the hi-fi version of Beach Side Property, Sleepwalkin', Interstate-8, Teeth Like god's Shoeshine, Bankrupt on Selling, Custom Concern, Breakthrough, Novocain Stain, Edit the Sad Parts, Night on the Sun, and every other song on Building Nothing out of something, The Lonesome Crowded West, This is a Long Drive for someone with Nothing to Think About, and Moon and Antarctica are all mind-blowingly amazing.
Heard ALt, listen to him. I came here to say the same exact thing, seeing how whimsy suggested it, but since it's done, enjoy!
Also, they're older stuff is hard-up indie that makes Pavement sound like Hannah Montana.
Ha! So very true, Modest mouse used to be true blue Indies, now they dawdle in alternative/indie. As for the rest, Coldplay's one of my favorite band ever. I'm more of an alt/progressive fan so I'll go with the ever masterful steven wilson, and oldschool Genesis.
Steven Wilson solo: hardcore psychedelic/progressive Steven Wilson in porcupine tree: Psychedelic/progressive Steven Wilson in No-man: Symphonic progressive rock Steven Wilson in Blackfield, and that may be more adapted to this thread: Alternative
Now, you must be very selective with Genesis since they started to be bad around 1975. All albums before that year are incredible though; only for progressive fans.
Now, you must be very selective with Genesis since they started to be bad around 1975. All albums before that year are incredible though; only for progressive fans.
Their second album with Collins as the lead, Wind and Wuthering, was also great. Give it a listen.
Their second album with Collins as the lead, Wind and Wuthering, was also great. Give it a listen
I have that album too, it's one of their last success, along with ''A trick of the tail''. After that, it becomes totally horrible; Abacab, duke, invisible touch, we can't dance, etc...
