Bored with indie

[ZeUs!!]

I've been listening to a lot of "cool" records that the nme has told me to listen to recently, bands such as The Strokes, The Stills, The Von Bondies (which is pretty fucking cool, cheers conc) and Razorlight. While they're all kinda good and worth a purchase, has anyone got any recommendations of anything heavier? NOT metal like megadeath or screamy shouty shite. Just something thats heavy with a tune, like QOTSA and the Foo's but obviously someone I haven't heard of yet. Extra coolness points awarded for bands no one else knows about

Edit: The word is Dust by The Screaming Trees is good

[Nockm]

You might like p.h.u.q. (album name) by the Wildhearts

[Hero*]

What about ' Rush '

[Nockm]

The prog rock band? If so, I doubt that's what he's looking for, however it's definitely worth a listen.

[Exotic]

zeusyboy, get anything from the 2 My Chemical Romance cd's. It's not heavy metal, it's something different, i went to their concert a month ago and i had this ringing in my ear ever since :up: . i think you'll like it.

[Ilya]

zeus i think you would like wham-wake me up before you go go

its a happy song about growing up and liking boys

WAKE ME UP BEFORE YOU GO-GO
DON'T LEAVE ME HANGIN ON LIKE A YO-YO

[ZeUs!!]

I might pass on that one, no offense

[Ilya]

offense taken.

Talk Talk- It's My Life is a good song too, i like to bob my head and hit letters on the keyboard while listening to it cause ithas a good beat

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i think you might like it

[Exotic]

ilyaz you are A+ material and we are talking on aim at the same time

[Ass]

I LessThanThree the strokes and the stills :up:
I'd recommand those bands too :
Robocop Kraus
The Shins for the songs go here
Les cowboys fringants It's a Québec band. Most of their songs are related to quebec history and politics. You might not like them because you won't understand anything from their songs if you're not from Québec You can check them out just to satisfy your curiosity . If you do, try the video "En berne" I didn't find any free legal mp3s on the net, but you can watch the videos on the website I mentioned. (vidéoclip)


hmm thought I'd come up with more bands than that... guess I'll post some later

[Rion.]

Not read what the others said.

White Stripes?

[ZeUs!!]

Got their cd's, Von Bondies rock more though!

[Project]

Lustra "Scotty Doesn't Know"

[Jerome Scuggs]

rofl im listening to that right now, proj wins the game of life

[CrvenBan]

Lately I've been dipping into the indie/emo genre and you're right, it's too light, it doesn't have that heaviness (not crushing one of doom or black metal) of blues rock, even if there are 2 guitars and bass and drums it still feels too REM like....it sucks, cuz I really want to like them, but..aarrghh..it's like listening to fucking Weezer or something similar.
Amplifier is such an example, they're like little spacey, and little heavy, but not too much and they kinda lack that riffing that I like. Still, might be worth of listening ?
Oceansize is a bit better, mainly because they have long spaced out songs, and tripple (!?) guitar attack, but it's trippy, and it doesn't have to be that heavy for me when it's that kind of music
Sunny day real estate these guys have that sound I can't stomach somehow, it's guitars, it's wailing but again, it's just too light. If you're into emo/indie that much, then you prolly have heard of this band already.
Dredg are like prog band with emo feel to it, and they should have some decent tunes (this might be completley off, because it's been long time since I've listened to them, but I remember kinda liking them)
Cooper Temple Clause prolly know them. They're fairly good out of the bunch of bands that've come out lately


Queens of the stone age will get you into new area, and I'll give you some rocking stoner bands if you're interested in that. The best one that got it all started and that featured bot Homme and Olivieri (from QotSA) is Kyuss and every their record is fucking killer, but for checking out, start with Sky Valley.
And I assume you know of the bands like:
Alice in chains
Soundgarden
Stone temple pilots
Ugly kid joe (Menace to sobriety record)
Mule
Killdozer
Tad
Rollins band
Melvins
Jane's Addiction
but Im guessing you'll prolly dig more bands like Finger 11, I mother Earth (Dig is great record), Our lady peace and such. There, now you got something, and if you like those, come for more...