Music of the 'Indie Rock' Persuasion

The music of the "indie" genre has really surprised me.
by it's name, it sounds poorly produced, merely because of the lack of a Big name record company behind it.
but these bands are making great music.
ambient and 'love-infatuated', noisy and continuous.

last night, Bonnie and i went to Les Rendez-Vous.
a great little venue with echoey walls and beautiful lights.
We saw Broken Social Scene and The Most Serene Republic.
two great bands, who have brought themselves upon my list of Top Five Concerts of all time, up there with the Arcade Fire, among others.
With up to a dozen people up on stage at points, the band played a two hour set, including tracks from both albums, a mix of 'dance Indie' tunes, ballads, and gorgeous 'surrealist' rock songs.

These indie bands are going places, big places. Big-Big.
Seeing a concert like this makes "lots of people remember why they love indie rock-- the shambling ecstasy, the pitch-perfect experimentation, the unabashed heart-on-sleeveness of it all." (Pitchfork Media)

Take the time to do some research on these bands.
They have the potential to create some beautiful moments with their listeners.

"All I know is that when I press play, and this disc whirrs to life, it inexplicably sheds its crybaby façade and becomes... sort of infinite.
Rock critic Michael Goldberg recently speculated that what makes music fanatics thirst for the obscure is the desire to discover music that is "uncontaminated by the commerce machine." This, he says, is the reason we cling to the abstract and unmarketable, the outlandish and abrasive.
This record combines outright experimentation and strong hooks, something that engages us mentally while appealing to the instincts that draw us toward pop immediacy. Some of the best records ever have been ones that put these two seemingly disparate elements together.
Broken Social Scene have, and even made it seem effortless. I wish I could convey to you just how perfectly this record pulls off that balancing act, how incredibly catchy and hummable these songs are, despite their refusal to resort to pandering or oversimplicity. "
-Ryan Schreiber (Pitchfork Media)