Updating my iPod. Suggestions?

[Blue_In_AK]

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.

[Scuba]

1. ...

[handmade34]

2. Alabama Shakes

[politicat]

3. Preview these.

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]

4. Florence and the Machine, Liz Phair, Foster the People...to name a few.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. Thank you very much.

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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]

7. I think you will enjoy them. :)

You've got an indie heart.

[Blue_In_AK]

8. Yes, I do.

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.&quot

[Solly Mack]

9. I still love Nirvana. I like a mixture of old and new but I must have the new.

Keeps me young.

[Tobin S.]

6. The new Vampire Weekend is very good.

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]

10. Waiting for Columbus. By little feat.

[Blue_In_AK]

14. Little Feat? Really?

They're still alive?

[cliffordu]

17. Yep - Well, Lowell George is dead as hitler,

but the band found some kid that sounded just like him. Still touring IIRC....

[Blue_In_AK]

18. What's this you're telling me?

Hitler's DEAD???

[AAO]

11. Hair - by the Cowsills is always a good addition.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. I like "Hair" as much as the next person,

saw the play in San Francisco in 1969, but I was talking "current."

[AAO]

20. Sorry, I'm 59 in 2 weeks - I'm not "current".

[Blue_In_AK]

21. Well, I'm 67 and not really current either,

but I like to pretend I am.

[AAO]

22. I'm a bit stuck in my ways - I like some new stuff, but my iPhone

has mainly stuff from the 60s, 70s, 80s. I guess I'm a musical dinosaur.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

12. Foreverly is being released today

Billie Joe Armstrong teaming up with Norah Jones, not what one would expect.

[sakabatou]

13. If you like Jazz/Blues, I definitely know a group

[Liberal Veteran]

15. Sweater Weather - The Neighbourhood

[Blue_In_AK]

19. I like this.

I've heard it somewhere.

[bif]

23. Of Monsters and Men. Kate Bush.

Her "50 Names for Snow" is outstanding.

[Blue_In_AK]

24. I can relate.