Stephen Malkmus and similar artists

Sounds like: Pinback, Slow Pulp, Alex G, Stephen Malkmus

Skinny Dippers' "Wedding Ring" is a song with a twist.Beautifully breathy vocals lap on the shore of the listening experience like soft waves. The lyr...

Car Seat Headrest

Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales

Sounds like: Telekinesis, Stephen Malkmus, Guided By Voices

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Under Car Seat Headrest's Twitter handle sits 90's They Might Be Giants lyrics that reference Allen Ginsberg's 1955 poem "Howl," which might sum up th...

GILLIBANKS

Childhood

Sounds like: Foals, Arctic Monkeys, Stephen Malkmus

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UK act GILLIBANKS won major points on this track for creativity. While it may initially come across as a run-of-the-mill indie rock track, the outfit...

Fucked Up

Son the Father

Sounds like: Titus Andronicus, Career Suicide, Paint It Black

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Yeasayer

Sunrise

Sounds like: Miike Snow, Hot Chip, Menomena

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Jay Reatard

See/Saw

Sounds like: Reatards, Lost Sounds, Nobunny

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Eagles of Death Metal

Anything 'Cept the Truth

Sounds like: Queens of the Stone Age, Boots Electric, Desert Sessions

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Stephen Malkmus

Baby C'Mon

Sounds like: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Pavement, Preston School of Industry

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White Denim

Hot Thought

Sounds like: Yes, Black Lips, Tame Impala

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What's that I hear? Is that auto-tune? In a newly surfaced White Denim single? Why... why yes! It is! And it's splendid! White Denim has already acqui...

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks

Tigers

Sounds like: Pavement, Beck, Modest Mouse, Sebadoh

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Talk about a "define indie" conversation starter: Mirror Traffic is Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks' fifth album, and was produced by Beck. While "inac...