Recomend some alternate music.

[Mr.Mattress]

I recommend MGMT, or at least their second Album, "Congratulations":

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

The Mars Volta are about as alt as I can think of right now. Pretty awesome and crazy shit right there.

 

[corsair47]

Cage the Elephant is pretty good

Spoiler

some of the less popular Gorillaz songs are some of their best. El Manana is my personal favorite.

Spoiler

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

Franz Ferdinand, Ratatat, The Tumbled Sea.

That is all.

Franz Ferdinand?
Alternative?
Noooooo. No no no.

Ontopic, take a look around http://planet.mu/ . It's a record store but you can buy mp3 albums off there. There's some really good musicians there and you can sample the songs as much as you like.

If you want actual band names:

-Twice Too Many (idm, electronica)
-Venetian Snares (breakcore, glitchcore, hardcore electronica) (fucking amazing)
-Animals As Leaders (prog-metal, jazz-fusion, idm)
-Mundtot (industrial, electronica)
-Jega (glitch, electronica, experimental)
-Skelic (glitch, darkstep, industrial, experimental, breakcore... etc)
-Panzerballet (death jazz, funk)
-Radiohead (electronica)
-Starfucker (light electronica/rockish)
-That 1 Guy (electronica/comedy)
-Scale The Summit (prog-metal, brightmetal)
-Nine Inch Nails (industrial, experimental) (listen to the ghosts album)
-Immelmann (industrial/ambient/mechanic/experimental) (just one ep, it's called mire if you're having trouble finding it)
-Tally Hall (light rock/experimental)
-The Avalanches (no fucking clue)

All of which are worth a listen. :>

I think it's funny you deny that Franz Ferdinand isn't Alternative, but you call Tally Hally and NIN alternative.

NIN is post-industrial rock and Tally Hall is Twee Rock, not alternative.

On that note i'll suggest some indie, since genre's are all arbitrary anyway (yes I see the hypocrisy, but i felt the need to come to this dude's defense)

-Animal Collective
-Yuck
-Pixies
-Gang Gang Dance
-The Antlers
-Sex God Cowboys
-The Tallest Man on Earth
-No One and The Somebodies
-Yesterday's Trash
-Bon Iver

there are others...

 

[lokiduck]

Ludo =3



I like a lot of Metal mostly but these guys are AWESOME.

They make funny engaging songs about break ups and pirate shanties, and they are really funny.

 

[blankedboy]

Twee Rock

Never heard of it.

 

[CaptainKoala]

Relient K. Google is you're friend.

 

[sam42ification]

you would honestly probably be best off if you looked into local music. it's a lot easier to be original when you don't have a record deal.

Not so much for me. Local music is garrenteed to be covers of country songs or original country songs which is even worse.

that sucks man I'm sorry. Being from Boston I'm kinda spoiled.

Yeah I'm hoping to move to melbourne in a few years. They have a lot more culture than any where in NSW.

 

[Calvar Draveir]

Apparatjik


Mew

Ki:Theory

Find a good radio station, and look around youtube constantly. That's how you find stuff.

 

[Outright Villainy]

Listen to everything Devin Townsend has ever made.

So very much this.
In fact I'll add some more to that list:

[sub]Also, good choice on Night. Ocean Machine is one of my favourite albums ever. *cough* [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.268918-The-Villains-lair-Devin-Townsend-Ocean-Machine-Biomech][/sub]

 

[emeraldrafael]

Go with Radio head. They're still alt (surprisingly) all this time later.

... Though really, we would need to kno whats popular where you live. Muse is supposed to be alt, but they're heard alot here, so no one thinks of them as alt. However, we dont really ever hear Eric Clapton on the radio except a few times a year, so he's alt.

...

Could also listen to some of the lesser known stuff by the "mainstream". its rather surprising how different stuff can be when its not ont eh radio.

Muse isn't very alt in Australia it's on the radio a lot. The difference between australia and america is america has a lot better radio stations. I went to colorado to see family and i was suprised at the amount of variety you had. Maybe it's just i live in a crap part of australia and all the good radio stations are out but our radio stations are either so mainstream you want tear out ears, country, classicle or talk. There is nothing wronge with classicle but i can't listen to for a long drive. We don't get any eric clapton or radio head but they are easily purched from sanity of all places(mainstream music shop chain).

Well, I can give you the linkt o the station I listen to here. They play a lot of new "alt" music, rock, and grunge.

 

[sam42ification]

Go with Radio head. They're still alt (surprisingly) all this time later.

... Though really, we would need to kno whats popular where you live. Muse is supposed to be alt, but they're heard alot here, so no one thinks of them as alt. However, we dont really ever hear Eric Clapton on the radio except a few times a year, so he's alt.

...

Could also listen to some of the lesser known stuff by the "mainstream". its rather surprising how different stuff can be when its not ont eh radio.

Muse isn't very alt in Australia it's on the radio a lot. The difference between australia and america is america has a lot better radio stations. I went to colorado to see family and i was suprised at the amount of variety you had. Maybe it's just i live in a crap part of australia and all the good radio stations are out but our radio stations are either so mainstream you want tear out ears, country, classicle or talk. There is nothing wronge with classicle but i can't listen to for a long drive. We don't get any eric clapton or radio head but they are easily purched from sanity of all places(mainstream music shop chain).

Well, I can give you the linkt o the station I listen to here. They play a lot of new "alt" music, rock, and grunge.

A link? Are they an internet radio station or can you download there podcasts?

 

[Nautical Honors Society]

Twee Rock

Never heard of it.

Sorry meant Twee Pop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twee_pop

 

[emeraldrafael]

Go with Radio head. They're still alt (surprisingly) all this time later.

... Though really, we would need to kno whats popular where you live. Muse is supposed to be alt, but they're heard alot here, so no one thinks of them as alt. However, we dont really ever hear Eric Clapton on the radio except a few times a year, so he's alt.

...

Could also listen to some of the lesser known stuff by the "mainstream". its rather surprising how different stuff can be when its not ont eh radio.

Muse isn't very alt in Australia it's on the radio a lot. The difference between australia and america is america has a lot better radio stations. I went to colorado to see family and i was suprised at the amount of variety you had. Maybe it's just i live in a crap part of australia and all the good radio stations are out but our radio stations are either so mainstream you want tear out ears, country, classicle or talk. There is nothing wronge with classicle but i can't listen to for a long drive. We don't get any eric clapton or radio head but they are easily purched from sanity of all places(mainstream music shop chain).

Well, I can give you the linkt o the station I listen to here. They play a lot of new "alt" music, rock, and grunge.

A link? Are they an internet radio station or can you download there podcasts?

Well, its a live radio station from that broadcasts through a tower, but they have a lkisten live option online, and the DJ pages have podcasts from stuff they did in the link. Just tell me what you like to listen to, and I'll see I know any stations taht may interest you that I have (Cause I have some from other states that broadcast sports games of teams I like to support).

 

[sam42ification]

Knock Galley West
The Arkhams
The Creepshow

(Apparently I have a weird taste in music)

You have an awesome taste in music. There good bands thanks... Weird is good.

 

[Chromanin]

"Alternative" is a pretty broad term, but here are some of my current favorites...

The Benedict Arnold Trade School
Folky, punky, funny, and funky.

http://www.myspace.com/thebenedictarnoldtradeschool/music

Insouciant
Punkish/post-hardcorish indie rock.

http://www.myspace.com/insouciantmusic/music

That Handsome Devil
An amazing amalgam of experimental sounds.

http://www.myspace.com/thathandsomedevil

Rites of Spring
Pioneers of emo/screamo

http://youtu.be/Wf_ucq-NwTo

Jerome's Dream
Another emo band, unique in that the singer screams at the top of his lungs without a microphone.

http://youtu.be/mbonW6edqxI

Circle Takes the Square
One of the best active emo/screamo bands, combining the old-school chaos with quality studio recording on their albums.

http://youtu.be/UEV6V5tSuDI

EDIT: Fixed broken link.

 

[Cpu46]

If you like epicness, Immediate Music.

Or Immediate's alter ego Globus, or X ray dog, Brand X music, Audiomachine, ES Posthumus, or last but not least Two steps from hell.

OT: Aside from Immediate and the other mentioned artists I have been listening to:
Sweetness and Pain by Jimmy Eat World
Mecha Love by Hadouken
Cry for help by Shinedown
Feel good inc. by the Gorillaz
A lot of stuff from 30 seconds to mars
We looked like giants by Death Cab for Cutie
Half the man by Methodic

Not sure if any of it suits your fancy.

 

[sam42ification]

Go with Radio head. They're still alt (surprisingly) all this time later.

... Though really, we would need to kno whats popular where you live. Muse is supposed to be alt, but they're heard alot here, so no one thinks of them as alt. However, we dont really ever hear Eric Clapton on the radio except a few times a year, so he's alt.

...

Could also listen to some of the lesser known stuff by the "mainstream". its rather surprising how different stuff can be when its not ont eh radio.

Muse isn't very alt in Australia it's on the radio a lot. The difference between australia and america is america has a lot better radio stations. I went to colorado to see family and i was suprised at the amount of variety you had. Maybe it's just i live in a crap part of australia and all the good radio stations are out but our radio stations are either so mainstream you want tear out ears, country, classicle or talk. There is nothing wronge with classicle but i can't listen to for a long drive. We don't get any eric clapton or radio head but they are easily purched from sanity of all places(mainstream music shop chain).

Well, I can give you the linkt o the station I listen to here. They play a lot of new "alt" music, rock, and grunge.

A link? Are they an internet radio station or can you download there podcasts?

Well, its a live radio station from that broadcasts through a tower, but they have a lkisten live option online, and the DJ pages have podcasts from stuff they did in the link. Just tell me what you like to listen to, and I'll see I know any stations taht may interest you that I have (Cause I have some from other states that broadcast sports games of teams I like to support).

I like to listen to mostly metal, intsrumental and rock but usually they are all alternative metal and rock. Don't like sports that much unless there is a radio station devoted to kayaking but i dought that. Just put the link you originally going to put up.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Snip

Oka then, Lets see.

<url=http://www.1059thex.com/main.html>This station only plays Penguins games, and hockey is almost over

This Station is the same, buy the Play Pradators games

and thats about all i can give. Maybe I missed the mark completely, but these are my stations I listen to unless I'm listening to the Sirius/XM Satelite radio or the SONIC music station Direct TV puts out.

Just let me know i guess.

 

[sam42ification]

Snip

Oka then, Lets see.

<url=http://www.1059thex.com/main.html>This station only plays Penguins games, and hockey is almost over

This Station is the same, buy the Play Pradators games

and thats about all i can give. Maybe I missed the mark completely, but these are my stations I listen to unless I'm listening to the Sirius/XM Satelite radio or the SONIC music station Direct TV puts out.

Just let me know i guess.

Yeah you couldn't have missed the mark more... sorrey.