Dalton
Blue Crack Addict
Oh boy.
A is for Andrew Bird. Get The Mysterious Production of Eggs. - Fuck you - get Armchair Apocrypha
B is for Broken Social Scene. Get You Forgot it in People. - or Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - I recommend Howl
C is for Cat Power. Get Moon Pix or You Are Free.
D is for Do Make Say Think. Get Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn. - d is for you're a douche. Get The Decemberists - Picaresque
E is for Explosions in the Sky. Get The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place. E is also for Elbow
F is for the Flaming Lips. Get The Soft Bulletin. (F is also for Feist. Get a boner.) - F is for fuck you - get Fleet Foxes
G is for Grizzly Bear. Get Yellow House.
I is for Iron & Wine. Get The Shepherd's Dog.
J is for Jack and Meg White. Get the White Stripes' De Stijl or Elephant. J is for anything by Joseph Arthur
K is for Kings of Leon. Get Aha Shake Heartbreak, their only good album. - K is for Kuck You - Only By the Night is fantastic
L is for LCD Soundsystem. Get Sound of Silver.
M is for Man Man, whose Rabbit Habits is one of the best and most underrated albums of the year. - M is for The Magic Numbers - check out their self titled debut
N is for the National. Get Alligator and Boxer. Fall in love. - The National is truly spectacular. I am listening to Fake Empire as I type this.
O is for Okkervil River. Get Black Sheep Boy and The Stage Names.
P is for Picaresque, an album by the Decemberists you should get (as well as Her Majesty). - Natch
Q is for the Queen Mary, who Wolf Parade apologized to in Apologies to the Queen Mary. Get it.
R is for Radiohead. Obviously. R is for Remy Zero (they're as indie as Radiohead) Get Villa Elaine
S is for Spoon. Get Kill the Moonlight and Gimme Fiction. This is true.
T is for TV on the Radio. Get the year's best album (Dear Science) and Return to Cookie Mountain. T is for Tom Waits because everyone should love Tom.
U is for unpopular U2 albums and tunes (they give you valuable indie cred!), but you know this already. - U2? Never heard of 'em. How about Uncle Tupelo.
V is for Vampire Weekend, who only have out a self-titled debut. It's just okay, but it's as indispensable an indie accessory as a v-neck from American Apparel.
W is for Wilco. Get it all.
Y is for the underrated Yo La Tengo. Get I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One.
Z is for Z, an excellent album by My Morning Jacket. Also get At Dawn and It Still Moves.
Yikes.
Ungh.