The Alternative Tone

Indie folk! Download Here RIYL: Sufjan Stevens; Fionn Regan

Acoustic sadness with pianos. Download Here RIYL: Tom Odell; Daughter Highly Recommended

Midwest emo screamy stuff. Download Here RIYL: I Hate Myself, Hoover

Emo from Milwaukee. Download Here RIYL: Algernon Cadwallader, Daylight

Acoustic Download Here RIYL: Singer songwriters, Joshua Radin

Folk pop  from Chicago. Download Here RIYL: To Kill A King Highly Recommended

First compilation from Sucking Lemons, featuring: Dry The River, Tall Ships, Yellow Ostrich, Ideals, Dog Is Dead, Fenech Soler, The Cads, These Ghosts, Dutch Uncles and Clock Opera Download Here RIYL: Indie rock; the music that The Fly covers

Three tracks from indie-folkster's 2010 album, The Age Of Adz are available free on his bandcamp. The tracks are: 2. Too Much 4. I Walked 6. Get Real Get Right Download Here RIYL: Sufjan Stevens, weirdness

Folk compilation from For Folk's Sake including the likes of Admiral Fallow, The Last Battle, Erica Buettner, The Son(s), Phil King, Songs For Dead Sailors, Georgia Bruce, Jonah Maddox, Gibson Bull, Tiny Birds, Charles Mansfield, Thiago Pethit, Rebel Bran, Just Handshakes (We're British), Emily & The Woods, and Blue Sky Archives. Download Here  (Download each track individually) RIYL: Folk music, music, Britishness!

Easycore from Washington. Download Here RIYL:  New Found Glory, Handguns

Pop punk podcast, curated by Man Overboard.  Download Here Man Overboard - Montrose (from Dahlia EP / Run For Cover Jeff Kummer - Grace Period  (available on Your Best Alternative)   Balance & Composure - Kaleidoscope (No Sleep Records!)   A Loss For Words - The Promises You Keep (from The Kids Cant Lose) Smile & Burn - Too Much Hardcore (from Berlin, Germany)   Basement - DUI (UK band on City Of Gold Records)   AYS - Snowblind (available on The Path of Ages from Cobra Records/Germany)   Transit - Atlas (from Stay Home EP / Run For Cover Records)   Tigers Jaw - Heat (Run For Cover Records)   Man Overboard - In Orbit (available on Before We Met from Panic Records)   The Wonder Years - Everything I Own (Upsides / No Sleep Records)   Therefore I Am - Art of Transparency (Equal Vision Records)   James Corbi - Jefferson (demo / album coming in spring)   Man Overboard...

Post-hardcore/emo from Ohio. Download Here RIYL: Midwest Pen Pals, Algernon Cadwallader

Midwest emo/ post-hardcore from Moorhead. Download Here RIYL: Snowing, Midwest Pen Pals

Emo from Ann Arbor Download Here   (Out of free bandcamp downloads, however the band have posted a mediafire link for it) RIYL: A really twinkly La Dispute, Old Gray Highly Recommended. 

Indie folk from Detroit Download Here RIYL: Sufjan Stevens, Andrew Bird

Indie pop from the UK. Download Here RIYL: Englishness, Bombay Bicycle Club, Kate Nash

Emo/math rock from United Kingdom. Download RIYL: American Football, Cap'n Jazz

 Indie pop from Brooklyn. Download RIYL: Youth Lagoon, Death Cab For Cutie

Indie rock from Minneapolis. http://thefarewellcircuit.bandcamp.com/album/brothers-eyes-ep RIYL: Death Cab For Cutie, The Antlers, dreamy indie rock that isn't dreampop Highly Recommended. 

Acoustic from Missouri. Includes covers of Bob Dylan, Paramore and The Dead Kennedys as well as two original tracks. http://indiequest.bandcamp.com/album/north-by-northwest RIYL: Kevin Devine, the obligatory acoustic track on every album ever.