Posted 12/26/2008 at 10:03:35am

If you are looking for some new music that you will almost never hear on the radio or MTV, check out the follwing for indie rock:

Modest Mouse, The National, Interpol, Cursive, The Faint, Cold War Kids, VHS or Beta, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Broken Social Scene, The Postal Service, TV On The Radio

For indie Hip Hop:

Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Deltron 3030, Brother Ali, Atmosphere, Kool Keith, Jedi Mind Tricks, RZA, Immortal Technique, Madlib, KRS-One, Mos Def, Eyedea & Abilities, Sage Francis

For electronica:

Squarepusher!!!!, High Contrast, LTJ Bukem, The Knife, Swayzak, Prefuse 73, Tosca, ILS, Koma & Bones, Boards Of Canada, Bonobo, and of course Aphex Twin.

This is a good start, and Amazon has some good tools to research further.