favorite bands that you think no one really knows about.

[Ka D'Argo]

Hey everyone, I was just curious as to what bands you guys are into right now that you think are not very well know right now. I am really into discovering new bands that dont get radio play.

Right now i'm listening to a band called Gatsby's American Dream. Thay are sooooo good. they just put out a new cd called volcano. My favorite song is called Fable, it is a song talking about the book lord of the flies, its awesome.
I am also listening to a band called Boys night out they are good, gonna be at warped tour this year.
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[freckle]

i always loved All about Eve and i dont think they ever got the airplay they deserved.
Julianne Reagan works in an office as a clerk and had done throughout the bands entire career.Talk about a double life!

[Ka D'Argo]

I forgot to mention that i have been listening to a band that "I" just heard about called Bloc Party. Man they rock they are really good. but i'm not sure if they are popular or not.
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[zahncrelnik]

Well, we all know one: Signal Room.

How many non-'Scapers know about Signal Room?

[freckle]

yeah good point!

[trinamick]

Groove Puppet

[Owlman]

Mushroomhead
Dope
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
Throwdown
Sick's Deep
Motogrator

[NebariNookiee]

If you like your tunes funky and covered in dirt -- you should check out Transient Frank. Local funk/rock band in Indy. These guys bring the party!
It also helps that I'm their artist. Snoogins!
www.transientfrank.com

[La Bomba]

My two favorites that noone seems to have heard of are:

Limbomaniacs (Sorta Red Hot Chili Pepper-y)

and Stan Ridgway (former lead singer of Wall of Voodoo; wicked good storyteller!)

[Xev]

One of my favorite bands ever:

Strung Out

[eta_carinae]

There are two local bands from Denver - The Fray (http://www.thefray.net/) and Love45 (http://www.love45.com/) that both recently got record contracts. They get pretty good airplay here, but I doubt they're being played anywhere else in the country. :dunno: I like 'em :)

[Deadman]

Queen V----local NYC band, that rocks.

www.queenv.com/?page=news

[DRD 1812]

Mushroomhead is a good band, like some of thier stuff I heard on AOL radio.

Suprisingly, even though they've had 1 or 2 vids on MTV, CKY. They are still considered a local underground band around here. You ask a normal person minus the "skaters and punks." Not many know them.

[The Keeper]

My favourite band at present is a rock 'n' roll group called Tentative, which none of you will have heard of probably, they are a local group in my town which consists of my cool guitar teacher...

They have major label interest so heres hoping that one day you guys might know that name: "Tentative". :D

[Milaya]

Eläkeläiset.I bet no-one of ever heard of them.And there's many more finnish bands that are not even known here.

[WezH]

Eläkeläiset.I bet no-one of ever heard of them.And there's many more finnish bands that are not even known here.

Yeah, like Eppu Normaali ;)

Anyway, maybe someone has heard couple Finnish bands, like HIM and Nightwish

:signbravo :thewave: :band:

[Ka D'Argo]

HIM is awesome
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[WezH]

HIM is awesome

Well, they have changed a lot since their first tour where I was working back in -97 after their fist album Greatest Lovesongs vol 666.

Nowadays I like their music.

[Ka D'Argo]

i just recently heard the music for the first time and i really got into it.
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[MotorWerk]

I forgot to mention that i have been listening to a band that "I" just heard about called Bloc Party. Man they rock they are really good. but i'm not sure if they are popular or not.

Bloc Party are awsome. They just released their debut album "Silent Alarm". It entered the british charts at No. 5. They are influenced by bands like The Cure, Echo & The Bunnymen and Public Image Limited; with a spoonfull of Joy Division added. Also they toured with Interpol last year. The single "Banquet" is a floorfiller.

[eta_carinae]

Eläkeläiset.I bet no-one of ever heard of them.And there's many more finnish bands that are not even known here.

:lol I don't even know how to pronounce that

[AyuRocks]

Arcade Fire

[MotorWerk]

22 Pistepirkko (woho, let the Romeo weep!)

[Ka D'Argo]

Bloc Party are awsome. They just released their debut album "Silent Alarm". It entered the british charts at No. 5. They are influenced by bands like The Cure, Echo & The Bunnymen and Public Image Limited; with a spoonfull of Joy Division added. Also they toured with Interpol last year. The single "Banquet" is a floorfiller.


yeah I have been listening to their song called "Banquet". That song is sooo good. I've never heard a song like it before and that guys voice is perfect for that type of music. Everybody should check Bloc Party out...they rock plain and simple.
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[ctheokas]

There's a group here in NYC (Brooklyn, really) called "My Favorite," which doesn't make it easy to find them on the web. So go to Double Agent Records' website. They're kind of like Morrisey, with a female singer. Their best is Burning Hearts, which you can download for free on the Double Agent site.

Then there's Britta Philips and Dean Wareham (Night Nurse is their best song, followed by Ginger Snaps).

There's Chromeo out of Vice Records (their Needy Girl video is awesome.)

The Rapture are pretty cool, especially their song "House of Jealous Lovers."

7 Seconds of Love, which you can find on RatherGood.com.

The Velveteens, which have broken up. They're a ska band out of DC, and they still have some stuff for downloading on iuma.com.

The 5, 6, 7, 8s, which were the band in Kill Bill vol. 1. They do an awesome version of "I'm Blue," by the Ikettes, who do a pretty kick ass version on their own.

Nellie McKay's album "Get Away From Me" is frelling brilliant. She does realy eclectic jazz.

Regina Spektor does eclectic jazz, but she's a bit more serious.

M.I.A. has interesting beats. But her music is very spare. However, it grows on you. You know, like fungus.

I love Bikini Kill, but they're something of an acquired taste. "Rebel Girl" is their most accesible song, but "Suck my Left One" has a certain - as the French would say - "I don't know what."

Bloc Party rocks. Check out the Banquet video on iTunes.

Brazillian Girls are pretty cool. Of course, none of them are Brazillian, and only the lead singer is a woman.

Who can forget the Butthole Surfers?

I nearly forgot about the Cramps.

Another DC band, the DBC. They're great. Kind of alternative/electronica.

Har Mar Superstar does dirty pop songs.

I love Le Tigre's "TKO," which is a really poppy punk kind of song.

I haven't heard MC 900 Ft. Jesus in a long time, but they're fun.

Matisyahu is the coolest Raggae act I have ever seen! He's a strict Hasidic Jew. And he sings Raggae. And he lives in Brooklyn.

I love PJ Harvey. I think everyone should listen to her recent album and the previous one, Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea.

The Reverend Horton Heat.

The Scissor Sisters.

The Sleepy Jackson, especially "Good Dancers".

The Virgin Prunes came up in the world in Dublin with a little band calld U2. Of course, the Prunes are a Death/Goth band. Go figure.

Willie Bobo's "Fried Neckbones and Some Home Fries." Pure genius.

Man, I could go on, and on, and on.

[Owlman]

Nu-Metal is comming back. Each reigon of America has seemed to produce a new musical style:

The North: Metalcore
California: New Hardcore
The South: Texas Nu-Metal (A mix of thrash and Nu-Metal) ie Damageplan, Drowning Pool, Motorgrator, Element Eighty, and 90% of local bands.

Local Texas Nu-Metal Paris Green (http://www.parisgreen.com/home.html) is on the bubble of being a big band here in Houston.

[RedKarma]

The Breathers - Ooooowoah, Annabell-lee!!

AK47 - Don't exist anymore, but I miss those clever dudes

Sugar Davis - Not sure they're around anymore, but had to give a plug for 'em anyway

[Owlman]

The Dillinger Escape Plan: Great combo of hardcore and industrial

[AgentSun]

my twilight zone moment yesterday was when my dad was watching chinese tv and it was on a music channel (sort of like an asian mtv) and The Killers' "Somebody Told Me" came on with chinese subtitles! it was bizarre because I had been listening to the CD all day when we were in the car, so knowing that my dad knew who The Killers were was really weird.

[JrMissToughChick]

The Dandy Warholes - great band

AgentSun, The Killers aren't well known? I thought they were, they rock! STM is a great song haha FieryHands did one of my favorite music videos to it.

[AgentSun]

they're pretty well known by now, but it was still really weird seeing the video pop up on asian tv!

[JrMissToughChick]

they're pretty well known by now, but it was still really weird seeing the video pop up on asian tv!
True.

[el-halo]

yes, bloc party is very cool. :>

most of the music i like is not that popular on a mass level in america, but thats ok. some great bands that arent as well known as others:

racermason - triphop
the rose chronicles - goth rock/pop
black tape for a blue girl - goth electronica/rpop/ambient...yeah, varied.
lovespirals downwards - ambient goth (not really sure why it gets lumped in with other goth stuff, but it was on projekt's label)

some bands that are well known critically, but not in the mass market:

his name is alive - indie pop/rock/blues - so amazing, so eclectic
cat power - pop - chan marshall is one of america's best song writers
mirah - pop - another fabulous song writer

[Ka D'Argo]

anyone heard of "from first to last"? what about breaking pangea? these are some really good bands.
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[fiona-maria]

I don't know if they are still around, but I like a band named Lilac Time.

[Owlman]

From Autum to Ashes
All That Remains (though they are gaining a good rep)
Anything produced by Adam D.

[rosewood]

Two more to add:

The Frames

Sleater-Kinney - check out One Beat, or their new album, the Woods

[Ka D'Argo]

I love from autumn to ashes.

Has anyone heard of Funeral for a Friend? They are really good.
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[ctheokas]

cat power - pop - chan marshall is one of america's best song writers

Yeah, Cat Power has great songs, but I saw her play at the Fuck Cancer benefit last year, and, well, she should get over her stage fright. She wouldn't let them turn on the spot, if I remember correctly. And it didn't seem like she really played a set in the strictest sense. It was more like noodling and trying out stuff.

Also there were Har Mar Superstar (truly a fantastic performer, with great pop songs. When he flicked a pubic hair out into the audience, women went crazy). Then there was Chavez, who frelling rocked.

I forget if I mentioned Regina Spektor. She's pretty cool, too.

And the Scissor Sisters! I just love the Scissor Sisters.

[el-halo]

Yeah, Cat Power has great songs, but I saw her play at the Fuck Cancer benefit last year, and, well, she should get over her stage fright. She wouldn't let them turn on the spot, if I remember correctly. And it didn't seem like she really played a set in the strictest sense. It was more like noodling and trying out stuff.

yeah, she is certainly...quirky.

[Milaya]

Markus Törmälä & FBI Beat, they play finnish music like humppa and jenkka.Wish they come again to my favourite summer dancing place, Tolkkisten tanssisaari.They were once there and it was great.It was also in tv.

[Owlman]

Texas Metal band UnLoco are damn good, too bad they broke up over a year ago. I think you can still listen to their entire albumb on their website.

Another good dead band, is Neurotica.

[MotorWerk]

Speaking of dead bands, anyone heard of "...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead"? Awsome!

Another band I've recently rediscovered is "The Teardrop Explodes". Acid-pop led by the strange Julian Cope. Brilliant. There is a compilation out called The Greatest Hit.

[AgentSun]

AYWKUBTTTT is a great band.

[Ka D'Argo]

I agree
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[AgentSun]

i can't get Gavin DeGraw's "Chariot" out of my head!

[Owlman]

i can't get Gavin DeGraw's "Chariot" out of my head!

I feel sorry for you.

I'm being tormented by that new hip hop song that has the Tweety Bird singing "So Lonely"

Unknown Rapper reccomendations:
South Park Mexican
Li'l Flip (earlier stuff)

Ah when hip hop didn't suck.

[Ka D'Argo]

:D I can't get the banana phone song out of my head. :D
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[el-halo]

Speaking of dead bands, anyone heard of "...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead"? Awsome!

was that a bad pun or did they recently break up? :P i've liked what i've heard from them.

[Owlman]

I thought my boys Mushroomhead broke up, but they got a new singer.

Atleast it was J-Mann that left, not Jeff. J was good, but his voice could be easily replaced. Jeff's voice is unique and damn near irreplacible.

[AgentSun]

i don't think AYWKUBTTTT broke up. holy crap, that's a long acronym.

i like gavin degraw's song "chariot", but i don't know the words so all i have is "chariot!..." over and over and over.

as a general rule, i stay away from a lot of hip hop. i love kanye west's new album. it's phenomenal. but i've really avoided a lot of hip hop. i feel my brain turn to complete mush when i hear "ho's" and "bitches" in the same line.

[Ka D'Argo]

but..but..but thats poetry. heheheh
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[Kurt_eh]

Wil

www.ibreakstrings.com

[MotorWerk]

Todays hip hop scene is diluted, but older bands like 3rd Bass and Boogie Down Productions are still worth listening to.

[AgentSun]

anyone heard of Muse? they're a great band from england. my friend saw them in concert and yes, the lead singer really can keep his voice like that!!

you can see their videos at http://music.yahoo.com/ar-299581-videos--Muse

[Kurt_eh]

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[trubador]

i like gavin degraw's song "chariot", but i don't know the words so all i have is "chariot!..." over and over and over.
I finally bought his CD last week (Target had it for $13.99 and you also got a second CD which is the "stripped" down studio version of all the songs). It's a great CD, and that song "Chariot"???.... well, I'm a lyricist.... and I've read the lyrics quite a few times.... and unless "Chariot" is an unusual name for a woman, then it must be a metaphor for somethin', but I can't for the life of me figure out what. :rollin: It is a great song, though.

[AgentSun]

it is a metaphor. a chariot is akin to the white horse, you know, the knight on his white horse. if you watch the video, it matches the song perfectly. i think in the song's case, chariot is that thing that sweeps him up, that was good and perfect and brings fond memories.

[Ka D'Argo]

anyone heard of Muse? they're a great band from england. my friend saw them in concert and yes, the lead singer really can keep his voice like that!!

you can see their videos at http://music.yahoo.com/ar-299581-videos--Muse

Yeah muse is great i love that cd!!!


But I honestly cannot get Bloc Party's "Banquet" out of my head it keeps playing over and over again, its a really good song.
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[Milaya]

anyone heard of Muse? they're a great band from england. my friend saw them in concert and yes, the lead singer really can keep his voice like that!!

you can see their videos at http://music.yahoo.com/ar-299581-videos--Muse
I heard of them.My brother often listen to their music.And I can awoid listening when I drive his car, I'm too lazy to take my cd's to his car...

[samati75]

Who I am loving right now:
Jeff Buckley
Muse
Rufus Wainright
Idiot Pilot

[Bandana Girl]

Ooh I have heard of Rufus Wainwright he's Canadian. He's good!!

I like the Polyphonic spree. Their songs lift my mood. It's the happy music link in my sig.

[faustus]

my avatar tell one thing
nine inch nails. bought my tickets for them today as well :)
Tori Amos saw her erlier this month as well
someone on this board who will remain nameless got me into Lacuna Coil

[Milaya]

Nin is quite known and I listen to lacuna coil, just my friend said it's the only thing sne doesn't understand about my brother's music taste.

[faustus]

good to know other people like my type of music

[Owlman]

NiN tickets sold out here before I even knew they were on sale.

I'm thinking about Ozzfest tickets this year, since its actually comming to Houston.

[faustus]

I specificly didn't go to work this morning to get my tickets

[AgentSun]

i love NIN and the new album is great. i'd love to see them in concert but i don't know when they're stopping into DC.

[faustus]

I think they start the US leg in winter

[AgentSun]

ok i've declared Bloc Party the new Hootie and the Blowfish. not that they'll have like 3 hits and then fade into glory, I'm basing this on the rare combination of an african american lead singer backed up by a bunch of skinny white boys.

thats the basis for a lot of smaller bands actually. Sevendust comes to mind.

[Owlman]

Can anyone named the point when hip-hop/rap starting sucking? Sometime in 2001, it just became crap.

50 Cent is one of the worst rappers I've ever heard, but he is considered great...

[crazy_chi]

Can anyone named the point when hip-hop/rap starting sucking? Sometime in 2001, it just became crap.

50 Cent is one of the worst rappers I've ever heard, but he is considered great...
agreed. the only good rapper is Will Smith. (my oppinion) the others suck

[AgentSun]

i really like will smith because his music is based on talent, not any kind of persona he has. i mean, yes 50 cent was shot a few times...but what else has he done? i mean, if we could all be rappers we could just go survive a shooting. will smith has proven himself to be a talent without having a persona to use as a crutch. in fact, in his lyrics he denies a persona and he even describes how he hates the persona....he mentions going to a club and then the next line is about how he's not going for "that reason" he's got kids. i liked that a lot. he's very kid-friendly since he wants his kids to be able to listen to it and get the style of music without being exposed to the kind of language or perversity in modern hip-hop.

oh and i can't wait for Bad Boys III. as great as his music is, when i need my violent crime fix, i turn to a good bruckheimer flick.

[Milaya]

Poets of the Fall.Any of heard of these guys?

[Fyodor]

Yes. Personally, I think, the only really good finnish bands are Swallow the Sun and Children of Bodom.... and Kotiteollisuus.... and a few others that I fail to mention.

Also if you go across the sea to Sweden you'll find one of the best doom metal bands Opeth who i've really been into these days...

SOAD used to be relatively un-known here, but not anymore.... I don't know how I feel about that.

[Ka D'Argo]

I am now currently a huge fan of a band called Chiodos. They are really freaking good. the name of thier cd is "alls well that ends well". great band check them out

[Owlman]

Painface (good luck finding anything but a few stray mp3s)
On a Pale Horse
The Haunted
Alabama Thunderpussy
Jason Boland and the Straglers

[AgentSun]

I recently discovered Armor for Sleep and they're really great.

[tacklingmonkey]

The Academy Is....
The Recieving End Of Sirens

and hopefully my band soon, we are in negotiations with a indie label and if we sign would be playing side stage on the warped tour...I'm crossing my fingers

[Ka D'Argo]

I recently discovered Armor for Sleep and they're really great.


Oh man aren't they awesome?!? i love their newest release What to do When your dead. I like the idea of the entire album being about this guy dying and then wishing he didnt die and trying to contact someone he loved. great band, i hope i can see them live before i ship out...

[AgentSun]

I think the new trend is concept albums -- albums with themes and storylines. The first album I picked up that had this was My Chemical Romance's Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.

[Owlman]

Just out of curiosity, do they have a name for the genre of music that AfS, My Chemical Romance, Hawthorne Heights, and Silverstien are?

And I do reccomend Dope's American Apathy. They've ditched the nu-metal and are going back to their Industrial roots, like their first album.

The Industrial cover of NWA's "**** Da Police" still rules.

[Sycamor]

Black Night Red is my favorite band. Perhaps I'm biased because my friends are in it, but I don't think so.

[Ka D'Argo]

I think the new trend is concept albums -- albums with themes and storylines. The first album I picked up that had this was My Chemical Romance's Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge.


Another really cool album that is story based is y Boys night out. The album is trainwreck. Its about a guy that goes through the different stages of depression, recovery, relapse, etc its reaalllllly good.

Oh and i have no idea what the genre is called. a lot of people call it emo but its more than that, i call it screamo

[Owlman]

Cool, I thought it was Emo.

I reccomend Cold's "A Different Kind of Pain" been waiting for this CD since "Year of The Spider" came out. Not quite as brilliant as YotS in terms of lyrics, but it matches the style of all the strongest songs off the album. No more songs forced on the band by the label like "Stupid Girl" which was the only crappy song on YotS.