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Great Bands that aren't "well known"

pjhabitpjhabit Posts: 211
edited November 2008 in Other Music
This board has turned me on to some kick ass bands. Just wanted to ask some fellow jammers (w/ excentric tastes) WHAT ARE THE BEST BANDS I HAVEN'T HEARD??? Post links if you got em'

Lately I've been really in bands like:
Drive by Truckers
Kings of Leon
Gov't Mule

Thanks, all responses are appriciated :D
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  • tekno_junkietekno_junkie Posts: 87
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  • burnin-candleburnin-candle Posts: 158
    The John Butler Trio if you though know them yet. Toured with Gov't Mule a few years back and starting to get fairly big attention in the jam band circles.

    You Am I . (if you haven't noticed freewheelin mentioning them on this board.) I love this great band.
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  • Lost_ClayLost_Clay Posts: 1,085
    hater (well ppl seem to know who they are but everytime i've seen a thread on em it just dies with hardly any replies)

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  • Urban HikerUrban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    burnin-candle wrote:
    The John Butler Trio if you though know them yet. Toured with Gov't Mule a few years back and starting to get fairly big attention in the jam band circles.

    Yeah, John Butler Trio - I love Zebra
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  • ramspamramspam Posts: 130
    Faith no more... hardly anyone i knows heard of them... I guess they were a bit before my time...
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  • talithatalitha Posts: 29
    The Drones. Aussie band, relocating to Europe soon. Incredible.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Can. Tago Mago should be in everyone's collection.
  • BradassBradass Posts: 88
    ramspam wrote:
    Faith no more... hardly anyone i knows heard of them... I guess they were a bit before my time...
    EVERYBODY has heard of Faith No More.
    Mike Patton is worshiped as some sort of vocal god.
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  • Six7Six7Six7Six7 Posts: 58
    FAITH NO MORE IS FUCKING AMAZING

    And Patton IS a vocal god.
    Pearl Jam is an ok american rock n roll group
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    Well i'm sure a lot of people have heard of these bands but maybe someone hasn't. some of my favorite not quite mainstream bands are:

    built to spill
    minus the bear

    Another one i'm getting into now is Dredg

    these are more well known but still very good
    at the drive in/ the mars volta
    wilco
    flaming lips
    Charlotte 00
    Charlotte 03
    Asheville 04
    Atlanta 12
    Greenville 16, Columbia 16
    Seattle 18 
    Nashville 22
    Ohana Festival 24 x2
  • ||Release_Me||||Release_Me|| Posts: 1,871
    There's this band called Pearl Jam.







    They're pretty good.
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  • LedZepFanLedZepFan Posts: 1,009
    to the post above: funny, but sadly true...so many people dont know em

    Faith No More, The Cult, Danzig
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  • bubbamackdaddy69bubbamackdaddy69 Posts: 576
    Danzig
    At the drive in
    Monster Magnet
    Master of Zen
  • oppie1oppie1 Posts: 755
    Boy Hits Car
    Four Non Blondes (even tho they broke up almost a decade ago, their Bigger, Better, Faster, More cd still kicks my ass)
    Guano Apes
    Lacuna Coil
    BoyHitsCar Masked Street Team
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  • BremertonBremerton Posts: 279
    Minus the Bear are one of my new favorite bands. Their new cd is great.
  • isa fruscianteisa frusciante Posts: 94
    Huggy Bear
    Le Tigre
    Porcupine Tree
    Minus the Bear
    The Moldy Peaches
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  • mariposamariposa Posts: 2,523
    Danko Jones, they've been around for a while, and still one of the most under-rated Canadian bands of today. I hear they're very well known in Europe though.

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  • isa fruscianteisa frusciante Posts: 94
    Absolutely Danko Jones!!!

    also:
    The Blue Van
    The Coral
    Dresden Dolls
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  • Cornflakegrl98Cornflakegrl98 Posts: 752
    i second the music, great band

    check out the kills, the raveonettes, verbena (think they broke up though)

    i also just got into the 22-20s, pretty cool stuff
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  • red mosred mos Posts: 4,953
    To this day, I still play "Epic" by Faith no more; that song is the shit. Can't remember what the other radio song was though, Fallen to pieces?? maybe?
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  • ThreeBigFishThreeBigFish Posts: 10
    *ARCADE FIRE
    I wonder if they still count as the Great Unknown Band... they've had my love since I first heard them a couple of days ago... their CD won't get out of my player for many days to come :)

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    Are these guys as unknown as I think? Another Love Of Mine that, together with Three Fish, remains in the shadow of the Seattle Giant (=PJ).
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    PJ Habit wrote:
    This board has turned me on to some kick ass bands. Just wanted to ask some fellow jammers (w/ excentric tastes) WHAT ARE THE BEST BANDS I HAVEN'T HEARD???

    Lately I've been really in bands like:
    Drive by Truckers
    Kings of Leon
    Gov't Mule

    Thanks, all responses are appriciated :D
    Saw the Truckers last night in Tuscaloosa, Alabama....what a kick-ass 2 1/2 hours of Rock and Roll-Dirty South Style. They were gooder than snuff.
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  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    The Tragically Hip.

    These guys are arguably the greatest Canadian rock band of all time, and they've got one of the best live shows you'll ever see. They've sold millions of records and they've routinely sold out stadiums and arenas in Canada for over 15 years, but in the U.S. and the rest of the world they're still relatively unknown. Whenever they tour the States, Canadian fans (myself included) are known to follow the band from show to show Grateful Dead style just so they can see them up close and personal in small clubs and theatres. When their first full-length album came out in 1989 they were classified as hard-rock, but then when the grunge thing happened, the media started calling them "alternative" and they kind of rode the wave along with Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, etc... Since then they've released 10 kick-ass albums, won countless awards, and started up their own travelling rock festival (which will apparently be revived next summer). Earlier this year they were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, officially putting them in the same company as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, The Guess Who, Gordon Lightfoot, and Rush. Next week they're opening for the Rolling Stones in Moncton. Basically they're the biggest undiscovered band on the planet.
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • mariposamariposa Posts: 2,523
    Of course, how can I forget the greatness of the Hip!
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • ThreeBigFishThreeBigFish Posts: 10
    direwolf74 wrote:
    The Tragically Hip.

    These guys are arguably the greatest Canadian rock band of all time, and they've got one of the best live shows you'll ever see. They've sold millions of records and they've routinely sold out stadiums and arenas in Canada for over 15 years, but in the U.S. and the rest of the world they're still relatively unknown. Whenever they tour the States, Canadian fans (myself included) are known to follow the band from show to show Grateful Dead style just so they can see them up close and personal in small clubs and theatres. When their first full-length album came out in 1989 they were classified as hard-rock, but then when the grunge thing happened, the media started calling them "alternative" and they kind of rode the wave along with Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, etc... Since then they've released 10 kick-ass albums, won countless awards, and started up their own travelling rock festival (which will apparently be revived next summer). Earlier this year they were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, officially putting them in the same company as Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, The Guess Who, and Rush. Next week they're opening for the Rolling Stones in Moncton. Basically they're the biggest undiscovered band on the planet.

    I definitely have to dig deeper into them, as I've had this incredible thing for Canadian bands lately... Everything Canadian that I stumble upon inevitably turns out to be brilliant... I'm currently bathing in my admiration for Arcade Fire... Stars & their "Set Yourself on Fire" is great as well.. Thanks for bringing this one up, I would have forgotten..!! It's definitely worth rediscovering :)
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  • mariposamariposa Posts: 2,523
    more...

    The Tea Party
    The Dears
    Metric
    Alexisonfire
    Pilate

    Hawksley Workman
    Bif Naked
    "All the strength that you might think would disappear, resolving..."
  • JamnPearlJamnPearl Posts: 204
    Mayfield 4
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  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    mariposa wrote:
    more...

    The Tea Party
    The Dears
    Metric
    Alexisonfire
    Pilate

    Hawksley Workman
    Bif Naked


    Since we're talking Canadian bands, here's a few more:

    The Weakerthans
    Sam Roberts
    Matt Mays & El Torpedo
    The Constantines
    Cuff the Duke
    Greg Macpherson Band
    Sarah Harmer
    Matthew Good
    Sloan
    C'mon
    Kathleen Edwards
    Lowest of the Low
    Hugh Dillon Redemption Choir
    The Trews
    The New Pornographers
    Joel Plaskett
    The Stills
    Ron Sexsmith
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • pychosinlovepychosinlove Posts: 205
    leroy http://www.leroyrocks.com
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