Great Bands that aren't "well known"

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  • Midnattsol ~ I didn't like them at first but I'm glad I went and gave them a second listen :Dhttp://www.midnattsol.com
  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    Grandaddy - Awsome!!!
    American Analog Set
    Gomez
    Badly Drawn Boy
    Modest Mouse
    King Biscuit Time (Formerly lead singer from Beta Band)
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  • yield2meyield2me Posts: 1,291
    Black Angels
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  • i know these have been mentioned before but they need a second mention

    Umphrey's McGee (best live show around)
    Yonder Mountain String Band (intense bluegrass)
    Keller Williams (one man, eight guitars, no shoes)

    and here's a band i just discovered yesterday on the archive

    Broke Mountain Bluegrass Band

    Check em out.
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  • The less you know, the more you believe.
  • I'd say the following:

    Cinemechanica
    Ted Leo and the Pharmacists (check out Hearts of Oak)
    Gomez
    Big Sugar (Heated is a great album)
    Clutch (amazing..i'm sure some of you know them but if you don't check em out)
    Constantines
    For Squirrels (some of the guys in this band died in an auto accident in the mid 90's..."Mighty KC" was a good song about the death of Cobain off a great album called Example)
    The Warlocks
    The Zutons
    William Elliott Whitmore (dude w/ a banjo...saw him open for Clutch and was impressed)
  • QuarterToTenQuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,642
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  • artjamartjam Posts: 227
    I'd say the following:


    Clutch (amazing..i'm sure some of you know them but if you don't check em out)

    I second that for sure. Love the SN, BTW, two great Clutch songs. Elephant Riders should be in any true music lovers collection. Neil Fallon is one great underappreciated frontman.
  • artjam wrote:
    I second that for sure. Love the SN, BTW, two great Clutch songs. Elephant Riders should be in any true music lovers collection. Neil Fallon is one great underappreciated frontman.


    No doubt, Elephant Riders was the album that got me into Clutch. Saw them live for the first time on 12/30/06 and they put on a rockin' show. Shortly after I bought "Robot Hive/Exodus" which is quickly becoming one of my favorites.
  • artjamartjam Posts: 227
    No doubt, Elephant Riders was the album that got me into Clutch. Saw them live for the first time on 12/30/06 and they put on a rockin' show. Shortly after I bought "Robot Hive/Exodus" which is quickly becoming one of my favorites.

    Yes! Robot Hive/Exodus is great, the video for Burning Beard is awesome. Ive only saw them once at a small campground in WV, a very small bonnaroo type thing in 2002. Neil Fallon was walking around the grounds talkin to all the campers. Most people didnt even know who he was. What a great guy. Love that band.
  • artjam wrote:
    Yes! Robot Hive/Exodus is great, the video for Burning Beard is awesome. Ive only saw them once at a small campground in WV, a very small bonnaroo type thing in 2002. Neil Fallon was walking around the grounds talkin to all the campers. Most people didnt even know who he was. What a great guy. Love that band.

    Nice...sounds like you had a great experience. I'm going to have to find that video for Burning Beard. All I know is that Robot Hive/Exodus has been burning out my cd player the last 2 weeks...it definitely rocks hard! And if you didn't know, my name is partly inspired by Clutch...spacegrass is one of my favorite songs.
  • artjamartjam Posts: 227
    Nice...sounds like you had a great experience. I'm going to have to find that video for Burning Beard. All I know is that Robot Hive/Exodus has been burning out my cd player the last 2 weeks...it definitely rocks hard! And if you didn't know, my name is partly inspired by Clutch...spacegrass is one of my favorite songs.

    Yeah, I love the screen name. Spacegrass and the Yeti are two awesome songs! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGbDY1llCEw There is the video. Just great. Tim Sult is up there with Mikey McC and Tom Morello on guitar. Where are you going to see them? I gotta catch them on this tour.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    JamHead86 wrote:
    i know these have been mentioned before but they need a second mention

    Umphrey's McGee (best live show around)
    Yonder Mountain String Band (intense bluegrass)
    Keller Williams (one man, eight guitars, no shoes)

    and here's a band i just discovered yesterday on the archive

    Broke Mountain Bluegrass Band

    Check em out.

    have you heard of ekoostik hookah?
  • artjam wrote:
    Yeah, I love the screen name. Spacegrass and the Yeti are two awesome songs! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGbDY1llCEw There is the video. Just great. Tim Sult is up there with Mikey McC and Tom Morello on guitar. Where are you going to see them? I gotta catch them on this tour.

    Right on...love the video...thanks!

    I saw them recently in NJ...it took forever for them to come on stage as they had 5 opening bands (2 were decent, 3 were horrible)...but the wait was worth it!
  • artjamartjam Posts: 227
    Right on...love the video...thanks!

    I saw them recently in NJ...it took forever for them to come on stage as they had 5 opening bands (2 were decent, 3 were horrible)...but the wait was worth it!

    5 opening bands!!??!! Thats a marathon. The waiting would drive me mad!
  • artjam wrote:
    5 opening bands!!??!! Thats a marathon. The waiting would drive me mad!

    yeah, it was a loooooong wait...clutch didn't hit the stage till about 11 pm at the earliest...and we got there at 6:30...i think we would have enjoyed it even more if we didn't have to stand for so long

    hopefully next time they come around they'll do a special evening with clutch and no opening bands!

    by the way, at the show they played some new songs and they said a new album would be dropping around march
  • artjamartjam Posts: 227
    yeah, it was a loooooong wait...clutch didn't hit the stage till about 11 pm at the earliest...and we got there at 6:30...i think we would have enjoyed it even more if we didn't have to stand for so long

    hopefully next time they come around they'll do a special evening with clutch and no opening bands!

    by the way, at the show they played some new songs and they said a new album would be dropping around march

    Really, a new album? I guess it has been almost two years. That is awesome!
  • candlebox - they are amazing.
    2006 - Astoria, Dublin, Leeds
    2007 - London
    2009 - London, Manchester, London
    2010 - Dublin, Belfast, London
    2011 - Alpine Valley x2
    2012 - Isle of Wight, Manchester x2
  • Alex_CoeAlex_Coe Posts: 762
    Mark Lanegan is one of my faves, tho his solo work is pretty much ignored. Incredibly talented singer IMO.
  • The Black Key's
    Built to Spill
    Big Head Todd and the Monsters
    Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
    The Warlocks
    Bauhaus (really cool)
    Mad Season (face it not many people outside of the PJ and AiC fanbase know them)
    Porno For Pyros (I love Porno for Pyros!)
    Ween (gets overlooked for weirdness but an awesome fucking band with a heap of talent......THEY GOT SIGNED WHEN THEY WERE 16 FOR CHRIST SAKE)
  • Really gotta throw a bone to the Toadies. Rubberneck is an excellent album.

    Soul Asylum. Rolled out some damn good tunes back in the early to mid 90s.

    Misery is terrific song... :D

    Mad Season of course needs a mention as well.
  • Drive By Truckers
    The Dresden Dolls
    My Morning Jacket
    For Squirrels

    plus, and if you have the time, check out their myspace page to hear a few songs (especially Mighty KC) the band For Squirrels. They were from Florida. I saw them in '95, but shortly after there tour bus crashed killing a couple band members. Very good music.

    http://www.myspace.com/forsquirrels
    tacos
  • Loose Fur
    Tapes 'n Tapes
    Menomena
    Of Montreal
    Cock Fight.
  • chopitdownchopitdown Posts: 2,222
    caroline's spine.
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  • cold war kids
    The less you know, the more you believe.
  • AnonAnon Posts: 11,175
    Ut
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