10 Bands You May/May Not Have Heard Yet

ronniethebear

I suppose we can make this into a game, since you all seem to love playing games. I'll list 10 bands/artists that I'm really into but might be considered "unknown" or "obscure" to some, then you all can comment if you have heard them and name some of your own. Here goes:

1. The Concretes
2. Channels (more J. Robbins goodness)
3. The Life And Times (Allen from Shiner)
4. Richard Swift
5. The New Pornographers (A.C. Newman and Neko Case solo stuff is great, too)
6. The Flashing Lights (more Canadian powerpop)
7. Keren Ann (French folk pop)
8. Magnet
9. Rogue Wave
10. Camera Obscura

Now your turn.

StrangestTribe

I'll just say the ones Ive heard

5. The New Pornographers
I thought they were fairly big in the underground indie circles. I do like them however

8. Magnet
Good band. I need to pick up the cd

9. Rogue Wave
Only heard 3 songs. Didnt care for them to much


Ok. now 10 more
1. Tapes N Tapes
2. Giant Drag (my current fav new band)
3. The Black Heart Procession
4. The Kills
5. Two Gallants
6. Cold War Kids
7. Autolux
8. Gris Gris
9. Climber
10. Fight Paris

gnr+pj=2bestever

I haven't heard any of those bands (from both of you), so here are mine:

1. Long Beach Dub All-Stars
2. G. Love and Special Sauce
3. Pepper
4. Slightly Stoopid
5. The Ziggens
6. Can't Hang
7. 3rd Alley
8. Stick Figure
9. Break From Society
10. Bargain Music

Virgil Caine

Rose Hill Drive
Mellow Down Easy
Bang Bang Bang

soulsinging

the only one i could contribute is kind of a regional act:

1. ekoostik hookah

FinsburyParkCarrots

International Sex Park. I've seen the future, and it's durian shaped.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=68935915

Kryptos

StrangestTribe wrote:

I'll just say the ones Ive heard

5. The New Pornographers
I thought they were fairly big in the underground indie circles. I do like them however

8. Magnet
Good band. I need to pick up the cd

9. Rogue Wave
Only heard 3 songs. Didnt care for them to much


Ok. now 10 more
1. Tapes N Tapes
2. Giant Drag (my current fav new band)
3. The Black Heart Procession
4. The Kills
5. Two Gallants
6. Cold War Kids
7. Autolux
8. Gris Gris
9. Climber
10. Fight Paris

Kudos for mentioning Autolux. If you like them check out...

Failure (Greg Edwards from autolux's old band...also includes Troy van leeuwen from a perfect circle and queens of the stone age)

Enemy (includes Van leeuwen also)

Replicants (failure and tool members do a cover album)

Year of the Rabbit (Ken Andrew's new band who was the lead singer for Failure)

Schmakt

wow, cool... about 50/50 on the stuff you guys have already mentioned (heard of/not heard of)

let's see if I can even think of ten...

1) The Helio Sequence
2) Secret Machines
3) Dustin Edge
4) Silversun Pickups
5) We Are Wolves
6) Robocop Kraus
7) Mogwai
8) Get Him Eat Him
9) MK Ultra
10) Pearl Jam

alobar

so far so good.....here's ten more


1. Federation X
2. Devil Makes Three
3. Calexico
4. The Revelators
5. Bob Wills
6. Carla Bozulich
7. Crystal Skulls
8. Little Wings
9. Karl Blau
10. Kimya Dawson

brain of c

utopia
snopek
10cc
301
the reggie knighton band
casual gods
lester roadhog moran and his cadillac cowboys
flight 19
lizard inc
nazz

ronniethebear

StrangestTribe wrote:

I'll just say the ones Ive heard

5. The New Pornographers
I thought they were fairly big in the underground indie circles. I do like them however

8. Magnet
Good band. I need to pick up the cd

9. Rogue Wave
Only heard 3 songs. Didnt care for them to much


Ok. now 10 more
1. Tapes N Tapes
2. Giant Drag (my current fav new band)
3. The Black Heart Procession
4. The Kills
5. Two Gallants
6. Cold War Kids
7. Autolux
8. Gris Gris
9. Climber
10. Fight Paris

You should probably give Rogue Wave another chance before writing them off based on three songs. Giant Drag are good, and a great sense of humor. The Kills are overrated in my opinion. This thread is giving me more faith in Pearl Jam fans as fans of music in general. I only say this because a lot of them that I've met or talked to have sort of an insular view of music as a whole, i.e. being stuck on the same shit for the past 10 years and not branching out and listening to new stuff. Anyway, I'll add a few more to perpetuate this thing:

Ambulette (Maura from Denali...so good)
Dragonforce (take all the best hair metal from the 80s and speed it up double time...the solos sound like Nintendo music)
Dungen (Swedish psych rock/pop...if you think Wolfmother rules, PLEASE check these guys out)
Stars (Canadians seem to have the market cornered on great pop rock these days)
Head Wound City (members of The Blood Brothers, The Locust, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs...severely annoying thrash, in the best way imaginable)
Johnathan Rice (recorded with Mike Mogis...this is what John Mayer would sound like if he were actually good)
Spain Colored Orange (a really talented Houston band...imagine Santana playing with The Beatles)
Des Ark (I don't even know, just listen)

P.S. Props for the Failure (and subsequent related Ken Andrews projects) mention.

direwolf74

ronniethebear wrote:

I suppose we can make this into a game, since you all seem to love playing games. I'll list 10 bands/artists that I'm really into but might be considered "unknown" or "obscure" to some, then you all can comment if you have heard them and name some of your own. Here goes:

1. The Concretes
2. Channels (more J. Robbins goodness)
3. The Life And Times (Allen from Shiner)
4. Richard Swift
5. The New Pornographers (A.C. Newman and Neko Case solo stuff is great, too)
6. The Flashing Lights (more Canadian powerpop)
7. Keren Ann (French folk pop)
8. Magnet
9. Rogue Wave
10. Camera Obscura

Now your turn.

I saw Rogue Wave at Sasquatch a couple weeks ago and I really liked what I heard. The New Pornographers are great too, and you're right about Neko's solo stuff. That woman can sing me to sleep anytime she wants.

Here are 10 of my favorites:

1. The Tragically Hip
2. Sam Roberts
3. Matt Mays & El Torpedo
4. The Weakerthans
5. Kathleen Edwards
6. The Constantines
7. Cuff the Duke
8. Joel Plaskett
9. Sarah Harmer
10. K-OS

restlesssoul

http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=169933

this thread contains many bands too, they are not necessarily unheard. they may be forgotten or pushed by the wayside. SHARE THE MUSIC!

ronniethebear

The Constantines' song "Hotline Operator" kicks my ass.

eddievedder1977

brain of c wrote:

utopia
snopek
10cc
301
the reggie knighton band
casual gods
lester roadhog moran and his cadillac cowboys
flight 19
lizard inc
nazz

I haven't heard of Flight 19, but I dig Flight 16.

3sheets

speaking of The New Pornographers (and I guess mainly Neko Case), has anyone heard when the Neko Case/Sadies record/dvd is coming out. i heard it was supposed to be a live thing, so I was just curious b/c I haven't heard anything about it for quite some time.

by the way, go out and pick up The Sadies album Favourite Colours. fantastic album. only it's too short imo.

Ok, well i guess i'll make a quick list too. but i'm sure most everyone's heard of these bands by now.

The Sadies
Band of Horses
The Longcut
Nine Black Alps
Margot and The Nuclear So and So's
Black Mountain
Fiery Furnaces
Comets on Fire
Six Organs of Admittance
The Drones

stu gee

Ive heard of bands already mentioned like :

Giant drag - Got their album hearts and unicorns, its ok
Nine black alps - Heard a song called not everyone which is cool
Secret Machines - Heard about 5 songs from them and thought they were ok,
theyve got a cool video for lightning blue eyes.

Other bands:

The Fratellis - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=37213256

Not got enough good things to say about this band, saw them live a couple of times and they were some of the best performances id seen. They are doing pretty well just now over here, hopefully get more recognition over the coming months though.


Kill Surf City - http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=25665396

Another band i really like, 6am on their myspace is quite cool

ronniethebear

I reeeeeeally hope no one here names Devendra Banhart. He's quite possibly the most overrated "musician" in the past five years, next to Jack White.

contore

1. Madrugada. Probably my fav band after PJ: http://www.emi.no/madrugada
2. Mando diao
3. My Midnight Creeps
4. Kent
5. Serena Maneesh
6. Elbow
7. Big Bang
8. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
9. Mew
10. Cindy. I grew up with some of these guys. http://www.myspace.com/cindyrock

stu gee

ronniethebear wrote:

I reeeeeeally hope no one here names Devendra Banhart. He's quite possibly the most overrated "musician" in the past five years, next to Jack White.

I thought devenrda banhart was a she

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