Great Bands that aren't "well known"

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  • denverfan
    denverfan Posts: 218
    Dude, I went to a show at Red Rocks with Ween as the headline and the Flamming Lips as the opener...I had free tickets and some free acid so I said what the fuck..lets rock! These bands are both great live, so I commense to picking up their material, turns out, the bands are obscure sure, but still fucking RAD!
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  • denverfan
    denverfan Posts: 218
    The Clarks???
    And for some reason, everything Shawn Smith does??? Not real well known would you say? I know in the Pac NW he's well known but you ask around the midwest and much of the east, no one knows who the fuck he is!
    "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity but they've always worked for me." Gonzo

    'If my fuckin' ex-wife told me to take care of her dog while her and her new boyfriend went to Honolulu, I'd tell her to go fuck herself." -The Dude

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  • StarkulfR
    StarkulfR Posts: 1
    Whitesnake, seen them live too many times too count, always awesome.
    Girlschool, Race With The Devil is a Classic.
    Antigone Rising, another new discovery, (for me at least)
    Nightwish, as AR
    Heart, Heart been listening to Anne and Nancy forever.
    Cheetah, Aussie band
    Vixen, only saw them once at the T&C in Kentish Town, WOW
    ELIS, Der Letzte Tag is brilliant, it's a crying shame what happened to Sabine, the vocalist.
    These are just a few of what I listen to. There's also this american band Pearl summat or other, dunno if anyone else has heard of them:)
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    Todd76 wrote:
    fairly unknown outside Canada:

    Stars
    Wolf Parade
    the Dears
    Sarah Harmer
    Hayden
    Broken Social Scene
    Metric
    Arcade Fire
    Controller Controller
    Hidden Cameras
    the Rheostatics
    Sloan
    Ron Sexsmith
    Feist
    Eric's Trip

    no love for the new pornographers?

    sloan is awesome. how come they dont have a thread here?
  • Todd76
    Todd76 Posts: 1,469
    soulsinging wrote:
    no love for the new pornographers?

    sloan is awesome. how come they dont have a thread here?

    Sorry - a glaring omission on my part....LOVE the New Pornographers
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  • Klumpie
    Klumpie Posts: 2,649
    The God Machine
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    Super Furry Animals
  • Soupy
    Soupy Posts: 171
    Angelfish (Shirley Manson Pre Garbage band)
    Band of Horses
    The Delgardos
    dEUS
    The Driven
    Hope Of The States
    Jellyfish
    Jump (formely known as Jump, Little Children)
    Kent
    Lovedrug
    The Murder City Devils
    Remy Zero
    Rival Schools
    Satchel/Brad/Pigeonhed/Shawn Smith Solo (I guess with the Brad connection more people on hear will have heard of Shawn than most places).
    Skindive
    The Sleepy Jackson
    Span
    Thermadore
    Tripping Daisy
    Unified Theory
  • pjhabit
    pjhabit Posts: 211
    I know the banjo player & the singer through a freind (they used to go to school here, in the states) check them out

    Grand Island
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6xAbQ2MK6E
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  • glasshouse
    glasshouse Posts: 1,762
    springbok nude girls

    brilliant south african alternative rock and roll band
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  • Answers_In_Playdoh
    Answers_In_Playdoh Posts: 207
    Midnattsol ~ I didn't like them at first but I'm glad I went and gave them a second listen :Dhttp://www.midnattsol.com
  • JonnyPistachio
    JonnyPistachio 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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  • yield2me
    yield2me Posts: 1,291
    Black Angels
    “May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.” - Frank Sinatra
  • pjhabit
    pjhabit Posts: 211
    http://www.paolonutini.com/media/
    check him out!
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  • JamHead86
    JamHead86 Posts: 37
    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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  • Jammin909
    Jammin909 Posts: 888
    http://www.thetakeovermusic.com
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  • Spacegrass Yeti
    Spacegrass Yeti Posts: 24
    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)
  • QuarterToTen
    QuarterToTen Cincinnati, Ohio Posts: 3,650
    Concrete Blonde

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=ESBt-EEEHkA
    Nice shirt.
  • artjam
    artjam Posts: 227
    Spacegrass Yeti wrote:
    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.
  • Spacegrass Yeti
    Spacegrass Yeti Posts: 24
    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.

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