Awesome bands that only you have ever heard of.

[blankedboy]

The Love Language
Beach House
Bat For Lashes
Justice
Mars Volta
MSTRKRFT
Spiritualized
TV on the Radio

all good bands that aren't too well known.

TV on the Radio = bullshit.

On-topic, Crossfade, the Cranberries, Herbie Hancock, and Pink Floyd.

Why is TVOTR bs?

And you were kidding about the cranberries, herbie, and pf? Right?

I was kidding about PF.
Wait, you've heard of the Cranberries?
AND Herbie Hancock?

Wow.

 

[Tallim]

This thread was done not even more then a week ago.

But the whole premise of the thread is flawed as every band is known, be it at least to their friends and families, tho the bands that will get mentioned here will mostly all be on one record label or another, now if they weren't known apart from just you or a very few people they wouldn't be on a label, and wouldn't be making records.

Not to mention I've, at the very least, heard of every band already mentioned cept one

You would also assume that the people in the band had heard of it too.

As to the OP : Soundwitch, Zoltar Speaks, Two Minute Hour

 

[sirkai007]

Streetlight Manifesto. I love that band so much but no one I know seems to have ever heard of them untill I make them listen to them in my car all the time.

This. It upsets me that so few people I've met know who Streetlight is or even know what ska is for that matter.

I shall also mention the awesome band that is Big D and the Kids Table.

I'm not the only Ska fan in the world?!?!?!?! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHEHEHEHEEEEE!!!! Did you guys catch the warped tour last year?

I will add The Vincent Black Shadow to the list.


yay I figured out how to embed video!!!

 

[CNKFan]

The Horn. They are a Austrailian industrial black metal band with an egyptian lyrical theme here is wone of their songs:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xte81wiLcmc

 

[sketch_zeppelin]

Blank Theory
Cafe del mar (more of a collection of ambiant music than a band)
seatbelts (the guys who do the music for cowboy bebop)

 

[Choppaduel]

This thread was done not even more then a week ago.

But the whole premise of the thread is flawed as every band is known, be it at least to their friends and families, tho the bands that will get mentioned here will mostly all be on one record label or another, now if they weren't known apart from just you or a very few people they wouldn't be on a label, and wouldn't be making records.

Not to mention I've, at the very least, heard of every band already mentioned cept one

Th premise of this thread isn't really relevant to it's objective, which is: to raise awareness about obscure bands that you like and feel deserve more attention.

That being said. I have one particularly little known artist in mind:

Cpen

 

[Arisato-kun]

Streetlight Manifesto. I love that band so much but no one I know seems to have ever heard of them untill I make them listen to them in my car all the time.

This. It upsets me that so few people I've met know who Streetlight is or even know what ska is for that matter.

I shall also mention the awesome band that is Big D and the Kids Table.

I'm not the only Ska fan in the world?!?!?!?! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHEHEHEHEEEEE!!!! Did you guys catch the warped tour last year?

I will add The Vincent Black Shadow to the list.


yay I figured out how to embed video!!!

Epic. Streetlight, Big D and Less Than Jake were all fantastic. Not even going this year since Streetlight's only in Florida or something. In case you didn't notice Streetlight's my favorite band. >_>

 

[sirkai007]

Also Neon Trees (what does that mean?)

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

Machinae Supremacy. Obviously they're sorta known, but among my friends and school-people NOBODY has heard of them bar one.

 

[Guffe]

Alright, so there are always people who know about bands but I am the only one around my friends who listen to older Metal/Rock so here are a few examples my friends never heard of, the sad thing is these bands were huge and some still are really great.

Helloween
Pretty Maids
Queensryche
Savatage
TNT
Blackfoot
Bonfire

and then I can't remember any of the rare bands I listen to, but now you get a picture of how lonely I am when it comes to music around my friends since they don't even know anything about these bands... ;(

 

[sirkai007]

Streetlight Manifesto. I love that band so much but no one I know seems to have ever heard of them untill I make them listen to them in my car all the time.

This. It upsets me that so few people I've met know who Streetlight is or even know what ska is for that matter.

I shall also mention the awesome band that is Big D and the Kids Table.

I'm not the only Ska fan in the world?!?!?!?! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHEHEHEHEEEEE!!!! Did you guys catch the warped tour last year?

I will add The Vincent Black Shadow to the list.


yay I figured out how to embed video!!!

Epic. Streetlight, Big D and Less Than Jake were all fantastic. Not even going this year since Streetlight's only in Florida or something. In case you didn't notice Streetlight's my favorite band. >_>

My first experience with them was at the Great Saltair in Utah. They opened for Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake. There was another band there too but they were like a hardcore Ska and it didn't work.

 

[Diligent]

These threads are dangerous because I love finding new music, and I'm going to have to look into each and every band that is mentioned that I haven't heard of.
Not a lot of people I know have heard of:
Ad Astra Per Aspera
dEUS
The Vanishing Kids
Beta Band (or the singers other project) Black Affair

 

[Diligent]

These threads are dangerous because I love finding new music, and I'm going to have to look into each and every band that is mentioned that I haven't heard of.
Not a lot of people I know have heard of:
Ad Astra Per Aspera
dEUS
The Vanishing Kids
Beta Band (or the singers other project) Black Affair

 

[Captain Pirate]

Does it Offend You, Yeah?
None of my friends seem to know them.. Only one does and that's because I told him about them.

 

[Nihlex]

Comeback Kid hurray for hardcore >=]

 

[Nihlex]

Comeback Kid hurray for hardcore =D

 

[Flamezdudes]

Well, atleast everyone in my school and my friends. They don't know about Them Crooked Vultures and they're absolutely brilliant.

Spoiler

 

[AidoruKami]

Streetlight Manifesto. I love that band so much but no one I know seems to have ever heard of them untill I make them listen to them in my car all the time.

Holy crap, I was going to say this until I saw this post. Streetlight's awesome.

Um. That was the one I had, uhh... Oh! Autopilot Off! That's a good one. An SR-71. Yeah. I'll go with those and the above.

 

[palindromia]

Visa (or, apparently now, Viza). I fucking love that band.

"Viza is a brigade of 9 international musicians from Los Angeles, integrating duduk, percussion and oud with the hard edge of rock."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFWcOzZeFAE


Also, Paris Combo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWtroU4pUII
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CJrR7nJfss

 

[Maldark]

There has to be someone out there that knows Kidneytheives right? They're just about my favourite band ever, so syched they've gotton back together and are delivering a new album this year!

Slightly less obscure is Seether, not a lot of people have heard of them.

OP, everone I know knows who MSI is, because they're awesome.