The Unknown Good Bands

[Berethond]

That's because live music is always better.

 

[hotacidbath]

Something To Do is a sort of local Ska band that's pretty good but I don't think they really perform outside of Wisconsin.

 

[Newmera]

Captain Squeegee&The Soap Suds is a good local ska band around here, i love them! All the unknown people are best 'cause theyre not whored out by fame fortune the people&the media yet =/

 

[G1eet]

Has anyone else noticed that when your just browsing around or at a gig, you hear a band and straight off there usually pretty damn good. Anyone else notice this?
Give your opinions.

For starters, your avatar is leaking awesome. You may want to mop that up.

Also, PUSA, Protest the Hero, and August Burns Red.

Giant Panda Guerrilla Dub Squad. those guys are great.

One of my coworkers just got to go see them last week. He was super stoked and has never been disappointed by them.

The way he was describing them to me made me feel like checking them out, which is odd, because I've usually only been listening to metal of late.

 

[RanD00M]

Lemon Demon is pretty good in my opinion. I don't think many people know about them which is just a shame.

This is the ultimate showdown.Of ultimate destiny.

I would have to say that Interpol is fairly unknown and yet so good.

 

[Poomanchu745]

Woe of Tyrants, Between the Buried and Me, August Burns Red, Misery Signals, As I Lay Dying, Protest the Hero.

If you are a big fan of metalcore, progressive metal, or newer metal in general youve probably heard of some if not most of these bands. Glad the radio havent got their hands on any of these guys. Always seems that when the radio gets involved bands start to become generic and crappy. Or maybe thats what the radio looks for in the first place...

 

[iamthehorde]

for every famous band out there there´s another band that´s a thousand times better but also a thousand times less known. if life was fair, fugazi would´ve gotten the same credit like nirvana back in the early 90ies, you would be able to actually buy an unwound record at a store somewhere near you. if no one here knows unwound, it´s the perfect evidence of my point. listen to them now. also, people would not be so pissed off about rap-music because all that shit on mtv that makes hip hop look retarded wouldn´t be so hyped and real mcs could shine(i actually find it funny that most people that claim to hate rap-music like rap when you play real rap where the mc has really put some effort in his lyrics, the beats seem to be alright for the most).

the most awesome band i want everyone to know about but still seems tied strictly to indieland is les savy fav. some of you might know them without knowing it, they were on a radio station in gta4. hasn´t done much for them popularity wise.

 

[MrSnugglesworth]

Death Cab for Cutie.




Great band.

 

[VonGentlemen]

Lemon Demon is pretty good in my opinion. I don't think many people know about them which is just a shame.

Ah, chap, I do love me some Lemon Demon, what with their Satirist Love Songs and their Word Dissiociation.

I listen to progressive metal, opera, advent garde and folk metal.
One of the requirements for those industries is to be generally unknown.

 

[Tranka Verrane]

The reason you think there are a lot of great unknown bands is that you haven't worked out the difference between a group of great musicians and a group that makes great songs. Pop will churn out crappy bands that don't write and create their own music but by and large its the ones that do that will become acclaimed and last the course. And a great song is much harder to produce regularly than great music is. That's why the Beatles and Nirvana are great, while Soundgarden are just good.

The great bands that are less well known are the ones that were acknowledged in their time but have fallen out of fashion now and been largely forgotten. Anyone that is any good now gets the recognition they deserve, eventually.

OT: Hope&Social, formerly Four Day Hombre, show signs of greatness to come.

 

[ClaptonKnophlerHendrix]

MESHUGGAH \o/

Thats not really the point of this thread, its more bands that are completely unknown to a small group in their local area, usually unsigned. Meshuggah may not be a huge band but they are definetely bigger then any of the other bands here.
OT: A band in my area called Scream for Silence in my area are good, a bit to much screaming for my taste though. Another band called for our hero are good, just a bit to poppy.

 

[Origin Of Resistance]

for every famous band out there there´s another band that´s a thousand times better but also a thousand times less known. if life was fair, fugazi would´ve gotten the same credit like nirvana back in the early 90ies, you would be able to actually buy an unwound record at a store somewhere near you. if no one here knows unwound, it´s the perfect evidence of my point. listen to them now. also, people would not be so pissed off about rap-music because all that shit on mtv that makes hip hop look retarded wouldn´t be so hyped and real mcs could shine(i actually find it funny that most people that claim to hate rap-music like rap when you play real rap where the mc has really put some effort in his lyrics, the beats seem to be alright for the most).

the most awesome band i want everyone to know about but still seems tied strictly to indieland is les savy fav. some of you might know them without knowing it, they were on a radio station in gta4. hasn´t done much for them popularity wise.

Don't forget the band Mudhoney! They were on the same label as Nirvana. At the same time!

 

[riskroWe]

Yeah I hear heaps of amateur stuff on myspace thats often times better than some of the signed stuff I hear.
Maybe it's just because they're young and they haven't lost the spark yet. Once the spark is gone, that's what determines a truly good musician.

 

[Sven und EIN HUND]

Melbourne based band called Talk Show Host that played at my high school, they're pretty damn good

 

[Aerodyamic]

I'm a sucker for some of the local bands in my area, but since they'd be happy if people started looking them up... shameless plugs follow!

Raygun Cowboys
The Crazy 8's
Smoking .45's
Sam Hate and the Jackals

Now, for some smaller, not-so local bands:

Creepshow
The Afterbeats
The Toadies
The Dropkick Murphys

There's a slew of small punk bands that me friends and I have ported to digital format, but most of the dub tapes didn't have legible names any more, so many of the songs are unlabeled, except by name. I'll have to fix that, someday.

 

[Fostaar]

Them Crooked Vultures! new collaboration involving Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age), Dave grohl (Foos, Nirvana), and John Paul Jones (Led Zep). only have one song so far but its awesome called New Fang. album released in New Zealand a whole day before the states fuckyea, cos theyre a yank band so i dont get it but fuckyea.

also- Blindspott (metal), Kora (electric dub), Katchafire (dub/reggae) Shihad (a.k.a. pacifier in USA, heavy rock/metal)- are all amazing homegrown NZ bands that I would rate higher than many foreign acts, which is saying something cos alot of NZ music is shit.
all of these are reasonably unknown i would think but well worth switching the radio or music tv off for because they just outclass any of that in creative and musical merit.

 

[superbleeder12]

I hate these hipster cred threads. there's so much pretention thrown about, its insane.

but my two cents, I'm listening to We Made God, an Icelandic post rock band.

My favorite band of all time is Godspeed You! Black Emperor, another post rock band. Honestly though, most of the stuff I listen to is underground because mainstream pop music isn't necessarily bad, it just gets overplayed madly.

 

[iamthehorde]

for every famous band out there there´s another band that´s a thousand times better but also a thousand times less known. if life was fair, fugazi would´ve gotten the same credit like nirvana back in the early 90ies, you would be able to actually buy an unwound record at a store somewhere near you. if no one here knows unwound, it´s the perfect evidence of my point. listen to them now. also, people would not be so pissed off about rap-music because all that shit on mtv that makes hip hop look retarded wouldn´t be so hyped and real mcs could shine(i actually find it funny that most people that claim to hate rap-music like rap when you play real rap where the mc has really put some effort in his lyrics, the beats seem to be alright for the most).

the most awesome band i want everyone to know about but still seems tied strictly to indieland is les savy fav. some of you might know them without knowing it, they were on a radio station in gta4. hasn´t done much for them popularity wise.

Don't forget the band Mudhoney! They were on the same label as Nirvana. At the same time!

you´re right, and they were a major influence for cobain, yet they are also not known by most nirvana fans. i guess you can form two groups of listeners: diggers that seek out bands, check the bands the guys in the band they like were in before, look up the label roaster to find similar good bands and the people that stumble from artist to artist, not really knowing why. the ladder can also be found frequently in the so called indie-crowd, which often makes me wonder why these people think they are so special above all the pop-listeners when they also just suck up what´s so hot right now. not that there´s anything wrong with that, but a lot of those have some kind of indie-elitism although they consume music the very same way like the people they despise for not having a good taste in music.

 

[plastic_window]

Alright then.

Boards of Canada - two Scottish DJs that create incredibly atmospheric and beautiful, but totally unconventional, music.

Infected Mushroom - two Israeli DJs that create electronic compositions with songs that hit you hard, take you on a journey and leave you nothing but impressed.

So you might think these guys aren't 'bands' in the same way that Type-O-Negative (O snap, sweet name drop!) is a band, but I'd say they are. There's more than one person making music here, and I'm pretty sure that's what a band is, right?

 

[plastic_window]

This is the ultimate showdown.Of ultimate destiny.

I would have to say that Interpol is fairly unknown and yet so good.

My brothers saw them supporting U2 a few years ago, I'd say they must be pretty well known if they get to roll with U2.

Although I don't really hear Interpol on the radio or anything, so I suppose you're kinda right.

Anyhoo, I like Interpol too. Yay!