Your Favorite Bands and Artists No One has Ever Heard...

[Vision of Division]

list the bands you love that no one seems to know about cause they aren't mainstream.

Some bands i like that fall under this catogory:

-Brad Sucks
-Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly!
-Aesop Rock
-Band of Horses
-The Unicorns
-Brand New
-TV on the Radio

and for some reason none of my friends seem to know who Phoenix or Bloc Party are which is wierd to me.

So post bands (any genre of course) that you like that you don't think are as big as they should be or that no one else knows about and maybe a youtube video or something of there best song to get a preview.

TVOTR and Bloc party are awesome. I am ashamed I don't know the rest, I did see a guy from Get Cape... on Nevermind the Buzzcocks once

 

[Arrers]

I've never pursued this very far, but around my college a lot of people have never heard of Pavement or Built To Spill.

 

[Vision of Division]

Lemon Demon (I know you have heard of them. You just don't know it)
Ghostland Observatory

I've seen them live a few times. I think Neil is a pretty funny guy.

My favorite band that no one i know excluding one friend knows of or listens too is Electric Six and I feel like a broken record saying it because I dunno how many times I have!
These are the songs that made me start listening to them

YESYESYES! I saw Gaybar on MTV once and it was a revelation. I starting singing; 'YOU, I wanna take you to a gaybar' to everyone, now my whole class knows it

 

[Resistance205]

I love Band Of Horses, and No One's Gonna Love You is from Cease To Begin, not Everything all The Time. Annoying Youtube video's!

One's I have youtube links for:
Josh Pyke: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFbkncgKugM
Modest Mouse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1QqQ5KaNBU
Death Cab For Cutie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9JB2ETgatI
The Dangerous Summer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3yiUbzm0ME

One's without:
Home Star Runner
The Shower Scene
Blue Syndrome
Jodie has A Hitlist
As Tall As Lions

Modest mouse and death cab for cutie ,have had some pretty serious airtime over here in the UK (mm with that flot on ,and god knows what for death cab because i think they`re shit ,but i know they`ve charted )

OT:Sacred reich

Yeah, over in Ireland they arent really well known, and no one I talk to actually knows who they are sadly.

 

[Streake]

Tokyo Police Club

Anamanaguchi


Anamanaguchi is like 8-bit soundscapes with guitar drums and bass thrown in.

Tokyo Police Club is indie

 

[Malevolent Stranger]

I killed the Prom Queen. When I ask about them most people look at me and throw rocks.

 

[zyoto12]

turisas-viking metal

falconer-metal, fantasy/viking

 

[Brnin8]

BigElf is fairly unknown but are gaining renown from the prog nation 09 tour with Dream Theater I'm sure (it's where I found out about them). They are like a modern day Black Sabbath or Pink Floyd.

 

[Pillypill]

Red Man Red. i saw them in some place near where i live and they were GREAT! I think they have a myspace if any of you are into indie rock/pop/soul... hell i don't know what genre they are. =D

(this is not advertising, ALL their songs are under copyright (to them), i'm only suggesting that you check them out, pluss it's on the subject of this thread)

 

[LiftYourSkinnyFists]

I Have a few under my belt for stuff people have not heard, well ALOT of people probably have just not local to me...

Cannibal Ox - Iron Galaxy Grooveshark [http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?mm5mtyacyzn] A good hip hop group, well I like them.

Roetaka - Ocean Pollen Grooveshark [http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Ocean_Pollen_e3m2_/4754353] Video game remixer this one is from the OCRemix dark side of phobos project

Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song [http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/song/Interstate_Love_Song/65335] Really nice radio rock / grunge sounding band.

 

[superbleeder12]

Afterlives - shoegaze/noise rock multi-instrumentalist putting together some great stuff.
Agalloch - great Dark Folk band from Washington state, very good stuff, think of it as a better opeth
Airiel - awesome overlooked shoegaze band
Alamaailman Vasarat - polish metal/ska band, if you dig Diablo Swing Orchestra, this band is awesome.
Alcest - Black metal influenced Shoegaze from Niege, a genious multi-instrumentalist from france.
The American Dollar - Post rock/electronic band, great to chill out to
Amesoeurs - side project of Niege from above, more punk influenced stuff.
Arctic Plateau - shoegaze/atmospheric rock from italy. very good stuff
Astronautalis - very imaginative hip hop artist out of florida.

That's just the A's

 

[Gondito]

im not sure but is The Script widely known?
really no one I know has heard of them

We Cry

Spoiler

Break Even

Spoiler

Before The Worst

Spoiler

 

[similar.squirrel]

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Nobody I know has heard of Russian Circles, but then again, they inhabit quite a niche genre..

Edit: Crap. How the hell do you embed videos?I've been trying for quite a while =/

 

[Alphavillain]

It's not so much unheard-of bands and artists but ones that should be seen as great that aren't. "Red House Painters" and "American Music Club" are two bands from the late 80s/early 90s that really should be thought of in the same breath as any of the great bands of that era, like REM and U2. Also bands like "Mission Of Burma" and "Husker Du"

 

[Alphavillain]

Also underground hip-hop, like Cannibal Ox (someone said that above, which reminded me), Quasimoto, MF Doom, Deltron 3030. All the hip-hop and rap haters on this site should listen to this before they open their mouths or their vole-like mits to carp about "crap rap" again.

 

[saibot216]

Wow. Okay. This is pretty much every band I listen too so... I'll just list a few
-Einsturzende Neubauten
-Chemlab
-PIG
-KMFDM
-Klaus Schulze
-Schwein
-Schaft
-Kraftwerk

 

[Archereus]

Corvus Corax [http://www.dizzler.com/index.search.dv8?f=1&q=Corvus+Corax]. One of their best is Ergo Bibamus.

You get a cookie.

Spoiler: Om nom nom

Sorry, I just had to. >.<​

Edit: To add to the worth of the topic.
Anthem [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1_kko0qCIU]
John Clarke [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHU-AJTn0I8] No idea who he is but I love that track.[/small]
Voltaire [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0SrOIqLL2E]

that's so incredibly cute and surprisingly hilarious. Thank god i came on this site or i wouldn't have been able to find all of this amazing comedy gold.

 

[Bobsonnn]

Engel, Absolute Design is an amazing album.

Also, Isengard.

 

[FightThePower]

Christ. A lot of you are living in denial if you think people haven't heard of Brand New, Death Cab and Electric Six. EVERYONE knows who Electric Six are. Come on, Gay Bar, High Voltage, Dance Commander and that Radio Ga Ga cover? Get Cape, Wear Cape, Fly were on at Reading festival. Modest Mouse is pretty big too.

This guy speaks the truth.

Anyway - Grafton Primary and South Central. Both are excellent.

 

[blaze338]

Municipal Waste, i got all my friends into this amazing crossover thrash band but other than that no one has heard of them.

Wretched, an amazing new melodic death metal band.

Wintersun, epic metal band from finland, you can't even find their cd where i live.