Favorite local non-famous band

[electricmonk]

So what's your towns best undiscovered band? I'm looking for some new sounds tonight and thought I'd see what's going on elsewhere. So post links if you have them unless it's an mp3.com site I hate that place with a pssion now.

Here's my towns Stations. Ok I'm a bit biased here since they are friends of mine and I did their website for them(still a work in progress, please forgive any dead links or inconsistent design)

Download this mp3 (3.5mb)Citizen Youth




StarCityPunk.com

[Tom Kitten]

1. how unknown do you have to be?

and what is the genre? anything? If so, I'd say Dead Moon...don't tour the US except the NW, but are big in Europe...they were given brief attention in the movie "Hype"...they're lo-fi, but they'll rock til they die (already grandparents)...

[electricmonk]

3. Non major label/Clear Channel airplay I guess

Would be what I'm looking for. Actually major labels are ok if they haven't gotten wide spread notice yet. So if you live in Athens, Georgia no REM links.

As far as style my tastes are all over the place. From punk to alt. country. Check out this band from LA Eastmountainsouth The girl in the band is from my hometown and an old friend so I try to plug them whenever possible.

edit for typo

[flamingyouth]

8. Dead Moon - they are amazing!

I love Fred & Toody & Andrew - oh, they are great - they would be among my nominees for "best current American band" right now. All hail them.

[Andy_Stephenson]

2. Godot

from Seattle. We've been waitng for Godot to make it big for a long time.
Pun intended.

[leftofthedial]

4. Rainville

at www.outoftheboxmusic.com

Americana/alt country

[Ein]

5. Giggys Prime n/t

I am in thier side band, a grind-core band. I cannot understand the singers lyrics, but he told me its mostly about shoving legoes up his ass.

[electricmonk]

6. Sounds like a grind-core band

A friend of mine is in one and that's the type of wierd stuff they sang about. Some twisted shit.

[SmileyBoy]

7. Curious Yello

They were at Playmaker's Pavillion on the night that I had college orientation, so I checked them out, and they were the total SHIZ-NITE.

[rucky]

9. Charmparticles

www.charmparticles.com

listen to "theseareyourwalkingpapers"

[electricmonk]

14. I liked that

Reminds me a little of the Church.

Checkout this site it has some projects similar to that. shakespace.com

[HEyHEY]

10. The smugglers

[RebelOne]

11. When I lived in South Florida, many, many moons ago

my favorite band was Tiger, Tiger. They were Lee and Stephen Tiger, Miccosukee Indians. They recorded a few albums, but were never really big. But they were good.

[NightTrain]

12. 9th Wave

Instrumental surf-rock band from Storrs, Connecticut. 9th Wave rocks, hodads!

[mitchum]

13. hope for agoldensummer (Athens,GA)

the rest are too well known to qualify

[GOPisEvil]

15. The Gourds (Austin, TX)

www.thegourds.com

[tarkus]

16. A band called "Strike City" sounds interesting, but I can't find much info

[tarkus]

17. Oh yeah, I mean my (cough) great band Manchuria!

[Tikki]

18. The "Submarines"....

....not local to us, we're in CA. The Submarines are from the Toledo area, we believe.
We discovered them on a Music Board and even though we have never seen them live, their PUNK sound is genuine and amazing. And they are sooo young and write their own music. Favorite numbers are "No One Around" "Rock and Roll Submarine" and "Not Too Concerned" and "Why You Gotta Be Like That".
We hope they get famous some day so they can tour So. Cal or we get the time and money to make it out to the Toledo, Ypsilanti, Detroit area to see them play.

The Tikkis

[Jonte_1979]

19. The Schplonk

Okay, so I made that up.

[kutastha]

20. The Busstop Hurricanes

A very eclectic mix of rockabilly, surf and lounge music out of Fullerton, California. There's the table-climbing Sammy Tonic taking the lead on vocals, the beautiful Twisty Lemons on lead guitar, The J. Edgar Hoover on bass, an occassional visit from Hector Jesus Joaquim D'Lamour also on guitar and a constantly rotating drummer.

They were even ranked #27 on OC Weekly's 129 Greatest Orange County Bands Ever and are amazingly still virtually unknown.

http://www.busstophurricanes.com

[Nailzberg]

21. Maintenance of Order

Their shows rank among the greatest industrial shows I've ever been witness to. Unfortunatly they've been on a long hiatus and I fear they may never play again, which totally sucks.

[efhmc]

22. Asleep at the Wheel.

I like opera but thought you might need this name.

[LWolf]

23. It depends on your definition of "favorite."

There are a couple of young men who play guitar and sing locally that I'm partial to, but they don't currently have a name.

And then there are the bands listed on this site:

http://www.noexitrecords.com/indexie.html

None of them are my favorites. Not my preference in style. But the young men who started the site and organized the local action are favorites of mine, and I've shown up to hear them play regularly.

This site hasn't been updated since last spring, and I can't find some of the downloads I know used to be there. But some of the bands have Mp3s available.

[Section_43]

24. Big Smith and Ozark Mountain Daredevils

Big Smith from Springfield, MO

http://www.bigsmithband.com/

and the Daredevils from Nixa, MO

http://www.ozarkdaredevils.com/

[JackDragna]

25. Abita Beer

Made in Abita Springs, LA. Great local brew.

Edit: Whoops! Thought it said "Brand." You can't drink people..not without a really big straw.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

26. Horse in A Box, Skenesborough Renegades, wallace., Loki, delta sleep

nt i'm too lazy to find the links

[Kat45]

27. Tribe of Judah

The band is in Boston. An interesting, and non-commercial sound; you could call in rock with a techno edge. Interesting philosophical/spiritual lyrics. Some folks may remember singer Gary Cherone from Extreme and the last incarnation of Van Halen, but TOJ's sound is world's away from those bands.

http://www.tojonline.com/