NationStates Jolt Archive

Forget about your favourite bands etc...im sure that has been done to death...just wondering if any nationstaters have found any up and coming bands that they really like...or perhaps even obscure old artists that you might think will interest the forum users...tell us about them...

Band/Artist Name?

Genre?

Sounds like?

Best track?

Myspace?

Nina Simone - Remixed and Re-imagined

I think you'll like it.

Type 'Cake - You can have him' into Youtube.

There's a scratch record, Kid Koala-style in that song.

Name: Broken Social Scene

Genre: According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Social_Scene) their genres include: Indie rock, Baroque Pop, Experimental, Shoegazing, Art Rock

Sounds like: Not sure of any good comparisons I could make. You need to hear them.

Best track: Lover's Spit has always been one of my favourites. Can't say I dislike any of their songs but.

Myspace: I never use MySpace, but according to Google it is at http://www.myspace.com/brokensocialscene

Name: Max Normal.tv

Genre: Electronica/Hip Hop/Psychedelic pop

Sounds Like: Nothing else on earth

Best Track: The Way of the Dassie

http://www.maxnormal.tv/music.php

Max Normal is a band wierder than any you've ever encountered before...

Forget about your favourite bands etc...im sure that has been done to death...just wondering if any nationstaters have found any up and coming bands that they really like...or perhaps even obscure old artists that you might think will interest the forum users...tell us about them...

Band/Artist Name?

Genre?

Sounds like?

Best track?

Myspace?

A few:


Band/Artist Name - Grand Funk Railroad

Genre? - Rock

Sounds like? - Part metal, but with funky bits. Heavy funk rock, basically.

Best track? - Inside Looking Out for long tracks, or We're An American Band

Myspace? - Feh. Use Youtube.


Band/Artist Name? - Pat Travers

Genre? - Blues-rock

Sounds like? - Bluesy heavy metal.

Best track? - Snortin' Whiskey

Myspace? - Again. Youtube, people!

Band/Artist Name?The Fugs

Genre?Hippie/Folk

Sounds like?Jam bands that don't suck.

Best track?"Kill For Peace"

Myspace?Dunno.

Band/Artist Name? - Myco - Changin' My Life

Genre? - Japanese Pop

Sounds like? - Mostly like anime music

Best track? - Eternal Snow

Myspace? - Dunno. YouTube!

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Those soundtracks are great - especially Season 1 and 2 are wonderful.

Can't wait till Season 3 will come out in a couple of weeks...

Band/Artist Name?- Old Time Relijun

Genre?- Deconstructional/confrontational Swamp-Stomp madness

Sounds like?- A scullery where people get burned alot

Best track?- Click and listen, full song- http://krecs.com/media/audio/OTR_Tigersinthetemple.mp3

Myspace?- they have one, not ran by the band

My faves are goth and Industrial stuff. Last time I was really excited by a new-discovery band was Powerman 5000. But my tastes are fairly eclectic. Even so - I was surprised by:

Band/Artist Name? the "Timbaland presents Shock Value" project

Genre?; Sounds like? Hard to be sure... very eclectic. Some very-much-R&B stuff, but a surprisingly eclectic album. It's the eclectic stuff that interested me.

Best track? I'm really liking "The Way I Are", "Bombay", "Throw It On Me", "One and Only", and "Time" (that's the best one, to my taste).

Myspace?
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=118548912

"Time", on youtube, no vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZQ4v4VFYB0

"Bombay", on youtube, no vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUKCS5UfYVQ

"One and Only" (features Fall Out Boy), PG-13 lyrics :), on youtube, no vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoiEKHky-3E

Gallows. Tis Watford punk, and if you're British, you ought to have heard them. Myspace.com/gallows (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=4459262)

You me at 6. Pop punk that I really can't get out of my head. Myspace.com/youmeat6 (http://www.myspace.com/youmeat6)

Nina Simone - Remixed and Re-imagined

I think you'll like it.

Type 'Cake - You can have him' into Youtube.

There's a scratch record, Kid Koala-style in that song.

Ive got that Nina Simone remixed album on vinyl baz...and you're right I love it...though you can never beat the originals ;-)

ill tell you some new artists

The Rebirth...soul dance band from Los Angeles US...best tune is called "this journey in" a must for your record box...check them on...

www.myspace.com/therebirth

D-66...this guy is something else...hes like trash punk blues and brilliant...gonna have him up for one of my clubnights before christmas...check him on

www.myspace.com/d66isd77

Hot Chip...sort of electronica out of the UK...dont know whether they are known stateside yet but worth a look

www.myspace.com/hotchip

Paul Curreri...pretty unknown folky type singer out of new york...very good and probably going to be big

John Stammers...this is a friend of mine in manc...and he is a amazing...you can hear his stuff on

www.myspace.com/johnstammers

its like 60s folky psychodelia stuff

older artists

Eugene mcdaniels...his album the four horsemen of the apocalypse is well worth a look...hes like a black Dylan and got booted off his label for a song called parasite which told of the genocide by the settlers of the american indians...brilliant

www.myspace.com/eugenemcdaniels

A few:


Band/Artist Name - Grand Funk Railroad

They're coming to your town to help you party down.


Band/Artist Name? - Uri Caine (the Mozart album, been a fan for a while now, but now listening to the Mozart album

Genre? - Third Stream/Free Jazz

Sounds like? - Mozart in a blender

Best track? - Whole album

Myspace? - Uri doesn't hang with the MySpace...but speaking of MySpace, I'll take this opportunity to pimp the little brother's band one more time...


Band/Artist Name? - The Grumpy (http://www.angelfire.com/rock/grumpy/)

Genre? - Rock

Sounds Like? - Seriously, I'm not a rocker so I suck at the 'sounds like,' part of why I keep pimping his band is to try and get someone who is a rocker to tell me.

Best Track - My favorite is an old song of theirs, Feeling a Sense (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_8aabKr3vlk), I also like *Tastic (http://youtube.com/watch?v=_Jxzc0MTG0M). For complitions sake, heres Walk (http://youtube.com/watch?v=yk3vAOHe67s) which is the most rockin' of the three, I kinda like the 'buzz' sound of the guitar here. Different version (http://youtube.com/watch?v=afL--w5KzhU).

MySpace - Here. (http://www.myspace.com/thegrumpy)

Band/Artist Name? - Children of Bodom
Genre? - Death/Power Metal
Sounds like? - I dunno, death metal. Their playing style is for sure power metal influenced almost on the verge of BNW, but lyrics and vocal stem from death metal. My guess is cause the Finnish don't have anything close to Bruce, Rob or Dio.
Best track? - Six Pounder, You're Better Off Dead
Myspace? - Children of Bodom (http://www.myspace.com/childrenofbodom)

Gallows. Tis Watford punk, and if you're British, you ought to have heard them. Myspace.com/gallows (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=4459262)

You me at 6. Pop punk that I really can't get out of my head. Myspace.com/youmeat6 (http://www.myspace.com/youmeat6)
Eugh.

Has British music really stooped so low that we can actually claim these bands are, say, any good?

Sad times, really.

Modern music is now hackneyed post-rock shite, or, possibly worse, imitation punk, with none of the crappy conditions that provided lyrical depth of (erm some, although not most) 1970s stuff to make it even remotely interesting.

another acoustic little gem...

Get cape wear cape fly...try the song..."the chronicles of a bohemian teenager"

www.myspace.com/getcapewearcapefly

Pig Destroyer
Grindcore, Deathgrind, Experimental
It sounds like raging blasts of hot napalm out of your bum.

Fingers In The Throat, Three Second Apocalypse, Scouring The Wreckage, Pretty In Casts, Girl In The Slayer Jacket.

Bongzilla

stoner metal

sounds like a heavier downtuned Black Sabbath with harsher vocals

Keefmaster or Grim Reefer

http://www.myspace.com/bongzilla420

I've started listening to ABBA. Otherwise I listen mostly to rock.

Right Now:

Nightwish (with their new singer)
Symphonic Metal
Sounds like the definitional Symphonic Metal group who finall have a singer with enough force to sing metal, and keep their more Operatic format.
I'd recomend the song Poet and the Pendulum, if you have the patience for a 14 minute song.

Epica
Symphonic/Goth Metal
Sounds like transcendentalism given musical form. Simone Simmons has the purest, most beautiful voice in the world.
Chasing the Dragon or Never Enough

Light This City
Melodic Death Metal
Sounds like death metal. Good death metal. Arch Enemy without the stupider Black Metal portions of their work.
Cradle for a King or Unwanted Savior

Protest the Hero
Mathcore
Sounds like nothing you've ever heard. Technically amazing, agressive music with more force than a hurricane.
Divine Suicide of K or Turn Soonest to the Sea

Band/Artist Name?
Turisas

Genre?
Folk Metal/Symphonic Metal (according to Wikipedia)

Sounds like?
Distilled awesome

Best track?
Hard to say, I particularly like the last three on "The Varangian Way" though.

Myspace?
http://www.myspace.com/turisasofficial - doesn't have the songs mentioned above though.

Band/Artist Name? bonobo

Genre? electronic/trip hop/downtempo

Sounds like? theivery corporation, boards of canada, zero 7, massive attack

Best track? my favourite is nightlite

Myspace? maybe? http://www.last.fm/music/Bonobo

Band/Artist Name?
Robert Scheffler

Genre?
Folk/Rock/Pop/?

Sounds like?
I like the acoustic stuff best......I can't really compare him to anyone

Best track?
Bleeding on Broadway

Myspace?
don't think so.....

http://artist.pumpaudio.com/ViewProfile.aspx?trackid=26818&partner=photobucket

They're coming to your town to help you party down.

Cause they're an American band!

Band/Artist Name? bonobo

Genre? electronic/trip hop/downtempo

Sounds like? theivery corporation, boards of canada, zero 7, massive attack

Best track? my favourite is nightlite

Myspace? maybe? http://www.last.fm/music/Bonobo

I like :)

Band/Artist Name - Man Man

Genre - Experimental/Indie, I suppose

Sounds like - I don't know...

Best track - Black Mission goggles or Push the Eagle's Stomach.

Myspace - http://myspace.com/wearemanman


Band/Artist Name - The Locust

Genre - Grindcore/Noise

Sounds Like - ...listen to them.

Best Track - Too many.

Myspace - http://myspace.com/thelocust

Band/Artist Name?
Brooke Miller

Genre?
Canadian folk/rock (acoustic)

Sounds like?
No clue

Best track?
Country From The Dome Car, Two Soldiers, World On A Whim

Myspace?
http://www.myspace.com/brookemillersongs

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Also I recommend youtubing Andy McKee, Don Ross, Antoine Dufour, and people from the CandyRat label in general.

I don't know if these are obscure and/or new enough but I'll post them anyway.

Band Name? Antony and the Johnsons (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbA0RmHD7RY)
Genre? I think they call it cabaret noir, or so says wiki. I just like his voice a lot, and it's something different.

Band Name? Cocorosie
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoZmEoTPIEk)Genre? I think they're a (kinda weird) genre of their own.

Artist Name? Alva Noto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjMvQHgAgjg)
Genre? Minimalism

Band Name? Coldcut (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLu7p9bTJ84)
Genre? Hip-hopish

Artist Name? Devendra Banhart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbPIOwxCIg4)
Genre? Freak folk? Singer-songwriter if that's a genre.

Band Name? Merzbow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zijxeUIJKA8) (turn your sound down before listening)
Genre? extreme noise


Band/Artist Name? bonobo

Genre? electronic/trip hop/downtempo

Sounds like? theivery corporation, boards of canada, zero 7, massive attack

Best track? my favourite is nightlite

Myspace? maybe? http://www.last.fm/music/Bonobo

I like it, it reminds me of Amon Tobin (http://www.last.fm/music/Amon+Tobin), most on the ninja tune label is pretty good.

Name: Broken Social Scene

Genre: According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Social_Scene) their genres include: Indie rock, Baroque Pop, Experimental, Shoegazing, Art Rock

Sounds like: Not sure of any good comparisons I could make. You need to hear them.

Best track: Lover's Spit has always been one of my favourites. Can't say I dislike any of their songs but.

Myspace: I never use MySpace, but according to Google it is at http://www.myspace.com/brokensocialscene

I've been pimping them about here for at least a year and a half. Good to see them get some recognition.

Pity nobody will see them live again, they're incredible live.

Eugh.

Has British music really stooped so low that we can actually claim these bands are, say, any good?

Sad times, really.

Modern music is now hackneyed post-rock shite, or, possibly worse, imitation punk, with none of the crappy conditions that provided lyrical depth of (erm some, although not most) 1970s stuff to make it even remotely interesting.

They're some incredible British music about, beyond the shitey emo/indie-tastic bollocks of the day.

Biffy Clyro
Oceansize
Orko
Mogwai
People in Planes
65daysofstatic
Hundred Reasons
Bloc Party

Most (all?) of those bands have released an album in the last year, or are releasing one in the near future. All are brilliant.

Artist Name? Devendra Banhart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbPIOwxCIg4)
Genre? Freak folk? Singer-songwriter if that's a genre.

I love Devendra Banhart...just got into her through a friend...if you like her paul curreri will be up your street...and you're right...ninja tunes are an amazing label...got alot of their stuff on vinyl.

Band/Artist Name?

Superchick

Genre?
(Listed as Christian Rock, but in my opinion they have only one song that qualifies, I haven't been through all of them. My opinion is Pop)

Sounds like?

Pop

Best track?

Stand In The Rain (but I've only heard We Live and SITR)

Myspace?

myspace.com/superchick

...or perhaps even obscure old artists that you might think will interest the forum users...tell us about them...

All I listen to are "obscure old artists!"

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Band/Artist Name? Faust

Genre? ....Kraut rock?

Sounds like? .....Faust

Best track? Errrrmmm.....for the uninitiated, "It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl." If that doesn't scare you off, you've got it made.

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Band/Artist Name? A Place to Bury Strangers (they're actually a new band!)

Genre? Noise Pop?

Sounds like? Jesus & Mary Chain, Early B.R.M.C.; basically, all those reverb-and-feedback-heavy bands.

Best track? All of 'em.

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Band/Artist Name? Dalek (also fairly new)

Genre? Experimental Hip-Hop

Sounds like? cLOUDDEAD, if Public Enemy had ever collaborated with My Bloody Valentine

Best track? Asylum

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Band/Artist Name? Peter Brotzmann

Genre? The angriest, most brutal anti-jazz you'll ever hear.

Sounds like? John Zorn without the cartoonish atmosphere

Best track? Hard to say with jazz in general, but I like all of Machine Gun and the first track of the two-track LP Nipples.

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Band/Artist Name? Coil

Genre? Depending on the album, EBM, Ambient, Dark Ambient, IDM, etc.

Sounds like? Not any one artist, really; I'd bet that they were a big influence on Matmos, though (another great electronic duo who are also gay....weird).

Best track? For IDM/EBM nerds, anything from Love's Secret Domain. If you just got your heart ripped from your chest by some cheating bitch/bastard, anything off of The Ape of Naples.

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That's it. I only have so much time.

Band/Artist Name? Dalek (also fairly new)

Genre? Experimental Hip-Hop

Sounds like? cLOUDDEAD, if Public Enemy had ever collaborated with My Bloody Valentine

Best track? Asylum.

Now thats caught my attention...gonna look them up now!!

Band name: Kevin Ayers

Genre: Old English hippie music

Best Track: Varies according to my mood

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUvG5-UB7_0

Band/Artist Name? Coil

Genre? Depending on the album, EBM, Ambient, Dark Ambient, IDM, etc.

Sounds like? Not any one artist, really; I'd bet that they were a big influence on Matmos, though (another great electronic duo who are also gay....weird).

Best track? For IDM/EBM nerds, anything from Love's Secret Domain. If you just got your heart ripped from your chest by some cheating bitch/bastard, anything off of The Ape of Naples.


I love Coil.

"Love's Secret Domian" (from the album of the same name), or "Heartworms" are possibly the greatest tracks.

I love Devendra Banhart...just got into her through a friend...if you like her paul curreri will be up your street...and you're right...ninja tunes are an amazing label...got alot of their stuff on vinyl.

Devendra banhart is a dude (or a girl with a beard). I'll look up paul curreri.

Band/Artist Name: Comrade Lowery

Genre:Experimental (mainly beats or piano instrumentals)

Sounds like:As of now, Electronic stimulation and Piano solos

Best track: No Words Necessary

Myspace: www.myspace.com/teivos

Check it out! You will like it!

Check it out! You will like it!

Or not. But thanks for the gesture.

Band/Artist Name? Faust.Their CDs are hard to find. :(

I love Devendra Banhart...just got into her through a friend...if you like her paul curreri will be up your street...and you’re right...ninja tunes are an amazing label...got alot of their stuff on vinyl.
Devendra Banhart is a guy. :p I fyou like his stuff, I’d highly recommend Joanna Newsom, Vetiver, Jeffrey Lewis et al.

Oh, and it’s Ninja Tune. No ‘s’. Just one of my pet peeves.

Biffy Clyro
Oceansize
Orko
Mogwai
People in Planes
65daysofstatic
Hundred Reasons
Bloc Party
Hmmm.

Mogwai and 65daysofstatic are brilliant, but Biffy Clyro is distinctly meh. I never trust bands who go through massive direction changes, just because the marketing men said it’d be a good idea.

Faust
I can only add my hearty recommendations to Sohcrana’s. Faust are beyond excellent.

Dalek (also fairly new)

Sounds like cLOUDDEAD
Ooh! cLOUDDEAD’s self-titled is pretty much my favourite piece of music, ever, so I’ll definitely check out Dalek.

I have to recommend Estatic Fear.Absolutely awesome symphonic doom metal band.Sounds a bit like Empyrium,basically an excellent,tender,crystal like female voice on autumnish sad music.
My second recommandation is Equilibrium-a german viking-death metal band which i hold very dear.
And the third is,for those who still haven't heard it,E.S. Posthumus-top quality epic soundtrack music,all excellent songs,in the league of Hans Zimmer or Klaus Badelt,yet probably better.

Name: This Beautiful Republic

Sounds like: Switchfoot and bands like that : )

http://www.myspace.com/thisbeautifulrepublic

Best track: Going Under and Black Box


( I LOVE Underoath also!)

Devendra banhart is a dude (or a girl with a beard). I'll look up paul curreri.

then im thinking of someone else....

the one im thinking of is a woman from the 60s...sang that..."just another diamond day...just a blade of grass"

just found out I was thinking of Vashti Bunyan...haha...well it sounds a little like it...not hahaha

Oh, and it’s Ninja Tune. No ‘s’. Just one of my pet peeves..

I know who they are...ive had coldcut up to play manchester before now...been a club promoter for years and Scruff is a close friend of mine...went to his wedding in fact...so I think you can let me of the S;)

So much awesome music... I just don't know what to do...

Five2 :alt folk/harmony


Check out the song Sweet End http://www.myspace.com/five2

Not new, but the new albums out soon-ish.

Band/Artist Name?
Ayreon

Genre?
prog/metal combined with bits of folk, classical, and weird sounds.

Sounds like?
This (http://www.ayreon.com/ayreon/ay_downloads.html)

Best track?
Difficult choice. Castle Hall, Day 16: Loser (http://www.ayreon.com/ayreon/ay_media/ay_audio/the_human_equation_mike_baker_01.mp3), Day 3: Pain (http://www.ayreon.com/ayreon/ay_media/ay_audio/the_human_equation_devin_townsend_01.mp3), and Evil Devolution (http://www.ayreon.com/ayreon/ay_media/ay_audio/into_the_electric_castle_edward_reekers_01.mp3) are some of my favourites.

Myspace?
No idea. Website: www.ayreon.com

Hellyeah - Metal - You Wouldn't Know - Sounds like Mudvayne/Pantera/Awesome!

Not brand new, but new for me.
Band/Artist Name?Nelly McKay

Genre?She came from anti-folk, but encompasses a lot of styles.

Sounds like?Not sure

Best track?My favorite is Sari (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJZY-Czcp2E), but it's from a couple years ago.

Myspace?http://www.myspace.com/prettylittlehead

She has a new album out, apparently.

You're a bastard for introducing me to her.

Not brand new, but new for me.
Band/Artist Name?Nelly McKay

Genre?She came from anti-folk, but encompasses a lot of styles.

Sounds like?Not sure

Best track?My favorite is Sari (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJZY-Czcp2E), but it's from a couple years ago.

Myspace?http://www.myspace.com/prettylittlehead

She has a new album out, apparently.

You're a bastard for introducing me to her.

Sorry?

Sorry?

Not sorry.

Not sorry.

Sari? No? David, then? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5OBo3sKrYk&mode=related&search=)

Sari? No? David, then? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5OBo3sKrYk&mode=related&search=)

Most certainly.

Band/Artist Name? john cage

Genre? other

Sounds like? silence

Best track? 3.xx minuets of silence

Myspace? i rather doubt it

my world doesn't need to be "rocked", or even a sound track.

not that i'm a total cermudeon, but my tastes do run to the mellowly iconoclastic.

(ok, so its not new either. i forgot that part. i find lots of memorable sounds where most people don't even know there are places. but i have a hard time remembering who anyone is, and wish no discredit to anyone in doing so)

=^^=
.../\...

Band/Artist Name: Unexpect

Genre: Hmm...difficult. Last.fm page describes them as a mix of "Black, Death, Progressive and Melodic Metal; Classical, Operatic, Medieval, Goth, Electro, Ambient, Psychotic, Noise and Circus Music with an occasional jazzy touch". That sounds a wee bit pretentious, so I'll just go with "awesome".

Best Track: Not sure, but I like "Summoning Scenes" and "Meet me at the Carrousel" best.

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/unexpect
Though it might be better to look at http://www.last.fm/music/Unexpect where you can listen to the whole of their last album :D

Band/Artist Name - The Locust

Genre - Grindcore/Noise

Sounds Like - ...listen to them.

Best Track - Too many.

Myspace - http://myspace.com/thelocust
w00t, teh Locust. Love those guys. ;)

Also, no new bands, really, but some oldish ones:

Band/Artist Name - Bad Religion (If you like them check out NOFX as well. Both pwn)

Genre - Punk Rock

Sounds Like - ...The Offspring? Well, that's unjust, since they were the ones who influenced the Offspring (and are better), but... Offspring are more popular...

Best Track - Oh come on, they have 16 or more albums, I can't be expected to name one... ;)
(Not 'Punk Rock Song', though it's the most popular on Youtube, or was last time I checked...)

Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/badreligion (I don't use Myspace, I'm pretty much anti-Myspace, but hey, at least they get to show off their number of friends to people.)


Band/Artist Name - Heaven Shall Burn

Genre - Metalcore/Melodic Death Metal/etc... Way better than any other band that has been classified as Metalcore, though, at least from what I've seen (Evergreen Terrace are quite good, IMO, though not as much)

Sounds Like - Just listen to 'em.

Best Track - I'm not sure, really... Counterweight, maybe?

Myspace - Oh come on, no band can sing... Well, scream... The song 'MyBestFriends.com' and still have a Myspace... >:D


Band/Artist Name - Eyehategod

Genre - Sludge. Yummy.

Sounds Like - ...You expect me to name something for these guys?

Best Track - Well, with Sludge bands, that's kinda hard... 'Jackass in the will of God' is their most 'mainstream' song, thus my least favourite... Their album 'Dopesick' is brilliant, though.

Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/eyehategod

Band/Artist Name? Dalek (also fairly new)

Genre? Experimental Hip-Hop

Sounds like? cLOUDDEAD, if Public Enemy had ever collaborated with My Bloody Valentine

Best track? Asylum


very nice, thank you.

Mogwai and 65daysofstatic are brilliant, but Biffy Clyro is distinctly meh. I never trust bands who go through massive direction changes, just because the marketing men said it’d be a good idea.

Biffy Clyro haven't gone through any massive direction changes, and any evolution of their sound definitely isn't because the "marketing men" said it would be a good idea...

Anyhow, listen to The Vertigo of Bliss a few times, it's one of the best albums this decade, and criminally unkown.

Band/Artist Name? The Gentleman

Genre? Funk/Rock/Indie

Sounds like? not sure

Best track? Digging Deep

Myspace? www.myspace.com/gentlemusic

Band Name
The Higher

Genre
Rock-ish

Sounds Like
...Not quite sure how to describe it

Best Track
Insurance? (gotta hear this one)

Myspace
don't know-Thehigher.com