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I just recently discovered a wonderful little reggae band called "Kingfisha". Coming across great new talent I've never heard of before reminded me that there are always little struggling bands that really deserve to be heard.

So, what's your favourite music no-one's ever heard of?

My band.

My band.

Linky linky.

Linky linky.

We're too kv1t for a myspace.


No seriously we dont have a website. We havent worried about it, because since w're a bunch of poor as shit college students, we are recording on ghetto ass equipment and its hard to get a quality we like (in a lot of our recordings you can only hear the drums because they over power everything else).

Dont worry though. When we actually have enough songs recorded to the quality and manner in which we are happy with them, we'll get a myspace or website up and I intend to epicly and shamelessly self promote.


And NSG will be my first stop.

I suck at this game.

I'm very much into Sierra Leone's Refugee All-Stars (http://www.sierraleonesrefugeeallstars.com/), although they're already internationally famous thanks to a well-received documentary.

Spiral Beach (http://www.spiralbeach.com/) is a fun, if not especially talented, band out of Toronto. They get radio play at least as far away as Ottawa, so they can't be that unheard of.

EDIT: Almost forgot about Good2Go (http://www.good2gomusic.com/). The lead singer is a special ed teacher by day, local sex symbol by night--kind of a progressive wet dream. The music is decent, too.

We're too kv1t for a myspace.


No seriously we dont have a website. We havent worried about it, because since w're a bunch of poor as shit college students, we are recording on ghetto ass equipment and its hard to get a quality we like (in a lot of our recordings you can only hear the drums because they over power everything else).

Dont worry though. When we actually have enough songs recorded to the quality and manner in which we are happy with them, we'll get a myspace or website up and I intend to epicly and shamelessly self promote.


And NSG will be my first stop.

Also, were you really a jazz musician/teacher?

Also, were you really a jazz musician/teacher?

Ill admit, Im slightly taken aback by this.


I never claimed to be a jazz musician/teacher. I dont even really like jazz. And Im still in college, making that whole teaching thing a bit...difficult to say the least.


Me thinks you have me confused with someone else:p

There was a band based in Austin called Dropkick that existed for all of five minutes during 1999. They released a single album, called No Time to Be Young, and then were promptly swallowed by the earth itself.
One of their songs, "Four Dead Cheerleaders," has gained some popularity among file-sharers, but is always attributed to either Dropkick Murphy's or Flogging Molly (even though Dropkick sound nothing like either of those bands).
I don't think you get much indier than that.

4'33"

There's probably a dozen or so Leicester/East Midlands-based bands floating around at the moment that I like. Most well known is probably Maybeshewill. And they always play practically on my doorstep and charge pennies* to get in.

*Ok, admittedly around 400-500 pennies, but pennies nonetheless.

I quite like Emma Dean (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=42941286). But she already exists. :tongue:

The Spirit Daddies.
Thunderfap.

The Flaming Salmonella Units

The Wood Tick Snorkels

Squatting Turnips

Shy Fruiter and the Saplings

Weasel Nostrils

Earl Piedmont and the Diphthongs

The Flaming Croutons

St. Vincent and The Grenadines

The Biscuit Whackers

Shark Puke

Short Shrift

Bill and the Bracts

Crab Shrapnel

Varlet and the Squeaking Codpieces

Paint-Peeling Puffs of Flatulence

Mosquito Hunter and the Unreliable Pollinators

Marcel and the Turpitudes

The Groin Whappers

The Eerie Groin Legumes

Combat Alfalfa

I recently saw a band called Up Dharma Down, not really my kind of music but very nice, they're part of the wave of homegrown music coming out of the Philippines..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M06-KdTGAfs - quite a nice little ditty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts0cNzItMlw&feature=related - probably their most famous song, at least within Asia, I doubt anyone's heard them beyond this region.

There's been quite a surge of homegrown music coming out of Asia recently, some of it not bad at all, V has done quite a good job focusing on it, there's some funny statistic that just 5 years ago, 90% of music played on the radio in the Philippines was from either the US or Europe, now it's pretty much reversed.

I should stick some Canto-pop here as well but the only stuff I can tolerate is Faye Wong's covers of the Cranberries songs, and hardly that either...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvZ2WwPm4z0

A candidate for the worst dress in the history of all dresses ever.

Nox Arcana is awesome, don't know how indie they are, but they aren't really all that major yet.

Should you feel the urge to take a listen, stroll on over to www.noxarcana.com and have yourself one.

I can think of a band (well several, but this one in particular) that is awesome, and I was into them way before they were well known.


Does that count?

The Spirit Daddies.
Thunderfap.

The Flaming Salmonella Units

The Wood Tick Snorkels

Squatting Turnips

Shy Fruiter and the Saplings

Weasel Nostrils

Earl Piedmont and the Diphthongs

The Flaming Croutons

St. Vincent and The Grenadines

The Biscuit Whackers

Shark Puke

Short Shrift

Bill and the Bracts

Crab Shrapnel

Varlet and the Squeaking Codpieces

Paint-Peeling Puffs of Flatulence

Mosquito Hunter and the Unreliable Pollinators

Marcel and the Turpitudes

The Groin Whappers

The Eerie Groin Legumes

Combat Alfalfa

Nice list. That's like Indie Intro 101. :D

This thread is like the perfect thread for me. It''d be qucker to list the bands i like that arent obscure.

But, no, thats not what was requested, so here we go with my list of obscure rock and metal bands that no-one I know has heard of

Another Messiah,
Drumcorps,
Estatic Fear,
The Forgotten Archetype,
Fuck Buttons,
Glowworm,
Liva,
Maybeshewill,
Misery Inc.,
Myppa,
Spark is a Diamond,
Ultimate Army of Prawns,
Violent Work of Art,
worriedaboutsatan.

Thats the 1st level of obscurity. There's a whole load of others that aren't particularly well known but I have met other people who have heard of them.

Valentin and the Selezynobots - that Valentin is a musical genius! He's written a space ballet and everything. :wink:

the only new band i really know of are called Hellcyon... they played their first gig on Monday night with Paul Gilbert. i don't think they have done any studio work yet, cos the stuff on their website sounds pretty flat. they were way heavy on monday :P

http://www.hellcyon.co.uk/

Ill admit, Im slightly taken aback by this.


I never claimed to be a jazz musician/teacher. I dont even really like jazz. And Im still in college, making that whole teaching thing a bit...difficult to say the least.


Me thinks you have me confused with someone else:p

Yep, this:

That's what pot will do to you.

Scribe Tribe
Letters From London
National Snack
Lite Brite
Private Dancers
Stone Descendant
For The Moment
While You Slept

and at least a hundred more

Aerosmith. It's my understanding that no one else listens to them any more, which makes them the ultimate in indie.

Aerosmith. It's my understanding that no one else listens to them any more, which makes them the ultimate in indie.

I listen to Aerosmith! In fact I'm listening to Permeanent Vacation right now.

I'm so indie I don't listen to music made today.

I was given a link to DL a song from one of my MSN contacts who happens to be a member of NS too. I liked what his band did, but I can't remember the name of it. I think they named the track something like "We Made This", but I can't, for the life of me, remember. 8 Days Waiting? Bah! As soon as I remember, I'll post the name.

You guys should start an Intro to Indie 101 thread! Seriously, that'd be awesome. :D Like start out telling the people what songs they should start with, then going into different directions that Indie Music took....

But, no, thats not what was requested, so here we go with my list of obscure rock and metal bands that no-one I know has heard of

Another Messiah,
Drumcorps,
Estatic Fear,
The Forgotten Archetype,
Fuck Buttons,
Glowworm,
Liva,
Maybeshewill,
Misery Inc.,
Myppa,
Spark is a Diamond,
Ultimate Army of Prawns,
Violent Work of Art,
worriedaboutsatan.

Dude, I have cds/mp3s or 7"s by at least four of those bands, and you totally lose on Maybeshewill as I already mentioned them in this thread. :tongue:

And, to be honest, if no one you know has heard of Fuck Buttons, there's something wrong with the people you know.

Dude, I have cds/mp3s or 7"s by at least four of those bands, and you totally lose on Maybeshewill as I already mentioned them in this thread. :tongue:

And, to be honest, if no one you know has heard of Fuck Buttons, there's something wrong with the people you know.

Yes, there is generally *much* wrong with my friends, if there wasn't they'd not resort to associating with me :p

I can only go by other people's reactions to what I listen to. The interwebs are evidently full of people of more eclectic tastes than my friendship group. Also, on the issue of you mentioning Maybeshewill, as I'm sure you're aware, its actually considered a highly irregular, if not dangerously deviant habit on NSG to read previous posts before submitting.

4'33"

I wish they would perform it more often :)

I listen to Aerosmith!

As long as that means that I don't have to, that's fine by me.

I'm so indie I don't listen to music made today.

Are you sure that you're not just 'out of it'? Mind you, I listen to loads of music that has been made over ten years ago, but every now and then I expose myself to something new. That's why I recently acquired two cd's of Lightning Bolt (http://www.myspace.com/laserbeast). Now that's the kind of noise rock I like!

1960's Soviet pop music...

I'm so indie I'm listening to obscure psychedelic bands from the late '60s and early '70s that nobody's ever heard of.
(This isn't true, of course, if their music is on CD obviously someone has to have heard of them.)

Before he re-released "I'm Yours", it was Jason Mraz. Give it two years, and it'll be Jason Mraz, again. :)

The Satanic Anarchistic Confederate Comunazi
It's the band me and my cousin are planning to form, we're going to purposefully play bad music

Giovy Jimenez (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=228450153)

Ben Okafor. He's amazing live. http://www.benokafor.com/

I'm so indie I'm listening to obscure psychedelic bands from the late '60s and early '70s that nobody's ever heard of.
(This isn't true, of course, if their music is on CD obviously someone has to have heard of them.)

The Purple Gang, Michael and the Messengers?

I like Ivie Anderson. They don't get any press. They're local. :)

1960's Soviet pop music...The Plastic People of the Universe?

The Purple Gang, Michael and the Messengers?Clear Light, the Gods, Bent Wind, and Lucifer's Friend, to name a few.

Do bands that are known only in Finland count?

Do bands that are known only in Finland count?

I'd say no, but then Suomi doesn't really count for much anyways...
:p

Do bands that are known only in Finland count?Depends on how well-known they are.

I also like Elvendrums, you just have to see for yourself...

www.elvendrums.com

I remember the indie band! They're called 8 Days Waiting. I only listened to one of their songs, but I was blown away by it.

Fair is Foul.
http://www.myspace.com/fairisfoul

I'd say no, but then Suomi doesn't really count for much anyways...
:p

Suomi merkitsee joitain!

I just recently discovered a wonderful little reggae band called "Kingfisha". Coming across great new talent I've never heard of before reminded me that there are always little struggling bands that really deserve to be heard.

So, what's your favourite music no-one's ever heard of?

I don't mind going out and seeing bands that aren't even close to being in the mainstream and some are alright, some are crap.

Though I do enjoy Central Deli band that's one band not to many people have heard before.

i like folk music about folk who haven't been born yet. i also like completely synthetic music, stuff all done with electronics, but not so beat heavy as so called trance. i do love music festival jam band music too.

thing is, to my ears, its big name 'mainstream' that's the more and mostly crap, and the kind of stuff i like, very seldom finds its way into so called mainstream. there have been exceptions; kitaro, yani, tangarene dream, but far and away, in any era, they tend to very much BE exceptions.

occasionally we'll get a decade where the mainstream comes close to embrasing it, but never really completely. at least not in the part of the world where i happen to live.

We're too kv1t for a myspace.


No seriously we dont have a website. We havent worried about it, because since w're a bunch of poor as shit college students, we are recording on ghetto ass equipment and its hard to get a quality we like (in a lot of our recordings you can only hear the drums because they over power everything else).

Dont worry though. When we actually have enough songs recorded to the quality and manner in which we are happy with them, we'll get a myspace or website up and I intend to epicly and shamelessly self promote.


And NSG will be my first stop.

I expect your shameless self-promotion to be quite prominent. You have good musical taste, so I'd be interested to hear your band. What do you play?

As regards to the OP, my answer's the same as KoL's. Except my band does have a myspace (http://www.myspace.com/hallowedearthband) with ghetto ass recordings of some of our songs.

Bands I like that nobody has heard of, it seems:

Sentenced to Burn (defunct symphonic black metal that was well known in the bay area metal scene, but nowhere else)
Tvangeste (Russian/Prussian/Canadian symphonic black metal)
Ludicra (gritty black metal from San Francisco)
The Porno Pandas (groove metal with a touch of prog from the bay area)
Interstellar Genocide (black metal from Germany/USA I think)

that's about it as far as I recall

Tabla Beat Science!

And I never really liked the sound of a tabla before I heard this band.

Definitely worth a listen.

I expect your shameless self-promotion to be quite prominent. You have good musical taste, so I'd be interested to hear your band. What do you play?


Me personally? I play bass. The band? We play a punky, melodic raw black metal mostly of the Scandinavian type. Im partial to Finnish and Swedish black metal, while my guitar player is fond of Norwegian black metal (well we all are, but Im talking favorites here), and our vocalist is really into the French scene, so its all represented. And our drummer....likes folk metal :p

EDIT: Now I feel like NSG needs a black metal thread. I may create this.


As regards to the OP, my answer's the same as KoL's. Except my band does have a myspace (http://www.myspace.com/hallowedearthband) with ghetto ass recordings of some of our songs.


Very solid. Which guy are you/what do you play?

And your band lists Naglfar as an influence. I approve.

Me personally? I play bass. The band? We play a punky, melodic raw black metal mostly of the Scandinavian type. Im partial to Finnish and Swedish black metal, while my guitar player is fond of Norwegian black metal (well we all are, but Im talking favorites here), and our vocalist is really into the French scene, so its all represented. And our drummer....likes folk metal :p

EDIT: Now I feel like NSG needs a black metal thread. I may create this.
Awesome. That's a good combination. Our more recent stuff has some folk influence, interestingly enough. How many black metallers do you think are on NSG?


Very solid. Which guy are you/what do you play?

And your band lists Naglfar as an influence. I approve.

Thanks. I play the same thing as you, bass (the most under-appreciated instrument in black metal), and I do vocals some of the time. On both the songs with vocals on there I'm doing backing and the guitarist is doing lead vocals, but it's the other way around in some songs. And yes, Naglfar is great. We've been thinking about covering "I am Vengeance" for a while.

How many black metallers do you think are on NSG?

Enough were a thread about it might be intersting. I may make one tonight after class.


We've been thinking about covering "I am Vengeance" for a while.

Amazing song. As the bass player, however, it is your duty to push for a cover of "Brimstone Gate".:p

Nice list. That's like Indie Intro 101. :DThank you very much. :)
I've already learned a few Spirit Daddies tunes, as well as Thunderfap.
Good at coffee shops.