We all know about Muse, Nirvana, Arctic Monkeys or what not..

But lets use this thread to introduce local/underground bands that you guys like to others.

Let me start, Butterfingers from Malaysia. Its safe to say if you like Nirvana, I think you'll pretty much like this band.

Girl Friday - http://youtube.com/watch?v=0rg39HioUEM

Vio Pipe (instrumental) - http://youtube.com/watch?v=4_6fh_IxcsI

Stolen - http://youtube.com/watch?v=jMVukTTl5mQ


what you think? (Y)? (N)?

Good thread.

I dunno if any of these are well-known, but I've just never met anyone who has heard of them:

The Whitlams, piano-rock band, kicks the Fray a million times over, aussie band. My personal favorites are 'Blowing Up the Pokies' and 'No Aphrodisiac'.
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One rule, please don't post about twenty bands, that'd be a really gay thing to do.

Anyway:

Reverend and the Makers
If you like the Arctics, you WILL like Reverend. The main guy (the Reverend) is called Jon, and he was in the original Arctic Monkeys band, despite being much older than them. Musically, it takes influences from such new brit-indie bands as Arctics and Kaiser Chiefs, but, as the band self proclaims, mixes it with regae and generally more unique styles. Also, the lyrics are second to none. The first single "Heavyweight Champion of the World" reached about number 10 in the charts, and the new single "He said he loved me" is out soon. The album is out late September. Seem them live twice, they're amazing.

Heavyweight Champion of the World - http://youtube.com/watch?v=fmfFmxJhtxU

www.myspace.com/reverendmusic

http://www.iamreverend.com/images/logo.gif

@Azrael, I didnt like that :(


Rev - very nice (Y)(Y)

Shlomo artzi:X

Enter Shikari...I'll post some material later when I can be bothered...

If you like blues, classic rock, Led Zeppelin :D , you should try "Ten Years After".

Just type it on youtube and watch some classy stuff. (Y)

I really doubt anyone is going to be that bored to do everything themselves :(

I'll go for Team Sleep, really good ambient/chill/trip-hop band.

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almost everything I post in the "Watcha listenin to" thread (C)

WWF/WWE theme songs

Finger Eleven - Slow Chemical

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:D

Chin Up Chin Up. They're one of my favourite bands. They're from Chicago and play some wonderful music. Everyone I persuaded to listen to their music completly agreed that this was awesome music. The best thing is they're coming to Amsterdam to perform no more than 250 meters away from my home in less than a month. Here are some YouTube vids:

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Lifehouse, brilliant rock band.

Hanging By A Moment and Spin.

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Gentleman
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They are quite famous in Germany, but I don't know if they are well known outside of Germany, so I decided to post this.

And some German language songs that probably are very unknown in non-German speaking countries. These are some older songs.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oWCnCf-hSIU
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Lifehouse, brilliant rock band.

Hanging By A Moment and Spin.

Very good band...Hanging By A Moment is great, and they have the new CD out now too...I see the're also on tour with Goo Goo Dolls.

Sonata Arctica, a Finnish Power/Melodic Metal band, great band. Try listening to them, their best songs IMO are Tallulah and Fullmoon, try and listen to them and you'll fall in love.

Death Cab For Cutie (Y)

Death Cab For Cutie (Y)

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this song always puts me in a good mood for some reason, no matter how the day has been

Death Cab For Cutie is quite well known, right? Well atleast I knew them.

Death Cab For Cutie is quite well known, right? Well atleast I knew them.

Yeah but you can't call them mainstream

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Linda Martini

Publishing national material around here. (H) Linda Martini is a post-hardcore rock band. 3 guitars, 1 bass and 1 FANTASTIC drummer...Sonic Youth influences are notorious...you guys should check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9pBqYIVhSE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLZ7C9-yfRU

The last 3 minutes of "A Severa" = (Y) (Y) (Y)

EDIT: Are the links appearing? :(

Linda Martini are amazing, the only thing i don't like it's the vocals, they kinda suck, specially live. Still an amazing band nevertheless...

They're kinda flying off the radar in Portugal, mainly because here people only care about popular music and music that shows on crappy shows (Morangos).. But they are still a recent band, so with time they will grow more.. I saw them live and i gotta say that, apart from the vocals, like i've referred before, they are even better, they put everything hey have on the show. (Y)

M.A.U. (Man and Unable) are also a good band, check them out on youtube, also Spartak and sUBMARINe are pretty good bands, but these last i heard to little. All of them are Portuguese.

And to finish, Sigur Rós, an Icelandic rock band, that is only considered as one beacuse of the instruments they use, they look more like the chill-out type, Glosoli is a great track.

from the darjeeling soundtrack

joe dassin - le champs elysees

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Not sure how many of you have heard of either of these guys, but the latter are fairly well known i think, but anways:

Three Days Grace
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Jimmy Eat World
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V.A.S.T - Touched

One of my fav songs of all time (Y)

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Daz; I've heard of them, not many of their songs, but one I have heard is Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace, and it's ******* amazing. Great bassline with a good hard sound.

Sting's son's band Fiction Plane. My favorite song of theirs:
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Just so catchy.

One of my favorite songs ever, by a Finnish metal band called Sonata Arctica
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Puscifer - Drunk with Power

Puscifer is the new project of Kennan, the vocalist of Tool and APC, they've released "V is for Vagina" (2007), sounds well (Y)


Chevelle - The fad

You've to listen it, this new album is really good, it's called Vena Sera (Y)


KMFDM - Superpower

They've released a new album called Tohuvabohu, a great Industrial band (Y)

Give "Explosions in the sky" a try, instrumental band from Texas and they're really good.

I suppose Tom Waits is fairly well known, but I'm gonna go ahead and recommend him anway.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=QjRvAq6K654

One rule, please don't post about twenty bands, that'd be a really gay thing to do.

Anyway:

Reverend and the Makers
If you like the Arctics, you WILL like Reverend. The main guy (the Reverend) is called Jon, and he was in the original Arctic Monkeys band, despite being much older than them. Musically, it takes influences from such new brit-indie bands as Arctics and Kaiser Chiefs, but, as the band self proclaims, mixes it with regae and generally more unique styles. Also, the lyrics are second to none. The first single "Heavyweight Champion of the World" reached about number 10 in the charts, and the new single "He said he loved me" is out soon. The album is out late September. Seem them live twice, they're amazing.

Heavyweight Champion of the World - http://youtube.com/watch?v=fmfFmxJhtxU

www.myspace.com/reverendmusic (http://www.myspace.com/reverendmusic)

http://www.iamreverend.com/images/logo.gif

I like Arctic Monkeys, despise Reverend and The Makers! Awful, throwaway tripe.

Anyway, Field Music.

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Give "Explosions in the sky" a try, instrumental band from Texas and they're really good.

I suppose Tom Waits is fairly well known, but I'm gonna go ahead and recommend him anway.
(Y) Explosions aren't bad, get a bit repetitive though - like all instrumental music to me.

Heard of 65daysofstatic? i saw them live in Camden and was pretty disappointed to be honest, but they've done a few good tracks.

Rap from Marseille!!!!!!!!! Best in Europe!

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Enjoy!

Best in Europe? I'm sure you're intentionally forgeting about the master that is Lethal Bizzle (H)

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Best in Europe? I'm sure you're intentionally forgeting about the master that is Lethal Bizzle (H)

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Yeah, I know him, it's really good (H) I said that was the best in Europe not only for music things, but considering political investment.
These rappers are coming from blocks in Marseille and they aren't doing gangsta rap as most of rappers from Paris suburbs (suburbs don't mean rich districts as in USA, here rich are in city centers and working class from all ethnies are in the suburbs, maybe in rest of Europe too). Well, near Paris we saw some riots after police violence, not in Marseille. Rap messages are full of peace here, that why I said that was the best in Europe... But yes, I have to say one of the best :D Just look at this!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/arts/music/19rap.html?_r=4&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1198420121-HHQTp3dtPz0M9dNC2ekvsQ&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Anyways, here are some videos from French rap:
Psy4 de la Rime - Le monde est stone

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Psy4 de la Rime - Effet de style, Effet de mode

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Médine - Besoin de résolution

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Bakar - Classic (Legendary french rap instrumentals!)

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More next time (H)

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British post-hardcore band Hell Is For Heroes. Great name, great music and features former members of 90s Britpop band Symposium.

Yeah, I know him, it's really good (H) I said that was the best in Europe not only for music things, but considering political investment.
These rappers are coming from blocks in Marseille and they aren't doing gangsta rap as most of rappers from Paris suburbs (suburbs don't mean rich districts as in USA, here rich are in city centers and working class from all ethnies are in the suburbs, maybe in rest of Europe too). Well, near Paris we saw some riots after police violence, not in Marseille. Rap messages are full of peace here, that why I said that was the best in Europe... But yes, I have to say one of the best :D Just look at this!

I saw Lethal Bizzle supporting live at an indie gig in Camden in London. Was absolutely hilarious watching a crowd of indie guys dancing to Lethal Bizzle (H) Absolutely loved it. Really couldn't take it seriously at all.

Pentagram - Electric (Indian Band)...pretty descent i say..m not a fan but i like the song.

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Silversun Pickups - 'Little Lover's So Polite'

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Prefuse 73 - 'The End of Biters'

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http://hypem.com/mannydelphia/loved

Listen to my LOVED tracks. Streaming tracks; mp3 quality.

Good thread.

I dunno if any of these are well-known, but I've just never met anyone who has heard of them:

The Whitlams, piano-rock band, kicks the Fray a million times over, aussie band. My personal favorites are 'Blowing Up the Pokies' and 'No Aphrodisiac'.
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whitlams are fecking awesome, got 2 of their albums, brings back great old memories

Give "Explosions in the sky" a try, instrumental band from Texas and they're really good.

I suppose Tom Waits is fairly well known, but I'm gonna go ahead and recommend him anway.

I saw Explosions a few weeks ago in Manchester, brilliant gig.

For more of the post-rock I'd definately recommend Mono. (particularly the album "You Are There" - absolutely brilliant)

Yeah, I know him, it's really good (H) I said that was the best in Europe not only for music things, but considering political investment.
These rappers are coming from blocks in Marseille and they aren't doing gangsta rap as most of rappers from Paris suburbs (suburbs don't mean rich districts as in USA, here rich are in city centers and working class from all ethnies are in the suburbs, maybe in rest of Europe too). Well, near Paris we saw some riots after police violence, not in Marseille. Rap messages are full of peace here, that why I said that was the best in Europe... But yes, I have to say one of the best :D Just look at this!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/19/arts/music/19rap.html?_r=4&pagewanted=1&adxnnlx=1198420121-HHQTp3dtPz0M9dNC2ekvsQ&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Anyways, here are some videos from French rap:
Psy4 de la Rime - Le monde est stone

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Psy4 de la Rime - Effet de style, Effet de mode

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Médine - Besoin de résolution

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Bakar - Classic (Legendary french rap instrumentals!)

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More next time (H)

Are you starting a best of of the most known **** in france..... Skyrock Power here!!!! lol
If U want to hear the best hip hop in Europe go to London... and in France go to Paris (exept Iam)

I just stumbled into this band and I'm listening to their newest album, and it sounds pretty awesome. Anyone know anything about "Galactic"? They're some funk/jazz fusion/hip-hop band from New Orleans. When I finish this album I'll give my impressions, but every so often an album will GRAB me instantly, and this one is pretty much doing that.

Von Hertzen Brothers. It's a Finnish brother trio, and they play psychedelic progressive rock. Very talented musicians each of them. It has something same in it than Muse, and maybe Rush too.

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That one is my favorite of their songs, god I love that riff.

I just stumbled into this band and I'm listening to their newest album, and it sounds pretty awesome. Anyone know anything about "Galactic"? They're some funk/jazz fusion/hip-hop band from New Orleans. When I finish this album I'll give my impressions, but every so often an album will GRAB me instantly, and this one is pretty much doing that.

Really ******* dope album. Galactic - From the Corner to the Block

Seriously awesome. Cross-genre mastery. Gets a little stale at the end because there's some similarity between the songs, but still definitely worth a listen.

Last Nate Dogg featuring before his heart attack, with Psy4 de la Rime:

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Smoke Chicha everyday ^^

I think you all should go check out Dan Talevski on Youtube if you haven't heard him yet. He's a wonderful very talented singer. Just search for his name on youtube and it will bring up about 64 different videos he has done. Enjoy!!:mike:

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I recently found out about this band. It was actually thanks to a blog post by Mark Hoppus saying Travis Barker digged it. The pliant fan I am, I immediatly checked them out, turns out they're pretty good. A combination of (alternative) rock with electronica, nice...
And their video clip got a hot chick in it, yay! :D

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http://www.myspace.com/chesterfrench
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Alien Ant Farm
Mostly known by doing a cover on the Michael Jackson -hit Smooth Criminal, but they got some great original songs too.
Barenaked Ladies
Indieish rock. Haven't heard many of their songs, but so far I've liked what I've heard. (Y)
Disturbed
They're a big thing here, but I'm not sure whether or not their that well-known elsewhere. A good metal band with a unique sound.
Shinedown
A Disturbish Metal band, they even were the warm-up act for the band at their concert in Helsinki. Check out their songs Devour and Second Chance.
Dream Theater
Joe Petrucci. (H)
Hard-Fi
Brittish Indie.
Millencolin
Their older material is awesome. Skate punk -band.
Paramore
Their popular now, but if you haven't, check out their older songs. Before they made it big time. Some good attitude they've got.

Yup, Millencolin's a great band. They've pretty much burned out now, though. Their last album wasn't too good.
Disturbed are big everywhere I think.

Here's another group I recently discovered. ArtOfficial; a jazz hip hop band from Miami, FL. Kind of reminds me of The Roots.
They have a very cool sound, check 'em out:

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More tracks at:
http://www.myspace.com/weareartofficial

Speedmarket Avenue - Way Better Now

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I dunno anything about these guys, but the song is really good, it's become one of my favorites, can't quite put my finger on why. If anyone knows anything about them, share.

White Lies

Have so far only heard two of their songs, To Lose My Life and Fairwell To The Fairground, but they both sound really promising. Some good, original Indie.

Farewell to the Fairground is a good track.

Are you starting a best of of the most known **** in france..... Skyrock Power here!!!! lol
If U want to hear the best hip hop in Europe go to London... and in France go to Paris (exept Iam)

Nah, British hip hop is bull**** in my opinion. The French are No 1 followed by Germany.

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They are worth listening, too.
http://www.youtube.com/user/boyceavenue?blend=1&ob=4

And another one: Speck Mountain, an indie/shoegaze band from Chicago, IL. I found out about them thanks to my second favourite drummer, Chris Dye, joining them after he left my second favourite band, Chin Up Chin Up. They're pretty good, check 'em out:

http://www.myspace.com/speckmountain

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One more for you: DeWolff. A psychedelic blues rock band from Limburg, Holland. They are very young and very talented, check 'em out: http://www.myspace.com/dewolff

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I downloaded that whole acoustic album by Sportfreunde Stiller. Like the Spanish version of Komm Schon. Don't like when they do English songs though. Wish they had an English fan site, any news on a proper new album?

I think they are having a break right now, but I expect them to release another football related album in 2010 shortly before the world cup.



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Fat Freddy's Drop's latest album, Dr. Boondigga & The Big BW.

Album of the year so far.

Hey guys check out this band. They're the Bombastic Meatballs, lead by RHCP drummer Chad Smith. They've got a pretty funky sound...

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Didn't know that he plays guitar.
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Fat Freddy's Drop's latest album, Dr. Boondigga & The Big BW.

Album of the year so far.

As in the New Zealand hip-hop Group? That's choice bro'! :biggrinx:

yeah they're from NZ but I wouldn't call them a hip-hop group at all...for what it's worth, Wikipedia describes them as a six-piece roots/dub/reggae/jazz/soul band.

Either way they are just too good, really smooth sh't.

New Zeeland hip-hop ? you gotta be ****ting me :rofl::rofl:

Metric's fourth album (Fantasies)....haven't heard the rest of their stuff but that one's good (and they're Canadian :)

I was a bit slow to come around to White Lies and their debut album, mostly because how awful the lyrics sounded put me off some of the songs, but it's a good album. Reminded me of the first Keane album (although this is more guitar based indie than piano rock).

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Fuzzy White Casters. The drummer's a good friend of mine and I just found out they're opening for Arctic Monkeys at MTV Winter and I'm really stoked for them. Generally not a fan of Spanish people singing in English, but their music is pretty good.

Hope they make it. Definitely gonna go to MTV Winter and see 'em (seeing the Monkeys won't be too bad either)

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Loving his new album 'The Pursuit'. Be sure to check it out, especially if you like jazz even a little bit.

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bitch is good.

How good is that bitch?

not sure about her rimjobing skillz bro, but I like to what she does on the mic (H)

In other words, she's orally proficient? (H)




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I'd say that is a correct assessment (H)


YOU WANT ME TO HOOK YOU UP WITH HER SH'T VIA GMAIL, I ASSUME?
SHE'S SWEDISH SO AT LEAST YOU CAN'T GET YOUR HOPES UP DRAGÃO.

She looks good.

Please stop making me strain my eyes.

Destine, look up 'Spiders'

C-C-C-Combobreaker! (H)

this song plays when chuck norris is feeding his dog.

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