magnificent mostly unpopular bands

[GhandiOwnsYou]

Just looking to try some new stuff, so give out any bands that the majority of the popular crowd don't listen to, and a short blurb on what they sound like. guess i'll kick things off.

Juma - Santana, stoned, in a coffee bar playing with a mellow jazz quartet

The Faint - Starting to gain speed via some internet sites (cdnow.com) but most people i know still haven't heard of them. Sound like The Cure, on X, at a rave, and really pissed at society. And The singer is singing into a fan.

Athlete - British mellow hip-rock?

[nik0tine]

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. an interesting mix of bluegrass, jazz, funk etc. many of their songs are solely instrumentals, but they happen to be some of the best musicians alive.

The Unseen - Yeah, ok so they aren't THAT unknown, but still not all that many people know of them. A great punk band. one of the best imo. Also, you might wanna check out other punk bands like The Virus, or the Casualties.

Oi Polloi - Hardly anybody has heard of these guys. They are the hardest punk band i have EVER heard. If your into that kind of music you MUST check these guys out.
also, the subhumans are rather cool, so are Anti-Flag (even though most people know who these guys are)

Virus Nine - Nobody knows of these guys either. another good punk band in my opinion. They take a little getting used to, but i would definetly check them out.

Can't Think of any more at the moment, but definetly check these bands out.

[TheAbominatrix]

It makes me happy that I've heard of and regularily listen to those three punk bands nik just listed.

Anyway;

Narcoleptic Youth - They're more melodic punk, think The Adicts if you know them (they played with The Adicts and all). Their songs are awesome and they're great on stage. I love when they dress up.

Swindle - It's hard to describe them, they're heavy and they have so much energy on stage. They love giving us the mic and letting us go wild, the lead singer sat on my lap once and the bassist played his bass in my lap. xD

The Adicts - Probably one of the most popular punk bands ever, but most people dont know of them. Check em out. They put on one hell of a show, for old guys (well... old guy...) they just dont quit.

[Casey]

Juma - Santana, stoned, in a coffee bar playing with a mellow jazz quartet

Is it Juma or Santana? I like Santana man! Good guitarist, and his music rocks.


Well, DJ GT pwns, try buying any of his albums like voices of spring 2004, voices of summer 2003. Good stuff..

[nik0tine]

Is it Juma or Santana? I like Santana man! Good guitarist, and his music rocks.

I think he means the band Juma sounds like santana.

[Shoeberto]

Beta Band's "Heroes to Zeroes" is pretty good.

I want to say Modest Mouse here, though their "Float On," apparantly, has become quite popular. What most people who like them due to Float On don't realize is how much that is unlike pretty much all of their other material, music-wise, at least. Yeah. Moon and Antartica. Love it.

[-N-]

Jem - www.jem-music.net Good blend of house, rock, and pop. "Eww you said pop!" - STFU.

Rob Dougan - www.robdougan.com Nice blend of house and orchestral. Really intense and dark music.

J Ralph - www.jralph.com His "Music to Mauzner By" is hands-down the most eclectic album by a single artist ever.

I'll think of more later.

[Chzn8r]

Dream Theater - *thrash* Metallica, 70's Pink Floyd, and all sorts of Rush thrown into a blender together.

[Rainecloud]

Anúna - An Irish choir band that deserves more recognition for its excellent abilities. Not all people like music that sounds as if it belongs in a church, but some of their songs are quite beautiful and moving.

Lene Marlin - Not a band, but an artist. I'm including her anyway, though. She had a great run back in 1998, and her album was simply marvellous. Unfortunately, nobody really took any notice of her, and she quickly faded into obscurity. Edit: After a bit of thought, I decided to check up on Ms. Marlin, and I discovered that she'd released an album at the end of last year. I then went ahead and bought it. Heh - if it hadn't have been for this thread, I wouldn't have known about that.

Funnily enough, I can't think of any others right now. :/

[jrgen]

Dekadenz - Like "the Kovenant"
Der Bote - The singer of the Rammstein cover band Feuerengel founded it. Pretty similar to Rammstein.
Die Allergie - Aggressive Industrial Metal
Eisbrecher - Megaherz's ex-singer and ex-keyboarder founded this band. EBM/Industrial metal
In Extremo - Medieval Metal. The build their own instruments and remake old folk songs.
Janus - Best band ever. Can't put them in a genre as every song is differrent.
Knorkator - Funniest band ever. Hilarious lyrics and stage show.
Kopfgeld - Austrian metal
Laibach - A slovenian band. Very political music. EBM/Industrial, but the album "Jesus Christ Superstar" is Industrial metal.
Letzte Instanz - Metal with folk influences. They make good use of Violins and cellos.
Malmonde - French metal, a little like The Kovenant, but slower adn growlier.
Megaherz - Their older stuff is Industrial Metal, but they are getting more and more non-electronic.
Oomph! - Amazing band. Their first album was EBM, but then they started making really hard Industrial metal. Then they became a little softer, and then they made their worst album so far in 2004.
Schmerz - Very good heavy electronic metal.
Schock - Don't know what to say really.
Schweisser - Very cool metal.
Silber - Very atmospheric metal with electronics.
Sielwolf - Very interesting music. I have never heard anything like it before.
Stahlhammer - Austrian Industrial Metal with lots of influences from different genres.
Subway to Sally - really great folk metal.
T3chn0ph0b1a - Another band similar to The Kovenant. They're from Italy.
Tanzwut - Corvus Corax made medieval music. Then they added guitars and stuff and became Tanzwut.
Testbild - Cool music.
The Inchtabokatables - Folk/electronic music with guitars.
Turmion Kätilöt - Rammstein-like music, but with more repetive electronics.
Umbra et Imago - They make "ok" gothic, but they have a very nice S&M stage show.
Weissglut - Amazing metal. Very dark and sad music with electronics used very well.

[Shoeberto]

I forgot all about TV on the Radio. How silly of me.

[GhandiOwnsYou]

holy crap jrgen....that is quite the comprehensive list. And Juma SOUNDS like santana (just their guitarist, really, but it's an astounding similarity, and well done, not troutty) If anyones interested i can hook you up with a shop that sells their six song sophmore disc for $6. unfortunately, they are quite local, but deserve MUCH MUCH more.

anyways....theres a band i caught on Austin City Limits that had like, one of the coolest guitar soloists ever on there. Gillian Welch (though, not her, the other gut..lol, she was jsut kinda average) i swear of heard that name before, but forgive me if it's ridiculously popular, bluegrass and folk aint my scene usually.

[Germ Hamee]

Rasputina - They're a female-oriented cello rock band, with "positive-goth" lyrics. I just love how they combine funny, kind of historic oriented lyrics with really beautiful and often heavy cello music.

[krissy]

im gonna second The Faint

[Lindy]

Les Savy Fav, oh The Fav, how we love you The Fav.

Inches, the most pretentious musical project on the face of the earth.