If you could recommend ONE band..................

[aquaman]

that you like, that virtually nobody else has heard of, who would they be? Please provide a link so we can all check it out. Me I am obsessed with a band named Bocca, a little known band out of England.

http://www.captive.co.uk/bocca/

[name not needed]

1. The World/Inferno Frienship Society

http://www.myspace.com/worldinferno

[Jilly Beans]

2. The Juvenators

If you saw the Black Starz channel's feature documentary titled "Mississippi's Last Juke Joint," then you saw the Juvenators.

http://www.3kids.com/juvenators/

Listen here:
http://www.3kids.com/ram/juvenators/std.ram
http://www.3kids.com/ram/juvenators/wdw.ram
http://www.3kids.com/ram/juvenators/lmtih.ram
http://www.3kids.com/ram/juvenators/53b.ram



From the website:

The Juvenators, a four-piece blues band based in south Mississippi, whose motto is "the blues, the whole blues, and nothing but the blues". That's a slogan that rings true, as evidenced by their undiluted straight-ahead blues. With influences such as Freddy King, T-Bone Walker, Duane Allman and Steve Blailock, the Juvenators have a growing body of pure-form original material.

Virgil Brawley (on guitar and lead vocals) and Byrd Lovell (slide guitar virtuoso and vocalist) began playing in the '60s, drawing on the blues they grew up with. Guy Wade is the real ace in the hole on his three-piece drum set. Bassist George Vance of Jackson rounds out the group after having played with such artists as Sam Myers and the late Dwight Ross.

[aquaman]

3. Very cool, thanks...

[SheepyMcSheepster]

4. Vic Thrill

Vic Thrill from new york, heard about them via "This American Life" on NPR, the singer/guitarist was a part of one of the stories.

Vic Thrill is like the talking head meets beck in the outer space future.

I have been hooked since. this is really the most refreshing and fun music i have heard in ages.

here is the website: http://www.victhrill.com/

you can listen to music if you go to the "audio" section.
you can also listen to a few newer songs here: http://www.myspace.com/victhrill

i would suggest checking out "tell your children not to look at the president" on the myspace site. "hummingbird pneumonia" is definetely the song to start with.


i highly recommend this ablum: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/B00007L6HO/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/102-1823969-3507361?%5Fencoding=UTF8&s=music

[bbernardini]

5. Stuart Davis

http://www.stuartdavis.com

The original post-apocalyptic folk-punk monk. :)

[HughBeaumont]

6. Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

[iconoclastic cat]

7. Arcade Fire

Very cool. Also, Cat Power (she's a person, not a band. "Cat" is her first name).

[aquaman]

8. Cool,

Have them both, good taste you have.

[iconoclastic cat]

13. Arcade Fire played a dive in Chicago about five months ago.

About twelve people showed up. It was weird.

[aquaman]

15. I saw them in Asheville NC recently....

great show...

[iconoclastic cat]

17. I bet!

Two of them recently got married to each other, right? I bet that will create some weird energy.

[aquaman]

18. Ever listened to The Black Keys?

If not, check out their new one:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002O06N0/qid=1112419987/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/102-0547130-1324131?v=glance&s=music&n=507846

[4_Legs_Good]

9. Flaming Lips

Though they've been around for ages, I just found them.

www.flaminglips.com

You can listen to their entire new album online. Yoshimi ROCKS

david

[aquaman]

11. I have been listening to them since I was a teen...

and I am 33, you are right, amazing band.

[WindRavenX]

10. The Postal Service

My latest obsession. But they will break your heart.

[Queen Jane]

14. since you love The Postal Service...have you found Death Cab For Cutie?

even better. DCFC is Ben Gibbard's band.

my recommendation? it is Elliott Smith, as it always will be.

[WindRavenX]

16. no, what genre is Death Cab?

I heard it was more punk- which is a genre that I really haven't gotten into :shrug:

[ghostsofgiants]

24. No, it's more indie-emo type stuff

Same singer as the postal service though, really really good band.

[aquaman]

25. Death Cab...

is an amazing band.

[Panda1]

32. Death Cab got their name from a Bonzo song.

Death Cab for Cutie is a great song.

Anyone else a Bonzo Dog fan?

[pres2032]

12. Savatage

great metal band that does awsome concept albums. Also the first band to have 5 part counter melodies going on at the same time.


http://www.savatage.com/index3.html

[biscodawg]

19. The Disco Biscuits

http://www.discobiscuits.net

and you can download a ton of shows for free here:

http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?cat=Disco%20Biscuits

They also sell soundboards of complete shows for $7.99 (eight bucks for a pristine sounding soundboard is WELL worth it to me)

www.disclogic.com lots of great artists on that site.

Anyways the biscuits are a mix between jam bands like the Grateful Dead and Phish and techno. You'll love it or hate it, but to me its pure musical crack. Here are some of the better shows to download:

http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=9918
the Vassillios > Little Lai > Mr. Don > Run Like Hell > Little Lai is just BUTTER

http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=10200

The whole show start to finish is outstanding. The astronaut is just naaasty. But the show really gets hot with the The Very Moon > Helicopters > The Very Moon > Shem-Rah Boo > Helicopters, Kitchen Mitts, Run Like Hell.

http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=10474

From the end of set one, through all of the second set was one of the most satisfying musical experience ever. I was BLISSCODAWG then :)

[Mojambo]

20. Sadly, they are no more

But I HIGHLY recommend the one album the Exploding Hearts did release.

http://www.explodinghearts.com/

[conflictgirl]

21. Coheed and Cambria. nt

[ghostsofgiants]

23. Awesome band

It's like if Rush was a weird-ass emo/punk band, haha, I love it.

[conflictgirl]

26. Wow, someone else who actually heard of them! LOL

The first time I heard them I thought they kind of sucked, but they grew on me with subsequent listens and before I knew it I was pretty obsessed. I'll have to check out The Mars Volta too, since you're not the first Coheed & Cambria fan to recommend them.

[ghostsofgiants]

27. The Mars Volta will blow you away I think

And yeah, took a while for Coheed to grow on me too, but in In Keeping Secrets... is one of my favourite albums.

[ghostsofgiants]

28. Welcome to DU, by the way!

[ghostsofgiants]

22. The Mars Volta

[vajraroshana]

29. The Go-Betweens

They, in all their incarnations, have been around since the late 70s. They have some very very good songs. Some very great music. And almost no one has ever heard of them; though whenever I mention them here on DU, invariably on a thread like this one, somebody comes forward and agrees with me.

http://www.go-betweens.net/

[aquaman]

30. I agree.....

great band....

[vajraroshana]

35. you see, it always happens

I think they're pretty obscure, but maybe that's just because of where I live and the people I hang out with...

but someone on DU always agrees with me about them being a great band.

[driver8]

37. The fact that the Go-Betweens are not more popular is a crime.

These guys write some amazing songs!

[toddzilla]

31. gov't mule

http://www.mule.net

[aquaman]

34. great band...

[jpgray]

33. Here's a few

If you like good summery bubblegum pop, try the Millennium's debut, "Begin." Awesome album of poppiness and hooks with airy harmonies and neat melodies. The band is one of Curt Boettcher's big pop projects, and "To Claudia on Thrusday," "I Just Want to Be Your Friend" and "It's You" in particular are great in production and songwriting.

If you like jangle-pop from the sixties, for something REAL obscure, try the Dovers' entire four single catalogue--it's finally been rereleased on vinyl as the EP "We're Not Just Anybody," and it's probably around on the file sharing servers somewhere. Great writing and playing, particularly on "She's Not Just Anybody" and "I Could Be Happy." The singing is just perfect.

For something more modern and a little more well-known and critically loved, go for "Deceit" by This Heat. Great experimental album--you'll be amazed how much sound they could get out of tape/electronic effects, a keyboard, drums, a bass and guitar. Presages a lot of the murky indie pap out there today by 20 years or so, and is a lot better.

[Jamastiene]

36. Planet 69

My best friend's band.

http://www.undeadrecords.com/

This is a great band from Winston-Salem, NC.

[Dastard Stepchild]

38. Grandaddy

Particularly the album "The Sophtware Slump."

http://www.grandaddylandscape.com/

[Richard Steele]

39. The Red Elvises...Kickass Roknrol from Siberia!

Rockabilly/surf-rock with russian influences and a great sense of humor!

Not to mention: "nice shoes".

http://www.redelvises.com/

[Spider Jerusalem]

41. "I am a rocketman! Be-bop-a-lu-la!"

[Squeech]

40. My band

Tim Mungenast and his Pre-existing Conditions. As try to take after people like Syd Barrett, Robyn Hitchcock, and everybody else who spells his given name with a Y for no apparent reason. (So we should change our leader's name to Tym, I guess.)

http://www.mungenast.com

[realisticphish]

42. ekoostik hookah

www.ekoostik.com
mix the dead with a lot more bluegrass, and add the most talented organ/keyboard player i've ever heard.

plus, they have a giant party out on their land outside of Columbus, OH, at least twice a year.

with no cops. ahem.